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Teaching Tip Tuesdays – Seating Plan
I want to keep this edition of Teaching Tip Tuesday fairly short. I think teachers should be helping each other by sharing what works with them and their classrooms. I hope you have found my past columns here helpful. Please email me or leave a comment if you have any questions or thoughts, or if…
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Double Spacing Between Sentences is Not Cool Anymore!
I never really learned how to type properly. I’m not horrible at it. I can type fairly fast but I only use about four fingers and a thumb to do so. I remember learning that it was proper to hit the space bar two times at the end of each sentence. For typewriters this was…
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Teaching Tip Tuesday – Squads
When I was in Boy Scouts, there were about 25 youth members in our group. Within this large group, there were five smaller groups called Patrols. Each patrol got to choose a name and a crest that identified them. This crest was then sewn onto our uniforms and we became a unified group with a…
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Why is This My 20 Cents?
I went to Canadian Tire this weekend and bought two items. One of those items was a 4L jug of motor oil. I noticed that when the cashier rung up my two items, I was actually charged for three. I paid the bill and then looked closely at the receipt. Sure enough I was charged…
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Mix Tapes Go Digital
I haven’t made a mix tape in about ten years. I still listen to my old tapes and I really enjoy them. But tapes aren’t the portable magic that they used to be. Most people don’ t have tape decks in their cars anymore, walkmans are relics of the past, and new stereos don’t come…
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Wow! Being Erica is Amazing!
The season finale of Being Erica was on last night. All I have to say is “Wow!” This show didn’t let me down at all this season. I knew it had potential when I first saw it and I’m glad to say that it lived up to it. You can see my original posting about…
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Why Can’t I Watch?
The Internet that I access here in Canada is the same Internet that you access in the United States of America, or Australia, or Sweden, or England. The www in the addresses we type stands for “world wide web. World wide. That’s a great concept. We should be able to connect to anyone, any site,…
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Teaching Tip Tuesday – Tribes
Students need to learn how to work cooperatively, how to treat each other with respect, and how to listen attentively. These are life skills that are absolutely essential to have. Yet these skills are not addressed in the Ministry of Education’s curriculum documents. As teachers, we are expected to teach a variety of subject areas…
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Lend Your Support
I was planning on writing a post this week about the possible demise of Canadian television. Several stations have already cut back on programming. Morning shows have been disappeared and some Canadian community channels have already shut their doors. I think we need to have local broadcasters and television stations. The problem is that some…
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Year Three of My Five-Year Mission
My five-year mission was simply to write as much as possible with the goal of being published within five years. I started this blog two years ago today with that goal in mind. It seemed achievable and I have been working towards that end since then. This was my first-year update at the start of…