Silent Cacophony
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Teaching Tip – Small Group Instruction
In a previous Teaching Tip Tuesday post we looked at how you can divide students up according to their reading abilities. Today we will look at how this same strategy can be effective across the curriculum. Try dividing students up according to learning styles. I have a group of students in my class who are very…
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It’s Free Comic Book Day
Today is the 10th anniversary of Free Comic Book Day! It’s a great day where comic book stores everywhere will be having special events, artist signings, and they will be giving away free comics. Young children will also be able to get a free Green Lantern HeroClix toy. Here is a video with more information…
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Mala Reignz Interview Wraps Up
7 Chase: “All right, we are back with Mala Reignz. If you’ve missed any of the show so far, you can download it for free, read it from the very beginning on the blog, or stream it with the player at the bottom of this post. So, we just heard the track ‘I’m the Bomb,’…
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Mala Reignz – Scholar, Rapper, and Musician
This is Part 2 of the Mala Reignz interview I conducted for DOPEfm. Go back and read Part 1, download the podcast for free, stream it with the player below, or just pick it up here and keep reading. Thanks! Chase: “We’re back with Mala Reignz. We just played ‘Dum Da Dum (OMG).’ I so…
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Mala Reignz Interview
Chase: “All right everybody, this is Chase March. Daddy J is on the boards. And we are lucky enough to have Mala Reignz on the phone. You can download this show for free, stream it with the player below, or just continue reading. Thanks! Chase: “I first took notice of your music with OMG and…
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Throw Out Your Rigid Classroom Schedule and Your Students Will Work Harder
Image via Wikipedia No one likes being told when and how to do something. I know that I sure don’t. If I have a task that I need to do, I usually figure out a way to do it effectively and efficiently. I’m sure our students work much in the same way. That is, if we’d…
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Chasing Content – Come What May
Image via Wikipedia I wonder what this new month has in store for us here on Silent Cacophony. Let’s hope that it is a good as last May. You can read all of the posts from last year at this time. I just scrolled through them myself, and I must admit that it was one of…
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Another Victorious Script Frenzy
I did it! I completed my screenplay “Global Code Green” 100 pages in 28 Days I’m a Script Frenzy winner for a second consecutive year and it feels really good! I typed “Fade to Black: Roll Credits” last night just before midnight. I didn’t stay up to celebrate because I wanted to wake up bright and early…
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Chasing Content – May 2009
Image via Wikipedia Last June I started a new feature on this blog entitled Chasing Content. It’s a great feature that gives us a chance to dig through my old posts and unearth some gems that might otherwise get buried in the archives. This is how it works, at the start of each month, I…
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Teaching Tip – 5 Reasons Not to Print That
Image via Wikipedia I made a conscious decision to cut down on the amount of material that I photocopy for my classroom. It was just way too easy to take advantage of the shiny hi-tech device completely at my beck and call. I made so many copies the first few years of my career that…