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The 5 Balls of Life
"Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls.
The balls are called work, family, health, friends and integrity.
And you’re keeping all of them in the air.
But one day, you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball.
If you drop it, it will bounce bac… Continue
Posted by Debora Barry on November 18, 2009 at 7:04am — 1 Comment
Launch event for Media Literacy Week November 2, 2009
News Gathering in the Digital Age will include panellists Andrew Cohen, award-winnin… Continue
Posted by Cathy Wing on October 23, 2009 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment
Media Literacy and Literacy with ICT Across the Curriculum (LwICT)
Media Literacy Event - November 2nd, 2009
Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth (MECY), along with Manitoba Association for Computing Educators (ManACE) are celebrating Media Literacy Week, a national week of focus on Media Literacy in the Digital Age. Media Literacy Week was conceived by the Media Awareness Network and the Canadian Teachers' Federation. This year, the week of November 2-6 has been dec… Continue
Posted by Cheryl Prokopanko on October 22, 2009 at 9:33am — 2 Comments
Dyslexia
Posted by Marianna Kiva on October 5, 2009 at 10:16pm — 1 Comment
Media Hits on World Teachers' Day
City-TV reporter interviews student in Tanis Westdal's class.
It's World Teachers' Day agai… Continue
Posted by Raman Job on October 5, 2009 at 4:30pm
Working Together To Make a Difference
Created by Jenny Luca and based upon the m… Continue
Posted by John Evans on August 31, 2009 at 6:09am — 1 Comment
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homework at school, lessons at home video
I ran across this video of a news report outlining a pair of teachers who have students watch all their lessons at home and then come to school to do homework. I'd really like to try this for a uni...
Started by Cam Bennet in General 6 hours ago.
space ship under the stairs 1 Reply
I just got an email from a CBC assistant producer in Ontario who saw my space camp story , showed it to his son who is a space nut at only 7 yrs old. He and his dad have built a space ship under th...
Started by MARIA in General. Last reply by Raman Job Nov 6.
Shamelessly Plugging A Harvest of Opportunity 7 Replies
Hey everyone! If you still don't have SAG plans, and you'd like to travel to the beautiful Swan River Valley, have I got a deal for you... Seriously, if you're here reading this, maybe some of th...
Tagged: Harvest, of, Opportunity, ManACE, Maksymchuk
Started by Ryan Maksymchuk in General. Last reply by Raman Job Oct 21.
Which SAG sessions really interest you? 1 Reply
SAG day is a great time to shift gears and take in some personal PD. I'll be taking pictures at a few of the conferences this Friday. Let me know where you'll be and what sessions interest you the ...
Started by Raman Job in Session Discussions. Last reply by Suzanne Moore Oct 22.
Things I learned over the summer 6 Replies
Since we are all "life long learners", I am wondering what people learned over the summer. I built a deck and put a lot of that Design and Measurement math to good use. In the process I learned tha...
Started by Cam Bennet in General. Last reply by Mike Nantais Sep 22.
Teacher Education 5 Replies
Hi - I teach Computers & Tech in Education at BU. Although I am only a year removed form the classroom/Principal-ship - I would love to get any thoughts & ideas about topics you feel are im...
Started by Mike Nantais in General. Last reply by Mike Nantais Aug 29.
Media Literacy Week 2 Replies
Media Awareness Network and the Canadian Teachers' Federation are joining together to host Canada's fourth annual Media Literacy Week, November 2-6, 2009. The purpose of the week is to promote medi...
Started by Cathy Wing in General. Last reply by Cathy Wing Aug 19.
SPACE JUNE 21 2009 10 Replies
I am in SPACE HEAVEN HERE. Today has been a whirlwind of activities. I got to build a rocket and launch it, soo cool. I also was trained at Mission Control today. I am a going to be a mission contr...
Started by MARIA in General. Last reply by MARIA Aug 30.
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German Exchange Trip
by Stacey Snyder Added October 22, 2009 at 3:42am 4 Comments
Space Academy for Educators 2009
by MARIA Added September 16, 2009 at 7:27pm
Project Overseas - Ghana, Africa
by Jennifer Levesque Added August 27, 2009 at 11:39am
Darren Kuropatwa's 'A Difference' Blog
New Math 10 Curriculum
There's a new curriculum coming. Gave a little talk about it and the text book that supports it. Here it is. You can download it if you like. All the links I shared in the session can be found by clicking around on the slides below.UPDATE
Joe, one of the folks who attended the session on Friday, has shared the Graphing Calculator Lease Form he uses in his school. You can see it here. Feel free to copy and edit or or just print it as is.
Thanks Joe!
Social Media Counter
Thanks to a tweet from Alec I stumbled upon Gary's Social Media Count over at Gary Hayes blog. Interesting.
Scribes Spreading
Thanks to some blog love from Roland I put together a small, inadequate list of how the scribing blog love is spreading; check out these wonderful teachers:Chris Harbeck's class blog hub (innovator par excellence!)
Ryan Maksymchuk's suite of class blogs (more scribing class blogs than you can shake a stick at!)
Jim Homan's Cathoilic Morality wiki
Mr. Marti's precalculus class blog
Reversearp's (an alias I believe) precalculus class blog
Mrs. Everard's AP Calculus class blog
Image by dkuropatwa via Flickr
Every new day brings more new math (and non-math) bloggers. This is a small and woefully incomplete list. If I've failed to include your blog, or another one you know of, where the teacher has implemented the practice of having daily student authoured scribes please share it here in the comments.
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Chris Harbeck's 'Making it Interesting' blog
Storytelling in math
It was a simple idea. Get the students to write a simple story and use math to solve it. The story premise was that an alien has landed in your back yard. It will call the rest of the ships if you do not answer 3 proportion questions. Sounds easy right!
The students created simple stories and added great answers from the homework they had been doing over the past few days. I also showed them how to find cc images. They are not cited properly yet but at least the images are cc.
Here are the links to the rooms so you can read them your self.
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Here is the original assignment. Enjoy
Clarence Fisher's 'Remote Access' Blog
Those Formerly Known as the Audience
(This post is a response, a build on, and my thoughts in response to reading this excellent piece of writing by Dean Shareski - I hope you have read what he has to say on this topic.) In the five years I have been blogging in my classroom, I have seen ...© 2009 Created by Raman Job on Ning. Create a Ning Network!
