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Entries from December 2006

Just in Case You are Interested….

December 8th, 2006 · No Comments

Just so you know, I took part in a Skype conversation on Thursday night for about an hour with a number of educators from across Canada and the U.S. The topic of conversation was blogging and much of our time our together focused on our blogs and the work that we do on them.
They […]

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Tags: Connections · Interesting

Environmental Articles from the BBC

December 5th, 2006 · No Comments

Here are the links to the BBC articles about teenagers and environmental issues. They show that teenagers do have a voice, they can be actively involved in beating climate issues.

Fixing a oil - soaked beach in Lebanon
Requiring Coke to make better use of water in India
Cleaning up abandoned city lots in India
Kids from The Netherlands […]

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Tags: Classroom Resources · Interesting

New Links

December 4th, 2006 · No Comments

Finally we can post a link to Josh’s blog so here it is.
As well, I’ve recently gotten an email from a teacher in Thessaloniki Greece. He has several of his students blogging and they are looking for comments. Their blogs can be found here.
I’ve added these links to the side bar as well.

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Tags: Connections · Student Bloggers

Two Questions….

December 1st, 2006 · 16 Comments

I have two questions that I want you to think about and leave your comments on:
1.) Is blogging different from “regular” writing that happens on paper? If you think it is different, describe how. If it is not different, why not? How is it the same as writing on paper?
2.) The second question I have […]

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Tags: Connections · Student Bloggers