Excellence and Imagination

Just to let everyone know, I uploaded a lot of the photos that you took for our introductory video for the international teen life project to Flickr. I simply made a set called JHK School and put them all in it.

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Mrs. Baber is a quick, quick lady!
After our live Skype call on Monday with the kids in Virginia and the kids in Cartegena, she has posted an mp3 file that we can download and listen to, a recording of this call.
You can find it here to listen to.

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Now that we’ve had our first Skype call, now that you have student bloggers from the other classes in your Bloglines account that you are reading regularly, it is time to move along.
On the wiki for this project, a few people have placed ideas for projects. What are you interested in doing? Look at the [...]

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The Purpose:
The purpose of this project is to have teenagers from different locations around the globe exchange their thoughts and perceptions of what their lives are like. By viewing, reading, and listening to the perspectives of others from around the globe, they will gain a greater perception of the similarities and differences of people’s lives [...]

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A short post to simply get the mid - term exam schedule on here so that you have it even if you are at home.
Tuesday, January 30th - Social Studies
Wednesday, January 31st - Language Arts
Thursday, February 1st - Math
Friday, February 2nd - Science
I’ve also placed these on the calendar page.
Exams begin at 9:00.
Students are required [...]

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How has your break been?
Are you rested and recharged?
Ready to go back?
Just wondering…..

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Please notice on the tabs at the top of this blog, that I’ve added a calendar to it. I hope to use it to post important dates and deadlines including for projects and tests. With me gone over the next week, I also thought it was important to help you stay organized and to know [...]

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When you have found and subscribed to two blogs on environmental issues, leave the URL’s here in a comment as links. This helps other people find information they may be interested in.

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A man named Will Richardson recently said, “When I’m having trouble writing, its not because I’m not spending enough time writing, its because I’m not spending enough time reading.”
To be an effective blogger who writes things that are interesting and meaningful for yourself and for others, you need to spend time with things written by [...]

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I’ve posted two new links on the blogroll. One to the Talimi Haq school in India (120 students, even smaller then us!) and the second to the blogs of the kids at the Shanghai American School (SAS) in China.
Welcome to our community of learners!

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