Excellence and Imagination

uuuggghhh… Long time no post. Not good.
Happy Halloween!
Be safe.
Have fun.

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A lot of deadlines looming up over the next week or so, make certain you are managing your time well and keeping yourself organized. Don’t save it all to the end and expect to complete quality work. Things to work with:
- Complete digital photography project ncluding postings to flickr and picture descriptions
- Complete social studies [...]

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I’m out of the classroom until next Monday, but I need your help. I’m doing an inservice for other teachers next week over the Internet and I want to include some quotes from you. Anyone up for being a superstar? I want you to read a sentence or two into a piece of software that [...]

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There are some tremendous pictures that are being uploaded to our Flickr site. Don’t forget that you can make links to your pictures and that you can write comments on them just like you can on blog posts. Take a look through a few of the photostreams and think about what the authors of the [...]

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It is simply amazing how many classes around the globe we can get in touch with and stay in touch with by using RSS and our Bloglines accounts. Down the left side of this blog there is a set of links to a different classes that you can get in touch with.
Spend some time looking [...]

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As we are working through this study of digital photography and learning to use software to add digital effects to our pictures, I want you to remember that these pictures have to be well taken, interesting photos first. Once you have a photo that has interesting lines, colours, shapes, and a unique point of view, [...]

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We have been talking in class about PLNs. I have told you that you must be on the lookout for 15 - 20 total blogs that will form your personal learning network. Are you still looking for blogs that are important to you? Blogs that are well written, that are interesting, that are written by [...]

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There are three main reasons ot leave comments on the blogs of other people:
1.) To let them know they have an audience.
2.) To encourage people to write
3.) To make people think more deeply about an issue.
With credit given to Anne Davis of the U.S., and Mrs.McLeay of Australia, here are some comment starters:
# This made [...]

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Now that you have your own blog set up, your homework for the weekend is to check the blogs out of other people and fully design your own space.
Check out some of these blogs:
-Nata Village in Africa
-Neil Gaiman - author
- Kids from Australia
- Kids from Brazil
- Kids from Oklahoma (with links to other blogging classrooms)
- [...]

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Last year we produced a lot of different resources. Take a look (or a listen!) to some of these things that we produced last year.
Math tutorial videos
Podcasts and vlogs

History wiki
last year our work was featured on CNET, on MSN.com, in the New York Times and in other newspapers and magazines. We worked with classes from [...]

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