Tag Archives: Blog

Web Tools Blog Series: Collecting, Organizing and Making Sense of Information | Edutopia

Are you a teacher or school internet administrator/advisor? Are you just someone interested in innovative technology? Sign up for this blog and learn the latest information. Although geared for educators, it can be useful to everyone. Read on… Web Tools … Continue reading

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For those of you interested in e-publication, this blog may be of interest to you. It includes a list of blogs that do more with their content than just review a good book. Read not only the blog, but also … Continue reading

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Lord of the Flies-Surviving Sophomore Island

Repost from another blogger. An excellent class activity! Read on… Lord of the Flies-Surviving Sophomore Island. If the link above doesn’t work, copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://usedbooksinclass.com/2012/06/04/lord-of-the-flies-surviving-sophomore-island/ ##

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Artfully Creating the Right Group Dynamic | Teaching Tolerance | Teacher Talk

This is a re-post of a re-post of a Teaching Tolerance blog post related to art and the art of teaching tolerance. You’re not seeing double; just read the preceding sentence out loud, if it helps. (grin) Mainly, read the … Continue reading

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Teacher Talk | a place for education discussions

Dear Reader, If you follow my blog, you know that it deals only in part with education issues. For example, presently I’m in the middle of exploring how to publish to the Kindle. Since this blog addresses non-education issues, if … Continue reading

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Kindle Publishing: A Diary–Day 7 Cover and book description

Dear Diary, Yesterday’s short post dealt with the ebook title. Today’s to-do deals with the ebook cover and writing the book’s description. And then there’s book content quality. To review yesterday, I played around with titles. I came pretty close … Continue reading

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“Common Core Makes Waves” in Education | Teacher Talk

In a blog site devoted solely to education, I reposted a blog on an attack against the Common Core of State Standards for education. Visit this site for more information: “Common Core Makes Waves” in Education | Teacher Talk. If … Continue reading

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A Strange Book…

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke, is indeed a strange book… So far, I’ve only read through about 25% of it, and its very strangeness keeps me reading more. Taking place in early 19th century England, it deals … Continue reading

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Hello world!

Why “Hello world!” ??  I don’t know.  Maybe it’s the title chosen by the app for my first Worldpress post.  I started this blog a year and a half ago, and never returned to it.  Haven’t don’t as much blogging … Continue reading

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