July 2008 - Posts
Recently, I have read some blogs where someone commenting has really been tearing the blogger or other commenters down. I think that discussion, debate, and sharing are important when blogging, but instead of disagreeing or discussing topics in a rational
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It's Not All Flowers and Sausages' entry, "All Eyes on Me", on her The Chalk Talks blog made me start thinking about how we get the attention of our students during class time. I've tried a bunch of different ways like... *ringing a chime *saying "eyes
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Reading several posts about why people want to be teachers and what it means to be a teacher reminded me of some of my favorite ones that I will never forget. Well, one of my absolute favorite teachers was my kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Mueller. She was
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I see several postings about which books are your favorites, people asking for books that you would recommend, etc. I wanted to share another one of my " 23Things " called LibraryThing . It is a place where you can catalog your own books to remember your
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I am having so much fun "talking" with all of you who are leaving comments on my blog and I like visiting your blogs too. You have so many interesting things to share and stories to tell that it is just amazing! Just as I have been sharing with you the
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I know that we have been talking about discipline quite a bit and I wanted to tell you about how I use sign language to help with my discipline. A few years ago, my school had a deaf ed program and I became interested in learning how to communicate with
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We have been blogging a lot about organizing your classroom and I thought I would share the way I handle student passes. Throughout the years, I've tried every kind of pass that I've come across from the typical bookmark shaped passes to necklace type
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I've recently learned about the site called del.icio.us and am really excited about it! For people who don't know about it, it's a site for organizing your bookmarking with tags. The first search I did was for "place value". Many sites came up that dealt
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Yes, I am finished with all "23 Things"! I have learned so much and can't wait to try it out with my students this fall. I would totally recommend anyone interested in technology check out these sites..." 23 Things " and Learning 2.0 . Also, I wanted
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Welcome to Ms. P.'s Place! I'm pretty new to blogging and am very excited about it and all of the applications it has for working with my students. I am happy to be part of TeacherLingo so that I can connect with other teachers who understand what teachers
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