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Thanks goes to Eugenia for recommending that I put up this blog for inclusion in the Espiral Edublogs 2010 awards. You can see the entry here. All comments are welcomed and appreciated.

I have been toying with this idea of blogging for some time now. It took some gentle nudging from a former student, who felt that the passion I have for teaching and literacy was worth sharing with a larger audience, to finally get me to take the leap! So many questions are running through my mind. Do I have anything to say that others will want ...

Earlier this week I had a guest post on Problogger called “How a $50 packet of Tim Tams could get you a blogger job” You seen I applied for a paid blogger job for an education company last December and the post is a summary of what I did to try and get the job.  Take a look. Related [...] Related posts:Guest Post: Dealing with the ...

Edmodo is one of the most popular blogging solutions for students. I've mentioned it before and thought this was a great video to see Edmodo in action, click the link below... http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=7268097 Click here for more info.

I've never been through a period where I fail to blog.  However, I have had periods where I think, ''I need to come up with something better,'' or ''This is starting to sound too much like what everyone else is saying.''  If I allow this spiralling mental monologue to continue, I'll end in self-defeat and never blog about anthying. So, it ...

Here is a post for all the teachers out there.  I wrote a post about behavior management techniques for aggessive students as part of blog editor job application.  Josh, over at World’s Strongest Librarian, was kind enough to let me be a guest blogger over at his site, so I changed the post a little and [...] Related posts:Four Fictional ...

This past week, I assisted all 135 of my high school students to set up blogs for all of my classes. I was amazed at the positive response. Most students only use My Space for all of their social networking needs, and did not even seem to realize that setting up a blog outside of My Space was even an option at their disposal. Our school is very ...

First of all, even after baring my soul (so to speak) in my last post, I still failed. Another frantic morning ensued. Secondly, I have been messing with the look of this blog a lot recently. I even went so far as to set up a blog on wordpress because I heard so many good things about how much easier they are to customize, but I still can't get ...

The Pew Research Center has released their latest study, “Is Blogging a Slog? Some Young People Think So“.  The summary leads off with: A new study has found that young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly brief, and mobile. Tech experts say it doesn’t mean blogging is going [...]

I just wanted to let you know about a guest post over at Parentella called Parental Involvement in Homework. I discuss 5 ways that parents can help that doesn’t include actually understanding the tasks.  Big shout out to my dad for helping me with this post and getting me through school and uni without reading one assignment.  Related ...