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Cheap Videos for U.S. History
Awhile ago, I had the opportunity to read Marc Valentine’s blog post, Top 5 Cheap Videos for AP World on APWorldGuru@blogspot. While I use iTunes regularly at home, for some reason I hadn’t thought to...
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Where Am I Headed? 4th Quarter Goal Update
Yuyuan Garden, "The Garden of Contentment" - Shanghai, 2009 In the middle of the hustle and bustle of one of the world’s largest cities is the Yuyuan Garden. Here you can find a fairly quiet bench...
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Want a Fantastic Job? Apply for Mine!
How would you like to teach history in a place like this? Known for its Collegiate Gothic architecture, Natrona County High School is on the National Register of Historic Places. It had the first...
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Where Did I Go? 2010-2011 Goal Update
Behind my Wyoming neighborhood, where the Oregon Trail comes through. Earlier in the year, an experienced teacher and parent asked me “With the baby, doesn’t this feel like your first year of teaching...
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CORE Facilitator
Overlooking my new community, with Mt. Emily in the background. This past summer, my family made the move from Wyoming to Oregon. I am now working at Eastern Oregon University, a small state college...
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Winter Term 2012 Goals
“I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving…” -Goethe I learned a lot during my first term as a Developmental Educator for college freshman....
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Teaching the Way YOU Learn
Creative Commons photo by Andreas Ebling on Flickr Think about how you learn best. What motivates you? Excites you? Encourages you to know more about a subject? If you could learn using any...
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Google Docs in the Classroom
Creative commons photo by Mark Knol on Flickr. I’ve worked a lot with Google Docs in the past. I’ve used it to collaborate with colleagues, formally taught educators how to use it, researched ways to...
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Ideas for Sharing Your Reading with Students
My June Reads In my time as an educator, I’ve come to realize that it is important for me to go beyond telling students to do things I think are important to showing them that I do these things as...
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Experimenting with Slack in the Classroom
This past March, I came across some resources about how educators were using Slack to collaborate and do PLCs asynchronously and at a distance. I was very intrigued by the potential of this platform...
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