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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more) &#187; Moodle</title>
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		<title>Snow?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Monsters on Maple Street]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not dead yet. It&#8217;s just been a bit busy &#8217;round these parts lately. And I&#8217;ve been sleeping in for five days, so I&#8217;m still a little dopey. Even most of the kids were quiet today; they looked sort of tattered. &#8220;Where&#8217;s all the left-over pie I asked for?&#8221; &#8220;Everybody in my family went eeewww when I asked about rhubarb pie.&#8221; (Almost none of the kids knew what I was talking about last week when I asked for rhubarb pie. Did you know that rhubarb leaves are poisonous?) &#8220;I see how it is. I&#8217;ll settle for pecan.&#8221; On the last day before vacation we finally had time to finish the video of &#8220;The Monsters are due on Maple Street.&#8221; They really like the groovy old cars (Steve has a brand new 1960 Ford station wagon) and the old-school ice-cream man. They also crack up that somebody besides me says, no dice. When Les Goodman first tries to start his car, and Woman 1 asks him if he had any luck getting it started, and he yells, &#8220;No dice.&#8221; In every class, the kids yelled at the screen (a la Rocky Horror), &#8220;Cheese Slice!&#8221; &#8220;We went to my grampa&#8217;s for Thanksgiving, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Here Blogging&#8230; (Wiki Wiki)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a weird week. We had Monday off for MLK. I was on call for jury duty on Tuesday, so I had a sub (sorry, they&#8217;re called guest teachers @ Laguna). To make it easy, I had the guest teacher administer the &#8220;District Benchmark Exam Part II,&#8221; the results of which I&#8217;m not sure what to do with. Mostly our English department has been ignoring them, saying the tests don&#8217;t really test what they claim to. Also, everyone covers the various standards at various times throughout the year &#8211; I don&#8217;t do a research paper until the spring, so we haven&#8217;t talked much about citing sources &#8211; so the idea of testing standards a-g in the beginning of the year, and standards h-m during the middle part, and so forth, just doesn&#8217;t work very well. Plus, why do I need to waste three class periods from my precious allotment giving yet another test? Anyway, I had the guest teacher give them the test, and I&#8217;ll figure out what to do with the results later. Then we were in the computer lab on Wednesday, to work on the Tom Sawyer Moodle. This is the main reason I&#8217;ve been lagging on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TomWikiSawyerPedia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Moodle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of the kids have been having trouble getting through the early chapters of Tom Sawyer. Mostly it&#8217;s the vocabulary, though for some it&#8217;s the fact that they don&#8217;t bother to read it. Once we go over the reading in class, or I explain as we read aloud, they get it, and they like it. Today in class, we&#8217;re reading chapter 6 which begins with Tom trying to get out of school by pretending to be sick. &#8220;How many of you have ever faked sick to try to get out of school?&#8221; Almost every hand goes up. &#8220;Nothing changes in 170 years, does it?&#8221; They like Mark Twain&#8217;s sarcastic sense of humor, and how the goody-goody Sid is obviously a fool in Mark Twain&#8217;s eyes too. And they love the pranks. But it&#8217;s still tough, especially for the first six or eight chapters. Every year I struggle with how to get them to read it, and get them to get it. This year I&#8217;m trying an experiment. Our county office of schools hosts a Moodle server, and I use it a lot in my class. I have a whole Langston Hughes project we do online that includes quizzes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moodle Time.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually spend about 8-10 days each year in the computer lab. First, I like to do at least one on-line type project. Most years lately, it&#8217;s usually the Langston Hughes WebTrack (through TrackStar, a beauty service I should probably talk about later). And until last year, I usually also got in wikis or a web page of some sort. (Aside/Tip: Web pages and wikis (a type of reader-editable web page) are great ways to get kids to expand and revise their writing. By making them start with a 600 word word essay, and then requiring 5 links of at least 100 words each, I am getting them to add 500 words to their essays, and they hardly notice that they&#8217;re now writing over 1000 words. Many do more than 5 link pages. As long as they can also add pictures and graphics, you won&#8217;t hear many complaints. More on this later too.) Secondly, I usually try to STAR test their reading at least three times a year. That takes the slowest ones at least 25 minutes or more, not counting log-in issues: &#8220;You forgot your password again? You misspelled your name. Your CapsLock key is on. Not your student [...]]]></description>
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