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		<title>Twits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 05:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read a webnews headline that read: &#8220;Twitter is the New CNN.&#8221; Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket? If Mr. Coward were to &#8220;tweet&#8221; his way through a typical day period (which is about as likely as, oh let&#8217;s see, Hell freezing over is too cliche, how about&#8230;Bill Gates going broke.) 8:21- the homies r screaming since vp said hand over your heart 4 the pledge &#8211; oh the pain! I left the door open: some poor late kid in the hall looks alarmed 8:22- I gotta put a switch on the speaker: more drivel from some underprepared kid talking 2 close 2 the mic&#8230;sounds like the bus station back in the day 8:26- blue slip. since it doesn&#8217;t say NOW, I set it next 2 the Popple&#8230;probly forget it later 8:30- finally!! &#8220;share&#8221; time is over and we can start &#8211; don&#8217;t remind me that I told Vero she could share first tomorrow about something she will have forgotten by then if we&#8217;re lucky 8:32- checking vocab hw, 1/4 not holding&#8230;&#8221;why is my grade so low?&#8221; it ain&#8217;t rocket science people 8:38- correcting warm up&#8230;let one of them try to write on the shmartboard &#8230;you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;There&#8217;s already something on the back of mine.&#8221; (Also: Racial Harmony.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 05:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quiet Stick]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was our first day back in the classroom after 8 days in the library. We were all glad to be back. &#8220;Oh, my clicker&#8230;how I&#8217;ve missed you.&#8221; One of them actually said that. OMG. What a day. Full of action, and laugh after laugh. First there was the video. YouTube is blocked in our district. Our head of IST keeps bleating about CIPA and how YouTube doesn&#8217;t filter, and&#8230;anyway, we can&#8217;t use YouTube. But finally, they created a workaround for us. We have to do things from home rather than from school, but it works OK. We find the YouTube video we want to use, and copy the URL. Then we go to the district&#8217;s &#8220;safe video portal&#8221; and paste it in. Then we can approve our own video, and use the safe portal to show it at school. It&#8217;s a bit clunky, but it works fine. Yesterday I added a video. I hadn&#8217;t even showed it yet, when I got an e-mail from my principal. I have only added a couple of videos before, but both of them were of the nutty variety, rather than the &#8220;educational&#8221; sort.  One of them is near the top of the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Mouth Democracy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 07:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off:  Ok, Ok. I&#8217;m starting to find my happy place with research. Thank you for the comments and suggestions; I think next year will be better. You guys gave me some good ideas. We&#8217;re working on outlines this week, prepping for research.  Among other activities, I  give them partially completed outlines and word banks to fill them in with. I strategically place a few clues in the outline, and they have to determine the hierarchy of the various entries I provide, and fill in the blanks. Like this (the stats are kinda dated, but it&#8217;s a topic near to my heart): Topic: The automobile has become the American Nightmare kills 265,000 and injures millions annually, road rage and reckless driving have increased, better city design to decrease auto dependence, leading source of air pollution,  alternatives to the automobile, main means of transportation, too many people dependent on the car, large SUV&#8217;s: rollovers and danger to smaller cars, more cars and more roads mean more traffic congestion, average car: 5 tons of carbon dioxide each year, contributes to acid rain and smog, leading cause of death and injury, new dangers with 2 recent developments, public transportation I. Main means of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three-Word Phrases</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seventh graders &#8220;communicate&#8221; mostly in three-word phrases. If the phrase isn&#8217;t really only three words long, they can usually pare it down. &#8220;What&#8217;d I miss?&#8221; It sounds like  &#8220;Wuddeyemiss.&#8221; And it always comes right as you&#8217;re starting class. Raise your hand if you have had this happen in the past week. Past three days? Today? AAAAAARGH.  They want 54 stellar, well-planned and executed minutes of instruction summarized for them in 30 seconds as the class bustles in.  What did you miss? &#8220;Absolutely nothing. You might as well take the rest of the year off. CHECK THE WEB PAGE! COME BACK AT BREAK!&#8221; &#8220;Oh yeah. I forgot.&#8221; LOL (These days, they&#8217;re getting it down to three-letter phrases.) &#8220;What&#8217;s my grade?&#8221; This one is usually from the kid whose grade is in the bottom 15% , and s/he finally turned something in, and wants immediate gratification. And it always happens right in the middle of something else, something totally unrelated.  Yesterday we were talking about how Charlotte is finally seeing Captain Jaggery for what he really is. (Aside: If you haven&#8217;t read The True Adventures of Charlotte Doyle by Avi, I highly recommend it. I picked it up a few years ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Do you love me?&#8221; (Also: Weird &#8220;Week&#8221;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wotta &#8220;week.&#8221; Considering how tired I am, I can&#8217;t believe it was only a three-day week &#8211; for some reason we had a 4-day weekend for Veterans&#8217; day. And I done clean forgot that I was supposed to give the &#8220;District Benchmark Test #1&#8243; (that&#8217;s a whole &#8216;nother post) by Friday. So we spent Wednesday darkening ovals to generate data for the district, AND there was a &#8220;multi-media&#8221; assembly that, amid the rock and rap, touted the beauty of trust and honesty (also: don&#8217;t do those things which I obviously can&#8217;t mention, because ads for them started appearing here). AND, yesterday was &#8220;parent visitation day.&#8221; Whole lotta scare quotes today too. Usually I get a pretty good turnout for these parent visitation days (it sounds like a Catholic holiday). Our previous principal (our present principal is an FNG, both to the job of principal AND to our school) instituted these as a sort of PR for parents. Many parents of ms&#8217;ers are more than a little leery of sending their little angels to the big bad junior high. (You should have seen the reaction a few years ago when the district proposed making our school 6-8. OMG. You&#8217;d have thought [...]]]></description>
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