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Turn It Upside Down: Oblique Strategies As Writing Prompts

Is It Finished? I recently took a step of faith and downloaded the Oblique Application for my iPhone. It seemed intriguing enough. It definitely makes me think. Use Filters Just what is Oblique Strategies? Oblique Strategies is essentially a card game. Read More...

5 Things To Do While Taking A Break

There come times in life when we need to find something to do. There come times in life when we need a break. There come times in life when we need to cut back some things so we can find that perfect place. This is one of those times for me. With the Read More...

The Blog Revolution On Hold

For reasons beyond my control, my blogging time will be extraordinarily limited this week (lots of concerts and exhaustion has begun to catch up on me). For these reasons, I will be putting the Blog Revolution Project on hold for this week. It will presumably Read More...

Whitespace

I have found that People really don’t like As I prepare my bands for the UIL Concert & Sight Reading contest that is now less than a month away, I have noticed that they seem to have a big problem with rests. For the uninitiated, rests in music Read More...

8 Ways Blogging Makes Me A Better Teacher

I have found this year that I have been making a lot of progress on my own personal teaching style. It’s my 6th year to teach, and I begin what could be seen as the downhill slope of teaching. Now that I am pretty adequate at getting children to Read More...

So You Want To Teach 2008

I have been working for about a month now on redesigning So You Want To Teach? I want to make it even more reader friendly. I’m excited about the changes that will be coming this week. In fact, the redesigned site has now made its debut! If you’re Read More...

10 Tips To Stay Motivated And Love Teaching

This is a guest post by Jane Little of My Many Colored Crayons. Jane teaches third grade in Los Angeles, CA. I teach in a school that has more than it’s share of challenges. Low morale is just one of them. About a year ago I started blogging with this Read More...

Two Free Gifts … No Strings Attached

Educators are not the most technically proficient people in the world. How many times did I have a teacher when I was in school who couldn’t operate a VCR? I happen to be an ultra nerd (I was co-president of the computer club and went to the Texas Read More...

7 Steps To Building A Blog

This really has nothing to do with education. I wanted to take a chance to stop and address some things that happened this week in my life and the life of this blog. Every day in the past week except for Tuesday, So You Want To Teach? saw more than 50 Read More...

Videos And Other Blogging Plans For July

I will be posting entertaining, thought-provoking, or otherwise relevant education videos for all of next week. I have created a Videos category on my blog and they will all be listed there. What I really would like to do next week while I am not posting Read More...