Well, first I have to say that I looked at several different PC’s at Sam’s Club this week. I was most impressed with the Sony Desktop Sony Vaio® Desktop 2GHz, 320GB HD, 19″ LCD, $1,549.74.
Processor and Memory:
Intel® Core™ Duo Processor T7200 2GHz, 667MHz, 4MB L2 Cache
2GB DDR2 (1GBx2) PC2-5300, 667MHz
2GB max. Hard Drive and Multimedia [...]
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Originally uploaded by Scott Weatherson
Planning an activity so our school will celebrate Constitution Day. Thanks to Scott Weatherson’s great image of the document. I am researching the possible use of Nintendo Wii with our alternative school students. I have found several blog posts to read.
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Originally uploaded by The Blake Slate
Beginning of 2007-2008 school year at North Whiteville Academy.
My first impression from yesterday’s 9/11 remembrance activity at my school was that the students in 8th grade, were in 2nd grade when NYC was attacked. They did not remember anything about it. I was disappointed that they had never even seen the any of the videos of the day. We watched it. YouTube videos [...]
Students in my 8th grade class are hard at work on their studies. We are working learning about scientific modeling and the scientific method. This photo shows them making an earth “sun catcher”. They are expected to learn the names of the continents, and major oceans. We used Google Earth, a large wall map, [...]
Bio-tech lab visited the campus of our community college today. I was impressed by the mobile lab. I really enjoyed chatting with Becky Westbrooks, SCC science instructor. She and her fellow
If you’re looking for a motivating project and you teach science — this flu flux contest opens up September 15th – October 28th and has you creating videos about how people get the flu and how to prevent it in three categories: kids and the flu, sports and the flu, and flu in the workplace.
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This is really an improvement for Bloglines. Still in Beta testing but I like the changes. I have almost abandended my Bloglines and have been using Netvibes to read my RSS feeds. I may be using the new Bloglines again. If you have not checked Bloglines and are using Google Reader, [...]
I am on pins an needs about this device. I wanted an iPhone, but after trying the iPhone in the Apple Store, decided that it was just to difficult to type on and I really would not use all the whistles and bells. All I want on my phone is a button to [...]
Academic scrapbooking falls under the category of differentiated instruction. Differentiated instruction is the means of choice for most teachers these days as the needs of our learners change and we need to include all students in our classes regardless of skill levels. As you know, differentiated instruction encourages personal choice for [...]
