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Lost Generation? Maybe not.

15, Mar 2009

I came across this beautiful and powerful video this weekend on Garr Reynolds’ Presentation Zen blog. Garr is an expert on effective visual communication who currently lives in Japan (but he once lived in Oregon!). Many of the ideas we have discussed in class this year about creating visually interesting and impacting presentations come directly [...]

Happy Square Root Day!

3, Mar 2009

We talked in class this morning about today being Square Root Day: 3-3-09. Square Root Day happens when the numbers for the month and day are the same and multiply to equal the last two digits of the year. For example, 1-1-01 or 2-2-04 or today: 3-3-09. Think of it as 3 x 3 = [...]

“Street Music” by Arnold Adoff

27, Feb 2009

We have been working with the South Paris Collaborative for the past few weeks on a poetry unit based around Sharon Creech’s book, Love That Dog. Several poems are referred to in the book, and we have been looking at and responding to each one. Here is a video of our class performing Arnold Adoff’s [...]

Decima-nia!

23, Feb 2009

We played a game in math today that called for students to strategically place decimal cards along a number line. Each student wanted to use as many of the cards they were dealt as possible since the student with the fewest cards left unplayed won. We had some good discussions regarding strategies for comparing and [...]

Loblolly Pines vs. Human Maps

19, Feb 2009

Today was a great day! We started with a wonderful reading session using pair reading and theater. I was very pleased with the creativity shown by the students as they demonstrated their understanding of the text by acting out key sections. After that we read some more in the book we are sharing with our [...]

Skype and Collaboration

14, Feb 2009

Friday, we had the wonderful opportunity to work online with the South Paris Collaborative class in Long Island, New York. Both classes have been reading the book Love That Dog by Sharon Creech and reflecting on and responding to much of the poetry alluded to in the story. We came together via a Skype session to share [...]

New DreamExtreme Podcast Episode!

13, Feb 2009

I’m very happy to announce that Episode 15 of the DreamExtreme podcast is now available at our Podcast Blog. Listen to it by clicking on this link: DreamExtreme Episode 15 You can also subscribe to our podcast in iTunes! Visit our iTunes podcast page by clicking this link: DreamExtreme on iTunes

Poets and Problem Solvers

10, Feb 2009

The past week and a half have been filled with some wonderful student work. We’ve been doing a project-based learning unit on persuasive communication which calls for students working together to create new products and then plan to market them to the public. We had a special guest presenter today from our local cable company [...]


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