Y’all know what?
I’m not dead (as all bloggers seem to post after a long period of noncommunication/updates), but I’m in grad school. Only in my grad school, I don’t have to write a thesis! Yay! I’m secretly trying to work it out so I’ve got undergrad: thesis, grad: no thesis; doctorate: obviously thesis. [...]
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Obligatory Explanations and/or Excuses
Am I really committed to this?
On the personal side of things, I’ve recently been accepted to graduate school. (Yay!) I’ll be starting this November on working towards gaining Special Education certification. It will be for Mild Interventions, which encompasses learning disabilities, emotional/behavioral disabilities/disorders (EBD, my favorite), mild/minor mental impairment(s), and other disabilities and/or disorders as defined and identified by [...]
Read the rest →Desperately Seeking Quality Children’s Movies
In my classroom we have a movie day once a week. This “serves” as a “positive reinforcement of behavior”. I didn’t institute it, let me say that right now. It has varying degrees of “positiveness”, ranging from the lowest, being able to watch the movie at all, (well, I guess the real [...]
Read the rest →Nine Signs It Was a Rough Work Week
How to tell when your work week has been like hell.
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The Networked Student
Informational video concerning the ‘networked student’
The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler’s high school students. The Networked Student concept map was inspired by Alec Couros’ Networked Teacher. I hope that teachers [...]
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