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Local Letters for Global Change

What better way to talk about local and global issues for #IB than through a podcast! Our second episode of Season 7! You can find the episode here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1853778/episodes/11933672 In this episode we are discussing local and global issues with letters we wrote for a contest for the Pulitzer Center (pulitzercenter.org) featuring our @ponceexplorers! Hopefully, … Continue reading

Spooky Episode!

Check out our newest podcast episode at https://paperfreeclass.buzzsprout.com or search Paperfree Class on most podcasting platforms!

Poetry Slam Podcast!

Here is Part one of our latest episode! Our students are flexing their creative muscles by reciting their Piano Slam entries for this year. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1853778/10193932

Our Podcast Has a New Home!

I have had to migrate over to Buzzsprout since Soundcloud was blocked throughout the school system. Very excited to get back to podcasting this year on our new platform. Don’t worry, your subscriptions will still be pointed to the right place! You can find our new listing here: Paperfree Class Podcast. Also have a new … Continue reading

Ponce Review 2021 Podcast

We have the PDF Version of our book available here: https://online.fliphtml5.com/orhcw/kcyi/

Piano Slam is Coming!

We have been doing so many great activities in our Poetry Notebooks inspired by @GeoffreyPhilp and Baba Israel. Students are currently working on their Piano Slam drafts and we will be submitting by the end of this week! Super exciting!

What a Year!

So for reasons I looked at my class website and realized it as been a FULL YEAR since I last posted! That doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy with PaperFreeClass! In fact, for a while, it was ALL Paper-Free! Shortly after my last post, we went into lockdown and the end of the 19-20 school … Continue reading

Online Portfolio Project

Gifted students will be working on their online portfolios starting today. We will be writing a persuasive argument about exotic animals being pets and publishing it online. The advanced classes will be doing their speeches in class, with the online component being a powerpoint presentation or a Sway presentation. (Image borrowed from indiatoday.in)

Piano Slam is Coming!

And you thought Santa Claus coming to town was exciting! We have been super busy with @PianoSlam this year as we are now a LIVE SCHOOL! The teachers have attended some amazing workshops, and now the students are receiving workshops on writing poetry here in school. The poems are due to me by the 10th … Continue reading

Spook-tacular Podcast Episode!

Episode 209 is now up! A mega-special double episode of 20 scary amazing tales written by my students. Please check it out here: https://soundcloud.com/paperfreeclass/episode-209 or subscribe on your favorite podcast platform. Let’s hope the survey works. It seems we missed Story #6 somehow.