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Spooky Episode!
Check out our newest podcast episode at https://paperfreeclass.buzzsprout.com or search Paperfree Class on most podcasting platforms!
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
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
New Episode Available!
Please check out our podcast here – you can also put the RSS feed into any podcast player to search for our podcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:174561607/sounds.rss – the latest episode from Ponce is episode 203! Hope you enjoy, and learn along with us as we try something new! Now also available on iTunes Podcast app! Just search for … Continue reading
The Podcast Returns!
This has been a rather exciting week. I have just recently started listening to a podcast by a famous comedian and reminiscing about the few episodes we did in my 8th grade class back at JFK Middle. The school year is about to start, and I want to start up again with these great kids … Continue reading
SAMR Model for Technology in the Classroom
This was all I could think of when we were talking about the SAMR Model in a workshop recently. This is why I make online publishing a big part of my class.
Online Portfolios
Getting started: Go to http://www.wordpress.com and click on Create Website. Choose the topic “Education” and what you would like your Portfolio to look like. Choose your Domain name – it MUST be firstnamelastinitialmdcps – then select the domain that comes up as firstnamelastinitialmdcps.wordpress.com (that’s the free one). You will need to put your email address … Continue reading
Welcome Back!
Great to be back again at Ponce de Leon Middle! Looking forward to an exciting year with my IB students. This year in 6th grade we are going to be talking about Facing Fears, Making Your Voice Heard, Fairness, and Cultural Perspective. In 8th grade, we will have a different set of themes. If you … Continue reading
Decisions, Decisions IB Unit 3
Students, you will be working in centers to learn about the difficult decision the passengers of Flight 93 made on Sept. 11, 2001. You must log in to your portal, click on Apps, Services, and Sites, then click on Discovery Education app, and then click on the link below: Discovery Education Flight 93 Video Copy … Continue reading
Nothing to Fear
Students, we are in the middle of our first IB unit on Facing Fears! You are reading stories and a novel based on the concept of overcoming your fears, and you will be preparing your Unit Project starting soon. The rubric and other important documents are on Edmodo, so be sure to look. There are … Continue reading
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