The Paper-Free Class
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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
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
Please Consider Supporting our Project!
Hi! We are going full steam ahead on our podcast – Episode 204 is now available! To help further our work in podcasting, we have created a Donors Choose Project to buy a recorder and four microphones. I hope you will consider donating to the project HERE Thank you for your support in our class projects!
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
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
The Giver Games!
We haven’t had an update in a while! Sorry, I have been busy running the JFK website and the JFK BEAT Website. First things first, check out the Giver Games – while you’re at it, browse the rest of the BEAT website 🙂 Now, down to student business – next week, we will be having … Continue reading
Let’s Get Free!
I’m talking about Paper-Free here! Selected classes will be going paperless for the rest of the year (fingers crossed). We will be using the MIDDLE SCHOOL QUESTION TASK CARDS and Edmodo to complete our work for the next two weeks until FCAT time. We will focus on a different task each day, starting with Main Idea. … Continue reading
Let’s Get Discovering!
Wait, that doesn’t sound quite right. Anyway, we are going to connect digitally to our lesson a bit more today. You students all have access to the Discovery network through your student portal, and today we are going to put it to good use! We will view a film about Native American history in class, … Continue reading
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