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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
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.
Listen Up!
Our Paperfree Class Podcast is up weekly! We need more of our dedicated listeners to tune in! Episode 208 is now out HERE https://soundcloud.com/paperfreeclass/episode-208 – Don’t forget to check out our Donor’s Choose project http://donorschoo.se/e/45vDCd6TmQ as well!
The New Podcast is Here!
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 201! Hope you enjoy, and learn along with us as we try something new!
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
National Poem in Your Pocket Day and IB #3!
April is National Poetry Month, so we will be participating in poetry activities all month long, culminating in the Poem in Your Pocket Day on April 26th! You will choose a pocket-sized poem to carry around with you on that day and share with your classmates and teachers the gift of poetry! We are also … 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.
Facing Fears IB Project
Just a quick update that our Fear Booklet IB projects are in full swing. Students are compiling their booklets in their centers groups right now. One of my students asked about the funny phobias and mentioned this one that I remember from way back in the Far Side comics.
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
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