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02/18/2010

http://iteach20.blogspot.com/2010/02/today-i-started-my-class-with-prompt.html

I find myself ensconced in social networks. That’s right, I have completely draped myself in social networks. As the anti-hero George Constanza once uttered, “I would drape myself in velvet if it was socially acceptable”. ...

02/16/2010

http://onecommentproject.ning.com/

This project will help promote educational collaboration throughout the blogosphere and promote and stimulate educational dialogue.

02/12/2010

http://iteach20.blogspot.com/2010/02/return-of-1.html

In July of 2009, I launched The One Comment A Day Project. My mission was to promote new bloggers and bring comments to existing blogs. Initially, The One Comment A Day Project burst on to the scene with the celerity of a gazelle, however, it soon became another faded project. ...

01/15/2010

http://iteach20.blogspot.com/2010/01/language-20.html

I teach tenth grade Literature and Composition class back to back for first and second period. I am teaching them through various Web 2.0 and open source venues. Every now and then we tend to digress into a conversation about technology and its role in the 21st century classroom. ...

12/31/2009

http://iteach20.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-decade.html

“Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need Roads”Twenty years ago a movie came out that changed the way I looked at the future. This movie was Back to the Future II. Back to the Future II was different than any future movie my adolescent eyes had ever seen. ...

12/16/2009

http://iteach20.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-50.html

For my 50th post I wanted to do something special, something big, however, if you know me, that's not me. I prefer my fireworks on July Fourth, prefer to give a gift rather than receive, think that confetti ...

12/16/2009

http://iteach20.blogspot.com/2009/12/independent-reading-assignment-with-rss.html

On Friday, I discussed using Google forms within my wikispace. To some, this is nothing new, but for many it was a simple and effective way of integrating some technology into ones classroom. Today, I want to focus on a reading strategy that I am using with my tenth grade English class. ...

12/16/2009

http://iteach20.blogspot.com/2009/12/using-google-forms-and-wikispaces.html

If you have been following along with my recent blog posts, you know that I have been incorporating a classroom wikispace into my sophomore English class. The class is composed of students with very low reading levels. ...

12/11/2009

This trimester in English Literature and Composition, my class will be taking a new approach to learning. We will be utilizing various technology resources to communicate, collaborate and differentiate instruction within our classroom.

12/11/2009

Today we started a new trimester. We had shortened periods today so I decided to follow up with the topic from last evening. The topic asked, how could all education stakeholders balance the need for learning vs. ...

12/01/2009

http://iteach20.blogspot.com/2009/11/15-slide-show-tools-for-teachers.html

Slide shows are a great way to present information and engage students inside and outside the classroom. This article contains of list of 15 free slide show tools that would be useful to almost any educator.

11/23/2009

http://iteach20.blogspot.com/2009/11/my-proposal-20.html

This is my proposal. This is my initial pitch for technology reform in my school. Our students have laptops and our classrooms have smart boards, however, at this point we just have aesthetically pleasing tools. ...