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Random Thoughts on 2008-12-11

This should make teaching easier! Brain scans reveal images from your mind – http://ping.fm/Xrbpm(08)00958-6 # Middle school teacher questions student for giving away Linux CDs – http://ping.fm/aiFzu # Tags: Twitter

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Assessing Pupils’ Progress (APP) Google Doc

In this post I welcome James Mansell, a fellow primary school teacher here in the UK, who explains about a wonderful resource he has created and brought to my attention that addresses the use of APP in school. APP or Assessing Pupils’ Progress is the new (?) national approach in the UK to understanding children’s learning needs.

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My Trip to Morioka and the JLPT

If you’ve been following my Twitter then you know that last weekend I went out to Morioka in Iwate prefecture to take the Japanese Language Placement Test.

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Permalink to Daily Twittering for 2008-12-06

Daily Twittering for 2008-12-06 Retweet: biz: “I don’t think you’re a gold digga’, just don’t understand that last twitta’” .. http://tinyurl.com/5fvtv8 # The new Clarifi case from Griffin seems really cool! http://tr.im/1xuh # Cardboard Cantilever Chair: This cardboard chair explores variations on some techniques first though.

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Reflections on Instructional Methods

The mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimension – Ralph Waldo Emmerson I have been grinding the glacier over some issues around my instructional practices.  I left a private school system for the public system because I felt like I was teaching in a box.  A box that was becoming smaller and tighter each year. I was the outfielder standing alone in left field waiting for someone to throw a new ball my way:  differentiated lessons, co-operative learning, professiona

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Twitter – #WhoAndWhyIFollow – The Day to Tweet Your Tweeple

A week or so ago, I was brainstorming with one of my newer Twitter contacts: @SarahJL We came up with the idea of a day set aside to sort of honor the contacts on Twitter that inspire you, amuse you, make you laugh, cry, scream, or – in general – make you want to follow them.

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