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Website: http://www.readingahead.com

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A transition program to secondary school

Posted on May 12, 2010 at 6:37pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

Hello Everyone,

As many of you know, I develop digital resources for the secondary classroom.

Two years ago we developed a transition to 9 program that we called tt9. The resource was centered around literacy activities (short articles, vocabulary building, blogging and journal writing) with each activity centered around issues that students face as they transition to high school (responsibility, time management, meeting new friends etc.).

The board that piloted… Continue

Can we change educational resources?

Posted on April 27, 2010 at 5:45pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

Remember when you used to go out and buy an album for that one song you loved? You had to pay a fortune for "Smoke on the Water" and "Space Truckn" but really never listened to the rest of Machine Head (forgive me, those of you who would get a reference to Thriller but not Aqua Lung). Technology changed that and now I can download or even "share" music at a fraction of the cost. People are still creating music and people are still buying it, it's just more efficient.

For the most… Continue

Free Shakespeare Resource

Posted on April 26, 2010 at 6:11pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

Here is a site that will allow you to print all of Shakespeare's plays in their entirety, by act or by scene for free. It is something that I have recently developed and would be interested in what you think about it.

Please pass it along and enjoy

http://try.readingahead.com/shakespearehere

or you can find it at www.readingahead.com

Let me tell you when the penny dropped

Posted on April 25, 2010 at 4:32pm 1 Comment 0 Likes

So I am in my classroom and I have written a long note on the board and a student is not copying the note. I am slightly dismayed at this and say to the kid "hey you need to get this note down." He looks at me, stands up, steps back, takes his cell phone out of his pocket and takes a few pictures of the board. "I got it" he says.

Yup. I got it too.

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At 2:03pm on August 18, 2010, Sean Malcolmson said…: Dan:

Tracy & I live in Brantford. We have been here about 8 years. Tracy went back to school about 7 years ago and is now teaching in downtown Hamilton (Grade One). I am a principal of an elementary school on the Hamilton mountain. I taught in Halton fro about 6 years, beofer moving over to Hamilton (It fit with our move to Brantford. We have 3 kids, Liam (16), Caeley (13) & Ann (11), all of whom are doing well. I don't see many people from University, although I talk to Kevin Sylvester once in a while on Facebook. If you are part of Facebook, look me up under Gerrard Sean Malcolmson. Let me hear how you are doing. Its been a while.

At 3:05pm on August 17, 2010, Sean Malcolmson said…: Dan:

Came across your name while I was doing a search on reading. Hope you are well. If interested, send me a note.