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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

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

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

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.