Monthly Archives: October 2010

Sir Ken Robinson – Changing Paradigms

Below I embedded a short excerpt from Sir Ken Robinsons speech on Changing Paradigms and also the full version below it. Pretty interesting stuff.

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Frequency words

I have been getting a lot out of Michel Baker’s blog! In the blog below she identifies two really helpful tools by Mark Davies. I was aware of his frequency dictionary, but not the online corpus. What a helpful resource for … Continue reading

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Ira Glass – Weird Stories – MS Curriculum

Find it on youtube here!

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Ira Glass on Storytelling part 2 [youtube part 4]

Here is one more segment from Ira Glass that I found to be helpful on storytelling. Reflective moments in our stories make them more real and apart of life, rather than just some random story that we are telling as … Continue reading

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Ira Glass on Storytelling

I found this link on Michel Bakers blog. [the link to her blog is above under more blogs] She has a lot of solid basic ideas for stortelling that really made sense. Check it out.

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Level 1 Story – 2.2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvQCYsByuJ0&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

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Eduplace.com Graphic Organizers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUrMqzclMIA

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Classroom Tour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmrvuitvjWg

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Brief 7th grade Exploratory Footage

Here is some brief footage of a 7th grade Exploratory class. It is in the TPR phase where we are creating little situations of the words that we just previously worked with. I find that after we practice the words … Continue reading

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