Enhanced English Teacher

I recently joined the We Are Teachers website which offers grant opportunites and information related to organizations that assist teachers in implementing engaging lessons in their classroom.  I applied for a micro digital learning grant that provides a flip video camera and $200 to the teacher that wins the grant.
My grant proposal title is The [...]

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Recently in a workshop I presented, I asked my Twitter PLN to send me a shout out and tell me where they live and their favorite web tool or tech device.  I appreciate the response of my followers.  Their tweets not only provided information about web 2.0, but also demonstrated the power of Twitter as [...]

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I have recently starting writing posts as a guest author on The Educators’ Royal Treatment.
I currently have two posts: Blogs Wikis, or Nings?
Enhancing the Classroom with Wordle
I encourage you to check out The Educator’s Royal Treatment created by Ken Royal.

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Andrew Marcinek wrote a blog post to inspire educators to collaborate online with just one blog comment a day.  He is calling his idea the One Comment a Day Project.
After reading his post, I realized that I absorb quite a bit of valuable information from my fellow educators online, and very often I do so [...]

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I recently started following author, Patrick Carman, on Twitter.  He wrote a vbook which is a video + book = The Whole Story.  You can view the book trailer at the Scholastic website.

I bought Skeleton Creek, and my 12 year old son immediately took it away from me to read, and he highly recommends it.  [...]

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