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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Ms. Mercer, I concede your point. It appears that he’s considered a pretty cool sub to have–which completely impresses me. Though, I’m still not convinced that I’ll show it to entire classes." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Here\'s an idea. Show it to \'em and start by asking, would you want this sub, why or why not? Then subtly assess them on fractions and percents to see if anything stuck.<br><br>Once again Dan, thanks for letting us totally take over this discussion thread, lol." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> I don’t have a list yet. Not really sure if it’s coming–haven’t really done videos in class yet.So I’m linking anatomy and Spanish teachers to this via (via Slate) about the heart. I think it’s review instead of a hook, but it made me smile." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> I use tumblr for microblogging some stuff. http://mizmercer.tumblr.com/ I like to use it for posting pics from more social events/stuff at conferences, and family pics. It is pretty darn easy to post stuff from my phone, and it\'s more organized that sending stuff to plurk or twitter. I don\'t look at it as a PLN tool, but a sort of scrapbook.Since I can x-post to plurk and twitter, it\'s not a one-or-another choice. I can see why it would not work for you and others, but I thought it would be nice to share why it works for me.Definitely a YMMV platform." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> I have been using tumblr for a while becaue I found it a really easy solution for blogging and podcasting. The only problem is that you’re right and it doesn’t create media enclosures. I’m hosting my podcast their now, but I lucked out because I also use feedburner which automatically creates enclosures." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Tom, Alice and Dan … just wanted to butt in and say how much I’ve enjoyed the cross blog pollination on this slide redesign theme. I am very much a learner in this whole area of visual design and like Alice, I know that my stuff is quite a distance in front of most teachers I interact with on a daily basis. Unfortunately, that makes their design methodologies woeful because as your collective posts point out to me, I have a lot, lot, lot to learn before my own presentation stuff is as good as it should be. As interactive whiteboards have spread like the plague across Australian classrooms, concepts like excessive text, suitable fonts and colour schemes are all issues that teachers should have some interest in improving – or that great digital tool they are now wielding could become a tool of torture or even worse, patheticness (is there such a word?). Good job – I know I’m not confident enough to critique anyone’s work on the web – my easy beat opponents are not paid up members of the edublogosphere. Cheers." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Graham, I would urge you to share your thoughts. I\'ve done another redesign project here: <br>http://mizmercer.edublogs.org/2009/04/16/thanks-tom/<br><br>You will note that not everyone giving suggestions was Dan Meyer, and they were very usable, as shown here:<br>http://mizmercer.edublogs.org/2009/04/23/running-with-it-the-proof-sheet/<br><br>I was happy to see Dan participating, and Tom was a gem with this. What I\'m really happy about is seeing Lesley and Nancy pitching in. That portends a much more sustainable effort on this." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Graham- I wouldn’t define it as butting in considering we’re begging for participation. I’ve always considered blogs kind of like brainstorming. I benefit from other people throwing their two cents in. It makes my day. Otherwise, I’d just turn commenting off and go on my merry way. We’ve got a storm of interactive whiteboards joining our 20,000 some odd laptops. It makes for a lot of interesting challenges. If you’ve got any prime examples of use, I’d be interested in seeing them." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> I posted a question about this topic to both my WordPress and OpenSalon blogs a couple of weeks ago. The WordPress post got a few interesting comments, but the OpenSalon discussion was, well, like a freakin’ block party. Here are the two links:http://siobhancurious.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/will-more-school-make-us-better-people/http://open.salon.com/blog/siobhan_curious/2009/04/30/the_most_important_skill_we_learn_in_schoolEveryone had very strong, and generally well-informed, views on the subject. I learned a lot. Reply:<br>UGH! One more thing to put on my MUST read list! Am I the only one getting overwhelmed by the end of year?Seriously, I’m dying to read it. Thanks!" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> UGH! One more thing to put on my MUST read list! Am I the only one getting overwhelmed by the end of year?<br><br>Seriously, I\'m dying to read it. Thanks!" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> This is a very interesting and highly debatable topic! After reading Brian Crosby’s take on the topic and then reading the comments posted, I must say that I am not sure where I stand on this. I also followed the link above posted by Siobhan Curious to the open salon page. I found more information there. I went back and read President Obama’s take on this topic as well. I think what it boils down to is what would the “extra time” be used for? More test preperation for students? As if enough time is not already spent on this! We are teaching a generation of students who are “test taking” experts! These students can test, test, test but many of them can not think critically!I can see the merit in using the “extra time” to enhance students’ learning with field trips and extra curricular activities, especially in low income areas. President Obama makes valid points in that we are falling behind as nation with our education system. He stated,” The challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom… if they can do that in South Korea, we can do it right here in the United States of America.” We can do it IF it is done correctly with the right intentions. Again, dare I bring up teaching to the test? WE DON’T NEED MORE TIME TO TEACH FOR THE TEST!I think children should spend a lot of time learning - in fact, I think they should spend all day, every day, learning, as should adults - but that “school” is only one, and not always the most effective, path to learning. If we are going to create productive 21st century learners, we have to prepare them for the world in which they are going to be living in, not for the test!So, yes, maybe we do need “extra time” to enrich students’ learning with experiences they may not get otherwise." );
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document.write( "            <a href=\"http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=3351\" class=\"article\" title=\"External link to article\">Just One Example: Stock Photography</a>" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> @Dan, the lack of critique in last annual report was not directed at you, and I think I was taking some responsibility for making you &quot;gun shy&quot; What I would suggest and did suggest at the time of the &quot;Vicki&quot; thing was ask people to volunteer, which you\'re doing now. So will you accept my apology, and let\'s move on?<br><br>Look, I don\'t think there was a lot of critique from the entrants in the last contest. I think we did a great job of supporting each other, but there wasn\'t a lot of critical commentary (constructive or otherwise). We\'ll have to agree to disagree.<br><br>Who would do this? Do you really want to sign up to critique my work and the work of others who volunteer for this? You couldn\'t fit in actively judging the annual contest (no critique, btw). Are the likes of myself and others at my level of practice where we can offer worthwhile critique? <br><br>I think @TeacherC\'s query is a good one, we can\'t do all our own photography, and remixing can be good, what is worthwhile? You use flickr a lot and so do I, what are we looking for? I think you have some good points when you talk about finding stuff that is not too slick, and is well done aesthetically, but maintains authenticity." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(A. Mercer):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Not seeing earlier comment from dh laptop, so I might have triggered your spam filter:<br><br>Here\'s my stuff:<br><br>I missed audio on the last training I did, but it was bollixed from the word go (the lab computers were crashing, you just would have heard a lot of cursing). Still, I was teaching some PowerPoint techniques to district teachers, so if my preso is sucky, I\'m corrupting 15 of my peers:<br><br>Beyond PowerPoint<br><br>@Dean: THEY loved your video, on PP Extreme Makeover<br><br>Here\'s CUE which includes audio:<br><br>Blogging in Elementary<br>I\'d love quick feedback on this one as I\'ll be repurposing this one for an Eluminate session this week.<br><br>Tech in Tutoring<br><br>With most of the presos I actually present off a PP, which means the fonts, etc. are slightly different. The audio is missing my florid hand gestures, but otherwise, it\'s almost like being there. Hack away dy/dan readers...<br><br>On feedback at trainings: I always have a Google form survey for feedback. In general, people are shy to say stuff face-to-face, so the few survey responses I get back are more honest than what folks will say to my face." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Alice, you don’t owe me an apology. Back then and right now, I was far less offended than I was befuddled at how tricky “criticism” is in the edublogosphere. I mean, I read left-wing and right-wing political blogs which quote and cite and disagree with and revise each other all the time as a matter of discourse. That is how bloggers there shape ideas. We need that here.Does this kind of discourse require prohibitive amounts of time? I don’t think so. Tom Woodward posted some slides and a transcript of his talk yesterday and I issued some thoughts this morning.As an aside, from my perspective, if I’m Tom, and I have spent an hour (or whatever) converting slides to images, resizing and posting them, and adding the transcript, I don’t want people to by shy about criticizing my work. What a lousy return on investment to post a slidedeck and not get, at the very least, questions about my process. I can’t be alone in that perspective, craving the kind of treatment I gave Vicki Davis.I think your last line does justice to the distinction between good stock photos and bad stock photos:stuff that is not too slick, and is well done aesthetically, but maintains authenticity." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(March 12th 2009 at):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> These are some AWESOME resources, Matt. Thanks for making them available for our use" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(Alice Mercer):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Lovely seeing you in Palm Springs, CA at CUE. Did you have any more questions about using CTRL +/- keys to zoom in and out in Firefox? You can reset to normal by hitting CTRL-0 (zero, not the letter O)?" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(March 31st 2009 at):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Thanks for all your great info yesterday at the Sac Cty Office of Ed! It was a great day!" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Nice. Like the washout background images. I like your running chart with map better than Feltron\'s bar graph. Awesome work, that fits together nicely." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Nice. Like the washout background images. I like your running chart with map better than Feltron’s bar graph. Awesome work, that fits together nicely.  By: alicemercer on February 2, 2009 <br> at 5:02 pm" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> WOW, this is like LIGHTENING speed for you Doug. I\'m shocked." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Sorry, Alice, missed the question the first time around.I think that having students quilt a bit before they work the math could only help their understanding of the area problem. As always, though, we balance everything against time and cost and I don’t think the value added by classroom quilting justifies the time or dollar cost.That line is different for everyone, though, and if bringing a personal hobby into the classroom makes you a little more satisfied in your job or the relationship between your students that much deeper, that has to factor into your calculations also." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Dan, I hear you on that. I would NOT do any of this lightly. I think we\'re all on the same sheet of graph paper which is don\'t just throw this stuff out there unless there is some meat to the lesson and something to hook the kids so they aren\'t saying WTH." );
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document.write( "            Rejecting Your Reality & Substituting My Own: " );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(Chris):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> JT ~ *some* people attribute so much more to me than I can honestly claim. I only wish I were as bad an influence as my reputation. I honestly haven’t experienced the hypocrisy you have b/c I gave up on the entire religious pogrom in about 1986, life has been ever so much better since then. My current digits are available with an email request . ~ DG" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> when i go to church, i feel _________.<br><br>I feel nothing.<br><br>I still believe… but I’m worried about how much longer that will be true.<br><br>My advice, for now don\'t worry about what you are feeling in church. Where are you when you feel your believe? Concentrate on that feeling, not where it\'s happening." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Hey, a thought: Get your shrinking ass over here to Oasis some time and see life on this side of the county. No, we’re not a perfect church, but I’m amazed sometimes at the unconditional caring that these people show. Just a thought." );
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