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I do love the beginning of school.  There are so many exciting opportunities and everything is still a possibility!  All the great ideas from summer conferences are being put into action (or at least a plan for action).  And the best is seeing all my teacher friends and the students again. 

My teachers are off and running this year.  Now I just have to keep up with them… 

• I’ve got one 8th grade math teacher who has already completed a Voicethread with her class on the Origins of Algebra.  Students had to research the history of Algebra and then make a text post about what they found most interesting from their research.  Students then commented on each others posts.  It was a fabulous project and one that was mainly homework.  What a great way to use valuable face to face time for other topics.
• Another teacher is having 7th grade math students create their own review games on http://www.superteachertools.com/index.php. 
• A Spanish teacher is having her 6th graders take the data they collected from from a classroom survey and creating graphs in Excel.
• One of our ESL teachers is embarking on a movie making project and an audiobook project (she is very ambitious).
• We’ve had teachers using the SMART Board and video cameras already.
• We also have had many beginning of the year PowerPoint projects (I was sure to give my Presentations 101 training first to the students). 
• Students used video and audio for advisory assembly presentations. 

And these our only the things I know about…

It’s nice to work here!

How’s your year started? Any great projects going?

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