Mr. Benesh’s Online Community

Well, the school break is over, and delightfully I can get back to homework and educational blogging for fun. To start, I came across this http://tinyurl.com/39453g article to which I had dealt with in my internship. The article talks about the usage of IMspeak in essays. It appears students are starting to use “ur” for [...]

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Bud the Teacher wrote a nice post about what seven qualities he possesses that would make him a good leader in the classroom. (http://budtheteacher.typepad.com/bud_the_teacher/2007/02/leading_meme.html)
One point resonated particularly well with me:
5.  I don’t like ham.  (Okay — I don’t like metaphorical ham.  But I’ve nothing against the real stuff.)  When I took my current position, an [...]

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I recently read this article (http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0129/p13s01-stct.html), and it contained some useful information for all educators within the next 5 or 10 years. Don’t get me wrong, these are designed for third world countries, and places where low income is a huge barrier for technology. Not here in CANADA where we are always afforded such luxuries. [...]

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