I remember May Day as a child. At school I would make paper flowers and place
them in a paper basket. On my way home from school I would find a house where
an elderly person lived, place the basket on the doorknob, ring the bell and
step away from the door. Once the person
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Many in my choir of connected educators continue to “push the envelope” with
innovative and creative ways of producing, creating, and learning with their
students and others. A lot of us have chucked the “life-long learners” speak to
be a “life-long contributor” of their PLN. We are constantly on a
spaceship of exploring. Then there
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I have been reading up a storm. I know that I have updated these on
goodreads, a social network for book worms, but I thought others would be
interested in what I was reading this month. I love reading on my iPad using
the Kindle app. All of these books are found as a Kindle
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As part of the 366project, I take a picture every day. At the end of the month
I compose a song with ONLY the pictures I have taken in that particular month.
The month of February offered a nice opportunity to use the hashtag as a sharp,
so f#, e, and b became the haunting
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I recently bumped into a parent of a student I taught a couple of years ago. He
is an early adaptor, a student constantly searching for new ways to create and
learn. When I had him in class, he was making games in flash and creating
his own web browsers. He created a website that
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I knew that I was not going to be retired as a music teacher for a long time. I
saw this year as an opportunity to explore and experiment with new activities
and expand my interests. Over the past months I have: Attended a Beethoven
class as part of the Northwestern University Alumni Continuing Education
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I have always wanted to participate in the 365 Project, where you take a
picture every day. So I am finally doing it! This year is leap year, so all my
pictures will be numbered up to 366. My pictures are housed on my flickr
account. Since I am passionate about music and have EVERYTHING
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This was a very exciting assignment for me, since am I former music
teacher. I am also doing the 366 project (taking a picture every day) AND
the once a month composition project. So, some of the pictures I took in
January were the inspiration for the song “January.” The biggest battle was to
figure
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I am currently participating in a Ed Tech Creative Collective, an online class
out of Great Britain led by Colin Maxwell. My hope is to broaden my technology
skills with a global project. The first assignment is to make two signs with
the graphics tool of our choice. This is part of my swiss cheese,
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Had a super embarrassing tech moment yesterday – almost didn’t sleep last night
thinking about it. I am the poster co-chair for Illinois Computing Educators
(ICE) and on the Fellows board at the Golden Apple Foundation. I had two online
meetings at the same time. An ICE conference call (on my iPhone) and Golden
Apple
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