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I’ve tried all kinds of imaginative things to get kids to do homework. But, I’ve never thought of having my students watch videos of my lessons at home and then do their homework based on those lessons with me in the class. That’s thinking outside the box. That’s what two teacher have done and getting world wide attention for it. Congratulations! Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams came up with this idea and it seems to be working. those all important test scores are up.

Take a moment to watch “Never Lecture in Class Again” and see if that’s something you could adapt and use for your students. Do you think that’s the way we should or even could be going?

Thanks to @coolcatteacher at Twitter for the link to the video.

For some time now I’ve been contributing to Kevin’s Day in a Sentence-or poem, or VoiceThread. I like contributing to Day in a Sentence because it makes me stop and reflect on some aspect of the busy week I’ve just had. I look forward to contributing to DIAS. I must confess though, I’m partial to poems. But I’ve got that under control now. I just send my thoughts to Kevin and he publishes them, very creatively I might add, on Sundays.

I like reading the thoughts of other Day-in-a-Sentencers because they remind me how similar we are even though we live in different countries and continents. The more things change, the more they seem the same.

From time to time, Kevin invites others to host the DIAS. This week Bonnie is our host. When I went to Bonnie’s site to post my sentence, I was delighted to learn that she is also the host of Photo Fridays. I really like the idea of Photo Fridays. While DIAS gets me to think in words, Photo Fridays gets me to think in pictures. What could be better than words and pictures!

Although Photo Friday is just a few weeks old, it already has 27 members. Imagine! I love the photos. They’re sweet, they’re awesome; they’re inspiring. The photo that you see at the top of the page is my contribution this week. It’s one of my favourite photos of Katie and me. Katie is my darling three year old grandaughter.

(http://www.flickr.com/groups/photofridays/)

I invite you to join us at Bonnie’s this week for Day in a Sentence and Photo Fridays. See you there.

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I’d like to thank Karen Brooks for creating this Slideshare with all these wonderful resources. I know that I will be using some of them come next September with my grade nine class and I’ll be sharing this treasure with my colleagues.

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