It seems that Ning is spreading the word and making collaboration even easier. I would like to "advertise" my present projects in case there is any interest.

ClassroomBraids - for the younger set wishing to braid together experiences. available to any students from anywhere in the world - concentrating on 10 - 14 year olds.

Taking Learning Global - a Ning network for students 15+ across… Continue

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I just found out yesterday that I am a national board certified teacher. I just can't believe it. It was so much work and very stressing! I'm just so glad it's over and I have my life back. It was such a growth process and I am definitely a better teacher for going through the process.

I have just spent the Spring holidays in New Zealand. The land of the long white cloud. We toured the south island and had a fabulous time. We hired a car and commenced our adventure in Christchurch driving west to the alpine region, south to Queenstown and on to Milford Sound, then east along the coast through Dunedin, until we arrived back in Christchurch.The landscape there is just breathless. I was lucky to go on a helihike to the Franze Josep glazier. I had never been in a helicopter before… Continue

Today the Junior school opened their classrooms to the parents and visitors to view the childrens work they have been doing over the passed 10 weeks. This term our theme was "Once upon a time" The children studied the genre and elements of fairy tales. Visitors were able to view the children's own attempts at creating a fairy tale. Our class also baked gingerbread men and made a gingerbread man from calico they dyed themselves.We also did a mini unit on Dragons(the boys loved doing this) Other c… Continue