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  • ReBlog School Library Journal: GA schools and iPads

    I was emailed about this EdTech story today and find it utterly scary and radically amazing at the same time. In a move led by its senate president Tommie Williams, the state is looking to see if it can substitute print books with iPads, according to a recent story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. (Williams did…

  • NCTE Secondary Section: Do WE Make a Difference? – Happiness as a Goal of Education

    Every once in awhile, teachers and bloggers post something exciting and refreshing about education. Too many say something terriblly negative and lose the concept of why we do this great work and fight the good fight everyday. This post by Dan Bruno on the NCTE Secondary Education Blog is a great read and very refreshing. After…

  • CW 150 Bleeding Kansas and Harpers Ferry,WV

    At first glance, most would look at this and wonder, “How do Kansas and WV have anything to do with the Civil War?” Well by a strange and odd stroke of luck, a man by the name of John Brown connected the two states together during the bloodied period of years leading up-to the war.

  • CW 150: Five Years of Posting… Ahead

    Antietam Battlefield Image via Wikipedia I’ve decided to begin a new thread of blog posts to my otherwise normal class activities and neat info blog. For the next five years, I will attempt to write at least one Civil War blog post every two months. My plan is to progress forward with the sesquicentennial remembrances for all of those…

  • CW 150: List of Topics

    This is one of several articles in my brief history series about the US Civil War and its 150 anniversary. Beginnings of a working topics list for my Civil War Blogging posts. I plan to work on a selection of blog posts each year with students. It should focus more on ideas and events in perspective instead…

  • Book Review: Riot by Walter Dean Myers

    I just finished listening to Riot by Walter Dean Myers.