The Blog of Ms. Mercer

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Lo and behold I had one of those moments today. Administrators in my state are required to undergo technology training to renew their licenses, and my principal is in the midst of that training right now.
First, I had a great audience. As wonderful as he is,  my principal has a very quick mind, and really [...]

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So, I promised to reflect on how my lesson on coordinate graphing with VoiceThread went. It was not great, but there are two things that I can attribute this too, poor planning/prep on my part intersecting with the challenges of one of the most off the hook classes in the school. For one fourth grade [...]

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From Gail Desler, my CUE roomie…the state has recently opened up the k12 High Speed Network, with EdZone, where I can drop my videos and podcasts off for storage in a safe home that should not be blocked (after I finally got TeacherTube unblocked at my district). The network is for use in California, and [...]

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I’m not going to question the madness that possessed Dr. McLeod to select this blog as deserving a bigger audience. Dr. McLeod has been both an inspiration and a helping hand as I began my journey in edublogging. I still am amazed at the amount of time that someone whose mission is supporting administrators and [...]

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I have a “sister” post to this one, going out on In Practice.
A recent post in dy/dan» This girl is dangerous talks about the hard questions that need to be answered when you are talking about using technology in the classroom, and refers to another blog post (which I hope to discuss in the sister [...]

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Classroom 2.0 Conference I was so glad I took the time and went to the conference. It was great meeting people in person that I had already gotten to know online (like Steve Hargadon and Andy Card). I even met some new folks that were fantastic. Everyone was friendly and very helpful. We saw [...]

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I will be taking off for the San Francisco Bay Area for the Classroom 2.0 LIVE meetup. I’m looking forward to meeting folks, and learning lots of fun stuff.
I will be life UStreaming the wrap up session from 3:00 p.m. PDT on Friday and Saturday on Ed Tech Talk.

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One of the most powerful tools I discovered for development of English language is podcasting. It gives authentic practice in oral communication, it’s engaging and motivating, but because it’s scripted, students who may be shy about raising hands to answer questions just put to them in that moment will give it a try.
Here is work [...]

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