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Teacher: “Now, did everyone study for their test today?”

Ginger Meggs: “If we all say no, I reckon we won’t have to do it! Pass it on!”

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Oh, no, this is a worry. A recent report that Enid Blyton books are to be re-written to bring them into line with modern day language usage is a shame. I enjoy reading these stories to not only my classes, but also my own children – it gives us chances to talk about the language and the words used, as well as being just plain fun!!

What do you think of the idea?

Image Source: Kevin Grimm

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Teachers open the door.

You enter by yourself.

- Chinese Proverb

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The following clip came to me via one of the listserves I belong to.

Plenty of food for thought in here.

I would like my own children to be able to use digital tools, software and web 2.0 tools to create products to show learning.

I also liked the WWW portion, though the WWW is not the traditional World Wide Web. Instead it is:

Whatever

Whenever

Wherever

This seems to be the way things are going, especially with the rapid uptake of mobile devices. I know my boys at home like to use the iPod Touch to practise things, and I am currently looking at how to integrate the use of a few iPod Touches into my classroom.

Was there something in here that made you think?

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The things kids can come up with. Students were asked to put the words into the correct order to make the sentence. This is one child’s effort.

Discovered via Twitter, found at http://i.imgur.com/hcS5R.jpg

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This video was created by Ocoee Middle School in the United States (Florida) last December to promote reading. Set to the Black Eyed Peas song I Got A Feeling.

Lyrics:

Gotta Keep Reading
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good good
book to read
Ooo hoo
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good good
book to read
Pick up that book
And turn the page
You’ll never know
Just what you’ll find
Information
Or Fantasy
Drama and Art
All make you smart!
I know that you’ll have a ball
If you turn off the TV and just read them all
Just think, with a book you’ll be so entertained
OMS has the best readers in F.L.A
Fill up my mind
With non fiction
Let’s get the facts
And use them up
Collaborate
Graduate
Feed your brain
And then we’ll just keep on reading
And reading and reading and reading and reading
And reading and reading
Let’s read it some more
Reading and reading and reading, reading, reading
Keep reading and reading and reading
Gotta Keep Reading
Ooo hoo
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good good book to read
Ooo hoo
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good good book to read
I got my book!
Do you have yours?
What is the title?
And who’s it by?
Where is it set?
Maybe in Spain?
Is it fiction?
Or is it real?
Will it be happy?
Or maybe sad?
Let’s see what happens
By reading on
Open that book
And have a look
It’s an adventure
So keep on reading that book
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Keep reading and reading and reading and reading
And reading and reading
Let’s read it some more
Read it and read it and read it, read it, read it
And read it and read it and read it, read it, read it, read it
Here we come, here we go we gotta read
(read, read, read)
Easy come, easy go, now we can’t stop
Fill that shelf with those books
Way to the top
Round and round
Read those books
Around the clock
Action, Sci-Fi, Humor, Adventure
Biography, Reality, Mystery and Fantasy
Read, read, read, read, read it up
What ever you like
Read those Sunshine States
Take those Reading Counts
Gotta Keep Reading
Ooo hooo
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good good book to read
Ooo hoo
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good book
Cause this book’s gonna be a good good book!
Ohh hoo..

Source: Youtube, Flash Version, MP4 Version

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Perhaps this could work at our schools???? Add some sound effects for when people put rubbish in the bins.

Source: Youtube

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Here’s a youtube video using an example of a Talent Show, where one contestant says some pretty nasty things about another girl. This is then compared to cyberbullying:

If you wouldn’t say it in person, why say it online?

Source: YouTube, Flash Version, MP4 Version