The Hundred Book Challenge

Recently, I went to a public school in Camden for my field experience as an education major.  While there we learned about a new initiative that the Camden schools are using called the “100 Book Challenge.”  The goal of this program is to get elementary school students to read more and thus expand their education.  [...]

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People on Twitter

It is interesting how much information you can find out about someone just by looking at their twitter page.  I discovered this recently while browsing through both people I follow and people who follow me.  I looked at the page of a man named Judetehdude.  No that is not a typo.  He had a very [...]

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Who are we to ban books?

I have to say that even as a future teacher, I can’t stand the idea of banning books. These books were all okay when we were in school and reading them. Banning books due to their content is crazy and close minded. Banning such books doesn’t take away the ugly that has and still does [...]

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Great Bulletin Board Idea!!!

WRITING/BULLETIN BOARDS Message in a Bottle To help students with writing. Have the students choose from these: If a genie gave you three wishes, “What would they be?” You found a bottle with some mysterious paper inside, “What was written on the paper?” After the students have written their papers, the teacher can take used [...]

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The Twittelator Pro

            I’m sorry, perhaps I’m being ridiculous, but Twitter is slowly growing out of control with its 275 plus applications.  For whatever reasons, none of which I agree with, twitter has not only introduced an abundance of unnecessary applications, but has also decided that it is ok to use the letters Tw in ALL OF [...]

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evolving functions of school

When talking education one question that often arises is the function of education.  Now clearly, the primary function is to impart knowledge of a subject matter to students.  However, in this day and age other functions of school have arisen to meet the demands of society. When school was first implemented the United States was [...]

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Steve’s Anthropological response to YouTube

             Its funny to think that after 60 years of broadcasting, ABC has still only managed to program what you tube has in the last 6 months.  I never thought of YouTube as a pioneer of personal media, but I suppose I’m wrong.  It is quite impressive that You Tube could produce 385 channels of continuous [...]

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Books & Getting Kids to Read!

I know that there are a lot of great books out there and with them a handful of books on a banded list.  I personally think it’s all funny though.  I thought the idea of writing and reading was to get others to read.  Am I wrong?  Books such as Harry Potter are band in [...]

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Fundraisers and Events

As a mom of two I can tell you that there are many ways in which we as students, parents and peers , can get involved.  There are all types of groups and projects at the tips of our fingers that allow us to do so.  I do take part in many of these activites [...]

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Twitter and Its Applications

I’m sure that everyone has heard of the website Twitter.  It is a website where you can place posts, or tweets as they’re called, about what is going on in your professional, personal, and everyday life.  You can also use Twitter to follow people and organizations who will place their tweets and you can know [...]

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