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Sub Friendly Lesson Plans

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This week has been a tough week for me. My grandmother, who I'm extremely close to, passed away on Wednesday. Her health had been declining for quite some time, however, after having a wonderful visit with her on Saturday, I never expected that the next day she would slip into unconsciousness and remain that way until finally passing away on Wednesday. I learned of her condition after school on Monday and immediately rushed over to her nursing home to be with her. I took the rest of the week off to keep her company and then to be with my family after she passed. As I had not anticipated being out from work for so long (or at all really), I was not at a good point in my projects for a sub to step in and take over. Of course, most of my classes finished their work my first day out. As I did not know what type of computer skills my sub would have, or even if I would get the same one each day, I needed to write lesson plans that were simple enough for a non tech-savvy person to...

Talking Heads

If you ever wanted to know how to make your own Talking Head animated clip like the folks at JibJab do ( http://sendables.jibjab.com/ ), check out this great video tutorial series I recently found! http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=e520a Kim Cavanaugh has put together a series of 5 short video tutorials that show you how to create your own talking head using Flash & Fireworks. Better still you can download the videos to your computer in case you want to show them to your students but find the website blocked by your district! I hope you enjoy this amazing resource as much as I do!

Here Goes Nothing!

It was suggested to me that I start a tech blog for teachers, since I spend most of my free time looking for resources and complaining that there aren't enough. Why not create my own resource for teachers? Why not, indeed! I'm a full time technology teacher at a middle school in Colorado, which keeps me pretty busy, but I hope to start posting my thoughts/ideas regularly so that others might find some of the great resources I've discovered over the years. Enjoy!