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Entries from April 2008

Being off task is not always so bad - just a thought

April 9th, 2008 · No Comments

We are working on a Genocide unit in my World Geography course while at the same time, in their English course, the students are reading Night by Elie Wiesel.

After a lot of background work and discussing the 8 stages of genocide we began the film Hotel Rwanda. I found my self having to ask [...]

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The time is finally come - Introducing blogs to our students

April 6th, 2008 · No Comments

So, the time has finally come. I thought I would have been able to do this last semester but was not able to get around to. Being part of a school start up has put many other things ahead of this project. I have written and re-written this lesson a few times [...]

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