Book Club Receives The Running Dream

I met with the Book Club this past week to give them their third book of the year….Wendelin Van Draanen’s The Running Dream. The selection is realistic fiction and I hope they like it as much as I do. Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She’s [...]

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Bulloch County Technology Day

I enjoyed the Bulloch County Technology Day held on January 4th at Southeast Bulloch High School and learned about so many great resources. Over 35 different sessions were held on topics such as podcasting, blogging, file management, computer maintenance, free educational software online, Photo Story 3, and Glogster. I taught the classes on What’s the [...]

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Book Trailers Using Microsoft Photo Story 3

I worked with the 7th grade classes to create book trailers from favorite books the students had read. A book trailer is a video advertisement for a book which employs techniques similar to those of movie trailers.  We used a free program from Microsoft called Photo Story 3 to add pictures, title text, narration, motion, [...]

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Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen

When Juli met her new neighbor Bryce, in second grade, she fell in love and he felt exactly the opposite. She loved his bright blue eyes and long black hair. He was the most popular guy in school.  He hated her ‘know-it-all attitude’ and thought she was just plain weird.  She knew the answer to [...]

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