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On Borders Not Being Crossed Quite Yet

So tomorrow is a social kick off event for the graduate program I’ll be starting in a week. It would be a generally wise decision to go rub elbows with my soon-to-be academic colleagues. I’m told that this whole networking thing is the name o’ da game, after all. However, tomorrow – at the same [...]

Taking iDivision iNventory

Well, we’re an iDivision school. It’s official. I’ve already chimed in on this, as has my principal, as has our Network Partners. There’s a riveting story just under the surface with regards to Manual’s journey into the iDivision fold. I don’t think most of us will be able to really recount these stories any time [...]

Mixing Modalities

My first foray into uploading video to YouTube can be found at the Manual Arts blog. The shaky-camera stylings are all mine. I hope to be able to add more of these over the next few weeks.

A Good Time for Music

Though I have apparently lost the link, I read the other day about a study demonstrating that listening to music helps some students learn. No real surprise there, I know. However, this is the kind of quantitative data that I need to help validate the allowance of music in an otherwise electronically intolerant campus. Now [...]

Autonomy Posting

Looks like I’ll be contributing to a new blog devoted to Manual Arts’ efforts toward autonomy. Follow along over here (or check the snazzy blogroll). And for kicks, I’ll repost my first entry over there: A Word About Collaboration Over the next couple of weeks, there will be ample opportunities for Manual Arts teachers, parents, [...]