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	<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>New Education Site &#8220;Babel&#8221; Launches</title>
		<link>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/12/27/new-education-site-babel-launches/</link>
		<comments>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/12/27/new-education-site-babel-launches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walkere</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been updating this blog lately because I&#8217;ve been busy working on a different project - Babel.
Babel is a general education and technology website.  It&#8217;s got a growing collection of articles on methods, technology tutorials, and other topics and education and technology.
The best parts, though, are online tools that I coded myself.  One is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historical Heads: Turn Words into Pictures while Analyzing People</title>
		<link>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/10/22/historical-heads-turn-words-into-pictures-while-analyzing-people/</link>
		<comments>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/10/22/historical-heads-turn-words-into-pictures-while-analyzing-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walkere</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t think of a way to force your students to process information and utilize higher order thinking skills?  Make them draw!  By converting written words and thoughts into pictures, students are at least applying the knowledge and at best synthesizing it into something brand new.
A great method for Social Studies and Language Arts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy Grade Pro - A Great Electronic Gradebook</title>
		<link>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/10/19/easy-grade-pro-a-great-electronic-gradebook/</link>
		<comments>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/10/19/easy-grade-pro-a-great-electronic-gradebook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walkere</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for an electronic gradebook?  I know I was.
In the first weeks of school, I&#8217;ve had dozens of students move on, off, or around my rosters.  If I&#8217;d been using a pen and paper gradebook, it would be scribbled and erased half to death.  Thankfully, from the first day I kept my main records on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson Plan on Religious Violence in 16th Century Europe</title>
		<link>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/10/13/lesson-plan-on-religious-violence-in-16th-century-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/10/13/lesson-plan-on-religious-violence-in-16th-century-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walkere</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The century after the Reformation was an extremely violent one in Europe.  Protestants and Catholics completed unspeakable atrocities on each other.  Wars raged for decades at a time.
The period is significant for both European History and US History.  In the European context, the wars and the eventual peace (the Peace of Westphalia) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing Honors and AP Classes - Open Enrollment</title>
		<link>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/09/26/increasing-honors-and-ap-classes-open-enrollment/</link>
		<comments>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/09/26/increasing-honors-and-ap-classes-open-enrollment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walkere</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I went to a High Schools That Work network meeting yesterday.  It was fairly interesting - three schools shared strategies that they have been using to improve their schools of the past few years.
One of the topics covered was how to improve enrollment in AP courses.  The Assistant Superintendent for Mount Olive school district gave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generate Class Discussion - Write Your Own News</title>
		<link>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/09/24/generate-class-discussion-write-your-own-news/</link>
		<comments>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/09/24/generate-class-discussion-write-your-own-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walkere</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a trick I learned in my college education courses.  Another one of my classmates thought it would be a cool idea to fake a memo on school letterhead and use it to convince students that an unpopular policy was taking effect.
He told them that they were going to be charged 10 cents per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disgruntled Teacher Comments</title>
		<link>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/09/24/disgruntled-teacher-comments/</link>
		<comments>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/09/24/disgruntled-teacher-comments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walkere</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I heard a few interesting comments from other teachers today.  In all of the comments, the teachers are expressing some level of disgust and or contempt for the administration.  I thought it would be interesting to write them down&#8230; perhaps I&#8217;ll have to keep a log throughout the year.
In the first instance, we had just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planning for Retirement: Will the Pension Be Enough?</title>
		<link>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/09/23/planning-for-retirement-will-the-pension-be-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/09/23/planning-for-retirement-will-the-pension-be-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walkere</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In New Jersey and across the country, politics are roiling over public employee pensions.  I just got into the profession, and sometimes I wonder if there will still be an effective pension program in place when I retire in thirty plus years.  This is also a reason that I may leave the classroom after a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Teachers be Compensated for Working in a Small Learning Community?</title>
		<link>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/09/23/should-teachers-be-compensated-for-working-in-a-small-learning-community/</link>
		<comments>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/09/23/should-teachers-be-compensated-for-working-in-a-small-learning-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walkere</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My school has implemented a whole school reform model, as per the state&#8217;s requirements for Abbott schools.  Part of this model is that the school is broken down into small learning communities.
As it is implemented in our school, students are divided into clusters of approximately 100 students.  These students share the same Social Studies, Language [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Should the Budget Be Spent?</title>
		<link>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/09/22/where-should-the-budget-be-spent/</link>
		<comments>http://walkere.frih.net/issues/2007/09/22/where-should-the-budget-be-spent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walkere</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Money is generally a problem with education.  There&#8217;s never enough of it, and there are always too many things that need to be paid for.
So what priorities should we set?
I wrote an article at Helium, arguing that getting basic supplies is more important than paying for teacher training.  After all, what good does extensive training [...]]]></description>
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