Grad Class Blog Posts

As part of my current grad class, I need to post at least three time a week and comment on the blogs of the other students in the class. I love the idea of commenting on other blogs. Kelly started the Blogging Alliance to encourage communication and commentary. It helped grow my blog and I think it will help these new teachers who are starting out in the blogging world.

I do have a problem with the three times a week requirement. Blogging is not about quantity, it is about quality. I would love to provide everyone an insightful remark three times a week, but sometimes there just anything to write about. I feel what will happen is bad and uninspired writing. There are tons of great articles I can read and write about, but when I feel forced to write, I have a hard time writing.

I want to apologize in advance for any posts that do not have the same feeling as my others. I will try to provide the same spark as I usually do, but we will have to wait and see.

Project PLN: The January Issue

Here is the January issue of #ProjectPLN. We wanted to know what everyone was going to do in the new year and you did not let us down. We had many great submissions and we are excited to share this great issue with our PLN.



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Goals for the New Year


Our February issue is going to focus on passion. What are you most passionate about? What keeps you going during the school year? Please share all of your great stories with us and the rest of the PLN. Please contact us @ProjectPLN and ProjectPLN10@gmail.com

Keep Teaching,

Nick and Kelly

#edcampDetroit Registration is Open!

You read that right, #edcampDetroit registration is open. Like all edcamps, attending this amazing conference on Saturday May 7th at Wayne State University is free! Click here to go directly to the registration page! We are very excited about bringing #edcamp to Detroit because we know there are many educators in the area that are dying to get together and share the wonderful things they are doing in the classroom.

Don't know what #edcamp is all about? That's ok. Here is a great video put together by our friends in Philly. They were the first to start edcamp and now there are #edcamps across the country and Canada.


Ed Camp from True Life Media on Vimeo.

As you can see, there is so much that can happen at an #edcamp. It all starts with you. Please sign up and come ready to share with the great educators from all over the area. We are also planning some exciting joint sessions with #edcampBoston, so stayed tuned for more info.


If you are interested in sponsoring #edcampDetroit, please contact us at edcampDetroit@gmail.com or send us a tweet @edcampDetroit.


Please check out www.edcampDetroit.org for more details on the event.

Why I love Free Rice!

Free Rice is an amazing site that is free for everyone and helps people in need. Free Rice is a non-profit organization run by the United Nations World Food Program. Their website, FreeRice.com, says they have two goals:

1. Provide education to everyone for free.
2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.

For every question a person gets correct, the site donates 10 grains of rice through the World Food Program to help end world hunger. They have different categories to test student knowledge. They have Art, Chemistry, Foreign Language (French, German, Italian and Spanish), Math (Pre-Algebra and the Multiplication Table), Geography and Language Arts. This is a great thing for students to do at home instead of staring at Facebook or playing mindless computer games. Kids can form groups and see their rankings compared to other groups around the world.

Free Rice could be set up to have different classes in the same building as a group and they could compete against each other over a set amount of time with the class with the most grain accumulated winning a prize. This could work had as a great school fundraiser where students can compete, help others in need and, most of all, reinforce basic concepts in various subjects.