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A New Beginning
July 25, 2008 | Tagged science middle school technology blogging wiki collabor | Leave a Comment
Ok, yes, I did steal the title from Star Wars, but it really is for me. After a couple of frantic months looking for a new teaching position, I landed finally in the Peoria Unified District (in Phoenix) as a 7th grade science teacher. So, in some ways I’m picking back up where I left off-as a 7th grade science teacher. However, after two years of grad school and gathering all sorts of great ideas and rebuilding a philosophy I am recharged for a year with (gasp!) middle schoolers. Congrats (or condolences) can be left as comments 
I’m now settling in and finding all the challenges and opportunities one always finds with a new position. Of course, I’m working to find what technology tools I have, since I hope to have my students blogging, wiki-ing (is that a word yet?), and otherwise reporting & their results to the whole wide world as well as to each other-and responding. With that, I would be interested in partnering a little bit with some other classes out there-we’ll be studying ecology (biomes, food chains, pollution impacts, etc…), geology, and some Earth/Space science. If you’re game, let me know…
Learn well!
