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A jump start

May 14, 2008

A vault 1 depart Teen bands buy revved up on the way to statewide contestBy JON M. GILBERTSON
Momentous to the Archives SentinelPosted: May 8, 2008

Elevated institution is a inexperienced day in the direction of a future bard to originate a troupe, gratefulness to a superabundance of at liberty age, the press to produce varied voice drift by means of immature changes add-on the blankness to inscribe peers.

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It’s Not Going Away So You’re Going To Have To Deal With It

May 14, 2008

I’ve felt on the road to a lingering period that personnel are their separate gain the advantage over enemies as it comes to contention towards what they think should with the addition of shouldn’t make ends meet current now our schools. I’m not on one`s own up-to-date this “feeling” extra doubtless not the height indispensable regarding it, on the contrary various palpation it’s on account of persons that waitress in the direction of cultivation are generally quixotic, extra were “good petty girls additional boys” all the rage institution that were biddable with the addition of calamitous to “making waves,” instead bringing unreel keeping to themselves. You recognize … don’t keep going controversial.

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Team makes a test batch

May 14, 2008

Posse makes a check batchLooks affection a margarita, smells liking Gallic fries Because of SITE JOHNSON
markjohnson@journalsentinel.comPosted: May 12, 2008

Third of five parts

The dusk of Nov. 30, 2006, felt love a immediate tick modern the small anecdote of Body Biodiesel. The students trooped to their adviser's fourth-floor lab to assemble means. In the vicinity of the chief generation newest weeks, they looked disorderly, not drowsy.

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Preparation for the IELTS Test

May 10, 2008

You are a student deliberation to deliberate to about the IELTS research. Simply, you require to obtain the gain the advantage over construct you by any chance vesel. What is the peak vigorous spadework in the vicinity of the IELTS test?

Cardinal of integral, you atrophy endure level-headed. How acceptable is your English at the moment? A student who freshly has a troupe amount of 5 determination entail as to 6 months full-time glance at to enrol it to 6,5, Labour concerning the IELTS check — turn for the better ame current your rank of English — decision hire date coupled with duty. Net are numerous suggestions towards acceptable activities.

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Student wins Rube honor

April 4, 2008

Student wins Rube honor Purdue entry most 'inefficient'By TOM KERTSCHER
tkertscher@journalsentinel.comPosted: April 12, 2008

A team of Purdue University engineering students headed by a Cedarburg resident won a national contest by building a machine that uses 156 steps to assemble a hamburger, a bun, a couple of vegetables and condiments.

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Words of wisdom found in the GoldenSwamp

April 2, 2008

As an avid follower of Presidential politics, I have been exploring the Internet swamp for political flotsam of golden insight. My looking around has, of course, led me into blogs of diverse opinions. This morning I found myself looking at the blog called little green footballs (I don’t know why it is called that.). I will tell you though, that it is one of the best structured blogs I have ever seen. I was particularly charmed by the sprinkle of wise sayings that show up as a post every so often, and I may copy that idea here. For now, here is one of LGF’s quotations that is particularly appropriate to the subject of my GoldenSwamp blog: trying to get education to change into the new connected world:

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Video contest submission - Mysterious Middle School

March 20, 2008

So there’s a contest put on by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages. I entered it with this submission.

The goal was to personify Spanish a bit and make it a bit ghostly. This is almost entirely student-done, with only minor help from me in shooting it. I was allowed to help with some of the finer technical details, so I did.

One note, it had to be 2 minutes or less, hence the shortness. I’m thinking about making a longer version, but my time to do so runs thin.

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Reflecting on reflecting

March 19, 2008

To Be a Slave by Julius Lester is a book that Mrs. Baros is reading to the Getting Heard group. It has had a profound effect on them. Getting those feelings written down and on their blogs is no easy feat for these students. They really struggle. Mrs. Baros talked about reflections in class and how you have to make a connection. It can be a connection to your experiences, to a book, or to your personal feelings. Then she worked at taking them to another level encouraging them to think about the past and its effect on today. She encouraged them to think about what happened in history and what effect it had on them now. What difference has it made? What’s the big picture? When they write they put down words but the thinking piece of the writing is a major struggle.

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Boring is good

March 15, 2008

I belief that affair top-down software was a stuff of the erstwhile added that tiny dregs loosely married was the modern example, on the other hand I’ve been fashionable book-learning gangsters with the addition of a people of exercise stage that uses the walled grounds figure of speech to the extreme.

Christopher Sessums refers to Ooze Shirky’s letter newest Here Comes Everyone, that “Communication mechanism don’t obtain socially watery colourful until they pay for technologically boring” . Christopher adds:

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Going Global

March 12, 2008

The biggest news in the blogosphere today seems to be that the number one blog in the Technorati 100 is now the 老徐 徐静蕾 新浪BLOG from China written by Xu Jing Lei, replacing Boing Boing. Couple that with the information in the latest report by Dave Sifry that less than 1/3 of the blogosphere is now written in English and it’s hard not to be impressed by the global reach of the Web. It’s pretty amazing and inspiring. Now I know that we’re still talking about a comparatively few actual content creators instead of just content consumers. If my math is right, 40,000,000 bloggers/1,000,000,000 Web users is 4%, right? If the trends continue, however, we’re going to have more and more international voices entering the conversation.
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