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Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

December 17, 2012 by tchistorygal

Delicate suggests many diverse meanings. Curiously, now and again what seems delicate may actually be quite strong, and conversely, when something appears heavy, mechanical, sturdy or awkward may have delicate functions, characteristics, or aspects. Here are some of my choices for the many meanings of delicate. How many of them might at the same time be surprisingly durable, hardy, vigorous or unyielding? 1. Pleasing to the senses, especially in a subtle way, and 2. Very subtle in difference or distinction. With its […]

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Categories: Blogging, Featured Blog, Photography, Resources, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: featured blog, Marsha Lee, photography, Sydney Fong, Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

Sunday Post: Natural Resources

November 27, 2012 by tchistorygal

I’ve been hoping for a challenge in which I could post these photos of wind machines. Thanks Jake. Air is probably our most precious and abused natural resource in California Our EPA regulations for air quality are the most stringent in the United States. Yet, for all it’s poor quality from times and in places, air can still be harnessed and used to produce another clean energy – electricity. I read this morning on Pairodox Farm’s blog that my home […]

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Categories: California, California Desert, Featured Blog, mountains, Photography, Resources, Sunday Post, Travel • Tags: California desert, Jakesprinter, Marsha Ingrao, Marsha Lee, Pairadox Farm, San Gorgonio Pass, sunday post, wind farm, wind turbines

Teachers Pay Teachers

October 20, 2012 by tchistorygal

Want To Make A Million Dollars? One of the services I do for SJVCSS is Chair the Curriculum Committee. During the last adoption for History-Social Science I was fortunate to be selected to serve as a Reviewer. Although I was unable to perform that role, I was involved at the county level after the adoptions were available to districts. With the coming of the Common Core Standards individual teachers are beginning to search for materials on their own. One of the most logical places […]

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Categories: CCSS, Common Core, Education, history-social science, Organizations, Resources, SJVCSS • Tags: California, CNN, Common Core Standards, credibility, curricula, Education, Educators, history standards, K through 12, Martin Savidge, professional organizations, teacher, teachers pay teachers

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Finding My Journal

September 9, 2012 by tchistorygal

Thank you all for visiting my site yesterday – I had 100 views! I don’t know about the rest of you bloggers, but that fact makes me forget that I have any other worthwhile work to do, and makes me want to think of what to write to y’all today. I do love that contraction. (I’m not a Southern Belle, but I just love using it in honor of PT, who reads my blog every day. Thanks PT.) Don’t you […]

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Categories: About, Education, Experience, history-social science, Resources, SJVCSS, Travel • Tags: Clementina Rind, Colonial Williamsburg, history, journal, Online Writing, writing

Social Media

June 8, 2012 by tchistorygal

I met Mike Lebsock on Facebook when he responded to a post. He was wearing a red colonial jacket with a white ruffly shirt. I was intrigued. I looked on his wall and found out he was a social studies teacher in a neighboring county. We carried on a message conversation over a period of a few weeks. I asked a friend of mine in his county if she knew him. She told me what a great teacher he was. […]

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Categories: communication, Experience, Resources, social media

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TodaysMeet

May 16, 2012 by tchistorygal

On May 11 I wrote a blog comparing the use of Twitter and TodaysMeet during a day of professional development day with teachers. My colleague and I chose to use TodaysMeet instead of Twitter for several reasons. We were quite pleased with how it worked to answer questions during the day. It integrated seamlessly into our training. First, unlike Twitter, it was so easy for everybody to begin using TodaysMeet. There was no signing up. I accessed the TodaysMeet.com site […]

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Categories: Events, Resources • Tags: Common Core Standards, Education, K through 12, Student, teacher, TodaysMeet, Twitter, Whiteboard

Twitter v TodaysMeet

May 11, 2012 by tchistorygal

Preparing for the implementation of the Common Core Standards includes implementing a high degree of technology. As a professional developer, I need to be able to model the use of how readily available technology can be used in the classroom. Yesterday my colleague, Mary, and I experimented with whether to use Twitter or TodaysMeet during our next presentation. According to Rosa Golijan who wrote a blog article about Twitter over a year ago, there were 175 million registered Twitter users, […]

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Categories: Resources • Tags: Chat room, Common Core Standards, feedback, Online Communities, posts, presenting skills, Social Networking, social-media, technology tools, TodaysMeet, Twitter

How to turn your blog into a book

April 19, 2012 by tchistorygal

This is a great article if you are a budding author just wanting a way to start. How to turn your blog into a book.

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Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools

April 18, 2012 by tchistorygal

Hello Friends, You have no doubt, seen the recent plea from the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools to immediately contact YOUR member of Congress to urge him/her to sign on as a Co-Sponsor of H.R. 3464, “The Sandra Day O’Connor Civic Learning Act”. Every member of Congress received a “Dear Colleague” letter from Congressman Mike Honda and Congressman Tom Cole last Friday (attached). They now need us to get as many members of Congress as possible to contact […]

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How to get more page views for your blog

April 18, 2012 by tchistorygal

Reblogged from WordPress.com News: This is a guest post by Kristina Chang, Evan Moore, Tony Xu, and Omer Rabin; students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. “What makes a blog popular? What drives page views?” These are the questions that we’ve been trying to answer over the last few weeks. We were on a mission to dig into the data and analyze the strongest parameters that influence the flow of visitors to WordPress.com blogs. Read more… 397 more words I […]

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Dropbox v Google Docs

April 14, 2012 by tchistorygal

Not all technology eliminates frustration and irritation from my life, but for the most part these two applications do. Although I use Google Docs almost daily, I should be a Dropbox salesperson. For now, I’ll keep my day job, because I’m afraid that I couldn’t live for very long on my commission checks since both of these products are free. I often work on large projects with several collaborators, and the way I write, the projects usually need lots of […]

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Categories: communication, Resources, Writing • Tags: collaborator, cyber, documents, Dropbox, Google Docs, homework, internet speed, meetings, megabytes, Microsoft, revisions, sync, twitch, Word

Evernote

April 12, 2012 by tchistorygal

Meetings R Marsha For sure meetings and training are a huge part of my job and many of my off hours as well. So what do YOU do during meetings? As a presenter, it used to annoy me when administrators and teachers were all checking their email or surfing the net while I was presenting. Now the constant use of technology fits almost seamlessly into every meeting. Nobody can be 100% engaged during 6-8 hours of continual meetings, no matter how amazing the […]

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Categories: communication, Resources, Writing • Tags: doing research, ipad, social-media, syncs, technology

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate

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Sunday Post: Natural Resources

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TodaysMeet

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How to turn your blog into a book

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Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools

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How to get more page views for your blog

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Dropbox v Google Docs

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