November 2010 – Page 2 – Joe McClung, Ed.D.

Nov 17

Two Weeks and Still Running

After our much anticipated first meeting of running club last week, we came back to get some more this week. On Tuesday we held our second meeting of running club meeting/practice and there was plenty of positives to focus on. We held the same number of students this week with 10 but we had 3…

Nov 16

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Taking Notes

In my class I like to take a variety of approaches to the way we take notes…some of them are very traditional and then there are some approaches that are a little more contemporary. As a teacher I like to keep my students on their toes as much as possible and not allow them to…

Nov 15

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Come One, Come All…

Your band of the week is Incubus. Incubus is an American rock band, from Calabasas, California. The group was formed in 1991 by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas while enrolled in high school and later expanded to include bassist Alex “Dirk Lance” Katunich, and Gavin “DJ Lyfe” Koppell, both…

Nov 15

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A Positive Jam

This past Friday was a horrible day for me. From my stand point as a teacher, I felt like there was nothing I did right the entire day. I was very flustered, disorganized, uninspiring, short tempered, and just not a very good teacher. I felt like I spent hours of time prepping a 50 minute…

Nov 14

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Privacy – A Very, Very Thin Line

Students, to start our today we will take a look at a current story in the news. We will be talking about a high school cheerleader that was suspended from her squad after a questionable Facebook picture. We will be using this story to discuss exactly how much privacy should you have as a student…

Nov 14

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Edublog Award Nominations

It’s that time of year once again, it’s time for the annual Edublog Awards. The thing that makes the Edublog Awards so unique from any other award is that the nominations come completely from peers or nominate blogs by simply publishing a blog post. Listed below are my nominations for this year’s awards. Best Use…

Nov 12

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Lessons Learned

Lesson One – Did You Get Black Ops? This entire week has been dominated by one question…did you get Black Ops? That’s right, with the release of the latest Call of Duty game coming out this week all of my male students have been nothing less than gitty since the game has been out. This…