tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89677171782277602292011-12-25T00:06:04.757-05:00Joshua Cornwellnoreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967717178227760229.post-34808388153381818082009-04-10T11:00:00.000-04:002009-04-10T11:00:12.512-04:00

I certainly found this funny.

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For those of us who love using graphic organizers in class, these five programs might be just what we need to give a little technology injection to those activities. I'm not one for using technology just for the sake of using it, but students often respond better to activities on the computer than anything handwritten. Check it out!

Joshua Cornwellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967717178227760229.post-59156111193851033312009-04-06T11:00:00.000-04:002009-04-06T11:00:11.893-04:00

Cool little site that helps format your citations. It supports both MLA and APA citations. Check it out!

Joshua Cornwellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967717178227760229.post-45868257801985011112009-04-02T11:00:00.000-04:002009-04-02T11:00:14.850-04:00

Cool math review exercises and games. Elementary school levels only, as far as I can tell. Check it out!

Joshua Cornwellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967717178227760229.post-44047011291492267532009-03-13T08:00:00.001-04:002009-03-13T08:00:00.787-04:00

A cool site for science teachers, Exploratorium.com has lots of online activities to play around with and if you're close enough (San Fransisco), it is also a museum that looks to be a great field trip option.

Joshua Cornwellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967717178227760229.post-80897821315042692452009-03-11T11:30:00.010-04:002009-03-11T11:30:00.266-04:00

Lots of professional development opportunities can be found here. Have I personally used anything from this site? No. Do I plan to? Not in the foreseeable future. But there are plenty of folks out there who spend what precious little time they have after workshops, after school duties, and grading papers to go to even more workshops and watch more videos in order to improve as a teacher. This

Joshua Cornwellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967717178227760229.post-38342349700380542242009-03-09T11:30:00.000-04:002009-03-09T11:30:00.670-04:00

This is a great way of demonstrating to students the idea of Greek revenge that we discuss with the tragedies, or it could just be an interesting bit of information to include in a Greek mythology unit. Check out how hard the Greek gods hammered their people here.

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Good advice for teachers... especially those with students like mine whose lives are so turbulent that worrying about them when they leave school is nearly impossible to curtail. Check it out here.

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I remember an old math teacher showing me this a long time ago, and finding it on the net brought back memories of high school. Check it out here.

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This is an excellent resource for anyone teaching the Divine Comedy. Check it out.

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I wish I saw fewer errors like these in my students' writing.

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A great resource for classical Greek art, history, literature, and mythology. Check it out.

Joshua Cornwellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967717178227760229.post-29724775638950663952009-02-09T08:00:00.000-05:002009-02-09T08:00:00.336-05:00

For anyone looking to improve their typing speed, this website is for you (or your students, computer apps and keyboarding teachers). This site turns the practice into a game, timing you and recording your progress over time. You can also play without logging in just to kill time. Check it out.

Joshua Cornwellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967717178227760229.post-91747136375117591592009-02-06T11:00:00.000-05:002009-02-06T11:00:01.102-05:00

Although I've been using YouTube videos in the classroom for several years now, TeacherTube is a great resource for anyone who doesn't want to have to spend as much time finding school related videos without digging through tons of crap that you wouldn't want to use in the classroom. Check it out.

Joshua Cornwellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967717178227760229.post-59976803347902718412009-02-04T11:30:00.000-05:002009-02-04T11:30:01.251-05:00

A teacher (especially an English teacher) looking for a good laugh could do worse than checking out this page, supposedly the actual responses of two students in a college class. Check it out.

Joshua Cornwellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967717178227760229.post-6775215096121681512009-02-02T11:30:00.000-05:002009-02-02T11:30:01.044-05:00

I don't teach history, but I do find a lot of this stuff interesting.  The Ancient Egyptian Virtual Temple site could make for a great teaching tool for a history or mythology class.

Joshua Cornwellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967717178227760229.post-63936986204264832912009-01-28T17:44:00.032-05:002009-01-28T18:01:46.287-05:00

I have officially spent money on .pdf teaching guides now and I have mixed feelings.  Teacher's Pet Publications has earned my respect.  I downloaded two of their literature plans and was really impressed.  Over a hundred pages of supplemental material is well worth $15-$30 (price appears to only depend on what format you choose).  Unfortunately... Not all of my downloading experiences have been

Joshua Cornwellnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967717178227760229.post-35639817423481426912009-01-24T23:33:00.000-05:002009-01-24T23:41:51.642-05:00

My wife just introduced me to Teacher's Pet Publications.  This site is an awesome resource for anyone looking for a ton of language arts teaching materials for a decent price.  She is already using some of the materials, and I will likely download several of the pdf files soon (using Dracula for my English IV group this year!).

Joshua Cornwellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967717178227760229.post-27104711900221390312009-01-04T14:49:00.001-05:002009-01-04T15:03:26.830-05:00

These definitely aren't tools that I will likely use in the classroom, but they might be useful to anyone teaching math or science. Check out web2.0calc by clicking here. Check out eCalc by clicking here.

Joshua Cornwellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967717178227760229.post-61474300478758052582008-10-18T11:35:00.003-04:002008-12-29T03:19:07.136-05:00

This is what my students are currently working on. It is a pretty easy concept, with creative writing, vocabulary usage, and sentence diagramming all wrapped up in a relatively easy to complete package. Download this Writing Project here! Edit: In hindsight, this was probably one of the worst projects I have ever assigned.  Not only were the directions difficult to follow, but they also

Joshua Cornwellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967717178227760229.post-37731535645357142162008-09-26T20:49:00.002-04:002009-01-31T14:23:47.514-05:00

I created this PowerPoint in an attempt to contain an exceptionally loud group of students and it worked wonders. We passed a ball around the room, and students were only permitted to speak when they were holding the ball. This PowerPoint has the potential to turn any ordinary class discussion into a game-like activity, but for me the most important part was adding an immediate penalty for

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This is a simple PowerPoint I created to introduce my students to the plot diagram. The presentation walks the students through the five parts of the diagram, explaining each one. The first slide has only the exposition, as shown below.The second slide gives the definition for exposition.Then, the third slide adds rising action to the diagram.By the end of the show, each part of the diagram

Joshua Cornwellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967717178227760229.post-90079091437562737722008-09-26T16:33:00.000-04:002008-09-26T16:36:08.351-04:00

Welcome to Teaching on the Front, a blog about an educator teaching on what I call the front line: in an alternative school. Many days, work feels like a war zone, hence the name of the blog. However, do not let the blog's title fool you; I love my job. My kids are the best, even if they are the kids that nobody else seems to want.In this blog, I will discuss some strategies that I use in the

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