Learning Signs

Strolling through the open doorway of the classroom, he made his way to the back. Weaving in and out of desks, he only stopped to pick up a random pencil someone earlier had left, not even noticing that it was pink. even while slouching with his backpack slung lazily behind one arm he would stand [...]

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Alexander created this ten minute video for his seventh grade history day project: “Background of the Lincoln Douglas Debates.”

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Here are two videos I recorded tonight of the Intermediate/Advanced Band Concert of Classen SAS. A text message interrupted my recording so it split into two parts. Alexander wasn’t visible in any of the video until the end when they stood up. The students did great! Part 1 Part 2

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This is a ten minute interview with Alexander this evening about his “Living in Oak Ridge” project for 8th grade English. Discussing Oak Ridge Glogster Project at Oklahoma City, OK by wfryer For more background see my post, “Share “timed” comments on Audio Recordings with SoundCloud.” Technorati Tags: audio, edtech, history, playingwithmedia, recording, social, soundcloud, [...]

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This is a glog that I made for school about my grandmother and her dad living in Oak Ridge.

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This is an Art History Paper Alexander wrote for his 8th grade art class. (His teacher asked him to hand write it, so dad is typing it for him so we can document it here on Learning Signs.) ART HISTORY PAPER The art of Lego building is not known or recognized by most people. Many [...]

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This is a poem I wrote for my English class: The Fire There was a fire ban that year But the carless campers left Leaving smoldering remains behind The fire that ate the forest   Wind whispered wordlessly in the trees The fire was given new life Like a new small heartbeat The fire that [...]

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This evening Alexander performed in his spring band concert. Thanks to Sarah live-streaming the concert from mom’s iPhone, I was able to watch part of it from a truck stop in Tulia, Texas. This is the Ustream archive, which starts with the last piece shared by beginning band. Alexander’s intermediate band portion starts at 7:10 [...]

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Back in ’08 or ’09 I made four videos on how to make a couple string videos. I soon forgot about them. After some time went by youtube emailed me and said my videos had became popular and asked if I wanted to put adds on them to make some money. I said yes and [...]

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I have always been big Lego and Star Wars fans. Personally I have a large collection of figures in battle stances. I have also traded the lego minifigures with my friends. Even though we will trade minifigures from different product lines Star Wars is always the most popular to trade. The Clone Wars TV episodes [...]

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