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85+ Cool Sites I Found In October Via Twitter

by Joel Wagner - 2

I have been getting more and more into sharing information via Twitter recently. With 1,300 RSS subscribers, and only 850 Twitter followers, I know that not all of my readers are getting all of the links that I share. I thought it might be fun to share with you some of the links that I came across last month and shared on Twitter. If you aren't following me on Twitter yet, you should start: @sywtt Also, if you're on Google Wave and would like to add me, feel free! My address is soyouwanttoteach.com@googlewave.com 5 great resources to find out about Google Wave 5 Reasons Google Wave Is Not Ready 5 Step Change Strategy Five Technology Lessons Every Teacher Can

SYWTT Celebrates Two Years – A Brief History (2008)

by Joel Wagner - 0

2008 was the first full calendar year that I ran this blog. It saw its ups and downs, and in some senses, it was a sort of anticlimactic year as far as my personal blogging habits went. Nevertheless, So You Want To Teach? continued to flourish. January began with my hosting the Carnival of Education. That was also the kickoff of my new WordPress theme, which I had personally designed and kept playing with throughout the year. To this date, I still have not seen a blog theme even remotely similar to it. But I will be putting the SYWTT 2008 theme to rest sometime next week. More info on that later. As I mentioned in the last article, the

The Overlooked Articles of 2008

by Joel Wagner - 0

In continuing my review of the year, I am looking today at some of the articles that I wish were more popular. They may have received a handful of comments, or they may not have received any. The most common cause for their relative obscurity is that they are older articles and have gotten lost. Even so, many of them haven’t received a whole lot of traffic. So I’m dusting them off, polishing them up, and repackaging them here. Two dozen overlooked articles of 2008 January 14th, 2008  8 Ways Blogging Makes Me A Better Teacher January 20th, 2008  What If… January 31st, 2008  Clinicians February 11th, 2008  Hyper-Focus Fosters Higher Quality Output February 21st, 2008  Apologizing March 15th, 2008  Whitespace March 17th, 2008  You’ve Been

Blogging Your Way To Being A Great Teacher

by Joel Wagner - 0
Blogging Your Way To Being A Great Teacher

Blogging makes me a better teacher. It's clearly not the only thing that makes me a better teacher, but it is a tremendous benefit. This is the second installment in my series on 10 Things I Wish I Knew As A First Year Teacher. I have previously written on this subject back in January (8 Ways Blogging Makes Me A Better Teacher). At the time, I was in the midst of dealing with a medical emergency. The other band director I work with had a stroke in December and was actually out for over three months. That was back when I had 146 blog subscribers, by the way. Currently I the blog is approaching 450. The benefits for me about blogging from that

8 Ways Blogging Makes Me A Better Teacher

by Joel Wagner - 9

I have found this year that I have been making a lot of progress on my own personal teaching style. It's my 6th year to teach, and I begin what could be seen as the downhill slope of teaching. Now that I am pretty adequate at getting children to be and stay quiet throughout class so that I can teach them, I run the risk of slacking off and stagnating in my teaching technique. The whole if it's not broke, don't fix it mentality could very easily take over. But that's not the case with me. Why not? I believe that a lot of it has to do with my own personality of one who pursues excellence. But I think

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