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Brenda Dyck writes about the classroom...

Electronic Thread Column - Published quarterly in Middle Ground by the National Middle School Association

Meridian, A Middle School Technologies Journal, NC State University

When Technology Integration Goes to Math Class
http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian/sum2003/math/index.html
And the Streets Were Paved with Gold
http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian/sum2002/fieldtrip/

Education World:

Seeing is Believing: Harnessing Online Video Clips to
Enhance Learning
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev040.shtml
A Poetry Slam Cures the Midwinter Blahs
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev036.shtml
Chess, Anyone? -- Chess As an Essential Teaching Tool
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev031.shtml
Fighting 1960s Mental Models of the Perfect
Classroom -- and the Perfect Mom
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev025.shtml
Your Students: No Two Are Alike
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev018.shtml
Driven By Data: What It's Like to Teach in the Age
of Accountability
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr414.shtml
American Teachers: A Strength Exposed
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues343.shtml
Back-to-School Survivor Day Offers Lessons About
Quality Learning
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues341.shtml
In Classroom, Computers Often Yield More Glitz Than
Guts
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev004.shtml
Telecollaborative Project Develops Compassion,
Global Awareness
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues332.shtml
Students Can Care and Comfort
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues327.shtml
Becoming a Wired Teacher
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues320.shtml
Peer Assessment Teaches Students How to Think
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues314.shtml
Students Reach for the 'Skylights' of Learning
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues310.shtml
Stand By Me: Using Teacher Listservs to Collaborate
With Other Educators
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues305.shtml
Tossing and Turning At Test Time
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues290.shtm
Teaching With Heart
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues299.shtml
Digging Beneath the Surface of Assessment
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues302.shtml
Fragile February
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues281.shtml
Each Student is Someone's Special Child
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues274.shtml
Curious to the Core
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues259.shtml
Learning Made Simple http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues251.shtml
The Little Reading Cafe http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues232.shtml
Math Class: A Time to Stand and Deliver http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues228.shtml
Learning in the Dark: My First Web Project http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues220.shtml
Homework: A Place for Rousing Reform - Rethinking homework assignments.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues202.shtml
'Whassup?' in the Classroom? Brenda Dyck shares her experiences using online surveying tools to gather feedback from students and parents. Students share reactions to lessons and classroom practices as well as their feelings about school and themselves. Parents offer input from their perspectives too.
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr364.shtml
Catching Up With Our Bodies: Reflections on Teacher Burnout Education World article that candidly reflects on signs of teacher burnout.
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr344.shtml
Professional Conferences Reflect, Restore Passion
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues234.shtml
And We Shall Morph Again! http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr367.shtml
Asleep on the Job
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr349.shtml

Microsoft:

Luring Learners-Against the Odds
http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=TeacherTechTips
Doing Right by the Net Generation
http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=TeacherTechTips
Let's Telecollaborate! This Microsoft article provides the reader with some quick background on the merits of implementing telecollaborative projects in the classroom.
http://www.microsoft.com/education/mctn/?ID=Telecollaborate
Let's All Celebrate Email!
http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=TeacherTechTips
Imagine Teaching Without Technology http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=WithoutTech
Let the Adventure Begin
http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=Adventure
For a World of Help, Try a Listserv http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=ListServ
Close the Gap Between School and Home http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=responsibleinternet
Dancing With the Data
http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=dancingdata
My Looking-Good Technology Tool Kit http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=TechToolkit
A WebQuest for Knowledge http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=WebQuest
Take Student Learning Portfolios to the Web http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=Portfolios
You Oughta Be in Pictures! http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=Pictures
Middle Ground, Journal of the National Middle School Association
- Classroom Management: Thinking Outside the Box Middle Ground article that explores an alternative way for teachers to address the ongoing discipline issues found in Middle School classrooms. http://www.middleweb.com/MWLresources/dyckarticle1.html
Technology & Learning:
- Rebooting a Teacher's Mind Brenda Dyck's article for Technology & Learning http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/dyck.htm