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		By: A. Mercer		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A. Mercer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tagged you for a meme: http://mizmercer.edublogs.org/2007/08/17/schools-20-meme/]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tagged you for a meme: <a href="http://mizmercer.edublogs.org/2007/08/17/schools-20-meme/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://mizmercer.edublogs.org/2007/08/17/schools-20-meme/</a></p>
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		By: Darren Kuropatwa		</title>
		<link>/2007/three-first-day-updates/#comment-15279</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darren Kuropatwa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Between the first day wiki and the 4-slides contest I&#039;m inspired. &lt;a href=&quot;http://adifference.blogspot.com/2005/09/new-beginning.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; how I&#039;ve started my classes for the last two years. I show a different video each time too (last year was &lt;a href=&quot;http://adifference.blogspot.com/2006/09/did-you-know-winnipeg-remix.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Did You Know?&lt;/a&gt;). Also, having facilitated some PD for teachers recently I&#039;ve decided the kids deserve the same kind of presentation ... I&#039;ll blog it when it&#039;s done. Actually, I&#039;ll &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/faqs/slidecast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;slidecast&lt;/a&gt; it ... one of my classes this semester is &quot;high turnover.&quot; ;-)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Between the first day wiki and the 4-slides contest I&#8217;m inspired. <a href="http://adifference.blogspot.com/2005/09/new-beginning.html" rel="nofollow">This</a> how I&#8217;ve started my classes for the last two years. I show a different video each time too (last year was <a href="http://adifference.blogspot.com/2006/09/did-you-know-winnipeg-remix.html" rel="nofollow">Did You Know?</a>). Also, having facilitated some PD for teachers recently I&#8217;ve decided the kids deserve the same kind of presentation &#8230; I&#8217;ll blog it when it&#8217;s done. Actually, I&#8217;ll <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/faqs/slidecast" rel="nofollow">slidecast</a> it &#8230; one of my classes this semester is &#8220;high turnover.&#8221; ;-)</p>
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		By: Christian Long		</title>
		<link>/2007/three-first-day-updates/#comment-14977</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christian Long]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[DK and Damian and Dan: We&#039;re ALREADY moving forward on the &quot;Stuff Nobody Told Us&quot; blog project (with possible e-book end project growing out of it, and evolving over time as well).  

Damian:  Regardless of time, since you sparked the idea with your turn-of-phrase and comments, consider yourself to be &#039;on the team&#039; anytime you want to be involved. And you&#039;ll definitely get credit in the backstory/About Page as to where the name came from.

Dan: Can&#039;t imagine that it&#039;ll live up to its potential without you in the mix.  Again, challenge by choice is the offer...but give it thought.

DK:  Having MediaSnackers (and network) involved will guarantee success and a spreading of the good word &quot;across the pond&quot; as well.  Get the good folks &#039;over there&#039; ready to submit and collaborate and spread the good word.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DK and Damian and Dan: We&#8217;re ALREADY moving forward on the &#8220;Stuff Nobody Told Us&#8221; blog project (with possible e-book end project growing out of it, and evolving over time as well).  </p>
<p>Damian:  Regardless of time, since you sparked the idea with your turn-of-phrase and comments, consider yourself to be &#8216;on the team&#8217; anytime you want to be involved. And you&#8217;ll definitely get credit in the backstory/About Page as to where the name came from.</p>
<p>Dan: Can&#8217;t imagine that it&#8217;ll live up to its potential without you in the mix.  Again, challenge by choice is the offer&#8230;but give it thought.</p>
<p>DK:  Having MediaSnackers (and network) involved will guarantee success and a spreading of the good word &#8220;across the pond&#8221; as well.  Get the good folks &#8216;over there&#8217; ready to submit and collaborate and spread the good word.</p>
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		By: DK		</title>
		<link>/2007/three-first-day-updates/#comment-14973</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m no teacher but passionate about learning/educating/new media and technology (plus my business is focussing on this area) - surfed on in through Christian&#039;s post/blog/twitter and if I have the time I&#039;m happy to help/assist/advise... 

Great idea - easy to execute... got legs and already can imagine the impact!

Peace

DK
MediaSnackers Founder]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m no teacher but passionate about learning/educating/new media and technology (plus my business is focussing on this area) &#8211; surfed on in through Christian&#8217;s post/blog/twitter and if I have the time I&#8217;m happy to help/assist/advise&#8230; </p>
<p>Great idea &#8211; easy to execute&#8230; got legs and already can imagine the impact!</p>
<p>Peace</p>
<p>DK<br />
MediaSnackers Founder</p>
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		By: Christian Long		</title>
		<link>/2007/three-first-day-updates/#comment-14959</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christian Long]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Damian --

Entering 11th year (plus 3+ year hiatus helping business leaders &#039;learn&#039; as well) of classroom teaching...and still feeling more the &quot;new teacher&quot; oh-my butterfly dance now than what the veteran teachers oozing wisdom out of their pores seem to resonate with when I run into them.

That being said, time never exists in adequate amount.  And having more on the plate often means getting more done.

With that in mind, if you&#039;d be game to talk about sketching out a &quot;Stuff Nobody Told Us&quot; blog where brand spanking new and reasonably new teachers can share anecdotes and tips and questions to help other &#039;new&#039; teachers makes sense of it all, I&#039;d be game.  I think a &#039;newer&#039; teacher needs to lead the charge, of course, to give it as authentic a ring as possible, but I&#039;d be happy to play 2nd Lieutenant to support the effort.  Get in touch anytime -- christianlong2000 [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk -- whenever you get a chance.  Let&#039;s see if we can throw together a quick template, pose a few questions, and then throw it out to our shared networks...and see what happens.

Cheers,
Christian]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Damian &#8212;</p>
<p>Entering 11th year (plus 3+ year hiatus helping business leaders &#8216;learn&#8217; as well) of classroom teaching&#8230;and still feeling more the &#8220;new teacher&#8221; oh-my butterfly dance now than what the veteran teachers oozing wisdom out of their pores seem to resonate with when I run into them.</p>
<p>That being said, time never exists in adequate amount.  And having more on the plate often means getting more done.</p>
<p>With that in mind, if you&#8217;d be game to talk about sketching out a &#8220;Stuff Nobody Told Us&#8221; blog where brand spanking new and reasonably new teachers can share anecdotes and tips and questions to help other &#8216;new&#8217; teachers makes sense of it all, I&#8217;d be game.  I think a &#8216;newer&#8217; teacher needs to lead the charge, of course, to give it as authentic a ring as possible, but I&#8217;d be happy to play 2nd Lieutenant to support the effort.  Get in touch anytime &#8212; christianlong2000 [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk &#8212; whenever you get a chance.  Let&#8217;s see if we can throw together a quick template, pose a few questions, and then throw it out to our shared networks&#8230;and see what happens.</p>
<p>Cheers,<br />
Christian</p>
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		By: Rich		</title>
		<link>/2007/three-first-day-updates/#comment-14859</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I guess my main reason to &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; use the truncated tetrahedron activity is if was not in a better context (i.e., during an appropriate unit of study).  I just have to decide for myself whether the scales tip in favor of using it as a really cool intro to the school year, or in favor of embedding it in a geometry unit (in my case).  I&#039;ll probably stick with the Missionaries and Cannibals problem for my sixth graders, and I quite possibly will do the paper folding with my new eighth graders (my rising seventh graders already know me and have seen both activities....) (hmm, guess that means that I need &lt;i&gt;another&lt;/i&gt; intro for them!!!).]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I guess my main reason to <i>not</i> use the truncated tetrahedron activity is if was not in a better context (i.e., during an appropriate unit of study).  I just have to decide for myself whether the scales tip in favor of using it as a really cool intro to the school year, or in favor of embedding it in a geometry unit (in my case).  I&#8217;ll probably stick with the Missionaries and Cannibals problem for my sixth graders, and I quite possibly will do the paper folding with my new eighth graders (my rising seventh graders already know me and have seen both activities&#8230;.) (hmm, guess that means that I need <i>another</i> intro for them!!!).</p>
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		By: Damian		</title>
		<link>/2007/three-first-day-updates/#comment-14847</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Damian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OK, added some stuff to both NewTeacherWiki and FirstDay - hope folks find it helpful.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK, added some stuff to both NewTeacherWiki and FirstDay &#8211; hope folks find it helpful.</p>
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		By: jeffreygenehk		</title>
		<link>/2007/three-first-day-updates/#comment-14751</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jeffreygenehk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Stuff Nobody Told Us = fabulous idea! 4th year teacher myself...lots of my notes &#038; random journal entries have been written to an imaginary noob-teacher audience.

Free time for all = nonexistent of course...but I think that adding to those two wikis will be something to bump up a few notches on the priority list.

Thanks!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stuff Nobody Told Us = fabulous idea! 4th year teacher myself&#8230;lots of my notes &amp; random journal entries have been written to an imaginary noob-teacher audience.</p>
<p>Free time for all = nonexistent of course&#8230;but I think that adding to those two wikis will be something to bump up a few notches on the priority list.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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		By: dan		</title>
		<link>/2007/three-first-day-updates/#comment-14708</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[dan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oh definitely.  That&#039;s solid.  Oh my word.  Is there some reason I&#039;m &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; leading off with that activity.  &#039;Cause they wouldn&#039;t know some of the solids maybe?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh definitely.  That&#8217;s solid.  Oh my word.  Is there some reason I&#8217;m <em>not</em> leading off with that activity.  &#8216;Cause they wouldn&#8217;t know some of the solids maybe?</p>
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		By: Rich		</title>
		<link>/2007/three-first-day-updates/#comment-14706</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Be patient, this web 2.0 stuff doesn&#039;t write itself (yet).  I just chipped in on a couple of pages on your wiki.  I thought about adding the now-infamous truncated tetrahedron folding scheme, but your earlier postings gave it pretty good coverage (however, I do still think that in certain settings it could be a good first-day activity).]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Be patient, this web 2.0 stuff doesn&#8217;t write itself (yet).  I just chipped in on a couple of pages on your wiki.  I thought about adding the now-infamous truncated tetrahedron folding scheme, but your earlier postings gave it pretty good coverage (however, I do still think that in certain settings it could be a good first-day activity).</p>
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