I have been spending the last couple of weeks working on the curriculum for the upcoming year. There are a few things I am testing out this coming year so it is taking a lot of time to plan it out. I would love for people's comments on the curriculum. Please check out http://norfarcur.pbwiki.com and give me any input and feel free to copy anything.

I found a great tool to use this upcoming year. It is called Wordle. It allows you to type in words, grab words from a url or grab tags from a del.icio.us user. It takes the words and place them in a cloud like form. It also enables the student to save the cloud. I will use this to have students express their understanding of mathematical terms. Here is a cloud I created on digital storytelling.

I have been thinking a lot lately on some possible projects to do this upcoming year. There is so much I have seen in the news, conferences and general personal problems that will make great projects. I am going to be working on the details in the next couple of weeks. Right now, I want to make sure I have a note of all my ideas and sources I have to check out or get back to for development.Here

I am so sorry it took so long to do this final video of the food project. Summer came and I went on break. I just came back from the NECC conference and I am so pumped for the new year. I have discovered that many people need help with seeing a teacher's perspective of project based learning. I have also noticed how great it was for me to reflect on my practice. Therefore, I have decided to