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		<title>Much Ado about Films</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayanna Gillian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[while technology can revolutionize the way we teach it can also sometimes just provide us with little tools to make what we already do more efficient and have the students a little more engaged<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keysandlanterns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6256114&amp;post=285&amp;subd=keysandlanterns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Girls and Web 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayanna Gillian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Either we need to take further advantage of these technologies when teaching girls to reach them better or we need to encourage boys to as well lest they be left behind (even further) in the education game that is will shift over time to these methods of communication.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keysandlanterns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6256114&amp;post=281&amp;subd=keysandlanterns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s all new again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayanna Gillian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Technology in the classroom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m baaack! Although this blog first began as a teaching portfolio to document my experience studying for my Dip Ed I had always hoped to continue it when the smoke cleared. The idea is that this could be a way to collect interesting ideas for lessons, share developments in education and to generally add to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keysandlanterns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6256114&amp;post=275&amp;subd=keysandlanterns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Those who CAN do, TEACH.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 15:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayanna Gillian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to find myself defending my choice to teach to others. The reactions of people would range from the incredulous, “Why would you want to teach?” to the veiled insult of  “At least you get plenty holidays”. Having lived in a family of teachers, I know the score but I now also know the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keysandlanterns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6256114&amp;post=255&amp;subd=keysandlanterns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Change?</title>
		<link>http://keysandlanterns.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/196/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 04:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayanna Gillian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change is never easy and permanent change is even harder. I wrote this journal entry while my Curriculum study class was finishing up their Wiki updates and I was tired and apprehensive about the process I was undertaking with this intervention. I worried then and I still worry now about whether we can really sustain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keysandlanterns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6256114&amp;post=196&amp;subd=keysandlanterns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Challenge</title>
		<link>http://keysandlanterns.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/journal-entry-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 21:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayanna Gillian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This journal is about my first Field Day. It also happens to be the favourite lesson that I taught throughout the Dip Ed Field Days and Teaching Practice days. I felt confident and I knew the class responding to me although I had to work for their involvement at first. That made it all the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keysandlanterns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6256114&amp;post=141&amp;subd=keysandlanterns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your School Culture Toxic or Positive?</title>
		<link>http://keysandlanterns.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/journal-entry-5-school-cultures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayanna Gillian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Staff Room Misadventures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think I learned more from doing this assignment then I expected to learn. So often assignments are just that – works assigned that never really penetrated who we are. This journal entry reflects the ideas that I learned from completing my dissertation. I had never really reflected in what makes a good teaching environment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keysandlanterns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6256114&amp;post=94&amp;subd=keysandlanterns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mercenary, Missionary, Visionary or Other?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayanna Gillian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So often these terms are bandied about to justify all sorts of agendas- why teacher’s don’t make more money, why ‘young’ teachers are ‘not dedicated’ to the service and choose to move on after a few years of service and a host of others. Frankly it makes me mad. My staff room is a minefield [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keysandlanterns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6256114&amp;post=91&amp;subd=keysandlanterns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Teaching Practice and Student Support</title>
		<link>http://keysandlanterns.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/first-teaching-practice-and-student-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayanna Gillian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This journal entry is about my first Teaching Practice day at my school. I learned that I have good raw material but fell into the very trap that Dip Ed cautions us about – lecturing instead of teaching. When I was a student, at various stages of my academic career, classes were about ‘lectures’ to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keysandlanterns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6256114&amp;post=85&amp;subd=keysandlanterns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It is our experiences that make the difference&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://keysandlanterns.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/it-is-our-experiences-that-make-the-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ayanna Gillian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was a special journal entry for me. Not only was it one of the first times I really got to talk with teachers from other schools about their experiences coming into teaching and as beginning teachers, but I was able to make the acquaintance of a teacher whom my mother taught at her school [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keysandlanterns.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6256114&amp;post=58&amp;subd=keysandlanterns&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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