Are You Ready For Some Football?!?!?!?! A Co-Blog Post Co-Written and Co-Posted by Educators, Denis Sheeran and Tara Martin Denis: Last year, right around Super Bowl time I started to notice the prolific tweeting of something called #BookSnaps. My Twitter bestie, Tara Martin, had started a movement in education where teachers and students would use […]
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Why That Title? This was one of sixty-thousand or so questions raised while teaching the preschool class at my church this past weekend. While playing with Play-Dough, a four-year-old student says, “Mrs. Martin, What if play dough could talk? What would it say?” Being slightly caught off guard, I asked, “What do you think it might […]
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Sometimes the REALness of life tackles you like a herd of massive NFL football players, and you lie helplessly dogpiled beneath them. That’s pretty close to my state of mind this past week. Of course, on this particular week, I (Tara) forgot to wear my “football helmet,” and I paid for it. When I get […]
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With a fierce determination in your heart, You decide it’s time to take on the adventure. You look in the mirror and flex your biceps. Ok, just look in the mirror and tell yourself “I’ve Got This!” (Well, you can flex if you’d like. I would.) There is a world of people counting on you– […]
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The students OWNED the #BookSnapsWk2 Challenge! In fact, we had so many entries, we have two sets of Student Guest Blogger winners. We had over 550 tweets made to the hashtag and some of these contained Padlet links of 20+ #BookSnaps each! I didn’t know how the #BookSnaps could get any more creative after week one, […]
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