Mr. Helmsing’s Backyard

Several of the tech-savy BHSN staff members are in Indianapolis this week for the annual Indiana Computer Educators’ conference.  So far Mr. Cole, Ms. Loser, Ms. Sweeney, Ms. Reeves, Ms. Frye, Ms. Seegert, Ms. Nichols, Ms. Butera, Mr. Harper and I have been blogging, podcasting, video conferencing, eScrapbooking, wiki-making, Moodling, and more as we learn [...]

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One of the best ways to become a better writer is simply to write…and that’s exactly what we did today in English class.
G2 chose an essay topic they felt most comfortable tackling as they responded to an in-class timed essay exam on Criterion over Dracula. 
In G4, we discussed the questions over the final chapters [...]

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I’ve heard people use the word balmy six times today to describe the weather.  I am enjoying every creeping degree of it.  Snow should fall on December 24 and 25, stay around for the 26 and 27, and melt away on the 28.  That’s what I would do if I could have a tete-a-tete with [...]

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The last two weeks have assaulted my morale and anyone at BHSN who has been able to put up with my grumpy crankiness is to be applauded.  What started out as a cold almost a month ago seemd to go away and then came back with a vegenance after Thanksgiving and turned into laryngitis.  In [...]

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I’ve been suffering from an evil, nasty, virulent despicable cold since I was in Nashville, TN this weekend. It might be from walking around in all of the cold weather outside (even though there was no snow, it was still brutally cold!) My throat is sore, my sinuses are congested, and I’m sneezing, wheezing, and [...]

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