Archive for the ‘Maniac Mondays’ Category

Some Thoughts on Freedom and Education. . .

photo by Beverly & Pack www.flickr.com July 4th is always a good day for me. I love summer, I love festivals, and I love BBQ. I also love my husband, and it’s our anniversary–so even more reason to celebrate. I don’t always take the time to really think about what we are celebrating on July [...]

July 5, 2010 in Book Club Possibility, Books With Social Studies Content, Chapter Books, Elementary Educators, Fighting world poverty, Half the Sky, High School Teachers, human trafficking, Maniac Mondays, Middle School Teachers, multicultural books, Picture Book, Preschool to 1st grade teachers
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Maniac Monday: Unveiling of the New Blog

In the spirit of my blog’s title: “Margo Dill’s Read These Books and Use Them,” I have read the book Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. And I’m going to use it. I’m going to use it to do something a little different with my blog. So, here’s what I am [...]

May 17, 2010 in Book Club Possibility, Half the Sky, High School Teachers, Maniac Mondays
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Maniac Monday: Webquests–What are they?

photo by D’Arcy Norman www.flickr.com I recently wrote an article for Bright Hub about a five themes of geography webquest for teachers to use in their classrooms. What I found interesting when I was researching webquest ideas for this article was the difference between a “true” webquest and then what some teachers call a webquest. [...]

May 10, 2010 in Elementary Educators, High School Teachers, Maniac Mondays, Middle School Teachers
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Maniac Monday: An Editorial for Teaching Kids to Speak Up

photo by jon_nawaikula www.flickr.com With the almost-bombing scare in Times Square over the weekend, I’ve been watching a lot of news to see if they catch this person who almost caused great havoc in New York City. While listening to a press conference with New York’s mayor, I heard him say that the reason why [...]

May 3, 2010 in Elementary Educators, High School Teachers, Maniac Mondays, Middle School Teachers, Preschool to 1st grade teachers
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Maniac Monday: Cindy Hudson blog tour: Book by Book (Comment Contest)

I am so honored to be a part of WOW! Women On Writing‘s blog tour for Cindy Hudson, who is the author of a wonderful book for parents titled Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs. Cindy has been in a mother-daughter book club with her own children for several years, [...]

April 26, 2010 in Book Club Possibility, Maniac Mondays
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Maniac Monday: Writing Contests for Kids

photo by mrbill www.flickr.com On Saturday, April 24, I am involved in a very exciting event in St. Peters, Missouri with a writing group I belong to–Saturday Writers. Every year, we sponsor free writing contests for kids and teens; and this Saturday, we hand out the awards. Basically, we have a short story/poetry contest for [...]

April 19, 2010 in Elementary Educators, High School Teachers, Journal Writing, Maniac Mondays, Middle School Teachers, six traits of writing, Writing Skills
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Maniac Monday: Celebrate National Library Week!

Seattle Public Library by Jeff Wilcox www.flickr.com The town where I live in East Central Illinois has been fighting forever to get a new library. Finally, the residents in my town passed a bond issue to build a new library, and we should have one by the end of the summer–how super, super exciting! Illinois [...]

April 12, 2010 in Elementary Educators, High School Teachers, Maniac Mondays, Middle School Teachers, Preschool to 1st grade teachers, Young Adult Novels
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Maniac Monday: School Lunch Blog–Check This Out!

photo by Jeff Sandquist www.flickr.com I saw this story about Mrs. Q and her blog: Fed Up with Lunch: The School Lunch Project on Good Morning, America a couple weeks ago, and I knew I wanted to talk about this on my blog–since we are talking about education and stuff like that here. You know–important [...]

April 5, 2010 in Elementary Educators, High School Teachers, Making Personal Connections, Maniac Mondays, Middle School Teachers, Preschool to 1st grade teachers
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Maniac Monday: WOW! Women On Writing Online Classes Taught by Me

If you are a teacher, librarian, parent, or anyone really, you might be interested in taking some online classes about writing and social networking this spring and summer. I am teaching three classes through WOW! Women on Writing’s classroom and workshop program, and I am super excited! The first class I am teaching starts on [...]

March 29, 2010 in Elementary Educators, High School Teachers, Maniac Mondays, Middle School Teachers, Preschool to 1st grade teachers, Young Adult Novels
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Maniac Monday: Hot Topic–Teacher Uses “Loser” to Tease Students

photo by takomabibelot www.flickr.com If you haven’t heard by now, there’s a middle school teacher in Buncombe County, North Carolina who wrote LOSER on a student’s paper, and her parents are understandably (in my opinion) upset. (To see a video about this story, please go to: Yahoo News.) The teacher says he is only trying [...]

March 22, 2010 in Elementary Educators, High School Teachers, Maniac Mondays, Middle School Teachers
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