For this month's Bright Ideas Link up, I've got a tech tip for you. Not too high tech, so don't get overly excited. :-) It's more of an old school pet peeve of mine. This is for anyone who uses PowerPoint slides t…

Here in Canada, we celebrated our Thanksgiving two weekends ago. In the USA, this holiday of gratitude and geniality (let's not get into the historical origins here & focus on moving forward together, you know?) is marked…

Hi there! Thanks for stopping by this Sunday morning. Today's blog post is part of a Halloween Blog Hop with several other fabulous Canadian teacher-bloggers. Many thanks to Erin Beattie who is hosting this holiday-themed …

Bellringers for French class? But how can you do anything before all the students are arrived and settled? I think it's important to offer them some reason to get to class on time and get into learning. So I wanted to share t…

How do you follow blogs? If you just save them in a bookmark or favorites list and visit them every so often, that's one way that might have worked for you so far. As I know organization is on your mind, given that it's b…

It's been a little while since I participated in the Bright Ideas blog hop, but they really ARE a great way to share tips with teachers, so for this month, I want to share an idea I got from a Special Education colleague a f…

Last week, someone in an online teacher group ask me if I'd ever heard of Pinterest. I'm not normally one to toot my own horn, really, but since the question arose, I shared with her that my main Pinterest board  w as nam…

It's time to announce the winners of my giveaway  for French teachers ... Image courtesy of Educlips Congratulations, ladies! Not sure where the MEN are... I am pretty sure all 81 entries were by women, but that'…

These are my awesome secondary teacher-educational author friends whose stores you simply must pop by as the TPT sale gets underway today (which I know I already told you, but a reminder never hurt - you don't want to miss th…

It's too soon to think about Back To School, I know! In the southern US though, teachers are back in class tomorrow! And TeachersPayTeachers is offering up a coupon code August 4-5 so we may as well take advantage to start pl…

Foreign Languages for Everyone: How I Learned to Teach Second Languages to Students with Learning Disabilities by Irene Brouwer Konyndyk was published in 2011.  This is a book I hadn't heard a lot about but rather which I s…

Joyeux noël du campeur!  J'ai réduit les prix de quatre de mes ressources favorites par 50% Je voudrais remercier Mme Andrea pour la belle image pour notre promotion et Les Créations de Stéphanie pour l'idée et le …