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VT's FREE Newsletter for Educators - Insight, Inspiration and Ideas that work!
SLAM POETRY CURES THE BLAHS
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Hello everyone
In a time of short attention spans and the infamous sound bite, BLAH BLAH BLAH, I think POETRY is making a definite comeback. The best is short, succinct and to the point.
SARAH Kaye has made poetry and artform, watch the video and be amazed. Use her tips to SLAM some poetry with your students.
Make some and send it in to share. Illuminations is a fabulous site love the
3D nets you can make and print out. Don't miss it!!
The Population Clock is an amzing tool, watch it on the Whiteboard as it ticks over.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing
your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley
Our language abilities do not define the limits
of our cognition.
Elliot W. Eisner
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
Don Marquis, humorist and poet (1878-1937)
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Novalis
One thing about the speed of light...it gets here too early in the morning.
Unknown
Friday, we had a tornado drill. We're underneath
a parking
garage and there's a PA announcement "This is a tornado drill.
Please move quickly away from any and all windows."
Somebody yelled out:
"Quick, get to a DOS prompt!"
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SARAH KAY: If I should have a daughter
Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter ...
Great poem for grade 6. Also about Spoken word poetry or Poetry Slams. A great way to encourage poetry writing and performance. Use it educate entertain and inspire. Spoken word poetry cracks open locks.
Some ideas from Sarah:-
1. 10 things I know to be true(first poem).
2. 10 things I should've learned by now
3. Things that are the same as me, things that exactly the opposite, things that you didn't know,
Help students rediscover wonder.
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WHEN CAN I HAVE ONE OF THESE??
FREE TECHNOLOGY for TEACHERS
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SLAM the LIVE POETS SOCIETY
Or Spoken word poetry  What is poetry slam?
Simply put, poetry slam is the competitive art of performance poetry. It puts a dual emphasis on writing and performance, encouraging poets to focus on what they're saying and how they're saying it.
"There are no editors, publishers or marketing budgets here - just poetry that uses a stage instead of a page." Nathan Thompson
Watch this 2 minute video
SLAM POETRY HOW TO
1. Select a topic to write your poem about. Then begin writing your poem. It should consist of short rhythmic stanzas that play upon the theme you have chosen. Slam poetry is typically quite strong and blunt.
2. Write your poetry to reflect some sort of current social more or rhetoric. Slam poetry makes a statement typically in a liberal fashion about something in modern society.
3. Research new slang words or relevant modern contextual references and then go back and revise your poetry, attempting to utilize these new resources. If you are trying to say the word "say," you might try "spit" or "spew" for more impact. The more visceral the better. Do not be too formal in your presentation since formality is the antithesis to slam poetry.
4. Read your poem out loud to a trusted friend who will give you honest feedback--preferably someone who knows a little about slam poetry culture.
5. Record yourself delivering your poem. Make sure you are adamant and passionate in your delivery.
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Population CLOCK
On 23 August 2013 at 05:56:44 PM (Canberra time), the resident population of Australia is projected to be:
23,158,449
What is it when your receive this newsletter Click here to find out Also take a look at the Australian animated demographic statistics and population pyramids. Its fabulous seeing the graph move through the years.
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Illuminations Provides online lessons and activities in maths for FREE includingDynamic papers include 3D nets, Graph paper, number lines and Grids, tessellations , shapes, spinners which can be specified and coloured online or printed out as blackline masters.
Mathematical nets. GREAT resource.
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I do answer all emails so send them along with your questions ideas and great sites.
Hello
Just thought I'd mention a great website for kids on Greek Mythology. It's stored on the ABC Australia website, but the easy URL is
I'm not sure whether you have mentioned it before. It has two gateways - a FLASH version (for broadband Internet, really) and an HTML.
ciao
Deon
It is a great website - take a look and let meknow your thoughts
Cathy, I would just like to say a huge thank you for all the wonderful work you do preparing Virtual Teacher. Each fortnight
I am amazed to see the incredible work that is being done across Australia in the area of Learning Technologies. We teachers are all trying to make the shift from traditional methods to ways that
are going to fully prepare our wonderful students to work in the 21st century. By browsing through your site I am continually learning new and innovative approaches to apply to my teaching.
This year I am teaching Kindergarten and the students are absolutely spellbound when we visit other schools to observe their work and learn from them. We also enjoy visiting some of your recommended sites. This term we are investigating Animals and we have been so excited to visit Zoos around the world and observe their animals.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Robyn
Thanks Robin the resources on the internet are fabulous the ZOOS Worldwide site is fabulous with links to many of the Zoos websites, and savvy sites offer translations on the fly.
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Next newsletter some great new Videos - also I would love to showcase some splendid school websites so send in your suggestion. 
Please send in any other great ideas or websites, whiteboard sites or fabulous things you are doing.
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ciao
Cathy
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