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Shocked and agast, my son's pants were agape. Last night was the final game on the season and, the 26th straight win for the Westwood Wildcats and my son blocked a 270 pound behemoth with his pants flapping in the breeze. My Westwood Wildcats Football Team 2010, 2011 State Champs winner 26 straight football games We were picked to lose by 13 or 20 points depending upon who you asked. They had 10 boys over 200 pounds and one over 300 and we had barely 2, maybe. My son's pants ripped during the last football game. When I say rip, I mean a big old tear from crotch to way up the back. My son's gray sliding pants were his only salvation from indecent exposure. Last week I had snatched up the pants and was preparing to mend them when my son interrupted emphatically: "We're wearing the orange pants for state, Mom, don't touch 'em. They'll get fixed in the off season when they send them in to the shop." OK, so the word "shop" shoul...

I had a great time with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach's class of beginning teachers recently. ( Read her kind post about it.) I appreciate the opportunity. She recorded the session in Elluminate, it has audio and a screen capture of the slides I used to teach wikis and the voting that we did about the class' wiki use. You can also take a look at the wiki that I created for the class information. I really wanted to model the interactive methods that I believe teach best even though we were in elluminate. Students hunger for involvement and they participated as we discussed learning theories and so many important topics for beginning teachers. Sheryl is doing a great job with this class! tag: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach , Vicki A Davis , coolcatteacher , teaching , education , wikis , pedagogy