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Yes, I must say that this time... I mean this period in time, feels like a momentous occasion, as far as education and technology. I keep urging my dad to buy a computer and get online, but there is much resistance. I think he'll come around soon. I told him just the other day that I feel like this is one of those moments in modern history, when they say "That's when it all began!" I told my dad how I thought that we're going to look back some day and realize that the world didn't really move into this technological revolution when the Internet was first created some 30 years ago, but now, in the first and second decade of the 21st century. Since I believe this to be true, and because I don't want to be obsolete in 30 years... I thought that I better learn as much as I can, as fast as I can. So, that's why I'm here, online... for all to read. Yes, I realize I'm not a trailblazer, but I'm happy to be here for this momentous occasion. H...

So, I just finished another graduate class, and the professor wanted us to just try one more populare site for educators... that perhaps we had never tried before. So, I went to Wordle.net and gave it a shot. Pretty cool. Check out my wordle at: http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3823404/Mista_Chocka%27s_Lesson_7%2C_Unit_2%2C_ELL

Usually, I would like to think that summer starts after the last day of school in June, but I'm doing a graduate class now, so I will prefer to mentally plan on summer starting next week, on July 4th. As you may know, our high school is going one-to-one next year! Yay! Teachers picked up their iPads on the last days of school, and I'm impressed with it already. Let me copy and paste a video here on it, for those who aren't familiar with the iPad2.

Shocking I know! Seriously though, it deserves mentioning because we are currently in the middle of a novel, and with students of mixed ELL levels all together in my classes, I have found the Interent, my laptop and a projector to be vital to student understanding. For students who have fewer English language skills, multi-media lessons help me to make sure all of our kids are understanding the elements of the story; that being the elements of literature, setting, plot, characters and theme. I like using power points, but I embed video and images that help me to explain more than I can with words. And in case you're new to ELL, a picture is really worth a thousand words! Be well, Mr. Chiocca

Howdy, After my last blog post, I was feeling like a blogger with no readers. How sad..., yes, I know. A dear friend and colleague commented that I must continue to blog. If I may embelish his comments, it was like he was saying - "Yes, Mr. Chiocca." "Please blog - we need your insight, your wisdom, your guidance." Cue the giggles. Yes, I want you to laugh a little. Ok, so I realize that my blog may only get a few readers from time to time, but let me share an honest hope and goal. For some reason, I would like to build a blog that may hopefully someday be a leader in ESL dialogue, a trailblazer if you will! So, might you, my dear reader be willing to stick around and visit us from time to time. I sure would appreciate your loyal reading and patronage. Ok, well, I'm not selling anything, but you get the point. Cheers, Mr. Chiocca