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document.write('So, my daughter got sick recently (throwing up) about a week ago after a gymnastics meet. Not sure if it was nerves or what, but the week after, she started this &#8220;my belly hurts&#8221; stuff about school. Every day. She&#8217;s been crying the last week about school in the mornings, saying that &#8220;walking into the gym for PE gives her a belly ache.&#8221; I just don&#8217;t even know how to deal with it! We&#8217;ve talked, her principal has chatted with her, and she just has a PE mental block (and she&#8217;s a skinny little athlete!). So frustrated. ');
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document.write('So, I have been working out every day (haven&#8217;t missed a day) since the beginning of the year, trying to lose weight. And, my school had a Biggest Loser contest all Jan/Feb ending today. I weighed in this morning with a 25 pound weight loss. I didn&#8217;t win, but I am still really proud of my progress. And, I am HOPING that I can double that in the next three months. I&#8217;m food journaling (did really well today, only 1350 calories) and did three workouts today. I track all my workouts in Facebook (on a &#8220;note&#8221; that I update) to keep myself motivated. It&#8217;s nice to see my students interested in how I am doing, though. I am not open enough to share just how much I weigh with them, but I am sharing my journey. ');
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document.write('So, I have created my share of electronic portfolios. And, I&#8217;ve found some great websites that are super easy to creating them, namely Zola and Glogster. However, it seems finding sites that the school firewall allow is a whole other problem. I ran across a few more today that are noteworthy (but I&#8217;m not at school to see how the firewall treats them). I apparently signed up before for a Carbonmade account. It&#8217;s neat&#8230; the free one allows five &#8220;projects&#8221; and a total of 35 images. So, for a Photoshop class like I teach, it would work just fine. I like the pages it creates. Here&#8217;s mine with one project/2 images&#8211; http://skindawg.carbonmade.com. Another one I liked&#8211;and it worked immediately&#8211;was Coroflot. It&#8217;s probably designed more for &#8220;real&#8221; industry professionals, though I think I could use it in a classroom. It accepts JPG (or any image), MOV, SWF, QT, and PDF, big plusses for me since I teach multimedia and they create Flash projects. I didn&#8217;t see any restrictions. My example is http://www.coroflot.com/skindawg. Probably the most academic in nature is at Zunal.com, zportfolio. It took about an hour to get my confirmation email so I didn&#8217;t get started on it yet, but it looks pretty good, too. So, lots of free options out there now for sharing (or even grading) student work!   Let me know if you have used any of these. I&#8217;d love the feedback.  ');
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