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		<title>Reminiscing upon the past&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer marks a new venture in connectedness on my part.  Using facebook and twitter, I have built important learning communities, both educational and social.  But I find myself very nostalgic today, in particular focusing on my first teaching job, where I taught chemistry and physics (in various &#8220;flavors&#8221;) at Roberto Clemente Community Academy.  I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This summer marks a new venture in connectedness on my part.  Using <a href="http://www.facebook.com" target="_blank">facebook</a> and <a href="http://www.twitter.com" target="_blank">twitter</a>, I have built important learning communities, both educational and social.  But I find myself very nostalgic today, in particular focusing on my first teaching job, where I taught chemistry and physics (in various &#8220;flavors&#8221;) at <a href="http://www.clementehs.org" target="_blank">Roberto Clemente Community Academy</a>.  I was a part of the small schools initiative.  Within the 2000+ populous of the school, I was charged with educating students in the math science and technology academy, known as MSTA.  The main reason for this post is a video that I made my last year teaching at Clemente.  The project was to construct a water and gas powered rocket that would carry a raw egg aloft and then safely back to earth without damage.  It was likely the most fulfilling project that I conducted while at that school.  </p>
<p>When I came across the video, I watched it again, and all of the emotions of the day that I showed it to my class came flooding back.  It is not that it was an astounding video, but it was the last video that I made for my students prior to leaving Chicago.  This was especially hard for me as many of the students had been in my class for the past two years.  I had taught them chemistry, then challenged them to take ap chem.  A recent facebook connection with a prior student motivated me to post the video, in the hopes that I could reconnect with as many of the original class members are possible. </p>
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