1. world-shaker: Going Paperless: My Virtual Bookcases in Evernote This is one of the coolest uses of Evernote I’ve ever seen, and makes clever use of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) feature that translates print in images to text. Here’s how it works (but definitely click through to see the whole thing in action!): My process for doing this was pretty simple, and highly dependent on Evernote to do much of the work for me. For those who want to reproduce my results, here’s what to do: Take a picture of each shelf on my bookshelf. (The higher resolution the picture, the better).  Create a note for each picture. Give a name to each note. I worked clockwise around my office. I numbered each bookcase and each shelf within the bookcase so that I could keep my note titles simple: “Bookcase 2, Shelf 4″, etc. Collect all of the notes together in a “Books” notebook in my “Home” notebook stack. Sync the notes with the Evernote server and allow Evernote to fill in the search data for the images. The results are pretty cool. Things like this make me love what technology can do.

    world-shaker:

    Going Paperless: My Virtual Bookcases in Evernote

    This is one of the coolest uses of Evernote I’ve ever seen, and makes clever use of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) feature that translates print in images to text. Here’s how it works (but definitely click through to see the whole thing in action!):

    My process for doing this was pretty simple, and highly dependent on Evernote to do much of the work for me. For those who want to reproduce my results, here’s what to do:

    1. Take a picture of each shelf on my bookshelf. (The higher resolution the picture, the better). 
    2. Create a note for each picture.
    3. Give a name to each note. I worked clockwise around my office. I numbered each bookcase and each shelf within the bookcase so that I could keep my note titles simple: “Bookcase 2, Shelf 4″, etc.
    4. Collect all of the notes together in a “Books” notebook in my “Home” notebook stack.
    5. Sync the notes with the Evernote server and allow Evernote to fill in the search data for the images.

    The results are pretty cool.

    Things like this make me love what technology can do.

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  2. Technology in Education: 10 Free Typing Practice Activities for Students

    techedblog:

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    Type Rocket is a free typing game from ABCya. Type Rocket is a sixty second game in which students make fireworks explode by typing the letters that appear on the rockets in the games. In the sixty second span of the game students try to correctly type as many letters as they possibly…

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  3. holtthink: From the article “27 ways to become a 21st Century Teacher” From the article: Think you got the chops to become a 21st century teacher, a modern teacher, or at least an educator who has a classroom of engaged students? Use this handy chart to find more than two dozen ways to become the teacher you’ve always known you could be. Most of the ways are briefly explained but that’s kinda the beauty of the whole chart. You can take the sentence or two and turn it into a new teaching process that others may not already use. For example, the term ‘collaborate’ (see below) could mean just about anything to a modern teacher. Collaborate via Skype? Collaborate to try out Project-Based Learning? Collaborate to grow your PLN? The sky is the limit! In fact, these days we talk about space so much that the sky is not the limit.   “180 Questions: Daily Reflections For Educators and Their Professional Learning Communities” ©2012 Available in the iTunes bookstore exclusively for the iPad  https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/180-questions/id573946590?mt=11 $6.99

    holtthink:

    From the article “27 ways to become a 21st Century Teacher”

    From the article:

    Think you got the chops to become a 21st century teacher, a modern teacher, or at least an educator who has a classroom of engaged students? Use this handy chart to find more than two dozen ways to become the teacher you’ve always known you could be. Most of the ways are briefly explained but that’s kinda the beauty of the whole chart. You can take the sentence or two and turn it into a new teaching process that others may not already use. For example, the term ‘collaborate’ (see below) could mean just about anything to a modern teacher. Collaborate via Skype? Collaborate to try out Project-Based Learning? Collaborate to grow your PLN? The sky is the limit! In fact, these days we talk about space so much that the sky is not the limit.

     

    “180 Questions: Daily Reflections For Educators and Their Professional Learning Communities” ©2012

    Available in the iTunes bookstore exclusively for the iPad 

    https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/180-questions/id573946590?mt=11

    $6.99

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  4. explore-blog: Maya Angelou, reconstructionst. 

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    Maya Angelou, reconstructionst. 

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  5. explore-blog: NOTHING TO DO? Shelley Silverstein Nothing to do? Nothing to do? Put some mustard in your shoe, Fill your pockets full of soot, Drive a nail into your foot, Put some sugar in your hair, Place your toys upon the stair, Smear some jelly on the latch, Eat some mud and strike a match, Draw a picture on the wall, Roll some marbles down the hall, Pour some ink in daddy’s cap – Now go upstairs and take a nap. Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls, 1964.

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    NOTHING TO DO?

    Shelley Silverstein

    Nothing to do?

    Nothing to do?

    Put some mustard in your shoe,

    Fill your pockets full of soot,

    Drive a nail into your foot,

    Put some sugar in your hair,

    Place your toys upon the stair,

    Smear some jelly on the latch,

    Eat some mud and strike a match,

    Draw a picture on the wall,

    Roll some marbles down the hall,

    Pour some ink in daddy’s cap –

    Now go upstairs and take a nap.

    Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls, 1964.

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  7. thenearsightedmonkey:

    One day Professor Old Skull asked her Unthinkable Mind Students to do the exercise found on page 37 in Ivan Brunetti’s book,  “Cartooning, Practice and Philosophy” but instead of doing each drawing on a separate index card, they folded a sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper into 12 panels and drew the following scenarios:

    A) The beginning of the world
    B)The end of the world
    C) A self-portrait, including your entire body
    D)Something that happened at lunchtime (or breakfast if it is still morning)
    E) An image from a dream you had recently
    F)Something that happened in the middle of the world’s existence
    G)What happened right after that?
    H) Something that happened early this morning
    J)Pick any of the above panels and draw something that happened immediately afterward
    K)Draw a ‘riff’ on panel ‘J’
    L) Finally, draw something that has absolutely nothing to do with anything else you have drawn in the other panels.

    A few days later, Professor Old Skull asked them to cut the panels apart and mix them up. Then she gave them a poem written by Thomas Treherne in the mid 1600’s and asked them to cut the poem up into 12 parts, maintaining the original order of the poem. Then students were asked to glue a panel above each part of the poem, trying to find which pictures made the page have a kind of resonance that can happen when two things don’t match up literally, but have some sort of swing between them.

    This sequence features the work of Frontal Lobes, Corpus Callosum and Amygdala

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  8. Detroit Something: What are some of your go-to vocab activities?

    adiemtocarpe:

    adiemtocarpe:

    Here are some of the ones we do in my class.

    • word webs
    • cartoon/comics using the words
    • 30 second picture draw
    • charades
    • review questions with whiteboards
    • vocab math ( ______ + ________ = word)
    • crossword puzzles
    • vocab password (like the gameshow- students give one word…

    LOVE IT!

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  9. megankoziel: Let the madness begin. The 7/8th graders were so excited for poetry madness to begin today. I even had kids disappointed that there weren’t more poems and spaces on the bracket! This will be an exciting unit.

    megankoziel:

    Let the madness begin. The 7/8th graders were so excited for poetry madness to begin today. I even had kids disappointed that there weren’t more poems and spaces on the bracket! This will be an exciting unit.

    (Source: icingondacake)

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  10. howstuffworks:

    10 Completely Wrong Ways to Use Commas

    Happy Grammar Day to those of you currently experiencing March 4th! We come bearing helpful American English comma tips.

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