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world-shaker: VideoNotes - A Great Tool for Taking Notes While...

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:26:37 -0400

VideoNotes - A Great Tool for Taking Notes While Watching Academic Videos

VideoNotes is a neat new tool for taking notes while watching videos. VideoNotes allows you to load any YouTube video on the left side of your screen and on the right side of the screen VideoNotes gives you a notepad to type on. VideoNotes integrates with your Google Drive account. By integrating with Google Drive VideoNotes allows you to share your notes and collaborate on your notes just as you can do with a Google Document.

Technology in Education: 10 Free Typing Practice Activities for Students

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:25:47 -0400

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

techedblog:

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…

eseeducator: Mobile Learning with Blooms Taxonomy...

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:23:50 -0400

eseeducator:

Mobile Learning with Blooms Taxonomy & the Padagogy Wheel, Developed by Cherie Pickering @ Unley High School (October 2012)

link to PDF

Isocortex: Free Online Psychology-Related Courses

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:22:04 -0400

Isocortex: Free Online Psychology-Related Courses:

isocortex:

I’ve compiled a list of various courses available right now for FREE that are related to the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral medicine. Enjoy, learn, and please share!

Humanities & Social Sciences

Introduction to Sociology by Harvey Molotch, NYU

Literature and…

Links to the Word Roots

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:21:26 -0400

theyuniversity:

1. GREG (group)

2. LOC / LOQ (speech, words)

3. BELLI (war)

4. EU (good)

5. SOMN (sleep)

6. PHIL (love)

7. PUG (fight)

8. MUT (change)

9. TORT (turn)

10. LUC (light)

11. RUPT (break)

12. DOL (pain)

13. VOR / VOUR (eat)

14. PAN (all)

15. FOLI (leaf)

16. LEV (light, i.e., not heavy)

17. FID (faith)

18. CULP (blame)

19. CORP (body)

20. CIS (cut)

21. CHRON (time)

postsfromthemrs: I was looking for a wedding present and found...

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:12:06 -0400

postsfromthemrs:

I was looking for a wedding present and found these, Gourmet Grammarian Dish Set.

gjmueller: 27 Simple Ways to Flip the Classroom Read, watch,...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:12:34 -0400

gjmueller:

27 Simple Ways to Flip the Classroom

Read, watch, curate, communicate, research.

Embiggen here

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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:14:08 -0400

Could there actually be one “C” to rule them all?! | Connected Principals

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:25:29 -0400

Could there actually be one “C” to rule them all?! | Connected Principals:

What does offering more control to student learners look like? Below I provide some examples – patches to a quilt of sorts. My examples are by no means exhaustive. But I think seeing examples helps.

Students being more in control lies at the heart of Dewey – “learning by doing.” On such a foundation, the progressive education movement grew. The posts coming from Tom Little (@ParkDayTom) provide numerous exemplars.

Caine’s Arcade

Gever Tully’s Tinkering School and Brightworks School

MVPS 1st Graders designing and prototyping better bus stops (here, here, and here)

King’s Ridge Christian School – 5th graders control full operations of Tiger TV

Trinity students design and prototype better running gear for a faculty member

Hacker Scouts and Hackschooling

Katie Salen of Parsons, Institute of Play, and Quest to Learn (Gaming School)

Design thinking to create solutions instead of waiting for a knight on a white horse

Any of the examples from Suzie Boss’ book, Bringing Innovation to Schools

The Independent Project

Triangle Learning Community

Imagining Learning, listening sessions, and student voice

NuVu Studio at Beaver Country Day School

Brittany Wenger and cancer detection

Emily Pilloton and Project H

Connie Yowell and Interest Education

Geoff Mulgan and the Studio School

Maplewood Richmond Heights Middle School - School as Expedition

John Hunter and the World Peace Game

The Nueva School iLab

Riverside School

Leadership + Design Summer for Educators

Solving America’s Innovation Crisis

Sugata Mitra and Hole in the Wall

Khan Academy Projects could inspire some ideas for learner exploration

Student Experience Lab at Business Innovation Factory

The Case for Curiosity

Beau Lotto + Amy O’Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included

Empty Facebook Profile for a (Literary) Character

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:20:35 -0400

apileofgoodthings11:

A day just opened up next week for teaching, so after our vocabulary quiz, we’re going to fill in these literary character Facebook profiles for a character from one of the stories we’ve read this year.

Feel free to use this. You could also use it for a person from history/science.

world-shaker: Going Paperless: My Virtual Bookcases in...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:20:11 -0400

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.

Technology in Education: 10 Free Typing Practice Activities for Students

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:03:02 -0400

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

techedblog:

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…

holtthink: From the article “27 ways to become a 21st Century...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:46:37 -0400

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

explore-blog: Maya Angelou, reconstructionst.

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:42:54 -0400

explore-blog:

Maya Angelou, reconstructionst.

explore-blog: NOTHING TO DO? Shelley Silverstein Nothing to...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:41:44 -0400

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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Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:39:36 -0400

thenearsightedmonkey: One day Professor Old Skull asked her...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:38:26 -0400

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

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

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:38:00 -0400

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!

megankoziel: Let the madness begin. The 7/8th graders were so...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:44:16 -0500

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.

howstuffworks: 10 Completely Wrong Ways to Use Commas Happy Grammar Day to those of you currently...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:41:06 -0500

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.