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Free Technology for Teachers: GoClass - Create and Deliver Lessons on iPads
Another lesson deployment app for the iPad that you can compare to NearPod. Another one worth testing.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Edu app news: apps, ebooks, and sites for your classroom #mlearning 05/19/2012
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 05/19/2012
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PBL Program Shows How to Tap Local Expertise | Edutopia
Fascinating overview of a PBL school. I would like to point out that now that I have a 20% time project where students spend 20% of their time in my class working on a technology-enriched project of their choice - that my students are doing many of these incredible things. Every school should have their students doing personal interest projects as a core requirement of what you do to graduate from that school. End of year portfolio websites should be something all students do on a platform that they can "take with them" after high school. This is all part of finding your passion. This is a great overview from Suzie Boss at Edutopia of this incredible high school in Georgia.
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ProfHacker: Projects with Instructables - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
This is a great suggestion to find DIY projects for the summer over at Instructables - a pre-Pinterest how-to site with lots of instructions. This is also a great resource as a parent when you have projects that you need to do to help your kids.
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ISTE Newbie Project | Angela Maiers, Speaker, Educator, #YOUMATTER
I'll be donating again this year to help send Jerry Blumengarten (@cybraryman1) to ISTE 2012. He is tireless, helpful, and very deserving. If you want to know more, see Angela's overview. I hope you'll take time to help send Jerry to ISTE12.
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Maryland Teen Jack Thomas Andraka Wins Intel International Science And Engineering Fair
This fifteen year old won $75,000 for coming up with a way to screen early stage pancreatic cancer. This student and the others who won the "second place" $50K award amaze me. What does it take to encourage and help a student like this: I promise you they received personalized learning experiences to be able to do this. Cookie cutter science doesn't breed scientists like this.
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This website talks about comics and comic textbooks in the classroom by Chris Wilson, an elementary teacher.
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Wix.com AwesomeMadi created by Tucker2015 based on my-gallery | Wix.com
At the end of the school year, students build a mefolio in class to talk about their achievements, accomplishments, technology, and what they are learnin. These are adapted and updated every year. Students use them to get jobs and when they apply for college. Here is an example of a very creative young lady who has used hermofolio to share her artwork and photography. She's so talented.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 05/19/2012
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PSHE Global Game - Lego - Resources - TES
This game uses legos. Use this presentation and the legos to have a picture of how wealth is distributed around the world. This is a fascinating activity that I think you could do at all ages.
Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 05/18/2012
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Discussion Toolkit - Resources - TES
A toolkit to encourage discussion in the classroom,. Make sure students have things to do in these last days that encourage thinking. Many teachers complain all year that they don't have time to encourage higher order thinking but in the last few days of school, when they have freedom, they show movies. Have meaningful discussions.
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This website talks about comics and comic textbooks in the classroom by Chris Wilson, an elementary teacher.
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Manga Another Comic Format Worthy of Classroom Consideration
This overview of manga talks about the type of art and some suggested forms. Remember that Manga can have nudity and can have more violent things happen (like horror films.) Review materials thoroughly before using them in the classroom. This is an excellent overview of Manga if you want to use this and have students create it.
If you drill down in this article and look at the comments, there are some great dicussions of concerns in manga including that some editions give women a lesser role than male characters. -
Online Manga university will help teach and your students about Manga.
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Creating Anime - Resources - TES
manga is celebrating its 20th year. Create your own anime storyboards in your classroom using this lesson plan.
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Averages Treasure Hunt - Resources - TES
Mean, median and mode treasure hunt. Nice activity starter.
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Wix.com AwesomeMadi created by Tucker2015 based on my-gallery | Wix.com
At the end of the school year, students build a mefolio in class to talk about their achievements, accomplishments, technology, and what they are learnin. These are adapted and updated every year. Students use them to get jobs and when they apply for college. Here is an example of a very creative young lady who has used hermofolio to share her artwork and photography. She's so talented.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 05/17/2012
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Many times when I plan my own lessons, the questions are at the beginning of my plan. Here's a nice discussion for why a teacher would want to plan the questions ahead of time.
"Many new teachers perceive planning questions for a classroom discussion as a waste of time. They are comfortable with asking students questions on the spot and prefer the “off-the-cuff” approach. -
A fun way of opening Deep questioning strategies - Resources - TES
This question wall is a powerpoint that you can use on your interactive white board. It looks like it took quite some time to set up. This is one you want to download and keep in your resources folder for use when you want to adapt it for your course.
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A collection of more than 100 videos that help you explore the world of mathematics. Just about any math topic is covered including probabilities Kaprekar's Constant and more. These videos will be useful if you're in the process of working towards flipping your classroom.
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You can use this presentation to take your students through the skills required to proofread a document. It concludes with an activity demonstrating how punctuation changes the meaning of a sentence.
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Kinaesthetic proof Reading - level 4 - Resources - TES
Proofreading Kung Fu has a very cool name. This lesson has students make up moves for each punctuation symbol and to use that to proofread. This would be a fun way to review grammar.
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Meg blogs about many ways that she uses technology on Meg's Methods. Here she talks about visual lesson plans and how she leaves detailed instructions for teachers. I found Meg as she completed the challenges for the Flat Classroom book and decided to use the forum I created to let teachers leave comments on what they are doing. The purpose of those forums is to connect to teachers who are doing the challenges. Part of the challenge for me personally is filtering out the noise and finding real teachers doing real work so that I can learn and connect. These helpful, unselfish people (Like Meg) are my heroes. Even if each teacher only blogs once a month if you can find 100 of them and put them in your PLN, patterns will emerge.
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Maths resources, maths worksheets, maths revision, TES Resources
If you're a math teacher, here is an organized assortment of lesson plans for math teachers by grade level.
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westwood - 2012 Computer Fundamentals Projects
They are here! My students have turned in their Freshman projects - they take 20% of their time working on a special interest project. Some great work here. One of my favorites is Morgan's apps for autism project but there are many great ones here.
Learning about Learning: Research and Edreform News and Views 05/17/2012
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Avoiding the Smartphone Sniffles – Stop the Hack Attack | Social Media Today
Do you know how to protect your smart phone from hacking? Do you know most people don't have a password on their smartphone? Realize that the new goldmine for identity thieves and hackers is in your pocket and you may not even have to take it out to be hacked. Be aware and educate yourself but don't panic.
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Requests for Proposals | The Pericles Group
Very interesting RFP.
"The Pericles Group (TPG) seeks proposals for a game-based curriculum in English and/or English Language Arts, at any level or over several levels, in TPG’s practomimetic curriculum model. The successful proposal will feature:
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 05/17/2012
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Google docs has a great research sidebar that is part of the Google docs platform (it makes me wonder if blogger is going to become more closely related to Google docs at some point.) Here's information on how to use the new tool -- interestingly on msnbc's website.
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THE SCIENCE OF SUCCESS: Nine Things Successful LEADERS Do Differently
Heidi Grant Halvorson does research on characteristicss of successful leaders. I read everything she writes. Here's a post on what 9 things successful people do differently that is great for those in leadership. Read and reread.
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Post-It Note Prank At Cascade High School Leaves Students Suspended, Janitor Fired (VIDEO)
The point of this article: nothiing is funny to anyone anymore. Students posted 12,000 post it notes in the school and were suspended. Students sit in in protest and more are suspended. I guess the days when my husband and his friends painted the rock at their school each year are gone. I hate to know what would have happened to me and my high school friends when we rented a sign and put it in our principal's yard that said "Party tonight" and let ourselves in and had food all set up in their house for a party using the hidden key. What would have happened to us? I am not sure why we let some things slide (like passing a kid who can't read) and other things deserve such punishment. Things don't make much sense any more.
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Educational Technology and Education Conferences, June to December 2012 ~ Stephen's Web
If you wish you could know about everything going on in education, Stephen Downes links to several resources that will help you do just that.
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Avoiding the Smartphone Sniffles – Stop the Hack Attack | Social Media Today
Do you know how to protect your smart phone from hacking? Do you know most people don't have a password on their smartphone? Realize that the new goldmine for identity thieves and hackers is in your pocket and you may not even have to take it out to be hacked. Be aware and educate yourself but don't panic.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Google Introduces a New Knowledge Graph
To understand Google Knowledge graph ( a new feature for search rolled out today) you should read Richard Byrne's rundown of what this means for education.
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I've been pondering about productivity and also experimenting with tumblr. My blog over there is getting close to 4K followers and the growth rate is astounding. RSS plateaued a few years back so I started experimenting with other things - tumblr, pinterest, Twitter. Each sort of has a purpose for me. In this post over at vickidavis.me I write about how email really isn't free. The posts over there are different and typically pretty short as well as "tumblr-ish" (it is on tumblr.) Just wanted to let you know in case you're interested since the content is often different than here on my mainstream education blog.
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Flipping Blooms Taxonomy | Powerful Learning Practice
Should we flip bloom's taxonomy? Thought provoking post by Shelly Wright.
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Requests for Proposals | The Pericles Group
Very interesting RFP.
"The Pericles Group (TPG) seeks proposals for a game-based curriculum in English and/or English Language Arts, at any level or over several levels, in TPG’s practomimetic curriculum model. The successful proposal will feature: -
westwood - 2012 Computer Fundamentals Projects
They are here! My students have turned in their Freshman projects - they take 20% of their time working on a special interest project. Some great work here. One of my favorites is Morgan's apps for autism project but there are many great ones here.
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Graduation Quotes, Commencement Sayings, Advice for Graduates
Graduation quotes that you can use.
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Lots of shared courses at Moodle share where people share their free moodle courses.
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My friend Tonii has a sister who is blogging about her journey with breast cancer. It is a lovely blog and very moving and I'm now following. Thought I'd share it so it could help those who might need it.
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Instagram follows Tumblr, Pinterest; bans self-harm posts | Internet & Media - CNET News
It is so sad to see such things move through the net, I guess we like to be shocked and those who are sad or sick get some sort of attention through it. But I agree that this is a good thing to do. Of course, the struggle is where they do stop on self-harm - what happens when someone determines a certain religion or faith or belief is self-harm and bans that too?
"Like Tumblr and Pinterest before it, the popular online photo-sharing service is banning content that encourages eating disorders, self-mutilation, or suicide." -
Cybercrooks bring their schemes to Tumblr and Pinterest | Security & Privacy - CNET News
As always, no matter what site you use, think before you click. Do you know the person? Is the person you're working with the kind that can sniff out such things before sharing the link. Here's an article from cnet about how crooks are using pinterest and tumblr. This is the sort of thing to share with digitalcitizenship education courses.
"Malware writers are aiming at such hot social networks as Tumblr and Pinterest to trap a new wave of victims, says a report out yesterday from GFI Software.
"Established sites like Facebook and Twitter have long been a breeding ground for new cyberattacks, but now we are seeing scammers taking an interest in the popularity of newer sites like Pinterest in order to catch victims off guard and trick them into clicking on something they shouldn't," Christopher Boyd, senior threat researcher at GFI Software, said in a statement.
Analyzing the malware landscape in April, the security firm found a host of schemes and scams directed at social network users.
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