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MSM-188 20 Project and a Plethora of words and resources
Category: Education
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2012-01-07 15:06:26
Description: Jokes You Can Use: Why are so few men with whiskers in heaven? Because most men get in by a close shave. What’s the definition of a financial genius? Someone who can make money faster than the rest of the family spends it. I know a woman who has cooked so many TV dinners that she thinks she’s in show business! On Our Mind: New Year’s Resolutions. Feedback PLN site - http://rmmade.com Eileen Award: Happy Birthday to Jeff LaRoux Nicole Woulfe Linda Neville Rachel C. Advisory: It has a name you know: http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/25-everyday-things-you-never-knew-had-names Honest Logo http://m.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/if-logos-were-honest Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) This middle school science minute is about formaldehyde. In the November, 2011 issue of Science Scope (NSTA publication), in the section on "Scope on Safety" a question was asked about what a teacher should do if they find specimens preserved in formaldehyde. Two very good options are provided. From the Twitterverse: Don’t forget to join the conversation on MiddleTalk and Twitter at #midleved this Friday at 8:00 pm EST. News: It's Time to Rethink the Hours America Spends Educating http://www.edutopia.org/time-out LearnCentral becomes Blackboard Collaborate http://www.wecollaborate.com/ Novo 7, DroPad A8i and the Aakaash . . . So you’re thinking about a cheap tablet . . . Resources: Documentary Tube http://www.documentarytube.com/ Old Television Themes A vast resource of audio. http://www.televisiontunes.com/ Sketch in 3D on the Web About Remember the old cartoons where hand drawn lines appeared to vibrate because of differences between frames? That's what this experiment simulates. It also adds a third to your drawings by allowing you to rotate the canvas. http://hakim.se/experiments/html5/sketch/ Web Spotlight: The 20% Solution I recently assigned a new project to my 11th grade English students: The 20% Project. Although it’s called a “project”, that term is merely for student understanding and lack of a better word. This project is based on the “20 percent time” Google employees have to work on something other than their job description. It has been well documented, and Google has exponentially grown as a company while giving this 20 percent time. http://educationismylife.com/the-20-project-like-google-in-my-class/ The Living Room Candidate Election video ads. Can be sorted by year, by type, or by issue. http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/ 10 Funniest Things http://educationismylife.com/top-10-funniest-things-ever-said-in-education/ MiddleWeb's New Resources (438) http://tln.typepad.com/middleweb/2011/12/middlewebs-new-resources-438.html Urgent call to a medieval Help Desk http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/cyberworld/urgent-call-to-a-medieval-help.html 30 Webtools to Transform a Classroom - LiveBinder http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=259021 Continuing to Learn with the iPad- Storytelling http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/12/28/continuing-to-learn-with-the-ipad/ Strategies: 5 Awesome Things you can do with an iPad and a projector http://www.classroominthecloud.net/2011/10/5-awesome-things-you-can-do-with-ipad.html Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool http://www.npr.org/2012/01/01/144550920/physicists-seek-to-lose-the-lecture-as-teaching-tool (Referenced in the Twitterverse: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/everybody-is-stupid-except-you/201201/lectures-suck) Events & Happenings: Calendar of Events:
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