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Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Looking Through The Night For The Light! If you are fascinated by our Earth, you will likely enjoy these October 2011 time lapse sequences from the International Space Station! If you teach about the Earth...or know someone who does...you may find this worth passing along! I listed the sequences (which are not numbered or otherwise labeled in the video), credit, and link for more information below. While the visuals are simply amazing, I had to turn off the somewhat superfluous audio by request of my ears. #9 may be my favorite. Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo. 1. Aurora Borealis Pass over the United States at Night 2. Aurora Borealis and eastern United States at Night 3. Aurora Australis from Madagascar to southwest of Australia 4. Aurora Australis south of Australia 5. Northwest coast of United States to Central South America at Night 6. Aurora Australis from the Southern to the Northern Pacific Ocean 7. Halfway around the World 8. Night Pass over Central Africa and the Middle East 9. Evening Pass over the Sahara Desert and the Middle East 10. Pass over Canada and Central United States at Night 11. Pass over Southern California to Hudson Bay 12. Islands in the Philippine Sea at Night 13. Pass over Eastern Asia to Philippine Sea and Guam 14. Views of the Mideast at Night 15. Night Pass over Mediterranean Sea 16. Aurora Borealis and the United States at Night 17. Aurora Australis over Indian Ocean 18. Eastern Europe to Southeastern Asia at Night Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Thursday, October 20, 2011 Apple App Spotlight: Fly Around Our Solar System For $2.99If you know anyone who teaches about the Solar System, you should let them know about "Solar Walk." What a teaching tool!
In fact, if you are a parent this is a good one to share with any young person. It is a fascinating view of our Solar System for only $2.99! Visit the App Store to purchase it. (I am in no way affiliated with this software developer or company.) It is just cool!  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 10:42 PM (permalink)
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Monday, October 17, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Character Ed Assignments Fill Missing Link For SchoolsAccomplished! Today I worked all day polishing up the 60 Character Education Assignments I wrote for EdClick over the past couple of months. They are now off my plate! These were designed with In-School Suspension use in mind, but really their utility can go beyond that to, for instance, a teen leadership course on character...other disciplinary uses...or even just as a software tool to produce electronic question sets of whatever sort a school or teacher may need. The 60 lessons I wrote are structured around thoughtful quotes and over 400 academic vocabulary words. The student must define 6-10 words per lesson (using a vocabulary list provided by EdClick) and then use the words either to interpret the quote or as part of their written answers to questions asked. The questions asked are designed to: 1) Encourage students to think about themselves in relation to the character concept the assignment is based on. 2) Build the student's academic vocabulary. 3) Provide meaningful academic work while assignments for In-School Suspension and other disciplinary settings are being collected from teachers......or once a student has finished all assigned work in said disciplinary setting! 4) Satisfy, or serve in conjunction with, a discipline consequence. 5) ****Get insights into the student's views and overall situation with probing questions that were written to elicit revealing responses. 6) Provide the student a forum to vent or otherwise express their feelings and thoughts. 7) More! These lessons are all web-based, submitted online, evaluated online, and either approved or not online, including automation to help with reassignment or escalation of consequences as necessary. Of course, the 20th century method of pen and paper can be used. These lessons are rich, but can be easily edited. The technology is super easy, web-based, and inexpensive. Let us know if you'd like an online DEMO! Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 UPDATE--(Not So) Useful Mac App Spotlight: Safe And Savvy Browser (For Ages 3-8)EDIT: Well, the idea is good...but I am not recommending "Safe and Savvy
Browser". Perhaps I'll find a similar product to share that I feel more
comfortable recommending. Lesson reinforced: performance and support are at least as important as the idea of the app. EdClick does this well. The product works as intended, support is responsive, and very often it is customer feedback on needs that shape product development. Sometimes, when you are regularly using Apple products and EdClick applications, you expect the hardware and software will 'just work'. Incidentally, one key difference between EdClick products and "Safe and Savvy Browser" is that anyone can DEMO Edclick products before buying. That is not the case with many other software applications, such as "Safe and Savvy Browser." All around, "Safe and Savvy Browser" did not work for me. If you work in a school, EdClick applications can work to promote your school's continuous improvement efforts! --------------------EARLIER POST----------------------- If you work in an elementary school and/or have a child that is 3-8 years old, you may really benefit from this application I am setting up for my 5 year old. It seems very neat and it is inexpensive.
This application is designed to make computer navigation easy and secure for young people. I will let you know soon what my experience is implementing the app. DON'T Find it for your Apple Mac in the Mac App Store. (I am not affiliated in any way with this app developer/company.)  Posted at 11:50 AM (permalink)
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Sunday, April 24, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Most People Are Bad At Math---> They Are Convinced...But Need Not Be! Math teachers, parents, and educators of all stripes will likely benefit from reading the article below...and its follow-up, the article below that! The first begins by pointing out how unlikely it is to announce publicly that one is illiterate, yet how common it is for folks to self-proclaim themselves to be terrible at math! Why is this so? Is it a self-fulfilling prophecy for many young people? A cop-out? Way beyond addressing this phenomena, the first article introduces a free curriculum called Jump Math---used in England and Canada---that many are accessing now for free. You can too! It is getting a load of attention for its apparent effectiveness. In fact, so many folks responded to the first article that a second follow-up piece appeared a few days later. Both have very valuable information in them!  If you can't use this information...you know someone who can!  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 1:02 PM (permalink)
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Sunday, April 24, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Book Clubs For Kids Should Be More Common---> Where To Begin?In 2007, The Los Angeles Times launched a weekly series for those wishing to start, promote, and otherwise inform a book club for children. The first installment introduced the "Kid's Reading Room" concept and encouraged folks to start such clubs. Though it appears to have been a short-term endeavor (only nine articles over three months), this seems to be a good starting point for a concept I think is very worthy to promote! Beyond being encouraged to read more, think of all the great lessons learned by young people participating in an active book club! The opening article introduced this short-lived LA Times resource in this way: ..."As if these holidays aren't enough, March 26 is Make Up Your Own Holiday Day. The holiday I've made up is Book Club Day — and I've decided to celebrate it today, March 4 — the day the Los Angeles Times is introducing a weekly column on book clubs for kids. Book Club Day is a fun and easy holiday because anyone can start a book club: members of your family, groups of friends, neighbors or kids at school. A book club is just a few people who get together often to have fun and talk about good books. Members take turns choosing a book that everyone reads and discusses. They also plan fun activities related to each book. Celebrate my new holiday by getting a book club started today, then check this column each week to get ideas." Are you aware of any great resources or ideas to promote book clubs for kids? Do you have a neat story to share? Please leave a comment below if so!  Click the image above to access the brief "Kid's Reading Room" series Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Monday, April 18, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Imagine Your Students Searching For Planets Using The Kepler Satellite!Here is a chance for your motivated students to practice 'real-world' application of science and math in order to contribute to human knowledge. They may even eventually have a planet to share a name with!  Posted at 7:35 PM (permalink)
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Word Frequency, Word Clouds At Wordle!By now you've probably seen a Wordle. They are good fun! Analyze text. Graphically display text. Create works of art! All for free!  Click the image above to access the Wordle website! The image below is an example created from the Constitution of the United States.  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 11:32 PM (permalink)
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Monday, April 11, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Go Back To Childhood---And To England---For Free!Other sites in my series of virtual tours (The White House, The CIA, The Louvre, The National Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and the Smithsonian Ocean Portal) can all be accessed by clicking the preceding links. I am spotlighting these "virtual tours"----and will continue to search for others----as part of an effort to help your school(s) economize in these tight times. Even as budgets get tighter, it becomes easier and easier for the "great" places to project themselves to the public for free! Students can visit these places from the comfort of (and at the cost of) being in their own classroom! Here is another neat place to visit, in person or virtually. It is the Museum of Childhood! Read more about it below, or just click the image below to visit!  In their words: "Welcoming over 400,000 visitors through its doors every year, the V&A Museum of Childhood in London's Bethnal Green houses the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection of childhood-related objects and artefacts, spanning the 1600s to the present day. The collection includes toys - including dolls, dolls' houses, puppets and teddy bears - games, childcare, clothing, furniture and art and photography. In addition, the Museum runs a dynamic programme of temporary exhibitions and displays, a wide variety of activities, events and workshops for adults and families, outreach projects in hospitals and the local community, and an award-winning programme for schools. The Museum aims to encourage everyone to explore the themes of childhood past and present, and to develop an appreciation of creative design through our inspirational collections and varied public programme." Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Is Apple A Better Machine For Youngsters With Special Needs?I ran across this interesting marketing angle by Apple Macintosh to spotlight the "unique" aspects of the Apple that are best suited, in their estimation, to students with special needs. My experience suggests to me that Apple products are easier to use and more reliable than others on the market. Do they have a unique marketing advantage to special needs families?  Disclaimer: I don't have any personal connection to Steve Jobs...though I wish I did! Posted at 8:42 AM (permalink)
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Thursday, March 31, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: "Virtually" Admire D.C. & Paris Art....Right On Your Campus!Visit D.C. and Paris in the same day...without leaving the schoolhouse! Two more excellent virtual tours that are well-worth the price of admission---free! Art in America: The National Gallery Of Art "The National Gallery of Art was created in 1937 for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress, accepting the gift of financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon. During the 1920s, Mr. Mellon began collecting with the intention of forming a gallery of art for the nation in Washington. In 1937, the year of his death, he promised his collection to the United States. Funds for the construction of the West Building were provided by The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. On March 17, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the completed building and the collections on behalf of the people of the United States of America."  Art in France: The Louvre
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Go To The Smithsonian Without Stepping Foot In D.C.As mentioned in recent posts on virtual tours of the White House and the Central Intelligence Agency, there are so many great places to visit "virtually" that the field trip of our 20th century education may be both inefficient and expensive in comparison. Many of these "virtual visit" experiences have improved by leaps and bounds just over the last few years. One day soon, our students may actually feel like there are at the "virtual" site owing to advances in technology that will tempt folks to quip, "Beam me up, Scotty!" Today's virtual field trip is to the Smithsonian. There aren't many places in the world more inspiring than this national treasure! Click the image below to begin your trip!  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 8:20 AM (permalink)
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Sunday, March 27, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Exposing the CIA...As If You (And Your Students) Were There!Recently I posted a "virtual tour" of the White House in response to Dr. Tennant's post on his blog, EdClicking, suggesting one money saving idea for schools that meshes with exposing students to the wider world---and those institutions that will shape it---is through "virtual learning" as an alternative to the traditional "field trip." There are so many places that your students can get a flavor of that are world-shaping---but hundreds of miles from where they'll ever be---that you can expose them to in this 21st century, inter-connected world we live in without ever leaving the schoolhouse!  Click the image above to enter the "top secret" world of the CIA! If you can't use this, I bet you know an educator who can! If so...please... Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 9:10 PM (permalink)
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Friday, March 25, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: 2010 Census Hispanic Population Interactive MapMy post on December 21, 2010---> "Trends: 2010 U.S. Census Released, Texas Grows Again" <---included a most excellent "100-Year Interactive U.S. Population Map." Today's Census 2010 post links to an interactive map displaying the Hispanic population in each state, as well as that of other sub-pops and percentage of change from the prior Census. Click on the image below to better check it out. I bet you know a Social Studies teacher, or other educator, who can use this!  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 1:09 PM (permalink)
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Saturday, March 19, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: A New Power On The World StageMany of us Americans learned quite a bit about the politics of the European nation-state system in the 20th Century. Well, the Europeans haven't---by any stretch of the imagination---lost their sense of national pride for their individual countries...and they probably never will. Nonetheless, the European Union has a growing influence on the everyday life of Europeans (as well as the world at large) to the extent that most of us should be more knowledgeable of it than we are. Well, the "BBC: Inside Europe" web page below is a super source for very accessible guides to what constitutes the EU, organizational information, treaty details, budget & financial matters, policy initiatives, and much more. This is a wealth of information about a topic students must study in history courses. If you are are well-informed or simply not interested enough to "Check It Out," perhaps you know an educator or friend who would appreciate if you would "Pass It On!" Click the image below to access the site!  Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Friday, March 18, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: You Can't Imagine How In-Depth This Weather Site Is.....Unless You Look!After a few days for spring break, it is back to business! There are a few really neat things I'd like to share with you today. If you love Science, you will love today's "Check It Out! Pass It On!" posts! We'll start with one of the most interactive information sites I know of on the net. "WeatherSpark is a website dedicated to making in-depth weather information easily accessible." It does that well! The graphs are remarkably interactive. This is a fun site!  The image below is a tab titled "Reports." This is super cool. Here is how they describe it: "You can now get in-depth weather reports for any location on earth and any time of year. The report aims to answer basic questions such as "what is the weather like on a typical day". This is useful if you're for example planning a trip and would like to know what to expect from the weather where you're there." Actually, they understate how detailed these summary reports are!  Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Friday, March 11, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Response To Intervention--RTI--Another Excellent ResourceOn January 29th I posted about "the" source for Response To Intervention (RTI) information. Well...I stand somewhat corrected! I've since become familiar with another rich source of RTI information! As I wrote in my previous blog post: "Many schools and districts have developed and implemented Response To Intervention (RTI) plans. Others have that task ahead of them. Regardless of where your school or district is at on this time line, chances are that many professionals on your staff do not know enough about RTI." in that post, I recommended an excellent web site by The American Institutes for Research, supported by the U.S. Department of Education. Now, I'll recommend a web site by The National Center for Learning Disabilities. It is an excellent source as well! Click the image below to visit!  Does your school have a Response To Intervention (RTI) plan in place? Please leave a comment to share your thoughts or experiences. Posted at 2:24 PM (permalink)
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: The White House (And All Of D.C.) In 3D On Google MapsThis link will start you out with a birds-eye view of the White House, but you can zoom in-around-over-and-all about such that all of D.C. can be viewed from many angles. It is fantastic! Click below to begin exploration!  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 2:33 PM (permalink)
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Virtual Tour Of Our Nation's White HouseIn a recent post on his blog---EdClicking---Dr. Tennant proposed a number of ways schools can address budget shortfalls by earning income and enacting cost efficiencies. One of the missions of my blog---EdConnections---is to spotlight content and tools educators can use to enrich instruction and otherwise promote quality education. Heavy emphasis is placed on free resources. There is so much out there...and more so all the time. Most schools have their technology infrastructure in place...or are getting it up to speed. Educators must implement this technology in meaningful ways that engage students and capture their imaginations. Schools must implement it in ways that maximize efficiencies and improve communication with and between all stakeholders. I will continue to spotlight free resources educators can use to enrich instruction. If you can't benefit from them, perhaps you know others who can...so you will... Check It Out! Pass It On!
The White House Virtual Tour Dr. Tennant mentioned is quite a rich resource. Click the image below to access this free resource!  One of the many videos that caught my attention was the "Situation Room." Posted at 12:08 PM (permalink)
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: A Vision of 21st Century TeachersThis is a teacher response to the student version I posted Sunday! Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Sunday, February 27, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: A Vision Of K-12 Students TodayA Vision of K-12 Students Today builds upon the work B. Nesbitt did aimed at communicating the vision of America's college learners today. In his words: "This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it serves to motivate district level leaders to provide teachers with the tools and training to do so." Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 12:30 PM (permalink)
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Saturday, February 26, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: A Smithsonian Ocean Portal You Navigate!The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History has developed an "Ocean Portal" web site nearly worthy of the marvelous institution! In their words: "Our Ocean Portal Educators’ Corner provides you with activities, lessons and educational resources to bring the ocean to life for your students. We have collected top resources from our collaborators to provide you with teacher-tested, ocean science materials for your classroom. We hope these resources, along with the rich experience of the Ocean Portal, will help you inspire the next generation of ocean stewards." Posted at 3:46 PM (permalink)
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Saturday, February 26, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Civil Rights In America--Connections To A MovementUSA Today has an excellent web page dedicated to the American Civil Rights Movement. Though Black History Month is winding down, the cause of promoting civil rights for all 310 million Americans is timeless! I bet you know a history teacher or someone else who will appreciate it if you would... Posted at 12:00 AM (permalink)
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Thursday, February 24, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Encyclopedia Of Life"Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth..."
- Edward O. Wilson Well, here it is! Science teachers will no doubt appreciate hearing about this web site. The rest of us will likely find it to be a rich resource with utility beyond the science classroom!  Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Petrucci Digital Music Library...All FreeThe goal of this web site is, in their words: "....to create a virtual library containing all public domain music, as well as music from composers who are willing to share their work with the world without charge." The site currently contains:
Check It Out! Pass It On!  Get works like the one below...and so much more...by clicking the image above!  Posted at 8:21 AM (permalink)
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Sunday, February 20, 2011 Pass It On Education Resources: Learn Your Parts Using This Free Interactive Body GameThis is a really neat and free interactive game to learn body organs, muscles, bones, and the nervous system. Each "game" requires you to identify ten parts. The player is offered hints as needed. When the player correctly drags-and-drops a part onto the body, a detailed picture of the part is presented and can be rotated a number of angles for closer inspection. A score is assigned at the end. Start the game anew for ten different parts! I bet you know a science teacher or other educator who would like for you to... Check It Out! Pass It On!  Click on the picture above to go straight to the game, or... ...access it through the BBC Science web page image below. There are many neat features on this site beyond the Interactive Body Game.  Posted at 5:11 PM (permalink)
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Friday, February 18, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Get An Education From MIT...For Free!While reading through a "Special Report" from the Center for Digital Education called Converge: Digital Teaching & Professional Development, I was reminded of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) program to provide all of their courseware online, for free. Anyone can access it! From the piece below we learn that 43% of users are independent learners, 42% are students, and 9% are other faculty. The image and description below come from the report that can be downloaded from the Center for Digital Education. Posted at 8:32 AM (permalink)
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: The Nobel Peace Prize Education Web Site Can Stimulate Brains!This is an excellent resource teachers of all varieties could use to capture the imagination of young people! It is the official education site of The Nobel Prize. In their words: "You don't have to be a genius to understand the work of the Nobel Laureates. These games and simulations, based on Nobel Prize-awarded achievements, will teach and inspire you while you're having FUN!" And...they are FREE!  Posted at 1:05 PM (permalink)
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Monday, February 14, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Professionally Produced Art Tutorials For FreeIf you know an art teacher---or anyone who loves art---I bet she/he can use this resource. It is a collection of free art tutorials created by "Blick" Art Materials! OK, they are somewhat lacking in whiz-bang, but I did learn never to sharpen more than four art pencils in a row in an electric pencil sharpener before letting it cool down! The ends begin to melt. Seriously, these videos are valuable for art teachers and their students. They are available for free by clicking the page below! If you know an art teacher or someone who enjoys art... Posted at 4:32 PM (permalink)
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Saturday, February 12, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: IDEA---> Straight From The Rule Makers In D.C.Following up on my earlier post regarding IDEA, this Gov.ed web page is an excellent source dedicated to informing us all about these federal regulations. It is the source on this topic! Posted at 3:49 PM (permalink)
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Is Your School Boiling...Or Merely Simmering?The smallest difference can make such a difference. The video below illustrates this message quite effectively. Raise the heat from simmer to boil...that is what our schools are increasingly asked to do. One degree of effort can be the difference! The three minute video below is available for free viewing on the web site, and a higher resolution DVD (with small book) is available for purchase. From their web site: "212° The Extra Degree, by Sam Parker and Mac Anderson shows you how to see an exponential increase in your business or personal achievements? It's the extra degree of effort that often separates the good from the great. 212° The Extra Degree captures a simple, yet powerful concept. At 211 degrees, water is hot. At 212 degrees, it boils. It's that extra degree that can power a locomotive…or take your life results far beyond your expectations. By taking ownership of this fundamental principle, focusing on a clearly-defined goal, maintaining an unstoppable attitude, committing to take action, and persevering, you'll see life-altering, positive results. The message of 212° The Extra Degree is clear: It's your life: You are responsible for your results. It's time to turn up the heat! Simple Truths provides customers with inspirational and motivational gift books
and movies. Our books and movies are comprised of short inspirational
stories and motivational quotes that are certain to make a positive
lasting impression. Simple Truths gift books and movies are great for
friends & family, co-workers, teachers, students, corporations and
businesses."  I have no affiliation with this company. It is highlighted here because I have used this product in staff development and love it! Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 2:42 PM (permalink)
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011 Communication: Skype Video Calls (Free)A contrast to our communication potential now versus 1994: You've probably heard of Skype. You may even have used Skype. How could student learning be fostered utilizing this tool? Could parents "attend" special education and other school meetings by video, from a remote location...rather than a conference call or no participation at all? Surely there are creative ways the Skype tool below (Video Calling), as well as its other free or low cost features, can be used more universally to improve instruction and school operations. It may be part of the multi-pronged solution to closing the communication loop between school and home. That is always a worthy objective!  Click above for Skype's Video Calling Click here for information on all of Skype's Functions Check It Out! Pass It On! I am not affiliated with Skype. I just think education can benefit from their product! Posted at 11:35 AM (permalink)
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Saturday, January 29, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Response To Intervention? Might As Well Go To The Source!Many schools and districts have developed and implemented Response To Intervention (RTI) plans. Others have that task ahead of them. Regardless of where your school or district is at on this time line, chances are that many professionals on your staff do not know enough about RTI. The resources below can help! The American Institutes for Research, supported by the U.S. Department of Education, developed RTI. They have an excellent web site that describes it as follows: "Response to intervention integrates assessment and intervention within a multi-level prevention system to maximize student achievement and to reduce behavior problems. With RTI, schools identify students at risk for poor learning outcomes, monitor student progress, provide evidence-based interventions and adjust the intensity and nature of those interventions depending on a student’s responsiveness, and identify students with learning disabilities or other disabilities. To learn more about RTI, see the Essential Components of RTI – A Closer Look at Response to Intervention."  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 7:21 PM (permalink)
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Thursday, January 27, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Flash Card ExchangeThis web tool seems rather cool. I would have loved this resource when I was a student!  Their flash card library can be searched using the terms above, or by typing in a custom search. I clicked "History" above and got the following...  It is free to access cards and study them. Full membership is $19.95. Other pricing details can be found here.
I have no affiliation with this company. I just think it is a neat idea! Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 1:44 PM (permalink)
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011 Trends: Lyrics Can Be So Hard To Get Out Of Your HeadWhatever your take on 'learning styles' research (a topic that will be the subject of posts coming soon), it is clear that teachers are trying most anything and everything to get information across to students. Many are trying to teach through music...which is a trend I favor! Having said that, there is stuff out there worthy of nothing but the effort...while there is other stuff (like my post "History For Music Lovers") that is darn near professionally produced. While many such resources are free (thus the wide variance in quality), today I was introduced to a company that markets hip-hop music video-based lessons on various subjects/topics. I've only seen one example of their work. It is a tribute to the MLK "I Have A Dream" theme and is embedded below. I thought it was a bit edgy, but worth consideration as an instructional supplement. I'd be interested to review their other offerings. What are your thoughts? Can greater integration of music into instruction across the curriculum result in greater student achievement? Why have we under-utilized this powerful tool to-date? Have we? Should our entire curriculum (at least the knowledge base) be put to song?! I guess the question then remains the same: to whose song?! The video above is part of a lesson marketed by "Flocabulary: Hip-Hop In The Classroom." Click here to see their offerings.  Just for the record: I have absolutely no affiliation with this company. Posted at 2:10 PM (permalink)
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: TetraxisThis is a hot new educational toy! So hot...it is currently back-ordered. Once you see it, the back-order list will probably grow at least one more unit! A very basic promotional video is above.  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 1:15 PM (permalink)
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: NASA for Educators & StudentsNASA has a spectacular web presence, including this page for educators and students. It is packed with resources, including teaching materials, interactives, and other government-funded goodies!  I bet you know a Science teacher who would appreciate this link! Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 5:24 PM (permalink)
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Sunday, January 16, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Bullying PreventionMost of us have seen or experienced it firsthand---bullies at school. Most commonly it is pretty tame intimidation or fault-finding...which can be destructive enough...but other times it becomes a pattern of abuse that continues until the abused is desperate enough to hurt themselves or others. To whatever degree you view bullying as a significant issue on your campus or in your district, it is hard to deny that we could all be better informed about how to counter it. The California Department of Education has a web page to get information out about this topic. It includes a FAQ, diagnostic tools, an action plan, sample policies, and more.  Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Saturday, January 15, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Classroom Jeopardy!Many of us teachers have tried to replicate the "Jeopardy!" quiz game format, often using PowerPoint...or just a plain ole' white board! Well, the actual software...even packaged with some hardware...is available here. Create your own question sets...or use standardized sets organized by grade level.  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 2:11 PM (permalink)
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Inspiration SoftwareI first became acquainted with Inspiration Software, Inc. in the 90s...when I was teaching. Over the years I've used it for many projects. Students love creating with it. It works well for brain storming and other such activities. The learning curve is short. It is just an all-around helpful utility. In fact, as a parent, I can't wait to get my almost five-year old using it! I have used both "Inspiration" and "Kidspiration." I can recommend them both. I am not familiar with the company's other products. Nor am I affiliated with this company in any way! I just like their stuff! Please leave a comment if you've used their other products, or you want to comment on this one! Posted at 10:30 AM (permalink)
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Are You In Compliance With Federal Law?The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the related Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) are two laws that "seek to ensure student and parental rights in education." Every educator has heard of them...but how many are truly familiar with what they say? Are you, as an educator and school, in compliance? Do you know enough about what is in them to know? If not, here is an excellent resource! The U.S. Department Education at Ed.gov has a page dedicated to the Family Policy Compliance Office (FPCO). This page has numerous rich resources for getting to really know what is in FERPA and PPRA. Posted at 12:21 PM (permalink)
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Monday, January 3, 2011 Pass It On Education Tools: Data FirstAt first, the title of the website below was a bit off-putting. "Data First" rang in contradiction to "Students First", a mantra of properly focused educators. Can both come first? Are they mutually exclusive? Can one come first without the other? Mere semantics?!? No matter....this is a powerful website with a bunch of rich information designed to improve schools. As they describe it: "Data First was created with the idea that data matters. Education data, used well, can help school board members and everyone else who cares about education to make good decisions – ones based, not on the loudest voices or the latest theories, but on the facts about what students need and how they are currently doing." "...designed to guide people through the questions they should be asking about their schools, and point to the data sources that offer answers." "...to link visitors to data they can use about schools, and to teach them how to use it better.""...Data First is brought to you by the Center for Public Education – an initiative of the National School Boards Association." Posted at 12:05 PM (permalink)
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: TessellationsSome of the neatest projects I've seen students produce were tessellations. I've seen them used creatively in both Art and Mathematics. So I started to wonder, is there a difference between how Tessellations are used in the two subjects? If you've ever walked the halls of the schoolhouse and wished you knew more about the distinction yourself, here are two sources....one from each perspective: Art Perspective
 Click here for Tesellations.org Math Perspective  Click here to see this web page Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 3:37 PM (permalink)
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: The National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Do you know a Science teacher? Someone who is interested in Science? Math? Learning in general! They'd probably love to know about this website! It is a rich resource. Totally free. "NSDL is the Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. NSDL receives the majority of its funding through the generous support of the National Science Foundation. Individual NSDL collections and services also receive funding from a wide variety of public and private sources. As of October 2010, NSDL contains 120 collections and over 132,000 records, in addition to other supporting user services and content, such as NSDL news and online exhibits. New resources are added to the Library every week." Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: How Stuff Works? Discovery WebsiteScience teachers, and the inquisitive among us, should be familiar with this fascinating Discovery website! In their words: HowStuffWorks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Communications, is the award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. Founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998, the site is now an online resource for millions of people of all ages. From car engines to search engines, from cell phones to stem
cells, and thousands of subjects in between, HowStuffWorks has it
covered. No topic is too big or too small for our expert editorial
staff to unmask ... or for you to understand. In addition to
comprehensive articles, our helpful graphics and informative videos
walk you through every topic clearly, simply and objectively. Our
premise is simple: Demystify the world and do it in a simple, clear-cut
way that anyone can understand.
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Friday, December 10, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: CNN Student NewsBefore my days as an administrator, I was a Social Studies Composite teacher. Back in the day, as they say, CNN started a ten-minute student broadcast they called "CNN in the Classroom." This was the mid-90s. The program aired in the wee hours, only to be viewed by insomniacs or VCR editors...like myself! I taped episodes, edited particularly useful segments, and used them in lessons or as classroom conversation pieces. In hindsight, modern technologies make the effort I expended in this sort of lesson prep seem burdensome and inefficient in comparison with what teachers can do today. That is true of so many aspects of rich lesson prep. An example is CNN Student News. The program is still going strong as a daily ten-minute, commercial-free presentation of the news in a manner that is more approachable for school age people. It also presents stories that students find more relevant and goes beyond this to help students establish relevancy. The program now has a website, rich with supplementary materials, and the ten-minute program for each school day is posted (as a video "Daily Podcast" for download!) by around 7:00 pm the night prior.  Oh, how I would have loved this as a social studies teacher! This free daily broadcast from CNN, edited with simple software like iMovie (to really focus on the important pieces and add supporting content to guide the subsequent lesson) would have really simplified a portion of the lesson prep I undertook to make my class engaging for the students. Tools and resources are available like never before to produce lesson plans that involve students in lessons they find relevant and engaging. A big part of my mission with this blog is to locate those tools and resources so I can spotlight them here for you. In turn, I hope that you will share them with colleagues and friends to enrich their lessons and lives! Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Thursday, December 9, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: MindWareThere is a bunch of holiday shopping going on right now. So much of what is being bought for young people is junk with little redeeming value. Since most of us reading this blog are educators of one sort or another, I thought you might appreciate a lead on where to get some gifts with substance for the holiday season. This is not a paid advertisement. I do not know anyone who works for this company. I just think their products look great for young people! Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Monday, December 6, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: Common-Core Standards WebsiteThis is the website of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
View the Standards there...and more!  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 3:24 PM (permalink)
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Monday, December 6, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: Unique Clip Art Free For School UseEducation World is a worthy source of education resources. Click here to view their "Library" of some rather unique clip art teachers may use for free, for school purposes.  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 11:29 AM (permalink)
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Sunday, December 5, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: Pledge to FlagsThese two Word documents are often posted in classrooms...and are almost always located near the school-address system! Yes, once in awhile principals (and others on the school-address system) get distracted during morning announcements and occasionally must refer to a script! Well, here are the two scripts!   Download them as Word files here: Pledge to the U.S. Flag Pledge to the Texas Flag Check It Out! Pass It On!
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Friday, December 3, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: Lit2GoThis is a neat, free website created by the Florida Educational Technology Clearinghouse. Lit2Go is: "a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can:
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Monday, November 29, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: TED In an earlier post, Harry shared a video of a talk by Sugata Mitra on Child-Driven Education. The video was downloaded from TED, "a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading." This is a follow-up post about TED. Check It Out! Pass It On! "The annual TED conferences, in Long Beach/Palm Springs and Oxford, bring together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). More than 700 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week. We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other."  Posted at 2:37 PM (permalink)
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Friday, November 26, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: TagxedoTagxedo is a very cool website that could be used in any number of subject areas, for pretty much any level. It is fun and a cool learning tool! They describe it as a way to: "turn words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text." Check It Out! Pass It On!  The Tagxedo website is found here. Posted at 9:45 AM (permalink)
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: Make Posters in ExcelThis is an excellent four minute video tutorial on how to easily make posters using Microsoft Excel. School staff can use this very simple process to create posters and notices for class, events, and any other purpose. The post before this one is an example of content that can be easily represented on posters using this process, at little to no cost. Announcements and temporary signs are but a couple other uses for this simple Excel technique! |
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Thursday, November 18, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: Graphic OrganizersPass It On Education Tools is a recurring feature on this blog. It features educator tools and resources so cool you are likely to pass them along to colleagues and friends! Teacher Tube includes a collection of resources called Teacher Vision. One really thorough and useful link is for Graphic Organizers. This is quite a collection of printable graphic organizers! A truncated screen shot is included below.  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 11:08 AM (permalink)
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: World LingoLanguage teachers...beware! Are you assigning translations? Websites like World Lingo offer free translation services ideally suited for an English to Spanish (for instance) translation homework assignment! All for free. The rather large silver lining for the rest of us educators is that we can use this service to translate for our English Language Learners, parents and students. This is a great tool for free. Pay a small fee for even more service. I like it! Sorry Foreign Language teachers!  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 8:22 PM (permalink)
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Saturday, November 13, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: AlicePass It On Education Tools is a recurring feature on this blog. It features educator tools and resources so cool you are likely to pass them along to colleagues and friends! Alice Alice is a free teaching tool from Carnegie Mellon University that allows programming novices to use a simple drag-and-drop interface to create 3D computer animation.The Alice Project was begun by the late Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon alumnus and professor of computer science and author of The Last Lecture. The FBI, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, is expanding their ongoing Safe Online Surfing program (SOS) to include a national competition in which middle and high school students will create 45-second animations using Alice. Carnegie Mellon is a leading center for research on cybersecurity and Internet privacy and has developed innovative programs for educating young people about online safety. See more here: Alice Competition An interesting four minute video about Alice is at: Alice Video The Alice website is located at: Alice Website  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 7:37 AM (permalink)
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