Edclicking
By Dr. Harry Tennant
Dan S. Martin's Principal Rider
by Dan S. Martin
Show posts with most recent comments
Keywords:
21st Century (1)
21st Century Enlightenment (1)
50 States & Capitals (1)
A Lot On My Mind (1)
A Vision Of 21st Century Teachers (1)
A Vision Of K-12 Students Today (1)
Abbeville (1)
Academic Vocabulary (1)
Academic Word List (1)
Accountability (26)
Accountabilty (1)
Adequate Yearly Progress (1)
Advanced Placement (1)
Advanced Placement Testing (1)
AIM (1)
Airbrush Art (1)
Airfare (1)
Alcohol Use (1)
Alexandria (4)
Alexandria International Airport (1)
Alice Project (1)
Alpine ISD (1)
America (1)
Animation (1)
AP (1)
Apple (1)
Apple Ad (1)
Arabic (1)
Arizona (1)
Arkansas Association Of Educational Administrators (1)
Armed Services (1)
Art (2)
Assessment (17)
Assessments (3)
Assistant Principals (3)
Assistive Technology (1)
Atom Crasher (1)
Atomic Danger Education (1)
At-Risk Students (3)
Attendance (1)
Awards (1)
AYP (1)
Baldwin County Public School (1)
BBC (1)
Behavior Manager (1)
Big Bend Country (1)
Big Bend National Park (1)
Bilingualism (1)
Bill of Rights (1)
Biology (1)
BIP (3)
Bi-Polar (1)
Black Hole (1)
Blick Art Supplies (1)
Book Clubs (1)
Books (1)
Boredom (1)
Brain Health (1)
Brian Stephens (1)
Budget (9)
Budget Cuts (16)
Budgets (17)
Bullying (7)
Bullying Prevention (1)
Bunkie High School (1)
Bus Behavior (2)
by Harry Tennant (11)
California (5)
Campus Climate (1)
Career Education (1)
Cartoon (4)
Cell Phone Policy (1)
Cell Phones (3)
Census (1)
Census 100-Year Interactive Map (1)
Census 2010 (1)
Center for Digital Education (1)
Center For Public Policy Priorities (1)
Central Intelligence Agency (1)
Change (1)
Changing Education Paradigms (1)
Character Education (3)
Charter Schools (2)
Cheating (1)
Check It Out Education Content (1)
Chemistry (1)
Child Abduction (1)
Child Nutrition (3)
Child Safety (3)
Child-Driven Education (1)
Child-Friendly Web Browser (1)
Choice (1)
CHOICE Program (2)
CIS (1)
Citizenship (2)
Civil Rights (1)
Civil Rights In America (1)
Class Size (1)
Class Sizes (1)
Classroom Management (1)
CNN (4)
CNN Student News (2)
Collaboration Manager (3)
Collective Bargaining (3)
College (1)
Commercials (1)
Common Assessments (1)
Common Standards (1)
Common-Accountability (1)
Common-Standards (5)
Communication (9)
Community Engagement (1)
Community Service (1)
Competition (1)
Compliance (3)
Computer Sciences (1)
Concept-Based Teaching (1)
Conferences (1)
Congress (1)
Conjunction Junction (1)
Content (1)
Continuous Improvement (6)
Corporal Punishment (1)
Corporations (1)
Cost Cutting (1)
Counseling (5)
Counselors (4)
Crisis Planning (1)
Culinary Arts (1)
Curriculum (2)
Cursive Writing (1)
Customer Service Orientation (1)
Cycle Of Education (154)
Dan S. Martin (3)
DanClick (16)
Data First (1)
Day 46 (1)
Day 47 (1)
Day_10 (1)
Day_11 (1)
Day_12 (1)
Day_13 (1)
Day_14 (1)
Day_15 (1)
Day_16 (1)
Day_17 (1)
Day_18 (1)
Day_19 (1)
Day_20 (1)
Day_21 (1)
Day_22 (1)
Day_23 (1)
Day_24 (1)
Day_26 (2)
Day_27 (1)
Day_27_through_Day_40 (1)
Day_4 (1)
Day_45 (2)
Day_46 (2)
Day_48 (1)
Day_5 (3)
Day_6 (1)
Day_63-66 (1)
Day_7 (1)
Day_8 (1)
Day_9 (1)
Day1_Day20 (1)
Decatur ISD (2)
Denton ISD (1)
Detention (1)
Differentiation (1)
Discipline (67)
Discipline Histories (1)
Discipline Manager (1)
Discipline Questionnaires (1)
Discipline Under IDEA 2004 (1)
Distance Leaning (1)
Distance Learning (1)
Documentation (8)
Dogs (1)
Doodling In Math Class (2)
Douglass ISD (1)
Dr. Gary Gindt (1)
Dr. Harry Tennant (1)
Dress Code (3)
Drugs & Alcohol (1)
Dunce Cap (1)
Earth (1)
Earth At Night (1)
Earth From Space (1)
EdClick (181)
EdClick.com (4)
EDS (1)
education (4)
Education Budgets (1)
Education Content (2)
Education Cuts (1)
Education Financing (1)
Education Funding (1)
Education Funny (19)
Education Poll (1)
Education Priorities (1)
Education Reform (1)
Education Ride 365 (126)
Education Ride 365_Day 1 (1)
Education Ride 365_Day 2 (2)
Education Ride 365_Day 3 (4)
Education Ride 365_Day 4 (1)
Educational Games (1)
Educator Pain Points (1)
Educators Travel Network (1)
Edutopia (1)
ELA (3)
Election (1)
Elections (1)
Electoral Process (1)
Electronic Devices (2)
Electronic Instruction (1)
Electronic Signatures (1)
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1)
Elephant (1)
Encyclopedia Of Life (1)
England Air Base (1)
English (8)
ESEA (1)
Ethics (1)
Ethnicity (1)
European Union (1)
Exam (1)
Excel (1)
Executive Branch (1)
Expectations Of Students (1)
Extended Day (1)
Extended School Day (1)
Facebook (1)
Fairness (1)
family (1)
Favorite Teacher (1)
Federal Budget Visual (1)
Federal Funding (1)
FERPA (1)
Fighting (4)
Finances (1)
Fine Arts (1)
Flash Card Exchange (1)
Flipped Clasrooms (1)
Flocabulary (1)
Florida (1)
Foreign Language (3)
Fort Meigs (1)
Fort Worth ISD (2)
Founding Fathers (1)
Freedoms (1)
Gaming Concept In Discipline (1)
Gender-Specific Schools (1)
Geography (5)
George Lucas Educational Foundation (1)
Georgia Aquarium (1)
German Education (1)
Global Warming (1)
Go Paperless (1)
Gold Wing (4)
Google Maps (1)
Gossip (1)
Government (5)
Government Spending (2)
Graffiti (1)
Grammar (1)
Grants (1)
Graphic Organizers (1)
Great Courses (1)
Hair (1)
Hands On Anatomy (1)
Have We All Had A Student Like This (1)
Health (3)
Health Care (1)
Help Desk (1)
Hispanics (1)
History (10)
History For Music Lovers (1)
Holiday Celebrations (1)
Holy Savior Menard Central Catholic High School (1)
Homework (2)
Honda (4)
Honda East Toledo (3)
Honda Gold Wing (1)
How Stuff Works (1)
Huck Finn (1)
Humanities (1)
IDEA (2)
IDEA 2004 (2)
IEP (3)
Impact Aid (1)
In Memorium (1)
In The News (52)
India (1)
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (2)
Innovation (1)
In-School Suspension (2)
Inspiration Software (1)
Instruction (3)
Instructions (1)
Integration (1)
Intelligence (2)
Interactive Body Game (1)
International Assessment (3)
International Education (1)
International School Of Indiana (1)
International Space Station (1)
Internet (2)
Internet Influence On Teens (1)
Internet Safety (1)
Internet Security (1)
IQ Testing (1)
Irving ISD (1)
ISS (4)
ISS Monitors (1)
ISTE 2012 (1)
Jamie Oliver (1)
Japan Earthquake (1)
Jeopardy! Quiz Game (1)
Jump Math (1)
Just Funny (1)
Juvenile Justice (1)
Katrina (1)
Kennedy Center (1)
Kepler (1)
Kid's Book Clubs (1)
KIPP (1)
Labor (1)
Lafayette (2)
Lake Pontchartrain (1)
Language (1)
Language Study (1)
Laptop Use (1)
Large Districts (1)
Last Lecture (1)
Law Suit (1)
Lawsuit (1)
Layoffs In Education (1)
Learning Curve (1)
Legistlation (1)
Lego Grant (1)
Legos (1)
Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen (1)
Libraries (1)
Lifelong Learning (1)
Linking People (1)
Lit2Go (1)
Literature (2)
Louvre (1)
Lovejoy ISD (1)
Magnet Schools (2)
Make Money (2)
Makes You Think (1)
Mandeville (1)
Maps (3)
March On Washington (1)
Mark Twain (1)
Math (3)
Math Curriculum (1)
Mathematics (2)
Matthew Taylor (1)
Medical Privacy (1)
Meetings (1)
Mentoring (1)
Mercury (2)
Merit Pay (3)
Merit/Demerit System (1)
Messenger Satellite (1)
Meterology (1)
Michelle Rhee (1)
Military (1)
Military Budgets (2)
Military Funding (1)
Military Spending (2)
Mind Map (1)
MindWare (1)
Minnesota (1)
MIT Open Courseware (1)
Mitra (1)
MLK Day (1)
Mobile App (1)
Mobility (1)
Moment Of Silence (1)
Money (1)
Money Out There (4)
Moon (1)
More Education Needed (1)
Motivation (2)
Motorcycle Humor (1)
Motorcycle Travel Network (1)
movies (1)
Museum Of Childhood (1)
Museums (1)
Music (1)
Music Library (1)
Nacogdoches (2)
Nacogdoches ISD (1)
NASA (5)
NASA For Educators (1)
NASA Middle School Aerospace Scholars (MAS) (1)
NASP (1)
Natchitoches (1)
National (1)
National Association of School Psychologists (1)
National Child Identification Program (1)
National Rankings (1)
National Science Digital Library (1)
National Service (1)
New Jersey (1)
New Orleans Schools (1)
New York (1)
No Child Left Behind (1)
Nobel Peace Prize (1)
North Shore (1)
Northwood High School (1)
NPR (1)
NSDL (1)
Nutrition (3)
N-Word (1)
NY Times (1)
Ocean Portal (1)
One-Room Schoolhouse (1)
Online Courses (1)
Online Learning (3)
Paddling (2)
Pam Shanteau (1)
Pamela Shanteau (12)
Paper Referrals (1)
Paperless (1)
Parent Accountability (1)
Parent Communication (4)
Parent Conferences (1)
Parent Education (2)
Parent Involvement (13)
Parent Meetings (1)
Parent Portals (1)
Parent Resources (2)
Parent Universitys (1)
Parent Volunteers (1)
Parental Involvement (8)
Parenting (4)
Parenting Handbook (1)
Parenting Magazine (1)
Parenting Skills (1)
Parents (2)
Parent-Trigger (1)
Parent-Trigger Law (1)
Pass It On (36)
Pass It On Education Content (34)
Pass It On Education Resources (5)
Pass It On Education Tool (1)
Pass It On Education Tools (57)
Patrick Cates (1)
Periodic Table of Elements (1)
Personal Finance (1)
Personalized Education (1)
Personnel (3)
Photo Of The Day (25)
Physical Exercise (1)
Physics (1)
PISA (2)
Plano ISD (1)
Play Fighting (1)
Pledge To Flag (1)
Pledges (1)
Poetry Terminology (1)
Political Correctness (2)
Political Science (1)
Poor Districts (1)
Population Growth (1)
Positive Discipline (1)
Posters (1)
PPRA (1)
Pregnancy (1)
President (1)
Principal Rider (6)
Principals (2)
Principal's Message (1)
Priorities (1)
Prisons (1)
Professional Development (2)
Professor Zimbardo (1)
Progressive Education (1)
Propaganda (2)
Protection Of Pupil Rights Amendment (1)
PSA (1)
Public Opinion (1)
public schools (1)
Public v Private Schools (1)
Quiz (1)
Quiz Answer (1)
Race (1)
Race To Nowhere (1)
Race To The Top (1)
Raising Teenagers (1)
Random Education Facts (2)
Reading (1)
Reform (1)
Rehabilitation (1)
Remediation (1)
Republican Politics (1)
Response To Intervention (3)
Retirement (1)
Rhode Island (1)
Rick Perry (1)
Right-Only Scoring (1)
Room For Debate (1)
RSA Animate (5)
RTI (5)
Rumors (1)
Safe And Savvy Browser (1)
SAT (1)
SAT Testing (1)
Save Money (4)
Scholarships (1)
School Budgets (1)
School Buses (1)
School Calendar (1)
School Choice (1)
School Climate (5)
School Communication (1)
School Counselors (2)
School Day (1)
School District Zoning (2)
School Finance (17)
School Finance Reform (3)
School Financing (13)
School Food (1)
School Forms (1)
School Funding (6)
School Length (1)
School Lunches (1)
School Operations (1)
School Reform (5)
School Security (2)
School Size (1)
School Violence (1)
Science (14)
Science. Astronomy (1)
SeaWorld (1)
Segregation (1)
Seth Stephens (1)
Sexting (1)
Sexual Harassment (1)
Skip Harrison (1)
Skype (1)
Slidell (1)
Smart Phones (1)
Smithsonian Ocean Portal (1)
Smithsonian Virtual Tour (1)
Social Media (2)
Social Studies (7)
Sociology (2)
Socrates (1)
Solar Walk (1)
Southwest Texas (1)
Space (3)
Space Shuttle (2)
Spanish (1)
Special Education (8)
Special Education Diagnosticians (2)
Special Education Psychologists (2)
Special Needs (1)
Spell Checker (1)
Spirit Air (1)
Sportsmanship (1)
Spray-On Tanning (1)
Spring Break (1)
SSCISD (1)
STAAR (11)
Staff Development (2)
Standardized Assessment (3)
Standardized Assessments (3)
Standardized Testing (7)
Standards (3)
Standard's-Based Accountability (1)
Stanford Prison Study (1)
STEM (1)
Steve Johnson (1)
Street Maps (1)
Stress (1)
Struggling Students (1)
Student Accountability (1)
Student Death (1)
Student Engagement (1)
Student Expectations (1)
Student Folders (1)
Student Health (2)
Student Options (1)
Student Suspensions (1)
Student Whisperer (1)
Student Work (1)
Students (1)
StudentsFirst (1)
Study Tools (1)
Substitute Teaching (1)
Success (2)
Suicide (2)
Sun (1)
Survey (2)
Tagxedo (1)
Taking Care Of Business (1)
TAKS (5)
Tanning (1)
Taxes (1)
Taylor Anderson (1)
TCEA (1)
TEA (3)
Teacher Appreciation (1)
Teacher Award (1)
Teacher Cuts (6)
Teacher Experience (1)
Teacher Licensing (1)
Teacher Merit Pay (1)
Teacher Pay (1)
Teacher Professionalism (1)
Teacher Quality (1)
Teacher Ratings (1)
Teacher Retirees (1)
Teacher Training (1)
Teacher Unions (2)
Teacher Vision (1)
Teacher Voice (1)
Teachers (7)
Teachers Unions (1)
Teacher-Student Communication (1)
Teaching (2)
Teaching License (1)
Teaching Overseas (1)
Teaching Tools (2)
Technology (13)
Technology In Schools (1)
Technology Use (1)
TED (1)
Teen Cutting (1)
Teen Drinking (1)
Teen Driving (2)
Teen Health (1)
Teen Leadership (2)
Teen Pregnancy (3)
Teenage Employment (1)
Teenagers (1)
Tenure (1)
Terrorism (1)
Tessellations (1)
Test (3)
Test Answer (1)
testing (6)
Tetraxis (1)
Texas (30)
Texas Computer Education Association (1)
Texas Declaration Of Independence (1)
Texas Education Agency (3)
Text Messaging (1)
Texting (2)
Thanksgiving (1)
The California School Guide (1)
The Email Cycle (1)
The National Gallery Of Art (1)
The Secret Powers of Time (1)
Think Different (1)
Thinking Skills (1)
Thomas Jefferson (1)
Trade School (2)
Translations (1)
Travel (5)
Travel Maps (2)
Trends (33)
Triple Filter Test (1)
U.S. Government (1)
U.S. Hispanic Population (1)
U.S. History (3)
U.S. Population (1)
U.S.S. Alabama Battleship Memorial Park (1)
Unions (1)
Universe (1)
US History (1)
US71S (1)
Useful Mac App Spotlight (1)
Value Added (1)
Value-Added (1)
Values (1)
Venn Diagrams (1)
Vi Hart (1)
Video (1)
Violence (3)
Virtual Experiences (1)
Virtual Tour (2)
Visual Literacy (4)
Vocational Schools (1)
Volunteers (1)
Wealthy Districts (1)
Weapons (1)
Weather (1)
Weatherspark (1)
Web 2.0 (1)
Webinar (1)
Website App (1)
What Make A Good Student (1)
Where Good Ideas Come From (1)
White House (2)
White House Virtual Tour (1)
Wisconsin Protests (1)
Word Clouds (1)
Wordle (1)
Writing (1)
Writing Prompt (1)
Archive:
2010
November (56)
December (75)
2011
January (47)
February (45)
March (48)
April (35)
May (2)
June (2)
September (4)
October (25)
November (18)
December (11)
2012
January (21)
February (8)
March (18)
April (19)
May (18)
June (14)
July (10)
August (13)
September (9)
October (3)
November (1)
Posts 1 - 36 of 36
|
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)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Pass It On Education Content: Doodling In Math ClassIn earlier posts I presented incredible visual representations of talks by distinguished speakers through RSA Animate technology (look for "RSA Animate" in the keywords to the left). These are excellent and worth watching if you have not had a chance to check them out. Less sophisticated, but rather engaging, is Vi Hart's "Doodling In Math Class" series. Each is only 4-5 minutes long. She has these posted on her blog, but I had more success viewing them on YouTube here. Two I especially liked are embedded below. Your Math and Art teachers will no doubt enjoy these and may be able to use them in instruction. I could envision them being used as the basis of an interdisciplinary lesson, to support Mathematics instruction in Art class. Check It Out! Pass It On!
Posted at 3:38 PM (permalink)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
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)
1 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
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)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Monday, December 27, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Blue BeautyA little closer to home...about our home...this PowerPoint is spectacular! Earth from space, with features pointed out and remarkable night/day transition photos. Make sure to let each slide "develop" before clicking through. Science and Social Studies teachers will likely love this! In fact, I bet most all of us can appreciate it! Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 3:05 PM (permalink)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Friday, December 17, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: The Secret Powers Of Time"Philip George Zimbardo (born March 23, 1933) is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is president of the Heroic Imagination Project. He is known for his Stanford prison study and authorship of various introductory psychology books and textbooks for college students, including The Lucifer Effect and The Time Paradox." The above is how Wikipedia introduces Professor Zimbardo. I became familiar with his work a couple of decades ago when watching a feature on "60 Minutes" about the 1971 Stanford prison study: "...in which 24 normal college students were randomly assigned to be "prisoners" or "guards" in a mock prison located in the basement of the psychology building at Stanford (three additional college students were selected as alternates, but did not participate in the study). The two week planned study into the psychology of prison life ended only after 6 days due to emotional trauma being experienced by the participants. The students quickly began acting out their roles, with "guards" becoming sadistic and "prisoners" showing extreme passivity and depression." This study was inspired by the work of Stanley Milgram a decade earlier, in 1961 at Yale University. The Milgram Experiment suggested the extent to which humans will follow the directives of authority figures even when it seems at odds with their belief system, their immediate comfort level, or even what most of us consider humane treatment of other human beings. These are two powerful psychology and sociology pieces that, as a teacher, I used in some of my classes in an attempt to suggest how humans are able to perpetrate the awful, even genocidal, events we were studying in government and history. The students really responded to this lesson! They would still be talking about the lesson for weeks afterwards! I recommend these studies highly, however the purpose of this post is to present some of Professor Zimbardo's more recent work. Specifically, RSA Animate (featured in earlier posts) and Professor Zimbardo teamed up to present one of his talks using the really cool RSA Animate presentation style. I just love this RSA Animate stuff! This one gets us to think a lot, including about how we reach others (students, for example) who do not share the same time perspective we follow (most often, subconsciously). Check It Out! Pass It On!
Posted at 9:13 AM (permalink)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
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!
Posted at 1:48 PM (permalink)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
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.
Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 3:16 PM (permalink)
2 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Monday, December 13, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: RSA Animate (21st Century Enlightenment)One of my new favorite things is a series of animated shorts by RSA Animate of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. RSA has been "a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress" for over 250 years. They describe their approach as "multi-disciplinary, politically independent and combines cutting edge research and policy development with practical action."  In an earlier post I introduced you to perhaps my favorite RSA Animate piece: Changing Education Paradigms. I also posted a similar production by Steve Johnson (not related to RSA), Where Good Ideas Come From, promoting the thesis of his new book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. Now, I'd like to introduce you to 21st Century Enlightenment, by Matthew Taylor. It is another exceptional, thought provoking 11-minute piece. Check It Out! Pass It On!
Posted at 10:09 AM (permalink)
1 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Saturday, December 11, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Where Good Ideas Come FromA few days ago I posted a cool video from a talk given by Sir Ken Robinson about his perceived need for a genuine paradigm shift in education. Well, the same organization that produced that video, RSA, has produced several other similar videos. Edit: I just discovered that this is not one of them though! Instead, it is done by Steve Johnson as a promo for his book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. It is well-done nonetheless! What a talent it is to even be able to illustrate like this, beyond the other skills and talents evident in this production. Posted at 12:07 PM (permalink)
5 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Friday, December 10, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: MapsOne other resource on the CNN Student News website I love is the small collection of maps. They are large maps (8x11 at 100% resolution) in pdf format, available for download and free school use. There is a world map and a set of continental maps that look like the first two displayed below. There are also a few regional maps, featuring a key city, like the one of London below. I don't know if they add to or change the collection of these regularly. The available ones are valuable though! As you may or may not know, images in pdf documents can be easily "screen shot" and saved as images for use in presentations and such. If you can't use these in your classroom, I bet you know someone who can! Check It Out! Pass It On!    Posted at 6:30 PM (permalink)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
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!
Posted at 10:29 AM (permalink)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
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!
Posted at 4:20 PM (permalink)
2 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
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)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
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!
Posted at 7:50 PM (permalink)
1 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Friday, December 3, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Think DifferentThis most excellent Apple ad can be used with young people in so many creative ways! It is an important message for them to hear. Click here to download a slightly better copy than the streaming version...or just enjoy the streaming version here! Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 5:13 PM (permalink)
4 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
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:
Posted at 9:16 AM (permalink)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Thursday, December 2, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: The Academic Word ListThis is a really neat two page document educators in many disciplines are likely to find interesting. Many will also find it useful. If you can't use it, I bet you know a colleague who would really appreciate you Passing It On! The following description is from the top of the document: There is a very important specialized vocabulary for learners intending to pursue academic studies in English at the secondary and post-secondary levels. The Academic Word List, compiled by Coxhead (2000), consists of 570 word families that are not in the most frequent 2,000 words of English but which occur reasonably frequently over a very wide range of academic texts. These 570 words are grouped into ten sublists that reflect word frequency and range. A word like analyze falls into Sublist 1, which contains the most frequent words, while the word adjacent falls into Sublist 10 which includes the least frequent (amongst this list of high incidence and high utility words). The following ten sublists contain the headwords of the families in the Academic Word List. In other words, the ten sublists contain the most frequent form of the word, more often a noun or verb form, although there may be one or more important related word forms. For example, the headword analyze would also include analyst, analytic, analytical and analytically in the word family.
The Academic
Word List is not restricted to a specific field of study. That means that the words are useful
for learners studying in disciplines as varied as literature, science, health,
business, and law. This high
utility academic word list does not contain technical words likely to appear in
only one, specialized field of study such as amortization, petroglyph,
onomatopoeia, or cartilage. Two-thirds
of all academic English words come from Latin, French (through Latin), or
Greek. Understandably, knowledge
of the most high incidence and high utility academic words in English can
significantly boost a student’s comprehension level of school-based reading
material. Secondary students who
are taught these high-utility academic words and routinely placed in contexts
requiring their usage are likely to be able to master academic material with
more confidence and efficiency, wasting less time and energy in guessing words
or consulting dictionaries than those who are only equipped with the most basic
2000-3000 words that characterize ordinary conversation. (The word lists follow the description above) Source: Coxhead, Averil. (2000). A new academic word list. TESOL Quarterrly, 34, 213-238. Averil Coxhead's website.
Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 7:26 PM (permalink)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Web 2.0 Linking People In Ways That Are Profoundly Changing The Human ExperienceThis is an interesting four minute video regarding the evolution of Web 2.0, produced by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Kansas State University. There are other great ones out there on the topic, some I'll include in future posts. So many things us adults must "rethink" in order to "think 21st Century..." Check It Out! Pass it On! Posted at 2:46 PM (permalink)
8 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: EDS Commercials Here they are, all three in one place. Yes, these three EDS commercials have made the rounds at education conferences and staff developments. If you've never seen them, you are missing out. Download them all from the links below, or just view the embedded versions here! Download them here: Cat Herding Building A Plane In The Sky Running Of The Squirrels Posted at 6:26 PM (permalink)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Monday, November 29, 2010 Pass It On Education Tools: TEDIn 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)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Monday, November 29, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: In What Way Is An Individual Smart?One huge challenge we have as educators is determining in what way each individual student is unique and how we can utilize that determination to better educate each student as an individual, rather than educating individuals how the group best learns. This is obviously foundational to differentiation...and it just makes sense. We have all met students who think they are "smart" or "dumb" or somewhere in between, without much basis for this determination and certainly without any nuance. We are wise as educators to remind students that intelligence is a complex thing. We shouldn't paint with too broad a stroke when assessing anyone's intelligence. We are all familiar with different learning styles. I like this easy to access two-page overview for determining "how" a student is smart. This is a truncated copy for illustration only. To download the complete document in Word, click here!  Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 9:41 AM (permalink)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
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)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
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! |
|
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Word Choice To Spice Up WritingPass It On Education Content is a recurring feature on this blog. It features education content so cool you are likely to pass it along to colleagues and friends! Help students spice up their writing with these nine lists! Check It Out! Pass It On! This is what one looks like:
Download all nine below: What Do You See, How Does It Look The lists were provided on Teacher Tube by Mrstephenwolfe. Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 5:54 PM (permalink)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Monday, November 22, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Bill of Rights Rock!If you like either James Brown or America, you'll probably enjoy this. If you love them both, you are more likely to just love it! I especially enjoyed the rare footage of a young Abe Lincoln. Only to be outdone by "The Right To Bear Arms." I bet you know a Social Studies teacher who would like it! Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 2:01 PM (permalink)
1 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Monday, November 22, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Poetry Terminology PowerpointAn English teacher you know would like for you to Check It Out! ...or, at least, Pass It On! This is a pretty simple, but also a pretty useful introduction to basic poetry terminology.  Posted at 1:28 PM (permalink)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Monday, November 22, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: U.S. Founding Fathers' Papers
Website where the papers can be found Posted at 8:36 AM (permalink)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Friday, November 19, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: The Periodic Table of ElementsThis is a really nice .pdf version of The Periodic Table of Elements. I bet you know a Science teacher (or a few) who might like to receive this from you. Check It Out! Pass It On!  Credit: http://education.jilab.org/ Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 11:19 AM (permalink)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Thursday, November 18, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Why Learn Spanish?I bet your Spanish language teachers will really like this Powerpoint! Maybe this makes up for my earlier post highlighting World Lingo! It makes a fine case for learning Spanish in school, though a couple of the sparsely planted sound effects took me by surprise. Check It Out! ...or, just Pass It On to your Spanish teaching colleagues! credit: Aimtrans1's Docs at teachertube.com Posted at 3:55 PM (permalink)
1 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
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)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Instructions Commonly Used in Content Area CurriculaInstructions Commonly Used in Content Area Curricula This is a simple document you can download here to Pass It On! to colleagues who may benefit from it.  (from Kate Kinsella, Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and College of Education, San Francisco State University) Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 2:01 PM (permalink)
2 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
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)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Electing a US President In Plain EnglishThis is a really neat video from Teacher Tube, a place where there is plenty of junk but some hidden jewels. I'll find many of them for you. Check back often! You've probably seen other videos in this series. Blogs in Plain English, is one. Wikis in Plain English, is another. I bet you know some educators (and parents) who would like for you to forward this video on to them! |
|
Sunday, November 14, 2010 Pass It On Education Content: Thinking Skills Mind MapPass 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! This is an interesting Mind Map of Thinking Skills. It can be downloaded here: Thinking Skills Mind Map  My only credit information is Renetwork from You Tube. Thanks to you, Renetwork! Check It Out! Pass It On! Posted at 7:12 PM (permalink)
1 Comments View/Leave Comment
|
|
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)
0 Comments View/Leave Comment
|