For a short while, Powells Books will offer Betrayal, the first volume in the Star Wars Legacy of the Force series free eBook!
Just in time for Mother’s Day (jk)!
Betrayal follows the heroes of the new Jedi order and the second generation children of Anakin Skywalker. It is . Click here for more details: Special Powells.com [...]
“Inquisitive minds are the safeguards of our democracy, now and forever.” John Barell
And they also may scare us to quivering mush!
Why? Because our perception is that questions may lead us away:
From the “right” answer-
From the prescribed time allotment-
From our plan and our pacing-
Toward a realm where the teacher is not the all-seeing, all-knowing Carnac of [...]
April is National Poetry Month. Celebrate with these Warm-ups!
Week of April 28:
1. Read and solve each of these math poems. Can you write your own math poem?
2. In your opinion, can a sentence be a poem? Why or why not?
3. Read these samples “The Red Wheelbarrow” “When You Are Old” “The New Dog” What do [...]
The (Eco) Blogger Wears Prada
This Eco-friendly post goes beyond itchy hemp clothing. The focus is on the great Eco-Friendly accessories.
Be Eco-Friendly with a dash of style in these great Dots Gloves from Kim and Jason’s wonderful Lemonade Stand. Stay and click awhile at this site for sweet cartoons, insightful articles, and reaffirming stories from two [...]
My thoughts on cleaning are the polar opposite of my mother’s. At my mom’s house, the floor is so clean you can off it. At my house we do, but usually it is usually because the table tops are cluttered and the couch is covered.
Having resigned myself to the futility of Home Spring [...]
Michelle Kaufmann’s blog will inspire you to hug more than just trees. (NOTE: See next week’s Warmups for ideas inspired by my morning with her blog!)
In her April 21 post she shares a video describing ideas for observing Earth Day and invites video submissions of great ideas for celebrating the planet, recycling, not just for a once-a-year event such [...]
My “Top Ten” recommendations center on creating learning for teachers with free websites allowed by school filters.
1. Page Flakes: PageFlakes is an interactive webpage authorship portal. Students love the interactivity and message board options for immediate feedback with teachers. See samples on Plate tectonics and Searching
2. Squidoo: What is Squidoo? an interactive web-editor portal interface with lots [...]
Here are this week’s Warmups. Have a great week!
Week of April 21
1.) Barbara Park wrote the Junie B. Jones children’s book and her birthday is April 21. How many total books has she written?
2.) How many books have you read this year? Have you read more books or webpages? Ask two friends and record their [...]
… Or wants to. Educators on a budget still yearn for Prada-esque apparel on a miniscule budget. On selected Fridays, when I am home because the airlines decided not to stir the flight delay cauldron, I will spotlight the best stores, products, and websites for all things In-Digital-Style.
If the weight of all things IRS [...]
Well, the day after taxes is always dicey. Waking up on “the morning after” the midnight post box dash requires tentative steps and reassurance from attempting and completing small, manageable tasks. Like opening and catching up on email.In my email Jane Hart’s daily E-Learning Pick spotlighted Boolify, a new educational Boolean search tool that accesses [...]
Here are this week’s Warmups. Have a great week!
Week of April 14th
1.) This is tax week. List at least 10 things (not people, just things) that you find taxing.
2.) Not everything we buy has a tax on it. Find and key what items are nontaxable and what items usually are.
3.) This is a week where [...]
Found myself stranded last night coming home from Portales b/c of storms. Catching up on email, I read a notice about a new book, Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure by Larry Smith.Based loosely on the literary legend of Hemingway, challenged to write a story in six words, [...]
Author’s Websites Liven Up Literature Lessons, is the cover choice for the April, 2008 edition of Connected Newsletter. This article wrote itself ( almost) after a delightful lunch in Roma, Texas with author Terry Trueman and Leticia Cadena, RISD Instructional Technology Director.
Connected Newsletter, a magazine under the editorship and nurturing of Paige Meredith and Sharon Wheeler will [...]
Pleasantly stunned is an accurate description to describe the joy of finding PageFlakes unblocked on the school filters of our 4OOPS LinkClickers.
PageFlakes is a free, interactive webpage authorship portal. Simply create a free account and begin your page by choosing from interactive modules called “flakes.” There are thousands of flakes available that make it easy for [...]
Here are this week’s Warmup Prompts. Have a great week!
Week of April 7
1.) Key at 4 things that are great about the month of April
2.) Compute how many days are left until the end of our school year.
3.) Read a story @ Happy News Summarize using one sentence
4.) Create, Compute, Key 4 math [...]
… Or wants to. Educators on a budget still yearn for Prada-esque apparel on a miniscule budget (or ideas for what to buy their special girl someone). On selected Fridays, when I am home because the airlines decided not to stir the flight delay cauldron, I will spotlight the best stores, products, and websites for [...]
Digital Spring Cleaning
The closest I come to becoming “the doctor is in” is to listen to calls, read emails, offer tissues in F2F to those who have “forgotten” (neglected) “meant to” (neglected), and “thought our IT guys did it” (the blame version of neglected) to back up their
Files, Class Notes, Lesson Plans, Bookmarks/Favorites, MP3 songs, [...]
Dateline, UK: It’s the “British Invasion” backwards!
My Top 10 Tools were included in Jane’s Top 100 Tools for Learning, a roster collected from worldwide contributors. I am #153-a supremely great number! (she even included a picture without Photoshopping it!)
Now Online Here
Jane’s blog is one of the best and first in the blogsphere. Add [...]
