Dec
26
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good and your knowledge.'” ~Isaac Asimov
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#CUNE604, #CUNE605 #CUNE603 #CUNE605
Dec
19
Nov
3
Many educational lesson plans, curriculum guides, curriculum maps, and research documents reference Standards and Objectives.
Here is a video and downloadable file that explains more about standards, objectives, the teachers that lovingly craft them, and the students who learn from them.
WhatAreStandards_WhatAreObjectives
Link: https://4oops.edublogs.org/files/2022/11/WhatAreStandards_WhatAreObjectives.docx
Nov
29
Compassion is the basis of morality ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
What is the most compassionate action you can take with your students and with your teachers?
Read more about Schopenhauer at this Link
Jul
10
Want to know more about conducting research using Veterans History Project (VHP) collections? Are you curious about our World War I diary holdings? Interested in firsthand accounts of combat from Vietnam veterans? Want to know how to research your relative’s military unit? Come find out more during a special presentation by VHP reference specialist Megan Harris.
This introduction provides an overview of VHP’s collections scope, available online resources, how to search the archive using the online database, and how to coordinate use of non-digitized collections. Participants will learn more about VHP’s online exhibits, how to find information about specific units and conflicts, and the vast number of ways in which VHP collections can be utilized in your research.
Date: Saturday, July 16, time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am EDT
Location: Library of Congress Jefferson Bldg. LJ G-07
Apr
15
The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story. ~Stanley Fish
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Nov
5
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Voki is a free Web 2.0 tool that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.
Voki is a combination of the Latin word “vox” meaning voice and “Loki” the mischievous god of Norse mythology. Now, there is an across the curriculum application! With Voki you create a customizable speaking avatar that accepts text, as well as recordings using your built-in computer microphone and/or audio files. Voki provides several HTML code options for your finished avatar that can be embedded into most wikis or blogs.
Here is a YouTube tutorial video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssGHaNX3O4g and a slideshow from slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/markmodra/voki-activities-presentation
As stated in The Edublogger, “educators use them to add a human element to their sites or to engage students.” They are also great as attention getters and warm-up/bellringers.
Suggestions for use in ESL classrooms may be found at this link:
http://instructify.com/2009/09/17/voki-trailfire-mashup-special-needs-education/
So give Voki a whirl and let me know how it goes and how you put it to use in your classroom.
Aug
4
The 80/20 Rule is one of the most helpful of all concepts of time and life management. It is also called the “Pareto Principle” after its founder, the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who first wrote about it in 1895. Pareto noticed that people in his society seemed to divide naturally into what he called the “vital few”, the top 20 percent in terms of money and influence, and the “trivial many”, the bottom 80 percent.
He later discovered that virtually all economic activity was subject to this principle as well. For example, this principle says that 20 percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results, 20 percent of your customers will account for 80 percent of your sales, 20 percent of your products or services will account for 80 percent of your profits, 20 percent of your tasks will account for 80 percent of the value of what you do, and so on. This means that if you have a list of ten items to do, two of those items will turn out to be worth five or ten times or more than the other eight items put together.
I wonder…how would this apply to the classroom?
Jul
26
Educators search for data. They use data for two major purposes: accountability and performance improvement.
Accountability requires schools to prove something, while performance improvement is focused on improving student performance.
The conversation in the media, at the state and federal levels, and often, in schools is focused overwhelmingly on accountability.
A case in point:
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