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In the winter one of my weekend rituals is to listen to Car Talk while running errands in town. One of Car Talk's weekly features is the Car Talk Puzzler. The Puzzler is usually a math puzzler although some are language-based riddles too. As I was listening last week it hit me that the Car Talk Puzzlers could make great little classroom activities to get students thinking about math and language in a format that is a little different than standard textbook examples. Click here to access sixteen years of Puzzlers and their answers.
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In March I shared The Scale of the Universe 2 which is a fantastic interactive visualization of the scale of objects in the universe. This morning I found another great interactive visualization of the size of the universe in the form of Magnifying the Universe. Magnifying the Universe allows you to see the size of atoms, animals, buildings, mountains, planets, stars, and galaxies in relation to other objects in the universe. Try it out as embedded below.
Copyright 2012. Magnifying the Universe by Number Sleuth.
Applications for Education
Magnifying t…
Copyright 2012. Magnifying the Universe by Number Sleuth.
Applications for Education
Magnifying t…
Whenever I teach a unit about the 1920's in U.S. History, students are interested in prohibition and its impact on crime and culture. This morning I found an interesting infographic titled Prohibition did What?! about the history of legislation related to alcohol in the U.S. The focus of the infographic is on the Volstead Act, but it includes some other information too. The subtitle of the infographic (a beer-googled look) and one of the headings (sloshed by the man) makes it a little questionable for classroom so use your judgement as to whether or not you'll use it. I would probably print it…
My Simple Service is a free online whiteboard service. True to its "simple" name, My Simple Service is very simple to use.
To get started just click on "go directly to my surface," double click on the surface and start typing. My Simple Surface provides very clear directions on how to use the service. To create a thought box double click anywhere on your board. To make sibling and child thought boxes use the enter and tab keys. You can edit the color and size of fonts. Your boxes can be linked to URLs too. My Simple Surface works on iPads too. The only short-coming of My Simple …
To get started just click on "go directly to my surface," double click on the surface and start typing. My Simple Surface provides very clear directions on how to use the service. To create a thought box double click anywhere on your board. To make sibling and child thought boxes use the enter and tab keys. You can edit the color and size of fonts. Your boxes can be linked to URLs too. My Simple Surface works on iPads too. The only short-coming of My Simple …
Easel.ly is a great tool for creating infographics that I learned about from Larry Ferlazzo. Easel.ly provides a canvas on which you can build your own infographic by dragging and dropping pre-made design elements. You can use a blank canvas or build upon one of Easel.ly's themes. If Easel.ly do…
- ELI Releases New White Paper on Learning Analytics | EDUCAUSE Learning analytics whitepaper. Bookmarking this so .i can read after 90 days since I am not a member. tags: learning_analytics education news
- Teaching Resources, Classroom Resources & Lesson Plans - TES Resources Happy Space day! It is May 11th and I didn't realize it until today. Here are some lesson plans to teach about space. You could always celebrate this next week. There are lots of great websites you can travel into space like Google Sky, Microsoft Worldwide Telescope, or Stellarium - all free. tags: education teaching lessonplans science space …
- Peeking Into Division 16: Making Baclava with Cream with Lawrence's Mom Enjoying the lovely stories of the students sharing recipes and making dishes from around the world. This week, students have been making Baklava with a recipe from Iraq.Here is their video. tags: education flatclass news
- Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Finding Your Beautiful Moment the Last Week of School Don't just let school end, but end it well in a way that leaves an imprint on those around you. Here's one of the most popular posts that I've ever written from last year's last week of school. Hoping teachers will read and ponder how to end well. You rock! tags: teaching news education inspiration teacher
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Good morning from Maine. This week I had the privilege of speaking to about 600 educators in Fredericton, New Brunswick. In Fredericton I gave what has become my most popular keynote talk, Ten Common Challenges. Of course, it's always changing a bit and I worked in some new material this time too. If you're interested in having me speak at your school or conference, please click here for more information.
As I was making the drive up to New Brunswick (about 325 miles north of my home) I stopped to let Morrison run on his leash for a bit and to capture the picture of Mount Katahd…
As I was making the drive up to New Brunswick (about 325 miles north of my home) I stopped to let Morrison run on his leash for a bit and to capture the picture of Mount Katahd…
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Last week I shared a Common Craft video about Copyright and Creative Commons. This morning I'd like to pass along a related video about the history of Copyright from CGP Grey. The video takes the viewer through the history of Copyright from its origins through many changes to arrive at its current meaning. Watch the video below or read the transcript here.
There is definitely a bit of bias toward the end, but overall it's not a bad explanation to share with students. This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. Follow on Google+, Facebook, or Twit…
There is definitely a bit of bias toward the end, but overall it's not a bad explanation to share with students. This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. Follow on Google+, Facebook, or Twit…
Graduation season is upon us again. Graduation season brings commencement speakers with advice for graduates. I shared five notable commencement speeches a few years ago. Last night through Kevin Jarrett I learned of Bill Cosby's latest commencement speech to 2012 graduates of Temple University. As always, Dr. Cosby entertains while offering some practical advice for students.
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The KML Factbook is a great tool for creating mapped displays of all manner of demographic, economic, and political data. The data used in the KML Factbook comes from the CIA World Factbook. The KML Factbook allows users to to select datasets from the CIA World Factbook and display that data in Google Maps or in Google Earth. You can also preview your maps using the Google Earth browser plug-in. After creating your map you can download the file to use offline in Google Earth.
Creating a map is a simple matter of selecting a set data set or sets, choosing base map, and defining the…
Creating a map is a simple matter of selecting a set data set or sets, choosing base map, and defining the…
Earlier this week I wrote about using Map a List to place spreadsheet data on a Google Map. Yesterday, the Google Lat Long team released a new Google Spreadsheet script that will allow you to create KML files based on your spreadsheet data. Spreadsheet Mapper 3 allows you to map up to 1,000 placemarks based on your spreadsheet data. And because Spreadsheet Mapper 3 is a part of Google Docs you can share your spreadsheets and maps for collaborative editing. Click here for complete directions on how to use Spreadsheet Mapper 3.
Applications for Education
As I wrote about Map…
Applications for Education
As I wrote about Map…
- Create interactive infographics - Infogr.am tags: infographics charts interactive infographic tools graphs chart graph
- SETT: skola i eSamhället – släpp fångarna loss! | Johanna & Judit bloggar ← SETT: iBook Author- interaktiva böcker
SETT: skola i eSamhället – släpp fångarna los…
Dear Mom,
3 generations at the National Honor Society initiation this year
along with my Mom and Dad - I love my family. Happy Mother's Day, Mom.
You were the first teacher I ever knew. Quite literally - you taught me at home but you also gave up teaching to come home and have me. But you aren't the kind of teacher who yells purple faced and leaves a child confused because the actions don't line up with the words. You taught me with your life.
All the laundry, cleaning, sleepless nights waiting for me to get back from wherever while you sat in your chai…
This note will self-destruct after you read it... Okay, so that's not true, but if this note was written on Burn Note it would be true. Burn Note is a free service for sending messages that self-destruct after they are read by their recipients. To use Burn Note just visit their homepage and start typing your note. When your note is complete a unique URL is generated for you to share. Once that URL has been used by someone else, it no longer works.
Applications for Education
If you have to recover passwords and send them to students or faculty, using Burn Note ensures that …
Applications for Education
If you have to recover passwords and send them to students or faculty, using Burn Note ensures that …
Back in February I wrote about an educational and entertaining YouTube channel titled Crash Course. Crash Course offers a course on World History and a course on Biology. They are now up to 15 videos in each course. The videos are fast-paced ten to twelve minute overviews of major concepts and themes. One of the latest World History videos is The Dark Ages... How Dark Were They, Really? I've embedded that video below.
Applications for Education
The fast pace of the Crash Course videos makes them better suited to being reviews or introductions to topics rath…
Applications for Education
The fast pace of the Crash Course videos makes them better suited to being reviews or introductions to topics rath…
- Software, prizes for pirate animations | eSchool News You can download a 30 day free trial of Stop Motion Pro and have students create pirate videos to enter in this competition. Your kids could win a free trip (and learn about video.) What a great way to end the school year as the deadline is May 29. tags: video teaching digital storytelling
- Teachers are Heroes (Infographic) | Teaching in the Mid…
You're probably familiar with iTunes and Google Music, but have you tried Miro? Miro is an open source media player available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. With Miro installed on your computer you can search for, watch, listen to, and download media. You can search multiple video sources including YouTube and Hulu within the Miro player. When you find a video that you like, you can download it and store it in the Miro player.
If you choose to allow it, Miro can search your computer for existing media files to add to your Miro player. The Miro player can also be synced with your A…
If you choose to allow it, Miro can search your computer for existing media files to add to your Miro player. The Miro player can also be synced with your A…
If This Then That is a helpful website that I learned about from Kern Kelley during a Google+ Hangout last night. If This Then That helps you automate tasks like saving your Pinterest pins to your Evernote account, set text alerts for Google Calendar events, and sending email attachments directly to your Dropbox account. There are thousands of formulas, recipes is what IFTTT calls them, available in the gallery of recipes. The recipes are all contributed by the community of IFTTT members and you can contribute too.
Applications for Education
I don't know of any teachers wh…
Applications for Education
I don't know of any teachers wh…
Map a List which turn Google Spreadsheet information into Google Maps placemarks. The finished product is a Google Map of the information you've selected from your Google Spreadsheets.
To create a map from your spreadsheets you need to register for a Map a List account and give it access to your Google Docs account. Map a List then walks you through each step of selecting a spreadsheet, defining the parameters for your map, and choosing placemarks. Just like in Google Maps you can customize the placemark icons that are used in your Map a List displays. Your maps can be shared …
To create a map from your spreadsheets you need to register for a Map a List account and give it access to your Google Docs account. Map a List then walks you through each step of selecting a spreadsheet, defining the parameters for your map, and choosing placemarks. Just like in Google Maps you can customize the placemark icons that are used in your Map a List displays. Your maps can be shared …
For the last six months I've been sharing WeVideo with anyone who has come to me searching for a good online video creation tool. I live WeVideo because it is cloud-based and collaborative. They released an Android app in March that makes mobile, collaborative video editing possible. Now they have a Google Drive app too. The WeVideo Google Drive app allows you to save all of your video projects in your Google Drive account. Learn more about it in the video below.
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- STEM Careers: Attitude & Orbit Control Systems - Resources - TES It is great to talk to students about interesting jobs. An Attitude and Orbit control systems engineer is an interesting one, particularly if you're studying flight or space.
"A case study from STEMNET outlining the work of a Attitude & Orbit Control Systems Engineer. It provides a job description and gives an insight into skills and qualifications needed tags: education stem career t…
- The Forbes Fast Tech 25: Our Annual List Of Growth Kings - Forbes Fastest growing tech companies as noted by Forbes.Topping the list is LinkedIn and second is Apple.It is shocking that Apple is still growing quickly because this list is calculated on percentages and their amount of revenue is huge compared to Linkedin and the others. Qlik, Athenahealth, Equinix, Ebix and others are included. Of note is Shutterfly. The article notes that Shutterfly is currently agreeing to buy the Kodak Gallery from the Eastman Kodak bankruptcy proceedings. …
Good morning from Maine where our April showers have arrived a week late. But the sun is shining as I write this now. Before I take my dog out for a romp in the woods in the sunshine, I have to put together this week's list of the most popular posts of the week.
This was my first full week at home in a while after a great stretch of presentations and workshops all over North America. Thank you to everyone that came out to my presentations and said hello. It has been great to meet so many new people. Please click here for list of some of the places that I will be presenting this…
This was my first full week at home in a while after a great stretch of presentations and workshops all over North America. Thank you to everyone that came out to my presentations and said hello. It has been great to meet so many new people. Please click here for list of some of the places that I will be presenting this…
One of the big stories shared all over Twitter this week was Google's updated Search Education pages. I didn't get to check it out until this morning and I have to say that I am impressed with what the new pages offer. There are fifteen lesson plans aligned to ISTE NETS, Common Core, and American Association of School Librarians standards. The lesson plans are arranged according to skill level in five categories. Those categories are picking search terms, understanding results, narrowing results, searching for evidence, and evaluating credibility of sources.
Google's new search e…
Google's new search e…
Earlier this week I announced that I will soon be teaching a new online course with Angela Maiers and Chris Dawson. The course, So You Wanna Be a Leader?, is designed to help teachers learn how they can expand their influence and be leaders through writing, presenting, and consulting. In the course we'll go beyond basic blogging and speaking advice and share the details of how we've built followings and turned simple blogs into small businesses. The basic course outline is available here.
I come at the course with the background of a classroom teacher who was struggling to pay t…
I come at the course with the background of a classroom teacher who was struggling to pay t…
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