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TinEye is a reverse image search engine. What that means is that instead of searching for images by keyword like you would on Yahoo Images you search for images by uploading an image or linking to an image. For example, if I have a picture of my dog and want to find more pictures of dogs like him, I simply upload a picture of my dog to TinEye and TinEye will search for images like mine. TinEye offers browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Opera. With the extension installed you can simply right click on any image and select "search image on TinEye" to quickly conduct an image search.
I spent my lunch time speaking with ASCD Young Educatorof the Year Matt McClure , a Superintendent from Cross Country Schools in Arkansas. He is clearly a passionate educator who loves what he is doing and without a doubt has his head in the right place in terms of what is best for kids. Through the conversation with McClure, I jotted several thinking points that created some questions in my mind. Some of these things were direct/indirect quotes or ideas that McClure shared with me.
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This video features a fun money song that shows the relationship of coins and how their combined values make up the value of other coins. For example, five pennies make a nickel, 10 pennies make dime, etc. It is a great money counting lesson for young children. (1:42)
Free Educational Videos for K-12 Students
"No School - All Schools - Boston" "No School - All Schools - Canton" "No School - All Schools - Walpole" Yippee! That's the one! I remember sitting in front of the television or listening to the radio with my brothers and sisters waiting for the No School - All School announcement! Living in the "W" town our anticipation kept building and building after each letter of the alphabet.
No School - All Schools!
Inside the classroom, outside the box!
“Traditional thinking is all about ‘what is’. Future thinking will also need to be about what ‘can be’” By Edward de Bono Quick Response codes also known as QR codes are similar to barcodes. When you scan QR codes using apps such as i-nigma , with your smartphone, ipad and computer (if you have a web camera) it links information to you. The information can be text, videos or websites etc.
I hate standardized testing. I hate what standardized testing has done to teaching. SMH This is what it has driven me to!
Diary of a Public School Teacher!
Rigor is NOT a Four-Letter Word
In our culture, we are often bombarded with the message that more is better. We can find ourselves so focused on covering material that we only skim the surface; therefore, our students often log information in their short-term memory rather than truly learning and applying it in the future. When it comes to rigor, less is more. If we expect students to learn at a high level, we must focus on depth of understanding, not breadth of coverage.
My objective is to review the necessary parts of electrical circuits, illustrate the difference between series and parallel circuits, and review how electrical energy can be transformed into other energy forms. All this in 45 minutes... ;) Start off class by showing the lab video (from above).