Chrystal Porter
I turn students from sport fans into sport professionals
NCAA Considers Tightening Focus of College Football Recruiting Enforcement. The National Collegiate Athletic Association may create a group to focus on college football recruiting infractions, especially the funneling of money to elite players, the agency’s enforcement chief said.
Such a group, which might take more than four months to put together, would resemble the one created two years ago to address concerns with men’s basketball recruiting, according to Julie Roe Lach, the NCAA’s vice president of enforcement. Five days after the Indianapolis-based NCAA cleared Auburn University quarterback Cam Newton of wrongdoing in an alleged pay-for-play demand organized by his father, Lach said a close look was needed at how star players are recruited, while refusing to discuss specific cases.
“We need to do some groundwork, grassroots effort to just make sure we understand what’s going on in the football recruiting environment,” Lach said in an interview in New York. Revised Rules Basketball Database. Habits and Habitats: Rethinking Learning Spaces for the 21st Century. The moment students enter the classroom, the space informs them more than we can imagine about the type of learning the environment will foster and the clear direction the lead learner in the classroom wishes to go.
In many classrooms, the picture is all too familiar: desks in rows, a clear front of the classroom, podium off-center in the front, etc.. Does this image speak to the beliefs we state about 21st Century Learning? Are these spaces best capable of fostering the development of our vision for a well-educated global citizen? Have the spaces been intentionally designed in a way that supports learning and teaching? Sadly, space design seems to have fallen into “do what we’ve always done” not what will best serve learning.
Getting Started with Retinking Your Spaces Developing the habitats that will foster the desired habits starts with an honest view of your current learning spaces against your vision of learning. Your Tool Bag Steps Distribute reading materials on learning spaces. Teaching Tactics that Encourage Active Learning. Use the following tactics during class to ensure that students are actively engaged in thinking about the content.
Students should be called on randomly (using the deck of cards method for instance) so that everyone participates. When students do not know when they will be called on they are much more likely to remain alert and engaged in the learning process. Students should be routinely called upon to: Summarize or put into their own words what the teacher or another student has said. Elaborate on what they have said. How to Solve PowerPoint’s 3 Biggest Problems With Presentations.
Being a PowerPoint geek can be a blessing and a curse.
After 10+ years of salvaging presentations (and professional reputations) I thought it was time to compile some answers for three of the most universally puzzling PowerPoint problems: 1. How do I get a YouTube video to play in PowerPoint? 2. How do I add a background audio track to my PowerPoint? 3.
Help.