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Clarity Through Brevity: Integrating Six-Word Memoirs
At its core, the six-word memoir teaches us to be concise but also introspective. Try describing yourself in six words. Not easy, right? So, for English teachers, the six-word memoir is a great way to get students to focus on getting a point across in as few words as possible.
Onondaga - Cortland - Madison Counties BOCES
For those receiving a score from the state This summary presentation can be used to show how the State's growth scores is determine (this has the revised cut scores in it) This detailed presentation explains how growth scores will be calculated this year for 4-8 ELA and math teachers (caution: it has the old cut scores in it) SED Guide for Teachers SED Guide for Principals FAQ document Resources to use when administering and scoring SLOs : Checklist for administrators Forms you can use for tracking proctors and scorers Sample class roster How to use scaled scores in SLOs (you have to convert scaled scores to comparable scale) 2012 ELA and math scale scores and cut points Redefined Performance Levels (and pretend new scale scores) Comparing Scale Scores (3 divisions per range) worksheet Comparing Scale Scores (9 divisions per range) worksheet Resources to use when writing SLOs : SLO template (from SED) Making an SLO workshop slides (step by step with an example)
Overview We have devised an interactive curriculum aimed to support teachers of secondary students (approximately ages 13-17). The curriculum helps educate students on topics like: YouTube’s policies How to report content on YouTube How to protect their privacy online How to be responsible YouTube community members How to be responsible digital citizens
Curriculum: Understanding YouTube & Digital Citizenship – Google in Education
What makes a hero? - Matthew Winkler
The Hero Archetype in Literature, Religion, and Popular Culture: http://tatsbox.com/hero/ (along with a useful PowerPoint presentation teachers can download at this URL: http://tatsbox.com/hero/powerpnt.htm ) Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (users embark on their own hero's journey): http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/smc/journey/ An American Masters Lesson from PBS for Teachers on George Lucas, the Power of Myth, and the Hero's Journey: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/lessons/george-lucas-and-the-power-of-myth/lesson-overview/1292/ And an interactive approach to the Hero's Journey: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/herosjourney/ And of course, information about Joseph Campbell's works on the subject, on the Joseph Campbell Foundation site:
10 Awesome Free Tools To Make Infographics
Who can resist a colourful, thoughtful venn diagram anyway?
Tutorials | About Me | Contact | Soapmaking Tutorial *NEW* Page 1 of 8 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Leave a comment! In addition to your book making materials you will need:
The Basic Binding of Books: A Tutorial
Here’s another method of binding your book with an open spine…a chain stitch or also called coptic stitch binding. This is a great method for when you have book covers that are individual boards instead of completely wrapped around the entire journal. You are basically binding all the signatures and covers together with a connected stitch that holds everything together tightly, but with super flexibility. The pages will open up completely flat and that’s a big reason why this method is so popular.
Chain or Coptic Stitch Bookbinding Tutorial
by Lighting the Way & Dunhom5 Marjorie suddenly realizes that something went horribly, horribly wrong.... Most modern books use a codex binding where many sheets of paper are sewed together and a cover is wrapped around the book to hide the binding, protect the book, and provide a place to display information about the book. It's one of the more advanced types of bindings you can use for your logbooks, but it's also one of the most professional-looking logbooks you can make.
Bookmaking: Codex Binding
Vision 2050 Poster and "Pathway To A Sustainable 2050" Mural The results of the WBCSD's Vision 2050 Project has been captured visually in: Information mural: The mural includes all 10 tracks (e.g. energy, food, forests, transportation, governance, buildings, materials, etc.) of the project. 350 milestones are described. Also included are 40 "must have" milestones - those that must be accomplished within a tight time frame for the world to have a chance to accomplish its sustainable vision by the year 2050. Measures of success for each individual track are indicated; Vision 2050 poster: The Vision 2050 poster sets out the 22 dimensions of the WBCSD's Vision of a sustainable world in 2050. Options to obtain your own copy of the Pathway 2050 Mural (4ft x 14ft) & Vision 2050 (3ft x 3ft) Poster
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Linear Perspective: Filippo Brunelleschi's Experiment
An introduction to Filippo Brunelleschi's experiment regarding linear perspective, c. 1420, in front of the Baptistry in Florence Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker Brunelleschi and the Rediscovery of Linear Perspective Before looking at painting in the Early Renaissance, we need to learn about the discovery or rediscovery of linear perspective sometime close to 1420 by Filippo Brunelleschi (rediscovery, because the ancient Greeks and Romans may have understood linear perspective too, but if so, knowledge of it was lost during the Middle Ages). Linear perspective is a way of creating a convincing, perfect illusion of space on a flat or two-dimensional surface.In Intelligence Reframed Howard Gardner contends that "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our understanding of important questions, topics, and themes." Today's readers become literate by learning to read the words and symbols in today's world and its antecedents. They analyze, compare, evaluate and interpret multiple representations from a variety of disciplines and subjects, including texts, photographs, artwork, and data.