Scaffolds Critical Thinking and Enables Flipped Learning 1 reading tool for the whole school, customized by level and subject. College Readiness Self-directed Research Content-Area Literacy Social Studies, ELA, Foreign Language: Spanish, French, Gaelic, Arabic... Teacher Prof. Apply classroom learning to the real world. Build case studies together. Flip your class with 1 tool for both video and text. While great for reading, you can also Ponder any video you browse to on YouTube, Vimeo or Dropbox! Engage in sophisticated dialogue without the bottleneck of writing. StickyScreen — jackcheng.com I have a habit of putting sticky notes on the edge of my monitor. Usually these notes consist of mantras I come up with based on something I’ve learned or read recently. I have to change it up about once a week because if I get too used to seeing it, I start ignoring it. Meet StickyScreen My new mini-project takes the note off the edge of your monitor and puts it smack dab in the middle. It’s just like leaving yourself a note on the bathroom mirror before you go to bed: you know you’ll see it the next morning, but at the same time, you’re not totally expecting it when you do. How it works: No bullshit login screens, database voodoo or even a ‘submit’ button. Here’s my current StickyScreen: Show me yours! Update: Since I’ve gotten a couple messages about it – yes, you are free to make your own version or adapt the page to your own liking, though I’d greatly appreciate a shout out if you do.
ShowMe - The Online Learning Community WebNotes: A Sticky Note Plug-In for Serious Surfers (Invites) Online sticky notes for serious Web surfers? Sounds like an oxymoron, right? But WebNotes, an online annotation and productivity tool for businesses and researchers, aims to please the online bookworm with their virtual highlighter, sticky note feature, minimalistic social features, and Outlook-esque folder system for note storage. The site, which launches in private beta today (we've got invites), takes a grown-up approach to virtual notes, and hopes to mature past competitors like Diigo, Fleck, and i-Lighter. Adult-Only Annotations WebNotes is no-nonsense about online notes. WebNotes really jumps to the head of the class with a few additional key features. WebNotes also wins my attention by immediately updating my MyWebNotes page as soon as I create a new note or start to highlight a text passage on the page. Too Serious or Just Right? WebNotes is sparse on the social features, only offering users the ability to send their annotations via email or share with a link. Invites
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Earth Symbols and Their Meanings on Whats-Your-Sign Earth Engages All Elements ♦ Earth allows great swaths to be sliced from her body as she yields to the waters of our world. ♦ Earth communicates with the air and without the Earth, air would be a lost voice. ♦ Fire lives in the belly of the Earth. Fire could not consummate its passion without the fundamental spark originating in Earth-based matter. Within these contemplative contexts, we sense all threads of life are first woven with the fiber of Earth. This interconnection reminds us not only is the Earth a stabilizing and a wholly physical symbol, it also represents a network. In ancient Celtic symbolism, the Earth is a unifying force. In the spirit of communicating that sense of wholeness and rooted dominion, many cultures strive to impress their surroundings with pictographs representing Earth. Common Earth Symbols and Meanings
Symbolism of Water and the Wisdom of Water on Whats-Your-Sign Interestingly, we are all made of water, and so we can liken many of these myths and allegories to our own existence (the macrocosm mirroring the microcosm and vice versa). Further, we can incorporate symbolism of circulation, life, cohesion and birth by associating the creative waters of the earth with the fluids found in our own body (i.e., blood). In Taoist tradition, water is considered an aspect of wisdom. The concept here is that water takes on the form in which it is held and moves in the path of least resistance. Here the symbolic meaning of water speaks of a higher wisdom we may all aspire to mimic. The ever-observant ancient Greeks understood the power of transition water holds. Among the first peoples of North America, water was considered a valuable commodity (particularly in the more arid plains and western regions) and the Native Americans considered water to be a symbol of life (further solidifying the symbol affixed in many creation myths).