Putting the 'Art' in Arthropod Last month, we had the opportunity to teach a class of students at Riverdale High School in Portland, Oregon about basic arthropod morphology. The students were working on a project that blended art and science using arthropods. They had a choice between two different tasks: use oil pastels to draw an insect feature (as seen through the microscope), or create an anthropomorphic personification of an arthropod with pen and India ink. The students learned about microscopy and research methods, including important aspects of digital literacy (finding and properly citing primary sources and reliable information on the web). They also studied several drawing techniques to create their artwork, such as blending, scraping, overlay, cross-hatching, stippling, stenciling, cartooning, underpainting, layering, and impasto. Below, we've shared six finished pieces and hope you enjoy them. One of the reasons we love combinging art and science is because we both have artistic backgrounds.
12 Simple Writing Tips Everyone Should Know Whether you’re a teacher, student, parent, blogger, or anyone who needs to simply put their thoughts down on paper … you need to know how to write. You need to know how to express yourself. You know, and stuff. As someone who gets hundreds of e-mails a day from people hoping to write for Edudemic, I can say without much hesitation that most people out there don’t know how to write . Simple as that. Tip 1: Proofread your writing. Tip 2: Know your audience. The following tips are also worth noting.
Free Pictures - FreeFoto.com 10 Ideas for Creating Literacy Centers With Technology I received this email the other day. Hi Beth. I am a student from the Harvard summer session on Teaching Elementary Grades with Technology . First off, I love the concept of being volun-told as that describes so much of how life evolves in a school, but I digress. … I’d be happy to help. I’ll admit that this first response was a bit of a cop-out because I was in the midst of prepping for another workshop and on the road. Combine Jenn responding that she has iPads, iPods, laptops, and SMART Boards, with a 2-hour layover in the Dulles airport followed by a two hour flight, and you have a recipe for 10 ways to create literacy centers with technology. Spread around the room, place iPads next to books. Why use this Learning Center Approach? In many of our EdTechTeacher iPad workshops, elementary teachers ask what they can do with only a handful of devices in their classrooms. For the record, I did send Jenn this list before finishing the blog post.
9 Places to Find Creative Commons & Public Domain Images When students create multimedia projects they might be tempted to simply do a Google Images search and use the first images they see. But as educators we have a responsibility to teach students to respect copyright holders' rights. One of the ways that we can do that is to teach students to use Creative Commons and Public Domain images. Morgue File provides free photos with license to remix. The Morgue File photo collection contains thousands of images that anyone can use for free in academic or commercial presentations. Wylio is an image search engine designed to help bloggers and others quickly find, cite, and use Creative Commons licensed images. William Vann's EduPic Graphical Resource provides free photographs and drawings for teachers and students to use in their classrooms. The World Images Kiosk hosted by San Jose State Universityoffers more than 75,000 images that teachers and students can use in their academic projects.
Network Visualization Immersion by the MIT Media Lab is a view into your inbox that shows who you interact with via email over the years. Immersion is an invitation to dive into the history of your email life in a platform that offers you the safety of knowing that you can always delete your data.Just like a cubist painting, Immersion presents users with a number of different perspectives of their email data. It provides a tool for self-reflection at a time where the zeitgeist is one of self-promotion. It provides an artistic representation that exists only in the presence of the visitor. It helps explore privacy by showing users data that they have already shared with others. The base view is a network diagram where each node represents someone you've exchanged email with. We've seen views of our inbox before and they usually just show simple time series charts and people who you email most.
Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics Visualize This is a practical guide on visualization and how to approach real-world data. A book by Nathan Yau who writes for FlowingData, Visualize This is a practical guide on visualization and how to approach real-world data. The book is published by Wiley and is available on Amazon and other major online booksellers. Table of Contents Ch. 1 — Telling Stories with Data Ch. 2 — Handling Data Ch. 3 — Choosing Tools to Visualize Data Ch. 4 — Visualizing Patterns over Time Ch. 5 — Visualizing Proportions Ch. 6 — Visualizing Relationships Ch. 7 — Spotting Differences Ch. 8 — Visualizing Spatial Relationships Ch. 9 — Designing with a Purpose There are lots of books on visualization that describe best practices and design concepts, but what do you do when it comes time for you to actually make something? If you don't know how to use the software in front of you, the abstract isn't all that useful. Read the book cover-to-cover, or keep it on your desk as a reference for your data projects.
What To Expect From Education In 2013 Guessing what the future of education holds is equal parts logic and guesswork. The logical part is simpler–take current trends and trace their arc further, doing your best to account for minor aberrations. If the majority of public education in the United States is waist-deep in adopting new academic standards, it doesn’t take Nostradamus to predict they are going to have a strong gravity about them in the education at large. What’s Certain In 2013, a theme that is absolutely certain is disruption. Some of that disruption will be through technology, some of it decay of existing power-sets. In 2013, those trends will continue, along with some new ideas as we begin to demand more than feel-good potential out of learning experiences for students. What To Expect From Education In 2013 1. As technology improves, increased access and diversity are two changes you can be certain of. 2. 3. 4. 5. OCW and MOOCs, in one way or another, are changing the way we think about learning. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
OER Commons How to Write a Research Paper (with Sample Research Papers) Edit Article Choosing Your TopicResearchingMaking an OutlineWriting Your PaperSample Research Papers Edited by Jackie Sinclair, Jack Herrick, Jamie Littlefield, Imperatrix and 75 others When studying at higher levels of school and throughout college, you will likely be asked to prepare research papers. Ad Steps Method 1 of 4: Choosing Your Topic 1Ask yourself important questions. 5Don’t be afraid to change your topic. Method 2 of 4: Researching 1Begin your research. 6Get creative with your research. Method 3 of 4: Making an Outline 1Annotate your research. 9Finalize your outline. Method 4 of 4: Writing Your Paper
eMeet.me - Free Web Meetings for all... Critical and Creative Thinking - Bloom's Taxonomy What are critical thinking and creative thinking? What's Bloom's taxonomy and how is it helpful in project planning? How are the domains of learning reflected in technology-rich projects? Benjamin Bloom (1956) developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior in learning. This taxonomy contained three overlapping domains: the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective. Critical Thinking Critical thinking involves logical thinking and reasoning including skills such as comparison, classification, sequencing, cause/effect, patterning, webbing, analogies, deductive and inductive reasoning, forecasting, planning, hypothesizing, and critiquing. Creative thinking involves creating something new or original. Knowledge Examples: dates, events, places, vocabulary, key ideas, parts of diagram, 5Ws Comprehension Examples: find meaning, transfer, interpret facts, infer cause & consequence, examples Application Examples: use information in new situations, solve problems Analysis Synthesis Evaluation