Resilience Café | PBLU.org | Making Projects Click Many students who struggle the most in the classroom are often forced to be resilient in their lives outside of the classroom. In the past, the struggles that they faced and overcame outside the walls of the classroom often remained separate and unrecognized. The Resilience Café project brings those struggles from the outside into the classroom to be recognized and celebrated for the impact they have on students and the strength they build. The project seeks to connect stories of resilience from history with stories of resilience from our communities and our personal lives. During Resilience Café, students learn about resilient heroes from the past and present, focusing on African-American history from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Movement.
22 Tricks You Must Master To Become A Keyboard Ninja Web of Stories Start the Year with a Project… or Wait? by John Larmer, BIE Editor in Chief Over the summer, you’ve spent some time planning what you think will be a great project for the beginning of the school year. You’re eager to launch it on Day Two, after you’ve introduced yourself to your students on Day One. Or should you wait until, say, Week Two, Three, or even later to start the project? The answer is: it depends. It may be just fine to start the year with a project if your students already know what it means to work PBL-style. But what if your students are not very experienced with PBL? If the answer to these questions is “no” or “I’m not sure” then it might be good to lay a foundation first, and build students’ skills before beginning project work. You could approach the foundation-laying job in a variety of ways. Important Reminder: When you do these PBL skill-building lessons or mini-projects, make sure their focus is also on important content and academic skills drawn from your standards. Critical Thinking:
4 Great Educational Web Tools Are Now Available for iPad October 20, 20141- EDpuzzle EDpuzzle is an easy and effective way to deliver videos in the classroom. Video is no longer a passive experience, with EDpuzzle video comes to life with audio-notes and questions. An interactive an unique experience for your students. Glogster app allows you to create interactive glogs. 3-Weebly Weebly, the popular website creation platform, has now a powerful app that works on iPad. The popular web platform Canva has recently released a great free app for iPad users.
The Teacher's Corner - Lesson Plans, Worksheets and Activities Teach21 Project Based Learning School-based Individuals: Language Arts Teacher Library/Media Specialist Technology Integration Specialist School Student Council Representatives Yearbook Sponsor Music Teacher Art Teacher Technology: Computers with Internet connections Computers with word processing software Computers with presentation software Teacher will encourage students to expand their knowledge of presentation skills beyond PowerPoint. A site design for creating avatars. This site can be used as a tool that takes pictures, or even PowerPoint slides, and uses them in an interactive way. A site that allows students to go “outside the box” in a non linear way to create presentations. Possible sites that can used for basic research material on plagiarism This site provides real world, practical copyright information. This site discusses famous lawsuits involving music and copyright laws. Community: Materials:
14+ YouTube Playlists To Watch & Learn Computer Programming Quickly Since it never hurts to learn something new, especially a skill set like computer programming in different languages, we will go over some of the best channels that will introduce you to the world of programming. Let’s look at which channels made the cut. thenewboston thenewboston is a truly great channel with an immense collection of programming tutorials. To jump into thenewboston’s tutorials for different computer programming languages, check out: Playlist For Java Tutorials (87 videos) & Playlist For Intermediate Java Tutorials (27 videos) thenewboston also has a number of tutorials for different Adobe Products: There’s a an impressive number of additional topics that thenewboston has covered already. Xoaxdotnet (For C++ Tutorials) Playlist For Beginner C++ Tutorials (51 videos) Here’s the first video of this series: Those are probably the most distinctive ones, but be sure to check out the complete list of videos he has produced, sorted by topic here. phpacademy (For PHP Tutorials)
One Day in the Life | iEARN USA Teacher goals: Facilitate students in the One Day in the Life project and become familiar with the iEARN project based learning. Student goals: What are your goals for your students? Students will be able to describe similarities and differences between the daily routines in students’ lives in three different countries. What knowledge will students acquire by engaging in this project? Students will benefit with increased practice in language arts/communication skills. What subject terms, principles and facts related to the curriculum will students learn through this project? Students will learn descriptive and narrative writing techniques. State, local, and/or national curriculum standards that this project addresses Common Core State Standards Reading 7 Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words. Timetable Week 1: Explore the project gallery for the One Day in the Life project. Specific lessons Introduction
The 100 best free fonts In this freshly updated free fonts for designers post, we bring you the world's best free fonts. We've filtered out the diamonds from the thousands of less perfectly designed free fonts available online, for you to use in your designs and illustrations. Get Adobe Creative Cloud now This list represents the 55 best free fonts we've found in eight categories. Don't forget, we have many other articles covering specialist font types including handwriting fonts, kids' fonts, cursive fonts, beautiful fonts, web fonts, professional fonts and more. Most of the typeface collections listed here can be used in your projects for free, but please be sure to check the terms. Serif fonts 01. This free serif display font takes inspiration from the late 18th century European Enlightenment and the work type designer John Baskerville. The typeface design is a project led designed by Dutch designer Claus Eggers Sørensen. 02. Lora is a free font that has its roots in calligraphy. 03. Image 1 of 2Image 2 of 2