Technology and Education | Box of Tricks MLA Format - MLA Guidelines .:. MLAFormat.org Create An Interactive, Label-Based Image Quiz! Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for sharing this resource! ImageQuiz is a fantastic new website that lets users create image-based quizzes with ease. Just upload your image, choose a title, and begin tagging the locations of the labels. Tagging works by drawing on the image to define what the quiz should test people on, and then labeling each of those tags. It is very easy to use and has a basic, simple interface and best of all – no signup required! This means you can get students to create their own quizzes without worrying about them having to create accounts and then forgetting the passwords… For example, below is a screenshot of a quiz someone created about the parts of a bicycle. As you can see, it even keeps score, so you can use it as an assessment in the classroom if you would like. Happy quizzing, y’all! Like this: Like Loading...
MLA Format on Microsoft Word 2013 This tutorial will guide you through the process of setting up Microsoft Word 2013 for your MLA Format paper. It is very easy and we are going to accomplish the following settings: I. How to Set the Font and Size: When you first start Word 2013, you are placed under the Home tab (like in the image below), if not, click on the Home tab. Click on the font and select Times New Roman.Click on the size and select 12. Note: If you already typed your text, you need to select all your text before you select the font in order to apply the text to the new font. II. Click on Page Layout => then click on Margins. III. To create a header with your last name and automatic page numbering, click Insert => Page Number => Top of Page => then click on Plain Number 3. IV. Click on the Home tab.Click on the Line Spacing button.Click on 2.0. V. VI. Follow this how-to when you are ready to work on your Works Cited page. A heading “Works Cited” centered one inch below the top edge of a new page. Sample:
Story Map The Story Map interactive includes a set of graphic organizers designed to assist teachers and students in prewriting and postreading activities. The organizers are intended to focus on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution development. Students can develop multiple characters, for example, in preparation for writing their own fiction, or they may reflect on and further develop characters from stories they have read. After completing individual sections or the entire organizer, students have the ability to print out their final versions for feedback and assessment. The versatility of this tool allows it to be used in multiple contexts. Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Collaborative Stories 1: Prewriting and Drafting Students hone their teamwork skills and play off each other's writing strengths as they participate in prewriting activities for a story to be written collaboratively by the whole class. Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Unit back to top
5 Skills for Time Management for Students Everyone knows that good time management skills are important for students if you're going to do well in school. But what skills are needed for good time management? The 5 skills listed below just might be the most important time management skills you'll learn during your time in school. Sure, they seem easy on the surface -- but executing them on a daily basis can be harder than it looks. The 5 Most Important Skills for Time Management for Students 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Storyboard That: The World's Best FREE Online Storyboard Creator The Biggest Misconception About Community College | Isa Adney Community college is not a second-class education. It's a first-class opportunity. Are there a lot of things community colleges could improve? Of course. But I think what we've done, and what we've got, in community colleges, is still pretty dang special. Community colleges don't accept just "anyone." But it's worth doing. Just because they don't require a particular SAT score for admission does not mean that classes aren't hard or that getting a degree isn't going to take a tremendous amount of effort and sacrifice. Community college is hard. If it were so easy, the graduation rates would be higher. But as a close friend and long-time beloved community college professor once told me, "I tell my students, there's no such thing on a transcript as 'community college Algebra.' Community college is hard work. But it's also a lot of work. Many appreciate community colleges for their flexibility, as there are many students who have to balance school with work and family obligations.
Writer Creates “Color Thesaurus” To Help You Correctly Name Any Color Imaginable Ingrid Sundberg, a writer and children’s book illustrator, created a very useful infographic chart for anyone struggling with color names. The writer says that she loves to collect words that can help give her stories variety and depth. Show Full Text “I’ve learned that we all have different associations with color words,” Sundberg told Bored Panda. “For example the color sapphire is a light blue to me (since that’s the color of the sapphire on my engagement ring), but a sapphire can also be a very dark blue. I doubt there can be an ‘official color guide,’ as color is so subjective.” Read on to see all of these colors’ names as well as Sundberg’s interview with Bored Panda. More info: ingridsnotes.wordpress.com | sundbergstudio.com | Facebook (h/t: lustik) “There was no official color guide,” Sundberg told Bored Panda. “I use it all the time when I write. “I’ve learned that we all have different associations with color words.
The Glass Cage | Nicholas Carr “Essential … Read it yourself. Read the whole book.” —New York Times Book Review “The Glass Cage should be required reading for everyone with a phone.” “Carr’s prose is elegant, and he has an exceptional command of the facts. What kind of world are we building for ourselves? Digging behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, Carr explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure. Drawing on psychological and neurological studies that underscore how tightly people’s happiness and satisfaction are tied to performing meaningful work in the real world, Carr reveals something we already suspect: shifting our attention to computer screens can leave us disengaged and discontented. Buy the book: IndieBound : Amazon : Barnes & Noble : Powell’s : 800ceoread : iBookstore Praise for The Glass Cage: “Nicholas Carr is among the most lucid, thoughtful, and necessary thinkers alive. “Fresh and powerful.”
Place A Cylindrical Mirror On These Drawings And They Instantly Come To Life István Orosz is a Hungarian artist who is known for his use of the technique anamorphosis. Orosz will create a drawing, that at first glance could seem abstract. It is not until he places a cylindrical mirror on the artwork that the illustration comes to life. He attended school for graphic design, but after graduation began to design for the theatre and animated films. All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines - Nicholas Carr We rely on computers to fly our planes, find our cancers, design our buildings, audit our businesses. That's all well and good. But what happens when the computer fails? On the evening of February 12, 2009, a Continental Connection commuter flight made its way through blustery weather between Newark, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New York. As is typical of commercial flights today, the pilots didn’t have all that much to do during the hour-long trip. The captain, Marvin Renslow, manned the controls briefly during takeoff, guiding the Bombardier Q400 turboprop into the air, then switched on the autopilot and let the software do the flying. The crash, which killed all 49 people on board as well as one person on the ground, should never have happened. The Buffalo crash was not an isolated incident. And that, many aviation and automation experts have concluded, is a problem. The experience of airlines should give us pause. Doctors use computers to make diagnoses and to perform surgery.