50 Ways to Integrate Technology - Ways to Anchor Technology in Your Classroom Tomorrow Using Free Websites as Learning & Teaching Tools 1. Have students use Spelling City to learn their spelling words, vocabulary words, or site words through games, practice, and quizzes. Spelling City is a free resource for teachers. www.spellingcity.com 2. www.brainpop.com 3. www.dovewhisper.com 4. www.flashcardexchange.com 5. people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/ppt_games.html 6. www.clustrmap.com 7. www.ustream.tv 8. www.fanfiction.net 9. www.ccmixter.org 10. www.toolsforeducators.com 11. www.animoto.com/education Share your ideas for integration on Animoto. 12. www.makebeliefscomix.com 13. www.wordle.net 14. www.surveymonkey.com 15. www.readwritethink.org/materials/timeline 16. www.kerpoof.com 17. classtools.net 18. www.buildyourwildself.com 19. www.freerice.com 20. www.fluxtime.com Using Free Websites for Management 21. www.myavatareditor.com 22. www.dropbox.com 23. www.evernote.com 24. www.superteachertools.com 25. www.sharinglinks.com 26. www.bighugelabs.com 27. rubistar.4teachers.org 28. fur.ly 29. www.jingproject.com
The Value of Play II: How Play Promotes Reasoning in Children and Adults Twenty years ago, a pair of researchers in England reported on a series of experiments in which they showed that very young children could, in the context of play, solve logic problems that they seemed unable to solve in a serious context. The problems they used were syllogisms, the classic type of logic problem described originally by Aristotle. A syllogism requires a person to combine the information in two premises to decide if a particular conclusion is true, false, or indeterminate (cannot be determined from the premises). Syllogisms are generally easy when the premises coincide with concrete reality, but are more difficult when the premises are counterfactual (contradictions to reality). The prevailing belief at the time that the British researchers conducted these experiments was that the ability to solve counterfactual syllogisms depends on a type of reasoning that is completely lacking in young children. All cats bark (major premise).
The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom Bloom’s & SOLO ‘are not Just Colorful Posters we Hang on the Wall’ is my two-part series at Education Week Teacher. Bloom’s Taxonomy is talked about a lot in educational circles. However, if you believe a recent survey of visits to 23,000 U.S. classrooms, the higher-order thinking skills it’s ideally designed to promote doesn’t get much use. And I can understand why. It’s easy to get caught-up in the day-to-day work involved in teaching a class or multiple classes, and it’s easy to fall into the trap of doing the “usual stuff” and not “think out of the box.” I thought it might be useful to share in a “The Best…” list the resources that help me try to use Bloom’s Taxonomy in my classroom. There may very well be resources out there that do a far better job of explaining the Taxonomy and how to use it. I personally try to use Bloom’s Taxonomy in two ways. In addition, I try to use Bloom’s to help me formulate my own lessons. Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy Memory Understanding Applying and Analyzing
13 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes That Transformed My Life It was well over a decade ago, and a time in my life where I desperately wanted to discover the very purpose I had been planted on planet earth. I knew that I had something of significance to offer others, but yet didn’t know what it was. I had an inkling that it had something to do with my natural ability to create words. From the age of 14 I had begun to shape lyrics for my original songs that I composed. I loved to read and write poetry, and so day in and day out I found myself sharpening my talent on the grindstone of consistency and practice. Little did I know that those skills would one day take me into the world of the blog. I had written three books and had been rejected by publishers and literary agents all over my country. My Personal Search For ‘Liquid Gold’ One of the ways that I sustained myself during this ‘desert’ period of my life was by planting myself physically in my local university library in search of ‘liquid gold’. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Why?
How the iPad Is Changing Education The iPad may only be two years old, but it’s already begun to change many things. Reading is one of them. Work is another. The market for this type of device may only be in its infancy, but it’s already becoming clear how it will revolutionize certain aspects our lives. In January, Apple made good on its late CEO’s vision to enter the digital textbook market with the launch of iBooks 2 and the iBooks Author production tool for e-books. The iPad: An Obvious Use Case for Education In a way, Apple didn’t enter the education market. Chicago’s public school district was one of those early adopters, having brought iPads into a number of its classrooms and even allowing students to take them home. Does It Help Learning? There’s also some early evidence that an iPad could provide a more engaging learning experience and might even improve student performance. “I think the iPad has enormous potential to positively impact education, but not by itself,” says Mike Muir, an educator in Auburn, Maine.
Free ebooks - Project Gutenberg about My full name is Tina Roth Eisenberg. I started swissmiss in March of 2005 as my personal visual archive. Little did I know that it would eventually grow into a popular design journal with an average of 1 million unique visitors a month. I grew up in Speicher (AR), Switzerland, influenced by renowned Swiss design and a lot of fresh mountain air. I now run my own studio, swissmiss, with recent clients including the Museum of Modern Art and the Food Network. Besides running swissmiss the blog and design studio, I organize a monthly breakfast lecture series called CreativeMornings, run a simple browser-based to-do app called TeuxDeux and am the founder of Tattly, a designy temporary tattoo shop. I believe in taking your personal projects seriously and just recently gave a talk (below) at SXSW explaining how it was in fact my side projects that allowed me to go clientless. Because of the popularity of my blog, I am often referred to as swissmiss. Thank you for reading! -Tina
Grammatical Errors That Aren't By Davilynn Furlow Here is an excerpt from an excellent piece by Mark Nichol on the Web site Daily Writing Tips. These are four of seven grammar fallacies he shattered. 7 Grammatical Errors That Aren’t By Mark Nichol There are two types of grammar: Descriptive, which describes what is customary, and prescriptive grammar, which prescribes what should be. Allowing mob rule at the expense of some governing of composition is madness, but a diction dictatorship is dangerous, too. 1. 2. The stricture against closing sentences with words that describe position stems from an eighteen-century fetish for the supposed perfection of classical Latin, which allowed no split infinitives — for the excellent reason that Latin infinitives consist of single words. 3. 4.
100+ Box templates & tutorials (Gift/Card/Treat Boxes) Box round up!Hope this list of free box templates, tutorials, & inspirationfor boxes is useful to You. The templates are all linked to the people who created them,so please just click the photos to visit them (and you canfind their terms of use there). Please bear with me, while I work on checking the links,adding thumbnails, and adding more current box projects to this list. Faux Bois Box from paper crave via idiy Wedding Cake box tutorialfrom Paper Source: Faux Bois box template & pictorialby Jeffrey Rudell of CraftStylish: All of K. (These have the patterns on them) English speakers, Please Note: to download the boxes above, visit the original page in French by clicking on the photo. For folding instructions click the link that says "Téléchargez les explications de pliage" and so onthen choose file & save as. DIY Dime store games in boxes (martha): Robot & other neato Box templates by Machintoy via the Rag & Bone blog: 3d Flip Flop box My Graphicofree SVG: .
Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun! » Science Vocabulary English words relating to science and scientific concepts can be come of the most difficult words to spell and memorize definitions for. Teachers are always in need of additional ways to help students learn and retain science vocabulary. Of course, worksheets always provide additional practice, but what if there was something more interactive for students to depend on? That’s where Vocabulary.co.il™ comes in. Many of the games on the site offer a choice of various science-related vocabulary words. Some of the science-related topics you will find at Vocabulary.co.il include: astronomy flora energy human body chemistry geology periodic table animal kingdom …and many more! No matter what science concept you are studying, there is probably a game category for it at Vocabulary.co.il! If you have been looking for an alternative way to help your students learn science vocabulary, then have them head to the site and start playing!
Pleat Farm’s Top Picks: Folding Paper Typography Happy Monday! Featuring: Pleat Farm’s favorite selection of cut and fold-happy paper typefaces for your viewing pleasure. empo faceted typeface by losiento alphabet relief by tim fishlock. via paper alphabet by sculpture today by sonya dyakova. via, via folding paper typography by elin svensson folding paper typeface by graphiatrist paper font by josef ondrik. via 3D folding paper typeface by jarrik muller paper type and illustration by yulia brodskaya Old Free Work, paper type by tim badoux. via alphabet template by sharon pazner. via flickr folded paper type by konstantin datz paper and love typeface by chris berthe. via origami type by robert lang. via folded paper font by daniella spinat. via folded hebrew font by garibi ilan. via flickr Paper type made of 180 hand-cut, spiraling layers of paper by Bianca Chang Tagged as: origami, Paper, paperfolding, Photography, typography