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Michael Wacker

100 Free Online Lectures that Will Make You a Better Teacher | Best Universities - 0 views

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    100 Free Online Lectures that Will Make You a Better Teacher Apr 6th, 2009 Great teachers know that learning doesn't stop as soon as you graduate from college. Teachers learn from their experience, from their colleagues, from their students, and any numb
Michael Wacker

ContentWriting - TIPS - 0 views

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    Tip #1: Your assignment should match your course goals/objectives. Don't "do" writing just to say you've done it. Make sure it's going to help you with your bigger objectives in the course. Tip #2: You don't need to be an expert yourself. No one expects you to be a grammarian. (In fact, plenty of English teachers are stumped by our language at times.) If you need an expert, see tip #6, but really, just concentrate on what you need from the paper. Give kids guidelines for the format, but don't make it your primary focus.
Michael Wacker

A Letter to New Teachers - 0 views

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    Dear New Educators: Welcome to the greatest profession! Your energy for learning, students and their passions makes you a wonderful addition. I have no doubt the difference you will make in the lives of learners and to the field of education, so I simply remind you to please…
Michael Wacker

Google Student Blog: Improvements to Picasa Web Albums make sharing your summer photos ... - 0 views

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    Improvements to Picasa Web Albums make sharing your summer photos a breeze 6/10/2009 03:54:00 PM Labels: Products Summer's here. Chances are, you're already packing your bags for destinations a bit more scenic and exciting than the lecture-hall circuit
Michael Wacker

Google making Waves across all its Apps? - 0 views

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    Google making Waves across all its Apps?
Michael Wacker

Mr Bass Online » Nonlinguistic Representation Through Technology - NEM Friday... - 0 views

  • Below are some other examples of nonlinguistic representation as well as some online or software resources: Using graphic organizers Inspiration Webspiration http://www.mywebspiration.com/ Bubbl.us https://bubbl.us/beta/ Mind Meister http://www.mindmeister.com/ Generating mental pictures Photostory Animoto http://www.animoto.com Windows Movie Maker Presentation Programs Prezi http://www.prezi.com Google Presentations http://docs.google.com SlideRocket http://www.sliderocket.com Drawing Pictures and Pictographs Draw.to http://www.draw.to Dabble Board http://dabbleboard.com/ Gliffy http://www.gliffy.com/ Mug Tug http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/ Drawing tools in Microsoft Paint Engaging in kinesthetic activities and Making physical models – Video – record students using Flip cameras Windows Movie Maker Jaycut http://jaycut.com/ – online video editor Manipulatives in SMART Notebook
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    Below are some other examples of nonlinguistic representation as well as some online or software resources: Using graphic organizersInspirationWebspiration http://www.mywebspiration.com/Bubbl.us https://bubbl.us/beta/Mind Meister http://www.mindmeister.com/Generating mental picturesPhotostoryAnimoto http://www.animoto.comWindows Movie MakerPresentation ProgramsPrezi http://www.prezi.comGoogle Presentations http://docs.google.comSlideRocket http://www.sliderocket.comDrawing Pictures and PictographsDraw.to http://www.draw.toDabble Board http://dabbleboard.com/Gliffy http://www.gliffy.com/Mug Tug http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/Drawing tools in Microsoft PaintEngaging in kinesthetic activities and Making physical models - Video - record students using Flip camerasWindows Movie MakerJaycut http://jaycut.com/ - online video editorManipulatives in SMART Notebook
Michael Wacker

Well, Duh! - 0 views

  • Students are more likely to succeed in a place where they feel known and cared about I realize there are people whose impulse is to sneer when talk turns to how kids feel, and who dismiss as “soft” or “faddish” anything other than old-fashioned instruction of academic skills. But even these hard-liners, when pressed, are unable to deny the relationship between feeling and thinking, between a child’s comfort level and his or her capacity to learn. Here, too, there are loads of supporting data. As one group of researchers put it, “In order to promote students’ academic performance in the classroom, educators should also promote their social and emotional adjustment.” And yet, broadly speaking, we don’t. Teachers and schools are evaluated almost exclusively on academic achievement measures (which, to make matters worse, mostly consist of standardized test scores). If we took seriously the need for kids to feel known and cared about, our discussions about the distinguishing features of a “good school” would sound very different. Likewise, our view of discipline and classroom management would be turned inside-out, seeing as how the primary goals of most such strategies are obedience and order, often with the result that kids feel less cared about -- or even bullied -- by adults.
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    Students are more likely to succeed in a place where they feel known and cared about I realize there are people whose impulse is to sneer when talk turns to how kids feel, and who dismiss as "soft" or "faddish" anything other than old-fashioned instruction of academic skills. But even these hard-liners, when pressed, are unable to deny the relationship between feeling and thinking, between a child's comfort level and his or her capacity to learn. Here, too, there are loads of supporting data. As one group of researchers put it, "In order to promote students' academic performance in the classroom, educators should also promote their social and emotional adjustment." And yet, broadly speaking, we don't. Teachers and schools are evaluated almost exclusively on academic achievement measures (which, to make matters worse, mostly consist of standardized test scores). If we took seriously the need for kids to feel known and cared about, our discussions about the distinguishing features of a "good school" would sound very different. Likewise, our view of discipline and classroom management would be turned inside-out, seeing as how the primary goals of most such strategies are obedience and order, often with the result that kids feel less cared about -- or even bullied -- by adults.
Matthew Woolums

Arvind Gupta: Turning trash into toys for learning | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    Make something!
Michael Wacker

January Webinar - Aaron Sams and the Flipped Classroom | CoLearning Network - 0 views

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    Looking forward to the conversation. Hope i can make it. Aaron's been doing this for awhile, look forward to hearing more about how the skill has evolved as access is increased. "Join us on Tuesday, January 17th, at 3:30pm Mountain time for a visit with Aaron Sams, a science teacher at Woodland Park High School in Woodland Park, Colorado, as we talk about the flipped classroom - what is it, it isn't and the many forms that it can take."
Michael Wacker

The Fischbowl: Is It Okay To Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher? - 0 views

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    "If a teacher today is not technologically literate - and is unwilling to make the effort to learn more - it's equivalent to a teacher 30 years ago who didn't know how to read and write. Extreme? Maybe. Your thoughts?"
Michael Wacker

Top 100 Tools for the Twittering Teacher | Best Colleges Online - 0 views

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    100 tools that can help twittering teachers make the most out of this helpful microblogging tool.
Michael Wacker

Welcome To The Northwest Learning Grid - 0 views

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    North West Learning Grid is a regional body consisting of 18 Local Authority Members who can access licenced content as well as the many free resources we make available to schools nationally. The Learning Platform downloads area contains FREE resources t
Michael Wacker

Playing It Too Safe Online Will Make You Sorry | Edutopia - 0 views

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    "You can provide access to Web 2.0 tools internally without having to face outside the school network,"
Michael Wacker

Skype an Author Into Your Library or Classroom - Skype An Author Network - 0 views

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    Wouldn't it be great to invite authors into your classroom or library to video chat with students before, during, and/or after you've read their books? We are growing a list of authors who want to make that connection with you. See the alphabetical list i
Michael Wacker

Illuminations: Welcome to Illuminations - 0 views

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    Explore our library of 102 online activities that help to make math come alive in the classroom or at home View our collection of 541 lessons for preK-12 math educators Learn about NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
Michael Wacker

Reading, Math, Science, Social Studies, Music, Art and PE Interactive Sites - 0 views

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    | Patti's Tech Coach wikispace | | Using Interactive Math | What's New at School? | Delmar El. Resources | KidSpace | MSDE | Kidlink | www.google.com | | MD Content Standards | Math Professional Day 2004 | Kidspiration Make 'n Take | Write Place - local D
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