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Barbara Moose

Free Current Events Service - izzit.org - 51 views

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  • Barbara Moose on 01 Oct 09
     
    izzit.org provides 150,000 teachers, 44,000 schools and 14 million students with compelling educational DVDs, current events lessons, fun games and contests, and other unique opportunities you won't find anywhere else.
Joanna Gerakios

Seussville - 27 views

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reading dr.seuss literacy interactive

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  • Joanna Gerakios on 27 Jul 10
     
    Random House site for kids. Includes interactive games, contests, and information on Seuss and his works.
Nancy White

Challenge to Innovate (C2i) - 38 views

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  • Nancy White on 22 Sep 10
     
    Contest for teachers with cash prizes sponsored by NEA and US Dept. of Ed. Post your problem, help find solutions to posted problems, vote on best solutions.
Roland Gesthuizen

'Dance Your Ph.D.' Finalists Announced - ScienceNOW - 49 views

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dance arts science research competition video

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  • Over the past 3 years, scientists from around the world have teamed up to create dance videos based on their graduate research.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Sep 10
     
    "The dreaded question. "So, what's your Ph.D. research about?" You could bore them with an explanation. Or you could dance. That's the idea behind "Dance Your Ph.D." Over the past 3 years, scientists from around the world have teamed up to create dance videos based on their graduate research. This year's contest, launched in June by Science, received 45 brave submissions. "
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Sep 10
     
    What a great idea, to dance your way to new understandings and thinking :-)
Brian C. Smith

Lee Kolbert: We Can Do Better Than Matt Damon - 1 views

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shared by Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • What bothers me is that he was rude to the reporter and her cameraman when they were trying to engage him in a conversation.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      Get passed it.  This isn't an elementary school conversation and we don't know the context before the question was asked.  Let's not forget that reporters provoke to get the sound bite.  
  • But it's a little muddy now because Matt was rude. And we applauded.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      Please.  We don't know the context based on the clip we all viewed.  I think this absolutely adds to the conversation.  
  • the folks at Education Nation are holding an essay contest
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      How, uh... educational of them.
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  • Enter the essay contest and if you win, they will fly you out to NYC in September to attend the Teacher Town Hall
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      Another Race to the Top! 
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 07 Aug 11
       
      Where were all the other educators at the Save Our Schools March?  I am guilty, and feel guilty for having not attended, but really, where were we all?   No, Matt Damon isn't, and shouldn't be our poster child for education reform.  You cannot fault him for representing us and using a naughty word.  Instead of poo-pooing Matt, I applaud his courage to do so, to tell it like it is, and for defending our profession.  I will not put him on a pedestal as if he speaks for me as one of my own, however, he did defended teachers. I appreciate that, a lot.   Don't make this more than what it is, even if you think he did it in a shitty way.  
James Shockley

Web 2.0 Smack Down - 149 views

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  • James Shockley on 14 Apr 11
     
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Jon Tanner

Project MASH - 46 views

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  • Jon Tanner on 15 Jul 14
     
    "Project MASH is a social learning experience that challenges teachers and students to DESIGN stuff, MAKE stuff, and PLAY stuff, to ACT and WRITE, CREATE and EXPLORE. PROJECT MASH bridges the divide between learning in and out of school, from making and tinkering in the classroom to citizen science in the backyard, from design thinking challenges to contests in creative expression." Sponsored by Pearson Foundation
Deborah Baillesderr

Global Math Challenge: an online contest for math lovers worldwide. - 43 views

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math challenge online contest

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  • Deborah Baillesderr on 04 Aug 15
     
    Second global math challenge starts 9/27/15. Kids loved the first one!
Monroe Berger

Key Part of Voter ID Law in Pennsylvania Is Delayed for Election - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday delayed full implementation of a highly contested state law requiring strict photographic identification to vote in next month’s election, saying that the authorities had not done enough to ensure that potential voters had access to the new documents.
    • Vivien Kloss
      Vivien Kloss on 02 Oct 12
       
      this is the first paragraph
    • Monroe Berger
      Monroe Berger on 02 Oct 12
       
      This is my first article
  • Judge Simpson said in his Tuesday ruling that for the presidential election of Nov. 6, voters in Pennsylvania could be asked to produce the newly required photo IDs, but if they did not have them could still go ahead and vote.
    • Vivien Kloss
      Vivien Kloss on 02 Oct 12
       
      judge ruling
Marc Patton

Patriots Pen Essay Writing Contest | VFW - 17 views

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  • Marc Patton on 28 Jun 12
     
    The Patriot's Pen program is open to students in grades 6-8, who are enrolled in a public, private or parochial high school or home study program in the United States and its territories.
tom campbell

Name That Asteroid! | The Planetary Society - 27 views

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  • tom campbell on 04 Sep 12
     
    Under 18 - Your in luck - Name that Asteroid looks like great fun for students
carmelladoty

Digital Learning Day :: #Make4DLD Challenge - 41 views

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DigitalLearningDay

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  • carmelladoty on 25 Jan 14
     
    Take the challenge with your students for Digital Learning Day
Kate Pok

Writing in College - 1. Some crucial differences between high school and college writing - 55 views

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teaching writing essay

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  • you will be asked to analyze the reading, to make a worthwhile claim about it that is not obvious (state a thesis means almost the same thing), to support your claim with good reasons, all in four or five pages that are organized to present an argument .
  • They expect to see a claim that would encourage them to say, "That's interesting. I'd like to know more."
  • They expect to see evidence, reasons for your claim, evidence that would encourage them to agree with your claim, or at least to think it plausible.
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  • They expect to see that you've thought about limits and objections to your claim.
  • This kind of argument is less like disagreeable wrangling, more like an amiable and lively conversation with someone whom you respect and who respects you; someone who is interested in what you have to say, but will not agree with your claims just because you state them; someone who wants to hear your reasons for believing your claims and also wants to hear answers to their questions.
  • We also know that whatever it is we think, it is never the entire truth. Our conclusions are partial, incomplete, and always subject to challenge. So we write in a way that allows others to test our reasoning: we present our best thinking as a series of claims, reasons, and responses to imagined challenges, so that readers can see not only what we think, but whether they ought to agree.
  • And that's all an argument is--not wrangling, but a serious and focused conversation among people who are intensely interested in getting to the bottom of things cooperatively.
  • So your first step in writing an assigned paper occurs well before you begin writing: You must know what your instructor expects.
  • Start by looking carefully at the words of the assignment.
  • When most of your instructors ask what the point of your paper is, they have in mind something different. By "point" or "claim" (the words are virtually synonymous with thesis), they will more often mean the most important sentence that you wrote in your essay, a sentence that appears on the page, in black in white; words that you can point to, underline, send on a postcard; a sentence that sums up the most important thing you want to say as a result of your reading, thinking, research, and writing. In that sense, you might state the point of your paper as "Well, I want to show/prove/claim/argue/demonstrate (any of those words will serve to introduce the point) that "Though Falstaff seems to play the role of Hal's father, he is, in fact, acting more like a younger brother who . . . ."" If you include in your paper what appears after I want to prove that, then that's the point of your paper, its main claim that the rest of your paper supports.
  • A good point or claim typically has several key characteristics: it says something significant about what you have read, something that helps you and your readers understand it better; it says something that is not obvious, something that your reader didn't already know; it is at least mildly contestable, something that no one would agree with just by reading it; it asserts something that you can plausibly support in five pages, not something that would require a book.
  • Kate Pok on 22 Nov 11
     
    great guide to college writing- print out and give out to students.
Wayne Holly

Why the weak students end up as teachers: Education programs lack intellect. - CSMonito... - 205 views

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  • Wayne Holly on 06 Mar 11
     
    Education courses don't challenge students' intellect as others do . . .
  • Lori Armstrong on 06 Mar 11
     
    I don't know many teachers that thought their teacher education program was worth their time, so I would totally disagree with this -- weak students end up as teachers. I once had a teacher educator tell me that 'grades' were the most significant indicator of a good teacher. I laughed at her because I won the top teaching award and a year earlier I wouldn't have been accepted because my grades wouldn't have made their particular cut.
  • Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D. on 06 Mar 11
     
    I have to agree with Lori. I have several colleagues who were not admitted into teacher education programs, yet have become amazing instructional leaders. Granted, there has to be a cutoff for programs, but frankly, grades are indeed not the best indicator. I was not allowed to take an advance-level French course because of my overall GPA during my undergraduate education. Later as a high school French teacher, my students consistently placed out of university language requirements, and while with me, often placed in declamation contests for their spoken abilities. Our teacher educations programs still need work. They are not where we want them to be. Now to get to work on how to make that happen! :-)
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