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Weblogg-ed » "What Did You Create Today?" - 1 views

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What did you make today that was meaningful? What did you learn about the world? Who are you working with? What surprised you? What did your teachers make with you? What did you teach others? What unanswered questions are you struggling with? How did you change the world in some small (or big) way? What’s something your teachers learned today? What did you share with the world? What do you want to know more about? What did you love about today? What made you laugh?
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Tony Baldasaro on 22 Aug 09

In a couple of weeks, both Tess and Tucker will be starting their first day at brand new schools. They'll know no one, have all new teachers, new surroundings, and, hopefully, new opportunities. I'm not sure they're totally at peace with these changes, but as I keep telling them, it's the kind of stuff that builds character. (I keep regaling them with school switching stories of my own, the most challenging being when my mom moved us out to New Jersey from Chicago when I was beginning 6th grade and three days before school started I was wading barefoot in a creek, stepped on a broken bottle, and ended up with 10 stitches in the bottom of my foot and a pair of crutches for the first week of classes. Talk about character building.) Wendy and I have been trying to prepare them for this shift as best we can, and while I know it's a bit scary for them, I'm really hopeful the change will be good for them on a lot of different levels.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">In a couple of weeks, both Tess and Tucker will be starting their first day at brand new schools. They'll know no one, have all new teachers, new surroundings, and, hopefully, new opportunities. I'm not sure they're totally at peace with these changes, but as I keep telling them, it's the kind of stuff that builds character. (I keep regaling them with school switching stories of my own, the most challenging being when my mom moved us out to New Jersey from Chicago when I was beginning 6th grade and three days before school started I was wading barefoot in a creek, stepped on a broken bottle, and ended up with 10 stitches in the bottom of my foot and a pair of crutches for the first week of classes. Talk about character building.) Wendy and I have been trying to prepare them for this shift as best we can, and while I know it's a bit scary for them, I'm really hopeful the change will be good for them on a lot of different levels.</div>

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Malala wins Nobel Peace Prize | News | First News - 13 views

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New Educational Approaches | John Boyer - 2 views

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Randolph Hollingsworth on 09 May 12

John Boyer, a Virginia Tech instructor who teaches a supersized world geography intro course (2,760 students) with 2 TAs - uses social media to maintain high personal touch with the students and to attract world-famous guest instructores (e.g., Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi).

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">John Boyer, a Virginia Tech instructor who teaches a supersized world geography intro course (2,760 students) with 2 TAs - uses social media to maintain high personal touch with the students and to attract world-famous guest instructores (e.g., Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi).</div>

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BBC News - Iran: EU oil sanctions 'unfair' and 'doomed to fail' - 0 views

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Iran had "failed to restore international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear programme", British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a joint statement.
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Newsela | Nonfiction Literacy and Current Events - 21 views

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Donnie Browning on 12 Sep 14

Current Events and News for Kids

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Google Tip of the Day #30 - Pause your Inbox... Work in (Relative) Peace - 50 views

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If you get a lot of email you will certainly appreciate the ability to pause your email so you can work on your email backlog without being interrupted by new messages.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">If you get a lot of email you will certainly appreciate the ability to pause your email so you can work on your email backlog without being interrupted by new messages.</div>

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Newsela | Nonfiction Literacy and Current Events - 55 views

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This site presents current events in various reading levels

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The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400) [Chaucer Biography] - 42 views

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Chaucer went to the war in France.
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  What prompted Edward III to pay ransom for Chaucer's release? Did someone have the King's ear or was he a valued servant of the court?
  
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  In the grant of his pension Chaucer is called "dilectus vallectus noster," our beloved yeoman; before the end of 1368 he had risen to be one of the king's esquires.
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In the second quarter of 1374 Chaucer lived in a whirl of prosperity.
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During the next twelve or fifteen years there is no question that Chaucer was constantly engaged in literary work,
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In October 1385 Chaucer was made a justice of the peace for Kent.
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In August 1386 he was elected one of the two knights of the shire for Kent, and with this dignity, though it was one not much appreciated in those days, his good fortune reached its climax.
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While on the king's business, in September 1390, Chaucer was twice robbed by highwaymen,
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In 1397 he received from King Richard a grant of a butt of wine yearly. For this he appears to have asked in terms that suggest poverty, and in May 1398 he o
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btained letters of protection against his creditors, a step perhaps rendered necessary by an action for debt taken against him earlier in the year.
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he died, on the 25th of the following October. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, and his tomb became the nucleus of what is now known as Poets' Corner.
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the king granted him a pitcher of wine daily,
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  His literary period.
  
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The development of his genius has been attractively summed up as comprised in three stages, French, Italian and English,
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Petrarch's sonnets,
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occaccio's Decamerone, a book which there is no proof of his having seen.
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On the 8th of June he was appointed Comptroller of the Custom and Subsidy of Wools, Hides and Woodfells and also of the Petty Customs of Wine in the Port of London.
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Meditation Research FAQ - 1 views

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What I can say is that the MBSR program has been around for 30 years and there have been hundreds of clinical trials indicating that it is effective for reducing stress and many (though not all) clinical symptoms.
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All the participants in our study went through the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course (MBSR) developed at the Center for Mindfulness
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I can't stop thinking/my mind won't calm down/"Unusual phenomena" bother me when I meditate/I can't meditate—what should I do? OR When I meditate, I experience "unusual phenomena". What is going on? Is this an advanced state?
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The Buddha compared the mind to the strings of a lute (a guitar-like instrument): the lute can not be played if the strings are too tight or too loose. Similarly when attention is either too tight or too loose, you can't properly meditate. When attention is too loose, the mind wanders and you get lost in thought. Try narrowing your focus in different ways (e.g. just inhales instead of the whole breath, focus on a smaller area around your nose). Some people do a few minutes of yoga or loving kindness (metta) practice at the start of their meditation period to focus the mind, before switching to breath awareness meditation. Some people find focusing on sounds easier than focusing on breathing.
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The goal is not to try to change anything, but to be aware of the desire to change it and then see if we can just relax and be ok with it even if it doesn't change. Are we trying to quiet the storm, or are we trying to find peace within the storm?
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