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Steve Ransom

PhET: Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations - 0 views

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    Lots here!
Steve Ransom

Introducing Flubaroo 3.0! - Welcome to Flubaroo - 0 views

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    Nice updates to the Flubaroo google docs script!
Steve Ransom

27 Ways To Increase Student Engagement In Learning - 0 views

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    A nice infographic to contemplate... daily.
Steve Ransom

Power Searching with Google - 0 views

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    A nice self-directed course to become more proficient at Google searching and understanding related concepts.
Steve Ransom

Five-Minute Film Festival: Learn to Use Web 2.0 Tools | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Learn more/something new this summer. DIY materials and learning abound today!
Istvan Rozanich

Cyborgology » humanity meets technology - 3 views

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    Thanks for that. Thoroughly enjoyed reading the piece on friendship and social media.
Steve Ransom

Topics & Research: Safety - 0 views

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    Nice site for statistics, reports, and such surrounding bullying and other issues that impact school climate.
Steve Ransom

#BaldForBieber Hoax Teaches Kids to Fact Check Before Shaving Their Heads - 0 views

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    Poetic justice for those who fail to fact check.
Steve Ransom

Pressure Pic Problem - Boyfriend's Story - That's Not Cool - YouTube - 0 views

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    A humorous, interactive YouTube video dealing with peer pressure and sexting - a sad but real issue facing kids (and adults :-( ) today choice embedded at the end of the scenario with feedback.
Steve Ransom

100 Ways to Use Digital Cameras | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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    The digital camera is often an overlooked device for use in the classroom by students. It's an easy way to meaningfully use technology. Combined with web 2.0 tools, it opens up so many possibilities.
Steve Ransom

Classroom Applications for the Digital Camera - 0 views

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Steve Ransom

Finding a Mindful Balance with Technology | The Mindful Classroom - 0 views

  • “butterfly brain.” Constantly flitting from subject to subject, we lose focus on the single task.
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    A fantastic post with video examples of how technology can be used to humanize, energize, engage, connect and bring relevance...
Steve Ransom

sttp - 0 views

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    This is the kind of learning students really dive in to, learn so much from, and never forget. How many NY State middle school and high school teachers will pass on it because they have too much to teach? The irony...
Steve Ransom

Paper Airplanes: History, Designs, Records - Uncategorized - Ask Toy Tech - 0 views

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    This is just cool... the videos could support kids in creating their own airplanes.
Steve Ransom

Testing in kindergarten: whatever happened to story time? | Ben Joravsky on Politics | ... - 0 views

  • When all is said and done, kindergarteners will have spent up to 60 days of class time—or a third of the school year—taking various standardized tests. And you wonder why so many wealthy people send their children to private schools.
  • to hold teachers accountable for how much their students learn—or at least how well they score on standardized tests, which is not always the same thing. But the idea is that high-scoring "good" teachers will keep their jobs and low-scoring "bad" teachers will be fired, presumably to be replaced by the thousands of "good" teachers eager to come to Illinois to give more tests.
  • "Most of the kids just look at me," says another kindergarten teacher who asked not to be identified. "They're five. They don't what a 'main character' means."
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  • means one-on-one testing.
  • Presumably, by the end of the year the child will know enough to say the bug feels anxious. At which point the teacher will get to keep his or her job, for at least another year.
  • that student's file her delightfully original take is marked: "Wrong!"
  • Here's the twist. All teachers record the answers. Think about this, folks: teachers get to grade their own accountability tests. Damn, if they had this for students back in the day, I might have passed chemistry.
Steve Ransom

Setting up MS Word for APA 6th Ed. - YouTube - 1 views

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    Error noted in this screencast. The title page should read Running head: with a lower case h
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