One of my students is the daughter of a local pediatrician and wants to go into the field herself. She created her channel last year and is continuing to add videos this year. She has a video What is the CAT/CT Scan machine that has over 53,000 views! She scans her little brother while her Dad (a pediatrician) runs the video camera. Her desire was to create videos that will help children be less afraid of the doctor and the equipment used. I think it is kind of funny the expressions her little brother has. ;-)
I love this project created by one of my students to help children be unafraid to go to the doctor. She has a youtube channel called Pediatric Videos with one video having more than 50,000 views (the one on CT scanning.) Her dad is a pediatrician and filmed everything while supervising her and helping her write the script. Her little brother was the patient. This is a fantastic example of a passion based project.
If you want to take the NASA Challenge - they are scheduling a webcast that will explain more about the challenge and how to do the radiation activity on October 18th, 2013 starting at 3:00 pm CT. This is the channel where it can be seen, so mark your calendars now and plan to see it.
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Great to see Kathy Snow regenerate this online community for MYP Technology!
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because they operate more cheaply by hiring nonunion teachers.
The teachers elected new leaders with a mandate to stem the tide of layoffs, school closings and charter schools while holding on to hard-won pay increases and retirement benefits.
Emanuel made expanding the school day a centerpiece of his school reform package. That inflamed the issue of teacher compensation when contract negotiations already promised to be contentious.
Under Daley, CPS continually sought relief from making its full pension payments.
The salary increases not only have strained the annual budget, but also have made it increasingly difficult to fulfill promises made to retired teachers.
pay has always been 75% of a districts expenses, it should be planned for. It isn't like it is a surprise.
This time, a change to the law required CPS to make its contributions only if the pension plan's funding level fell below 90 percent. At the time, the teachers' pension plan was more than fully funded, at 102 percent.
For the next decade, CPS contributed zero to teachers' retirements
THREE PROMISING ALTERNATIVES FOR ASSESSING
COLLEGE STUDENTS' KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Trudy W. Banta, Merilee Griffin, Teresa L. Flateby, and Susan Kahn
Foreword by Jillian Kinzie (Dec 2009)
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
1) ePortfolios, 2) a system of rubrics for
evaluating student writing and thinking across the
curriculum, and, 3) online assessment communi-
ties that facilitate facassessment practices. centers on the establishment of online assessment
communities. These are basically groups of faculty
who take time out to discuss how students can be
Cited in: http://bit.ly/cyE2KH March 2010 overview by Lorenzo Associates
Interview and chapter from Dr. David Barr, founder of the 21st Century Information Fluency Project. This Google book article from Joyce Valenza & Reva Basch's book Super Searchers Go to school reaveal some of David's thinking about the knowledge, skills and dispositions for successful searching.
Anyone who knows David Barr recognizes his amazing understanding of 21st century information systems. This is a gem. Don't miss it.