RMS Learning Collaborative

To find oral history projects available on the internet, try the following resources:American Slave Narratives (University of Virginia)Conversations with America (Chicago History Museum)Conversations with History (University of California, Berkeley)Go for Broke (National Education Center)Guardians of Freedom (Nieman School)Oral History Collections (US Holocaust Memorial Museum)Oral History Archives (Rutgers University)Mississippi Oral History Project (University of Southern Mississippi)Regarding War (PBS)Shoah Foundation Institute (University of Southern California)Southern Oral History Program (University of North Carolina)Telling Their Stories (Urban School of San Francisco)Tibet Oral History ProjectVeterans History Project (Library of Congress)Veterans Remember D-Day (Encyclopedia Britannica) The Vietnam Center and Archive (Texas Tech University)Voices of the Dust Bowl (Library of Congress)What Did You Do in the War Grandma? (Brown University)The Whole World Was Watching (Brown University)

We received a question about grading, specifically how to balance grading between formative and summative assessments. The author was concerned because the grading practices of the teachers in the school were so different. To answer the question, we need to develop a common understanding of the terms formative assessment and summative assessment. A summative assessment is an assessment that asks, "Did the student acquire the intended knowledge and skills by the deadline-yes or no, pass or fail?" For example, every course at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois, ends with a final exam that counts for 25 percent of a student's final grade. This is clearly a summative exam. State exams are another example of summative assessments.

While reading Professional Learning Communities at Work™, I considerably marked up the margins with check marks and the letter U; the check marks meant "this is so important" and the Us symbolized that the ideas, as I saw them, were important because they were actually universal truths. Concepts like curiosity, practice, cooperation, support, reflection, and growth that first appeared in the introduction said to me that this book provided elements that are ageless and timeless. I knew that what was being explored could be meaningful for anyone, in any circumstance, and in any environment.

Use to research about environmental issues. Your state wildlife organizations are great resources.

tricks for LCM GCF

A Hub is a rich web page that you write and design. Each time you want to write another article, you'll create another Hub. It's just like in a website, which has multiple web pages. You have the capability to add text, pictures, videos, and links in your Hub.

This site shares learning styles of 21st century students, and explains why it is important to understand today's students

Variety of games for middle school math.

Instructure Canvas a Free LMS for TeachersInstructure Canvas is a free learning management system that teachers can use to record grades, post assignments, and interact with their students. Students can use Instructure Canvas to communicate with each other and collaborate on assignments. What caught my attention about Instructure Canvas is that it integrates Facebooks, Google Docs, and email systems outside of Instructure. Another neat feature of Instructure Canvas is that students can subscribe to RSS, email, and cell phone alerts to stay abreast of any new content their teachers post.    Richard Byrne

Activities show students that experimental and theoretical probability are very different through the use of toosie pops.

Resources for Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes Lessons, Activities, Explanations, Animations, Maps

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"Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals. If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual," each of them is a "multitude.""

Educators need no longer be content to passively wait for others to discover the "small sparks" that are needed to solve classroom or school issues. The technology now exists for educators to share their own "small sparks" at the grassroots level together through networks such as Twitter, and on Twitter that means #edchat

One of the roundtables that I went to at ISTE was about an interesting research project that tracked how teachers and students used wikis and blogs in the classroom - Web 2.0 in the Classroom, Blogs and Wikis.

Introduction to toxic chemicals in everday life

North Carolina Wildlife Organization Learn how to manage your environment.