SMS Connections

Erica's students wrote letters to the future president for the National Writing Project and this is the result. Great stuff Erica.

Check the facts as they are espoused by candidates.

Tom Barrett's 50 Ways to use Google Docs in the classroom

Barrett's Google Blog post

Some cool fractal stuff.

How cool is this?

Very cool graphic from 1823.

What do you make of this? How does it affect your future? Your students'?

Help your students find out what their learning style is.

If any of you are blogging with your students, does this rubric help you?

Ryan's rubric for blog assessment.

Interesting idea.

What would happen if we taught athletics primarily through the use of textbooks? What would happen if we taught academics primarily through hands-on experience?

Web English Teacher's list of resources for graphic organizers.

Graphic organizers by type.

Look what Erica is up to; better yet, what her students have found in their collaborative work.

Please read this. I love this stuff.

Can you use drug ads to enhance critical reading analysis.

Drug ads and language. Deconstruct with your student.

William Cole's rationale on why laptops are not allowed in his law classes.

This one might make for a good discussion.

An interesting graphic to aid in providing some historical perspective to the current economic crisis.

Great for definitions of financial crisis

Interesting list of question types. I particularly like the "Columbo" style.

This one from Erica Hartman's students. Very good stuff available for helping students "read" images.

someone check this one out.

Maps that change shape depending on the data set you choose.

This is some fantastic visualization. Allows you to reshape the world map according to certain data sets.

Utecht referenced this in an earlier post.