STABMSteachers

Save time Take already existing videos from Youtube, Khan Academy, Crash Course, etc. or upload your own. Engage students easily Enable self-paced learning with interactive lessons, add your voice and questions along the video. Reinforce accountability Know if your students are watching your videos, how many times and see the answers they give.

Andrea Beardsley showed me this resource today and said it's an awesome, free tool she uses specifically for searching, borrowing and tweaking and/or creating and saving rubrics for her classes.

This is a MUST listen to episode of TED Radio Hour about the impact of social media on us and how few of people are actually part of creating it: "We're swimming in this digital environment that is created and hand-crafted by a handful of companies with deliberate goals to capture human attention. Now you have 2 billion people, 25% of population and 90% of GDP, whose thoughts are shaped by this handful of 20 to 40 year old mostly engineers and designers in CA. … This problem is underneath all other problems." Tristan Harris

Interesting blog on why we should be including and teaching presentation skills.

Thinking about FABLab: "So, rather than just putting kids in front of some craft supplies and a laser cutter in a "maker space," and telling them to go at it, you're advocating a much more specific approach of what you call the four P's: Students making projects, around their passions, collaborating with peers, and maintaining a playful attitude. "

fascinating

A teacher I follow on twitter shared his 2016 post about Dot Day (which is today), but thought you might be able to find other uses for the tool he used: Visual Poetry (http://www.languageisavirus.com/visual-poetry) which lets you paint with your words. Very cool!

Shared by David Jones as we were discussing FABLab.

Here's the other side of the argument...

From UVA's own, Carol Ann Tomlinson

The Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities calendar of holidays and festivals - a resource to encourage awareness of the great diversity of religious and ethnic groups that live in the US.

Some good tips to share with students when teaching them how to search for information on the internet.

Shared by Tom Weis