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Keri-Lee Beasley

The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You | Edudemic - 1 views

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    Great list of web2.0 tools worth checking out!
Keri-Lee Beasley

Qwiki - 1 views

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    research tool
Katie Day

Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Article on kids, technology, multi-tasking, and attention.... refers to recent research in cognitive science re children and digital device use
Katie Day

Plastic State of Mind -- YouTube - BenZolno's Channel - 1 views

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    Video promoting the use of non-plastic renewal bags... rap song about the dangers of plastic bags....
Katie Day

20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web - 0 views

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    an ebook produced by the Google Chrome team -- which explains browsers and the web....
Keri-Lee Beasley

Educators need learning advocacy, not technology advocacy | Dangerously Irrelevant - 1 views

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    Ed tech advocate: We should use Skype! Learning advocate: We should connect our kids with other schools around the globe so they can have diverse conversations and learn with instead of learn aboutnother cultures.
Katie Day

Year 5 Blog - 1 views

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    from a UK school
Katie Day

Winners of the World Changing Ideas Video Contest: Scientific American - 1 views

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    short videos demonstrate a wheelchair suited for all terrains, a website to track the environmental footprint of product food chains, and a windmill for the suburban backyard
Katie Day

A Citizen Scientist Changes Our Understanding of Whales: Scientific American Podcast - 0 views

  • Using the photo-sharing site Flickr and a personal history of studying whale photos, she identified a picture, taken in 2001 by tourist Freddy Johansen in Madagascar, of an Antarctic humpback known to scientists as number 1363. Two years earlier, researchers had spotted 1363, a female, swimming alongside another whale in Brazil. Brazil to Madagascar. That’s a distance of 6,000 miles, nearly double any documented migration by a humpback.
  • The discovery led to her co-authoring a paper published earlier this month in Biology Letters, and earning her the esteemed title of citizen scientist. In the process, she changed our understanding of the humpback whale.
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    great little story of how a school teacher added to the world's knowledge of humpback whales thanks to her own ongoing passion and inquiry into whales AND the benefit of Flickr, where she could examine other people's photographs of whales
Katie Day

Scientific American: 60-Second Earth - 0 views

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    regular Scientific American feature of 60-second podcasts (text provided) on different scientific issues
Katie Day

Scientists Decide on Top 5 Issues for Sustainability: Scientific American Podcast - 0 views

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    60-second podcast -- and text.  Top five practices = Forecasting, Observing, Confining, Responding, Innovating
Katie Day

Fighting Bullying With Babies - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • It seems that it’s not only possible to make people kinder, it’s possible to do it systematically at scale – at least with school children. That’s what one organization based in Toronto called Roots of Empathy has done. Around babies, tough kids smile, disruptive kids focus, shy kids open up. Roots of Empathy was founded in 1996 by Mary Gordon, an educator who had built Canada’s largest network of school-based parenting and family-literacy centers after having worked with neglectful and abusive parents. Gordon had found many of them to be lacking in empathy for their children. They hadn’t developed the skill because they hadn’t experienced or witnessed it sufficiently themselves. She envisioned Roots as a seriously proactive parent education program – one that would begin when the mothers- and fathers-to-be were in kindergarten.
  • Here’s how it works: Roots arranges monthly class visits by a mother and her baby (who must be between two and four months old at the beginning of the school year). Each month, for nine months, a trained instructor guides a classroom using a standard curriculum that involves three 40-minute visits – a pre-visit, a baby visit, and a post-visit. The program runs from kindergarten to seventh grade. During the baby visits, the children sit around the baby and mother (sometimes it’s a father) on a green blanket (which represents new life and nature) and they try to understand the baby’s feelings. The instructor helps by labeling them. “It’s a launch pad for them to understand their own feelings and the feelings of others,” explains Gordon. “It carries over to the rest of class.”
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    how bringing babies into schools can help students develop empathy... and lessen bullying and aggression.... 
Katie Day

HistoricalAtlas.com: the Centennia Historical Atlas -- Europe and the Middle East 1000A... - 0 views

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    animated political maps of areas like Europe changing over time
Katie Day

Clean Water at No Cost? Just Add Carbon Credits - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • If you are a hiker or camper, you may have heard about Vestergaard Frandsen’s LifeStraw. It’s a hollow stick equipped with a series of filtering membranes. You put the end of the stick in a river or puddle ─ or a toilet, for that matter ─ and suck on it. By the time the water hits your lips, it is clean and safe ─ its filters are fine enough to trap virtually all bacteria, viruses and parasites. The product has a bigger cousin called the LifeStraw Family. You hang it on your wall, pour dirty water in the top, open the tap and clean water comes out the bottom. No power or replacement parts are required. Each unit cleans about 18,000 liters of water ─ enough for a family for three years. The market cost of the unit averages out at a penny per ten liters of water purified. Vestergaard Frandsen will distribute the LifeStraw Family for free. It is helping to sponsor a traveling campaign through the western part of Kenya set for April, 2011, that will reach 4 million families. The campaign bundles various products ─ each family that attends will get insecticide-treated bednets to protect against malaria, AIDS tests and counseling and a free LifeStraw Family.
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    discusses the economics of innovations like the LifeStraw which allows people to drink clean water... in places like Africa....
Katie Day

Just Share -- photographs from the public in Singapore -- Public Libraries Singapore - 0 views

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    Photos of SIngapore
Wendy Liao

Project Labels - 1 views

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    Read Writing Think Graphic Organizer- Animal Study
Wendy Liao

Compare and Contrast Map - 0 views

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    Read Writing Think You can use this tool to map out your compare and contrast essay.
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