This could be cool to try, especially in the younger grades. Students create bookshelves, can win prizes, connect over books. Seems much more school-oriented and manageable than GoodReads...
Monday, March 10, 2014
BiblioNasium - Potentially Useful Online Hub to Motivate Student Reading
2014 Orbis Pictus Awards
Award winning nonfiction books from 2014
Friday, March 7, 2014
Friday, February 17, 2012
Bubble Sheet creations
This is a useful tool for the test prep season.
http://www.catpin.com/bubbletest/
http://www.catpin.com/bubbletest/
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Text: "The Bear That Wasn't"
Included in Facing History's curriculum resources, this short story is useful for thinking about what forms our identity. We have used identity charts for both the bear and the student to help students start thinking about the influence of others' thoughts on our own identities.
Monday, March 21, 2011
An Educator's Guide to Twitter
I am newly intrigued by Twitter, slowly figuring it out, dipping my toes in, but not yet ready to jump. This is an excellent guide if your interested in getting started: An Educator's Guide to Twitter
WashPo Answer Sheet - The unusual next season of ‘Survivor’
Fantasy Revenge!
The unusual next season of ‘Survivor’: "Here is a dream write-up of the next season of the television show ‘Survivor’ that just about every public school teacher in the United States would love to watch."
The unusual next season of ‘Survivor’: "Here is a dream write-up of the next season of the television show ‘Survivor’ that just about every public school teacher in the United States would love to watch."
WashPo Answer Sheet - How test scores are used as a political prop
On the fact cherry-picking "reformers" and their continuing hypocrisy...
How test scores are used as a political prop: "Politicians have long used funding to mandate policy–often with little logic (consider the use of highway funds to force raising the drinking age to 21 under Ronald Reagan). This is happening with abandon in education, as policymakers ignore evidence as they insist on ‘reform.’"
How test scores are used as a political prop: "Politicians have long used funding to mandate policy–often with little logic (consider the use of highway funds to force raising the drinking age to 21 under Ronald Reagan). This is happening with abandon in education, as policymakers ignore evidence as they insist on ‘reform.’"
WashPo Answer Sheet - Ironic extremes: Lauding and bashing teachers
This will make you angry...
Ironic extremes: Lauding and bashing teachers: "How’s this for ironic extreme: An international conference is underway in New York about how to elevate the teaching profession, while, in Florida, a new law is about be put on the books that will go a long way to making sure nobody wants to be a public school teacher."
Ironic extremes: Lauding and bashing teachers: "How’s this for ironic extreme: An international conference is underway in New York about how to elevate the teaching profession, while, in Florida, a new law is about be put on the books that will go a long way to making sure nobody wants to be a public school teacher."
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