Wes Fryer has been very busy lately posting podcasts and notes about the SITE conference and FETC.... Dr. Swenson passionately challenged educators at all levels to engage in advocacy for children in an era where high stakes testing and federally mandated accountability...
Read MoreAlso check out the the feature on the history of disruptive social trends. Points out the doom and gloom that was predicted with the introduction of things like the Waltz and the novel...
Read MoreAccess Database is a program that our students must master in order to pass the NC 8th Grade Computer Skills Test. I know that we could use MS Works still for our high school kids to learn how to use databases, but no one in the real world uses it...
Read MoreThis example, , is the preliminary data from the first round of state math testing we recently conducted Lewis Elementary . Red indicates students not meeting benchmark, green indicates those that meet or exceed the benchmark score.
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L.VALENTIN in the The Stranger
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My oldest daugher is a graphic design major at Seattle University. Her most recent project involved creating a poster similar to what you find plastered on phone poles around Seattle and Portland noting concerts or social causes. Someone saw it and it made the Poster of the Week feature in the Seattle weekly, The Stranger. Note the cool conspiracy theory associated with her work...
The idea is to give lecturers the ability to insert questions into their lectures (directly unto their PowerPoint slides, for instance) and then poll the students.... I see teachers getting excited about the quiz show aspect of these clicker things and kind of missing the point about bringing interactivity to a lecture or a talk.
Read MoreThe Savvy Technologist » Blog Archive » Joe Lambert: Digital Storytelling, Part 1 Tim Wilson has posted another of his Savvy Technologist podcasts.... This one would be a great one to share during a staff meeting and I plan to do so in the near future.
Read MoreToday, Jeff Utecht has a great post entitled Traditions. In it he relates the daughters in the play Fiddler on the Roof to our traditional views of education...
Read MoreNot content to be the best mapping web site on Earth, Google has launched Google Maps Mars.... The about page has lots of background information about exactly what you are seeing.
Read MoreHe notes they are using: Drupal with the Organic Groups module to do this exact thing - student teachers write their “journal” entries, and select the group(s) that can read it.... This replaces a really dysfunctional paper-based process, where students would write their entries in a blue binder, and hand that in to their prof or mentor for review.
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