Don McMillan: Life After Death by PowerPoint
Here's a great video on what not to do when creating your next power point!!
Thanks to Don McMillan for posting!!
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
So how can we fight Engagement Deficit Disorder?
How do we RE-ENGAGE students who have checked out?
Read Caitlan Tucker's blog and her 10 ideas on how we can re-engage our students in the classroom.
Free High School Books in digital format!!
Here's a great website that lists how to get 20 popular high school books.
Every year, thousands of American high school students read a common selection of great novels — classics loved by young and old readers alike. Today, we have selected 20 of the most popular books and highlighted ways that you can download versions for free, mostly as free audio books and ebooks, and sometimes as movies and radio dramas. You will find more great works — and sometimes other digital formats — in our collections of Free Audio Books and Free eBooks. So please give them a good look over, and if we’re missing a novel you want, don’t forget Audible.com’s 14 day trial. It will let you download an audio book for free, pretty much any one you want.
Click HERE for the blog posting of the 20 most popular books in digital format....
Click HERE for the blog posting of the 20 most popular books in digital format....
Alternative Assessments
40 Alternative Assessments for LearningBy: Charity Preston
When people think of assessment, pencils and bubble sheets may be the first things that come to mind. Assessment does not always have to involve paper and pencil, but can instead be a project, an observation, or a task that shows a student has learned the material.
In the end, all we really want to know is that the skill was mastered, right? Why not make it fun and engaging for students as well?
Many teachers shy away from alternative assessments because they take extra time and effort to create and to grade. On the other hand, once the assessment guidelines and grading rubric are created, it can be filed away and used year after year.
The project card and rubric can be run on card stock (one on each side of the page), laminated, and hole punched with other alternative assessment ideas. Keep them all together in a binder or with an o-ring. Assessment just became a snap!
Here are 40 alternative assessment ideas to get you started! CLICK HERE for Charity's blogpost....
When people think of assessment, pencils and bubble sheets may be the first things that come to mind. Assessment does not always have to involve paper and pencil, but can instead be a project, an observation, or a task that shows a student has learned the material.
In the end, all we really want to know is that the skill was mastered, right? Why not make it fun and engaging for students as well?
Many teachers shy away from alternative assessments because they take extra time and effort to create and to grade. On the other hand, once the assessment guidelines and grading rubric are created, it can be filed away and used year after year.
The project card and rubric can be run on card stock (one on each side of the page), laminated, and hole punched with other alternative assessment ideas. Keep them all together in a binder or with an o-ring. Assessment just became a snap!
Here are 40 alternative assessment ideas to get you started! CLICK HERE for Charity's blogpost....
Creating your own eBooks for use on the iPad or Tablets...
I ran across this blog on how to create your own eBooks and immediately thought how I could take my lessons and create them as eBooks so that my students could download them afterwards and use them as extensions, review, or in case they missed a lesson or wanted to study for assessments later in the term.
Click HERE to so to the original blog entry from Langwitches.org.
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Click HERE to so to the original blog entry from Langwitches.org.
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LiveBinders!! A great new tool for all teachers
LiveBinder is a great new tool for the Educator2.0 that wants to share their work with others or have their work online and be able to use it interactively! Check out their website HERE.
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I found the following poem (written by Lee Crockett, Ian Jukes and Andrew Churches) on Tony Gurr's All Things Learning blog. Take a look at Tony's blog and follow it, too!!
In coming closer and closer to the end of my teacher education program I thought it was appropriate to re-post the poem as part of what I intend to become -- along with a continuing reflective educator!
What is a Teacher?
A guide, not a guard.
What is learning?
A journey, not a destination.
What is discovery?
Questioning the answers, not answering the questions.
What is the process?
Discovering ideas, not covering content.
What is the goal?
Open minds, not closed issues.
What is the test?
Being and becoming, not remembering and reviewing.
What is learning?
Not just doing things differently, but doing different things.
What is teaching?
Not showing them what to learn, but showing them how to learn
What is school?
Whatever we choose to make it.
(by Lee Crockett, Ian Jukes & Andrew Churches)
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