September 2010
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Banned Books Week: Day 4 Idea 8/10
From NYT Learning Network:
Protective Policies: See how librarians at the Brooklyn Public Library handle challenges to books and other creative works in their collection, and read some sample requests for reconsideration and responses. Consider the fact that different people find different books “detestable,” and that in the name of freedom the Brooklyn library stocks books that offend or...
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RE: Visual Color Spectrum Wellness beads
@DSHAHighSchool My question is...where is Indigo? Roy G Biv, anyone?
@gjmueller The Indigo is in the jeans everyone can wear on a non-uniform fun day! =)
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Banned Books Week: Day 4 Idea 7/10
From NYT Learning Network:
Librarians for Liberty: Have you ever been caught reading under the covers? So was the late Judith Krug, the librarian who created Banned Books Week –- and her mother’s reaction to what she was reading taught her a lesson about having the freedom to read that later translated into her passion for the First Amendment and intellectual freedom. Learn more about Ms....
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OK, so yesterday I promised a special treat for those of you who love the now-famous Inner Life of the Cell video. Here it is! The Harvard University team behind that video has created a new animation highlighting the powerhouse of the cell, the mitochondria. If you thought the last one was complicated, it’s got nothing on this one.
The little prokaryotic endosymbionts that we call the...
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Banned Books Week: Day 3 Idea 6/10
From NYT Learning Network:
‘Speak’ or Not?: This week, a university professor, Wesley Scroggins, attacked Laurie Halse Anderson’s “Speak” as “soft pornography” in The Springfield News-Leader of Missouri. Ms. Halse Anderson responded on her blog, as did the teacher and blogger Donalyn Miller on The Book Whisperer Blog. Read the blog posts and discuss both positions. What is “soft ...
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“Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including...”
– Doug Larson (Thanks Dr. Mansfield!)
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Banned Books Week: Day 3 Idea 5/10
From NYT Learning Network:
Blog All About It: Read this article featuring a New Jersey family that blogs together about books and encourages support of Banned Books Week. Choose a banned title to read as a family. Discuss it over dinner and/or online together. Include far-flung extended family by blogging or writing literary letters.
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Email @ DSHA | Tips To Share With Students
Email @ DSHA | Tips To Share With Students 1. Understand that no e-mail communication is 100% secure. We can do our best to achieve a percentage close to that, but sometimes - if the information is extremely important - you should consider ditching the e-mail option and deliver it in person (if possible). 2. Do not send private, personal information via e-mail. Never send user names, passwords...
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Banned Books Week: Day 2 Idea 4/10
From NYT Learning Network:
Join the Club: Create book clubs around banned books. To investigate titles for your club to read, you might use the Books section, including the drop-down menus for finding book reviews and coverage of featured authors. Then hold book “pitches” and form club reading schedules. As you read, respond to the texts, and then execute a final project, either individually...
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Grr...Queues being fixed!
For those of you out there still struggling with your queues (like me!) here’s Tumblr’s response today:
Our developers are aware of issues around the Queue not posting or not posting reliably. Within the next week we are launching a completely overhauled Queue back-end and a new Queue interface. These changes should resolve all of the issues we have seen with the Queue. Thank you for...
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Classroom iPod touches & iPads: Dos and Don'ts →
Great list of practical items to put on your checklist if you’re thinking about implementing iPods or iPads in your classroom!
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WatchSupercharge Your Interactive Whiteboard - some of the resources from this presentation (high school - many are PreK-8):
Interactivate
Scholastic Whiteboard Activities
Triptico (covered previously)
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“Batman is defined by the goal to seek never-ending vengeance on criminals....”
– Chris Brogan’s Personal Branding Basics for 2011
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Banned Books Week: Day 2 Idea 3/10
From NYT Learning Network:
Big Name Bans: Did you know that “Harry Potter” topped the library association’s list of most challenged books in the year 2000? Other recent frequently challenged books include the “Twilight” series and “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” Learn more about recent challenges and then create posters to promote intellectual freedom using some of the titles. One idea:...
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This is a news website article about a scientific... →
Now’s your chance…using this template, you too can write a news website article about a scientific paper!
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Conditions Needed to Leverage Technology in...
ISTE has a great list of what conditions need to be satisfied for successful technology in the classroom. Aside from leadership and planning, equitable access, sustained support and professional development, and curriculum framework are a part of what DSHA Technology is piloting this year to support our new faculty’s interactive whiteboards (SMARTboards).
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Entering The Real World: Tools and Tips for... →
Refers to a challenge for your students…is it raining today? Considering the size of wipers and windshield areas, who sees more - the car or truck driver?
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Banned Books Week: Day 1 Idea 2/10
From NYT Learning Network:
Don’t Read This!: Scan this list. What do these books have in common? Are you surprised to see that they are the Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books for 2000-2009? Use Anna Quindlen’s Op-Ed from 1994 as the model for an essay about personal experiences reading banned books and thoughts about book banning in general. We also invite you to answer our Student Opinion...
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Top 5 Search Tools for Finding Flickr Images for... →
Nice short collinktion of ways to search for Flickr images:
Tag Galaxy
Flickr Tags
Picishare
LiteFlickr
Multicolr (my favorite!)
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Managing your Twitter presence
I thought this was a good article that might help you set goals with your Twitter presence. One quick takeaway I liked was his 12:1 rule - promote other people’s stuff 12 times more than mine (including this!).
What are your Twitter goals?
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Banned Books Week: Day 1 Idea 1/10
From NYT Learning Network:
Classic Challenges: Books commonly taught in secondary schools show up again and again on the American Library Association’s most frequently challenged list. Why are some books challenged year after year? Find out why and then “adopt” a banned book like “The Catcher in the Rye” or “To Kill a Mockingbird” by investigating its history of challenges. (For example, a...
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Five Hallmarks of Good Homework
According to Cathy Vatterott, here are the essential 5 characteristics homework tasks should have:
Purpose: create a task that allows students to use their own learning styles
Efficiency: tasks that demonstrate student learning, not just artistic talents
Ownership: give a task that allows students the choice of what, when, and how
Competence: make homework time-based instead of task-based
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“Twitter can be a virtual form of weisure — a mix work and leisure.”
– Dyane Jean François in Twitter, What Is It Good For?
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Google Docs Self Check Quizzes →
Neat little tip - create self-check quizzes using google docs yourself, or use these templates! To create your own:
Basic Instructions:
Open one of the templates
Edit the title and questions
Email the students form
The students will complete and submit the form
Go to the provided spreadsheet
Enter the correct answers in row 2
Click “Scores”
View the student scores - Win!
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