Source: The funniest TED Talks | TED Talks
What can I say, it’s all in the title.
Ok, maybe I will add a comment. These talks could be an incentive to get students to watch Ted Talks in a new light, one where the students realize that they could actually enjoy a Ted Talk.
Source: Writing Program R. L. Stine, the writing machine himself, has put together a 16 page book to help writers in grades 3-8. The book steps through the process of getting ideas, setting up scenes & characters, and the most important part of writing, getting over writers block. Pacing is up to you, started at…
Google Saves Oh, Google, there you go again. Sometime since this morning, when I searched Google Images for my blog post, and later in the day (now), when I did it again, I saw two buttons that were not there before… What a great feature to add. It looks like they have grander visions for…
Last week I attened the ITIP Ohio Google Summit. One of the sessions I attended was Getting Google-y in K-2 Reading presented by Jazmine Monroe and Becky McDonald. One of their examples was a Google Sheet that was formatting for Word Mapping, using conditional formatting to reflect correct and incorrect answers. I thought this was…
Urging people to find their passion may lead them to put all their eggs in one basket but then to drop that basket when it becomes difficult to carry. Source: Implicit Theories of Interest: Finding Your Passion or Developing It? When I first pulled up the paper, I jumped right to the abstract. After reading…
Source: Vookmark – Bookmark videos, watch later Vookmark is a web service with one goal, to help you keep track of videos you’ve watched or want to watch. Available on Chrome, Safari, Android, and iOS, Vookmark lets you bookmark a video simply by activating the extension or app. You do need to create an account, but once you are…
12 Things That Will Disappear From Classrooms In The Next 12 Years – The classroom is changing because the world is changing. That may not be as true as we’d like it to be–the pace of the change in education lags awkwardly behind what we see in the consumer markets. It could be argued that…