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Leverage Social Media's Potential - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com
Eric Sheninger tackles social media in schools. Way to go Eric.
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The Frontier of Classroom Technology - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com
The New York Times is running a piece on the Frontier of Classroom technology. (I wanted to write on some of the other topics but they asked me to tackle adaptive learning, so that is what they got.) Ann Leanness, Will Richardson and others. Feel free to share your opinions.
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Embrace Adaptive Testing - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com
I have to admit that it was very hard to put into a few short words my thoughts on adaptive learning. I didn't really intend for it to center on the testing piece but I guess that is what the editors thought hadn't already been covered, although I do agree with everything I said on it. Of course, many will say we need much more than testing but I think the big point is that pencil and paper don't cut it. We are wasting time with how we test now and can be much more targeted in terms of what students know and how we can teach. Your thoughts?
The biggest thing that bothers me about all these apps is that we have no learning analytics - no feedback loop at all to parents or teachers. I literally have to watch my son play his ipad learning games to really understand where he is and what I need to do to fill things in.
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 01/04/2012
Bongo's Disastrous Legacy
Alex Perry in Time Magazine
...it's worth remembering that Bongo was precisely the kind of leader Gabon, and Africa, could have done without. Gabon has a tiny population (1.4 million) and vast oil reserves, and after four decades of exporting hundreds of billions of dollars of crude,the biggest testament to the corruption and ineptitude of Bongo's rule is that he somehow contrived not to turn his country into an African Kuwait...[continue reading]
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Bongo's Disastrous Legacy
Alex Perry in Time Magazine
...it's worth remembering that Bongo was precisely the kind of leader Gabon, and Africa, could have done without. Gabon has a tiny population (1.4 million) and vast oil reserves, and after four decades of exporting hundreds of billions of dollars of crude,the biggest testament to the corruption and ineptitude of Bongo's rule is that he somehow contrived not to turn his country into an African Kuwait...[continue reading]
Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 01/06/2012
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Paint a dragon on your interactive white board for Chinese new year.
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Chinese New Year Lesson Plans and Resources
Chinese New year ideas, crafts, and activities. If you like topical activities, this is one for you. It includes Chinese New Year Animal Masks, Paint a Dragon, and Comprehensive activities. Bring awareness to different cultures and calendars.
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Martin Luther King project - Resources - TES
This resource is getting great reviews and is one you may want to look at if you're an elementary teacher.
"designed primarily for older children with moderate learning difficulties. It could be adapted for younger children. Children can talk about some sections as well as draw their answers." -
Teaching Resources, Classroom Resources & Lesson Plans - TES Resources
Lots of resources and ideas for Martiin Luther King's birthday right around the corner. Lots of free things to download and use as you plan the lessons around this great man.
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Using body language in the classroom - Resources - TES
Tom Bennett's guide for using body language in the classroom. This is a short guide that could be used to review these concepts with teachers. It isn't whether you learned this in school it is whether you apply it in your classroom today. Sometimes we all need reminders, especially when we realize that our students are getting a bit out of hand. Usually, we've forgotten what works.
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Whole school Behaviour teaching resources – TES
Having problems with behavior in your classroom? Here are some great resources that you could use in your classroom or school? Attendance and Classroom management are some good ones to look at this time of year. Just remember that whatever you select that you should never underestimate the power of a raised eyebrow or proximity (getting closer to someone who has behavior issues.)
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Student Opinion | What Would Your Personal Mascot Be? - NYTimes.com
What would your personal mascot be? I love this post and question (and also the comments that kids are making on the New York Times query.)
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The NEA has free lesson plans for you to use. They have themed plans organized by month. I would look here for seasonal ideas no matter your type of school.
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Language arts teachers of all ages will love the free lesson plans on this website. They are standards based and organized by grade level.
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Lesson Plan | Making the Invisible Visible: Exploring and Addressing Water Pollution - NYTimes.com
"Overview | What is bioluminescence, and what function does it play in living organisms? How have researchers harnessed bioluminescence in studies of toxicity and pollution? In this lesson, students explore deep-sea bioluminescence, learn how scientists use this property to identify contaminants in water and participate in a forum on water pollution."
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Lesson Plans | preschoolpointers.com
This preschool teacher doesn't use the typical lesson plan book. I love the transparency. "Here is my system: Since I am a big fan of the Reggio Emilia Project Approach, I do not sit down before the week begins and plan what we’ll do for each day. I plan for the current day, and am willing to make changes if something wonderful has come up. (For example, we might be learning how to make paper but a child brings in an amazing collection of shells. If the children want to learn about shells that day, I am ready to switch gears. The paper can wait.) This system allows me to switch gears and not have to re-write anything.".
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Lesson Plan | Scrutinizing Stand-Ins: Working With Nouns and Pronouns - NYTimes.com
Lesson plan on pronouns using the New York Times.
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The 20% Project (like Google) In My Class | Education Is My Life
AJ Juliani's 20% project based on Google's 20% guideline for employees.
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Paula Naugle's Irregular Verb Resources
Paula has collected resources for helping students with irregular English verbs. I'm struggling with helping my fourth grader learn them and have a whole week to get ready for the test and will be using these sites, review games, and activities! Thank you Paula!
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FREE -- Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans from the Federal Government
The US Federal Government has a website that catalogs all the educational material from the US Federal Government. These free resources are in every subject and grade level. Share with curriculum directors, especially fornthosenofnyou creating your own textbooks.
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Mario and Sonic English - Resources - TES
So you need a writing prompt or ideas to get students excited about writing. Here is an idea that used Mario and Sonic to encourage writing.
This describes how a games based approach can be used for collaboratively building descriptions of characters and or settings. It can be used as the initial stimulus for imaginative writing by providing "concrete" experiences for learners. -
Series of 3 lessons on Vietnam War - Resources - TES
Lesson plans about the vietnam war. This is a UK document and may give you different perspectives in your studies. Worksheets, powerpoints, and documents to use with this 3 lesson. It includes a lesson on military tactics.
Françafrique Redux
Achille Mbembé, a Cameroonian-born historian and critic of French involvement in Ivory Coast, said that France continued to support African dictators, mentioning the leaders of Gabon, Cameroon, Congo, Chad and Togo. He saw “a continuity in the management of Françafrique — this system of reciprocal corruption, which, since the end of colonial occupation, ties France to its African henchmen.”More here
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 11/23/2011
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There is a new site I'm seeing called Buffer. It lets you find things and put them into your "buffer" - another autotweeting type service. You can use with facebook but beware that often Facebook makes things not typed "live" into facebook have a lower priority and not put them on homestreams.
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5 Keys To Making Google Plus Work For You | Twitter Tips And Updates From Buffer
Good post if you don't get Google plus. This post is helpful.
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The Best Apps on the Planet for a Holiday Shopping Trip
I like this blog post written by a person who likes to shop. Sometimes this type of post is the best and I gleaned a lot of app advice from this blog post. Read up and research.
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Here is the TGI cyber Monday app. This is for shopping on Monday.
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Black Friday Ads 2011 - TGI Black Friday
Black Friday? There is an app for that. TGI Black Friday. It gives you the ads. You can download them on your iphone and Android.
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RedLaser - Impossibly Accurate Barcode Scanning
AS you shop, you should download the RedLaser app for your smartphone. Compare your prices while you're in the store.
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Five Black Friday Trends That Will Impact Retailers - Executive Style - Portfolio.com
How people will shop on Black Friday. They mention mobile, but one thing I do now is scan barcodes in the store to compare online and if it is cheaper on my iphone, then I will buy online via mobile. It is sad for F2F retailers but consumers are no longer a captive audience.
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Flipboard Adds Its First iPad Catalog for Gilt Taste - NYTimes.com
Flipboard has its first catalog go live. Gilt Taste will launch on Flipboard in time for black Friday designed to "make people hungry and thirsty."
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Black Friday Alert | NBC Philadelphia
So, if you want to use Twitter to find black friend deals follow both #blackfriday and #blackfridayalert .
"Tweet helpful tidbits using the hashtag #blackfridayalert and others can search the tag using the Twitter widget below." -
News on Food, Wine, Restaurants and Recipes - Diner's Journal Blog - NYTimes.com
Finding it interesting that the New York Times is taking thanksgiving questions on the hashtag - you have to tweet @nytimesdining with the hashtag #ThanksgivingQs - what an interesting thing. Why not try it?
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#thanksgiving - Hashtag - Hashonomy
Hashonomy is an interesting website that lets you figure out related hashtags. For example, here's the hashonomy page for thanksgiving. RElated tags #lovethepie #thebigcheese and #turkeytweet - I'm not quite sure why #bookshakalaka is related but OK.
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Creating a Safe Social Network Profile Page - Resources - TES
Some nice resources on creating a safe social network page. A document and an Interactive Whiteboard powerpoint file to use.
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App Store - Alarmed ~ Reminders, Timers, Alarm Clock
This is the app I used last year at Thanksgiving and Christmas. It is great. I put in when I need to check a dish or what I need to check and it keeps me going! I love it.
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Paprika Recipe Manager for iPad, iPhone and Mac.
My indispensible recipe app for the ipad/ iphone. I LOVE Paprika. If you're looking at thanksgiving and want it on your ipad, then get paprika while there is still time.
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Fine Motor and Handwriting Development Activities - Resources - TES
Handwriting and fine motor activities. A nice PDF document that you can find some things if you teach handwriting.
Description:
This resource provides a range of activities to develop fine motor skills, designed with learners with severe learning difficulties in mind. It is by no means exhaustive, but covers a range of activities to develop discrimination of left and right, hand-eye coordination, crossing the mid-line, -
Harvest assembly play script - Resources - TES
I love assembly ideas. Here is a harvest festival play that could be adapted in other schools.
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Teachers TV: Weather Around the World - Resources - TES
Downloadable video "weather around the world" filmed in 5 different climactic regions. This includes multiple lesson plans and downloadable videos - all for free. (Another @TEsconnect resource)
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Phonic Practice Set 1 - Resources - TES
A set of phonics flashcards that you can download.
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Free iPhone App Builder | Free Android App Builder | iPhone and Android CMS
An app building content management platform. This was recommended to me by Jarrod Robinson (Mr Robbo the PE Geek - a very helpful guy).
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How to export from Google sketchup to opensim. My students and I are testing this.
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A Look Back At 10 Favorite Activities From the Student Blogging Challenges : The Edublogger
Sue Waters' favorite activities from the student blogging challenges. Here are some ideas to get you started.
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Winners of the 7th Annual Homeschool Blog Awards:
Here are the winners of the homeschool blogging awards. Some good ones here.
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70 Super Useful Twitter Hashtags for Homeschoolers | Online College Courses
The hashtags homeschoolers use. I find it interesting how educational conversations of all types are melding together on Twitter- a great leveler. Many of these hashtags will be recognized by mainstream educators.
What's Worth Measuring In Development?
Misha Lepetic writing in 3QuarksDaily:
More here...jugaad innovation is one that is entirely outside the metrics of growth, scale and development as we have come to understand it. In fact, the original jugaad motor vehicles remain unregistered, and therefore not subject to India’s road tax, so it is impossible to estimate how many are on the road. It is this ambiguity that allows true, local innovation to remain almost entirely outside the frames I have described above. Does that mean that it is any less effective, or that the problems being solved by that local population are any less deserving of being solved, if only for that population itself?... it is an acknowledgment that local ecosystems with seemingly intractable problems beyond the scope of free markets and development initiatives can in fact be served by their very own populations. Once that is recognized and encouraged, it might even emerge that what we are most interested in measuring is not profitability or growth, but human dignity itself.Image via Wikipedia
Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 07/03/2011
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Baptism by Fire ~ A Newbie’s ISTE ’11 Reflections, Part One « coal cracker classroom
@coolcatteacher @diigo @mmkrill @julielindsay @engaginged Thank you! Blogged: Baptism by Fire ~ ISTE Newbie reflections http://t.co/l4kigkk
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eduflections: ISTE Insights from Troublemakers
New Post: ISTE Insights from Troublemakers http://bit.ly/iiN5FY #ISTE11 #edchat
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Google+ tweaked to disable private-post sharing | Privacy Inc. - CNET News
It is good that if you have a private post on Google+ that it will not allow you to share it publicly.
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Baptism by Fire ~ A Newbie’s ISTE ’11 Reflections, Part One « coal cracker classroom
I am so proud of my friend Suzie Nestico. Hear her journey in her words, but I wanted to share my comment here as it is a good follow up for my missing of iste last week.
Take the time to bless others. If I ever had to be out when I was a manager, I would have a staff person to sit in for me and have a chance to shine. Many people are afraid of others looking better than themselves. The fact is that none of us will be here forever and if we can pay forward kindness and leave a legacy of helping others then we've done something. We're not here to hoard we're here to bless and help. Suzie is a blessing and it was a joy to know that she did such a great job at ISTE. I'm proud of her.
"You did an incredible job. All credit goes to you for your wonderful work. One thing to remember is that when others put their faith in you - if they are the type who does an excellent job (as I long to be) then it is for a reason. I knew that you would do a great job. Your passion and energy is evident. You do a phenomenal job and you LOVE your students. You want to do what is right and you stand up for what is right. I respect you as a person and admire you as a teacher.
You deserve all the credit here.
Steve Farber wrote a great book called "Greater than Yourself" and he talks about helping find others and help them become greater than yourself. This is about leaving a legacy. I have found that those with the staying power are unselfish, helpful, and respectful and you are all of those things. I'd like to be that way too.
You have many things ahead of you that will be exciting. I hope you will always share and be transparent. You are a wonderful person and I count you as a dear friend. Pay forward the kindness.
This shows that even struggles can be used as blessings if we get our face out of our pillow long enough to think of others first. I'm glad that it could be used to bless you. It was tough missing out but to hear your words here, that makes it a little better.
I missed everyone at ISTE horribly. Every tweet was like a knife in some ways as I wanted to be there so badly. A few times I had to get offline and go run so I could get out the frustration, but it was all in God's hands and it turned out fine. You are wonderful. Keep up the great work." -
Rode the Wave and Buzzed the Tower: Now I am + for Ed
Been playing around with Google+ and see some promising privacy features (I can hide my family from being viewed and pick which circles can be shared. That is a plus - forgive the pun.)
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The Dropbox Blog » Blog Archive » Changes to our policies (updated)
Dropbox changes their terms of service again. If you have files that need to be secure on dropbox. Use Truecrypt.
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21st-Century Classroom Report: Preparing Students for the Future or the Past?
CDW classroom analysis reports finds that students still use technology more outside of class than in class. Only 39% of students say their high school is meeting their technology expectations. It is sad that 73% of faculty say digital content is ESSENTIAL for the 21st-century classroom but only 11% of districts are using it.
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6 Q’S ABOUT THE NEWS - The Learning Network Blog - NYTimes.com
Love the 6 questions about the news from the New York Times. Some great resources here.
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The Learning Network - The Learning Network Blog - NYTimes.com
The New York Times has a learning network with all types of videos to share. Lesson plans, student opinions, film festivals, and a student reading contest for the month of July.
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ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard for iPad on the iTunes App Store
Hook your ipad up to your projector and it becomes a personal whiteboard. IWB's are they as useful?
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This program in Atlanta's purpose is to:
nurture and encourage the spirits of those who love to learn, to connect learners across disciplines and settings, and to deepen the national conversation about education by enabling parents, students, and educators to share stories of what they are learning every day. -
Canadian physics teacher Peter Vogel heads to CERN. It is great when a person who shares in social media spaces (@petervogel) and is giving to others is recognized in this way! I think Peter is one to watch and he'll make the most of his opportunity. Stay tuned.
Examining Other Genocides
...in a dramatic expansion of its mission, the foundation is now incorporating testimonies from mass atrocities other than the Holocaust into its archives. Five survivors of the Rwandan genocide are learning the organization’s archiving methods at the Shoah Foundation Institute here, part of an effort to add at least 1,000 interviews with Rwandans to the foundation’s archives. Ten testimonies from Rwanda have been recorded already, with at least 50 more expected next yearMore here
Senegal's Musical Activists
More hereIn Senegal, the political mainstream appears stagnant and the musicians anything but, which explains why laid-back musicians with stage names like Fou Malade (“Crazy Sick Guy”) and Thiat (“Junior”) are leading a vigorous demonstration movement against the country’s octogenarian president, who does not want to leave office.
Senegalese rappers and other members of Y'En A Marre Rebecca Blackwell/Associated Pres
The usual regional trappings of power — a $27 million monumental statue overlooking the capital, a new presidential plane, tinkering with the country’s Constitution — have not gone down well in a poor but proud West African country used to something better. They have led to a season of revolt, on the North African model, in this coastal country, a former French colony.
Thabo Mbeki's Failures
The NYTimes writes:
Under Mr. Mbeki’s leadership, the fruits of the nation’s hard-fought victory over apartheid have gone mainly to officials and former officials of the ruling African National Congress, not to the millions of poor people in the townships who faced down the dogs, the bullets and the pass laws and still must live without adequate jobs, education, housing or health services.
The resulting frustration and anger helps explain, though it cannot justify, this week’s outbreak of xenophobic violence in the shantytowns. At least 42 victims have been killed — many beaten, stabbed, hacked or burned to death — and some 25,000 have been chased from their homes.
Global Africa Project
The NYTimes on the Global Africa Project:
...the show presents 200 works by nearly 120 people, teams and collectives. It represents artists, designers, artisans, D.I.Y. improvisers and people engaged in various combinations of those already fuzzy job descriptions, toiling in ways that blur aesthetics, sociology and philosophy.Astoundingly ambitious for a relatively small institution, “Global Africa” aims, in the words of its news release, to explore the “impact of African visual culture on contemporary art, craft and design around the world.”
Bibi Seck stools courtesy of Joshua Bright
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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 01/12/2012
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ISTE and NASA looking for teachers - Holt Think: Ed, Creativity, Tech, Administration
ISTE is collaborating with NASA to select 25 middle and high school teachers who are creative, inspired, and share an enthusiasm for space. These teachers will work collaboratively to create learning and educational artifacts that teachers or students can use to gain a deeper understanding of the Earth’s magnetosphere. Each group of teachers will choose projects to create and design. Final projects may be selected for publication on the NASA website and/or featured at the ISTE 2012 annual conference and exposition.
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New York Philharmonic Interrupted by Chimes Mahler Never Intended - NYTimes.com
Alan Gilbert, New York Philharmonic conductor stopped the orchestra to wait for a man to silence his ringing cell phone. Yes, we should have manners to silence it but he just ignored it, hoping for it to stop.
Ancient Paint Factory
More hereDigging deeper in a South African cave that had already yielded surprises from the Middle Stone Age, archaeologists have uncovered a 100,000-year-old workshop holding the tools and ingredients with which early modern humans apparently mixed some of the first known paint.These cave artisans had stones for pounding and grinding colorful dirt enriched with a kind of iron oxide to a powder, known as ocher. This was blended with the binding fat of mammal-bone marrow and a dash of charcoal. Traces of ocher were left on the tools, and samples of the reddish compound were collected in large abalone shells, where the paint was liquefied, stirred and scooped out with a bone spatula.
Science/AAAS
Africa Comics
The NYTimes reports on the “Africa Comics” show at the Studio Museum in Harlem which:
"...offers an inside view of Africa of a kind we too seldom get from museums, which, when they consider contemporary African material at all, tend to be all-purpose globalist in their thinking, drawing on a snall stock of market-approved figures. The show demands time and effort. The work is physically small and psychologically concentrated; it is as much about reading as looking; the words are often in languages other than English."
image courtesy of Africa e Mediterraneo, Bologna
Quick Hits
Open Access papers a boon for developing world scientists-SciDev
Supporting Nollywood the Directors Guild of Nigeria
Challenges for Craftspeople-BBC
Is Kenya teetering?-NYTimes
Challenges for the book industry-George Ngwane
Questioning the Nigerian Stock Exchange-Basil Enwegbara
The real Water Board-WashAfrica
South-South ties contd. Asian footsteps in the continent.
Power-sharing government is a recipe for “disaster”-FT
Leadership starts with you not him!-Joachim Ezeji
The Ghadafi virus-The Moor Next Door
Public-private investment partnerships in health systems-Output Based Healthcare
Examining Charles Soludo Nigeria's Central Bank Governor-234Next
Mugabe's survival and “liberation solidarity”
The parallels between Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe are striking: both were once viewed as the singular successes in their respective regions, the envy of their neighbors. Both Mr. Gbagbo, a former history professor, and Mr. Mugabe, a serial graduate student, are highly educated men who helped liberate their countries from authoritarian regimes.Both later clothed themselves in the racist vestments of extreme nativism. Mr. Gbagbo claimed that his rival Alassane Ouattara couldn’t stand for president because his mother wasn’t Ivorian; Mr. Mugabe disenfranchised black Zimbabweans who had blood ties to neighboring states (even though his own father is widely believed to have been Malawian)The invocation of "liberation solidarity"
Most of the political parties still in power in southern Africa were originally anti-colonial liberation movements — like those in South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia and Angola — and they tend to abhor the aura-diminishing prospect of seeing any of their fellowsMore here
Timbuktu's Ancient Texts
The NYTimes reports on the renewed interest in the manuscripts of Timbuktu covered earlier:
A surge of interest in ancient books, hidden for centuries in houses along Timbuktu’s dusty streets and in leather trunks in nomad camps, is raising hopes that Timbuktu — a city whose name has become a staccato synonym for nowhere — may once again claim a place at the intellectual heart of Africa.
...This ancient city, a prisoner of the relentless sands of the Sahara and a changing world that prized access to the sea over the grooves worn by camel hooves across the dunes, is on the verge of a renaissance.
photo courtesy of Afrol News
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 12/01/2011
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Harold Reingold's students post their mind maps developed for his social media class. This is going crazy over on Facebook with all the responses from many social media leaders I respect. Take a look at these and consider the impact of mind maps versus long essays.
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Garfield students walk out to protest education cuts | Seattle Times Newspaper
Students in Seattle walk out of school to protest cuts.
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New York’s Literary Cubs - NYTimes.com
Students majoring in literary degrees cannot even get unpaid internships in New York's competitive publishing market. I wonder why they aren't blogging. there are things you can do to get attention in the publishing world. (Hey I'll give someone a job as an unpaid editor here. Goodness knows my run on sentences, comma splices and occasional spelling errors need it! I'll list your name and maybe that will help you get a job - who knows. I think the publishing industry is fundamentally changing.)
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Pictures of waterfalls — The most amazing in the world | MNN - Mother Nature Network
If you love photography, this set is worth a scroll. The 14 most beautiful waterfalls in the world. Including a redwaterfall at the pole.
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A website recognized by the Australian Education association and american Library association. As you look for activities to improve thinking - this website has puzzles, and activities that are bound to have you thinking and talking. There's also a kids corner. If you like game based learning, there are some great tools here. "A gym dedicated to the wellness of the mind."
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2011 PRECONFERENCE KEYNOTEThe Sandbox Manifesto | K12 Online Conference
Angela Maiers' preconference keynote: The Sandbox Manifesto
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Tradigital History: Bringing the Past Alive | K12 Online Conference
Dr. James Beeghley (Jim as most of us know him) has a presentation on Wednesday at K12 online about how history and social studies should be taught using technology. He talks about early photography and a lot of other very cool thoughts that will certainly challenge the thinking and teaching of history teachers.
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Computer Based Math | K12 Online Conference
Computer based math by David Wees from the K12 online conference. If you're missing the K12 online conference, you're missing something big. Here, David looks at the consequences of what would happen if Conrad Wolfram's vision of letting computers do math computations in order to free humans up to do other aspects of mathematical problem solving. Something math teachers will want to consider on this controversial topic.
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ePortfolio Workshop - Acrobat X Pro - Atomic Learning
Free atomic learning on creating eportfolios with Adobe Acrobat X from Atomic Learning.
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PDF ePortfolios, assessment, and administrative productivity . Pages . Adobe Education Exchange
One of the things I have as my "big three" this year is the concept of a paperless portfolio using adobe acrobat pro. I'm a member of Adobe ed exchange and am using it to find all kinds of great resources. This page has links to best practices for eportfolios, digital assessment, as well as streamlining admin tasks. Useful resources. The cool thing is you can annotate with video, audio, an text and pdfs move very well onto ipads and devices like that.
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I have to admit that I've become a huge Acrobat Pro fan. We use it in my classroom to print, annotate, and do all kinds of things. I look forward to learning about how to use this program to convert everything into year end portfolio dvds with movies, text, etc.
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AdobeTV | Premiere Elements 10
Adobe premier elements tutorial videos. I find the one on converting photos into entertaining movies to be interesting.
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AdobeTV | Photoshop Elements 10
One of the challenges for some teachers may be if you as the teacher use photoshop and the studetns are using elements. These videos about Photoshop Elements 10 may be helpful.
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AdobeTV | Adobe Digital School Collection
Today is the debut of the Adobe digital school collection. Adobe TV has a ton of videos and resources to help you teach the adobe programs. I am teaching photoshop this week. These are some great resources if you do anything with adobe.
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Success Starts at Home – Part 2 « The Balancing Act – Show Blog
The second part in the series for lifetime. It will be on my blog next week but if you read part one yesterday, here is part two!
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Download your free 12 Games of Christmas Teaching Pack - TES Topics
Here's the content of the 12 games of Christmas teaching pack.
NOTE: IF you download, you will probably have to manually enter your school's information, especially if you are from outside the UK as many of us are just coming into the TES platform now. -
12 Games of Christmas Teaching Pack Topic Details - TES Topics
You can get the 12 games of Christmas teaching pack for free for a single user or your whole school. Download it now and keep it to use it every year. The sample teaching pack gives you ideas for how to use the 12 games of Christmas. IF you use the games, you'll want to get this for the lesson plans.
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I'm speaking Monday at 4 pm as part of Blackboard Collaborate's distinguished lecture series. It is a free webinar and this is the link to go to to register. This is what and how I teach my students online and prepare them to present online. Every student is required to present online twice a year in my computer science class and once a year in my 9th grade computer fundamentals. IT is just as important as face to face presenting and in some ways could be more important as it could potentially have more reach for my students.
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12 Games of Christmas Free Teaching Pack - TES Topics
These amazing 12 free games would be great for interactive whiteboard or laptop. I've played a few of the. I love #3 which lets you teach coordinates. You can choose one quadrant (x,y - positive numbers only), 2 quadrants (xy - positive and negatives) or 4 (xyz positive and negatives) - great game for reinforcement.
All of the games are math / numeracy games so spread this like crazy for your math classes. TES is a great site out of the UK for free stuff and is the largest network of English speaking teachers in the world. -
Secondary: Design and technology: KS3 Graphics: Photoshop teaching resources - TES
Adobe has their new Digital School Collection which really makes some very powerful tools affordable to schools. (Goes live December 1st) - here are some great tutorials and presentations on the TES website about photoshop and graphic design. Sometimes for these tough programs it helps to use things that other teachers have already used.