To check out the lesson plans, you just need to sign up at the ICE School page. Let me know what you think by posting a comment below.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Hockey in the Classroom
While watching the Bruins game the other night (what work stoppage?) the ticker on the bottom of the screen mentioned hockey lesson plans created by the Bruins for use in the K-8 classroom. All the lessons are aligned to the Common Core and the few I looked at seemed to be quite complete and engaging (and more importantly had to do with hockey). The following subjects have lessons available - ELA, Math, Science, PhysEd, and French.
To check out the lesson plans, you just need to sign up at the ICE School page. Let me know what you think by posting a comment below.
To check out the lesson plans, you just need to sign up at the ICE School page. Let me know what you think by posting a comment below.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Doodle 4 Google
While most people visit Google to search for information, some people visit just to see the Google Doodle of the day (simply go to www.google.com to see today's doodle). Here is a list of the 2012 Google Doodles. (One of my alltime favorites is this one - make sure to hit play and have the sound up). What is your favorite Doodle? Please let us know in the comment area.
Anyway, Google has announced their 6th Annual U.S. Doodle 4 Google competition, inviting K-12 students around the country to create their own doodles. This years theme is 'My Best Day Ever ... ". The winning student will see their work on the Google Homepage for a day, win a $30,000 college scholarship and win a $50,000 technology grant for Medfield (I mean, for the winning school). More information can be found at the Google Blog and at the Doodle4Google page. Also check out the video below:
Anyway, Google has announced their 6th Annual U.S. Doodle 4 Google competition, inviting K-12 students around the country to create their own doodles. This years theme is 'My Best Day Ever ... ". The winning student will see their work on the Google Homepage for a day, win a $30,000 college scholarship and win a $50,000 technology grant for Medfield (I mean, for the winning school). More information can be found at the Google Blog and at the Doodle4Google page. Also check out the video below:
How to use in Education
Please share this information with your students and their parents in case they are interested in submitting their Doodle4Google. The deadline is March 22nd.Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Quick way to share bunches of links with students
Like me, I bet you find it annoying when teaching and you ask your students to go to one website, and then to another and then another. Inherently there are issues with typos and backslashes, etc. How about if you have a teacher website or blog post and you have to list 5 links for people to visit? This takes up a lot of real estate and usually people get tired of clicking on all your links.
Well, there is a solution to both these problems as there is a new service out there that allows you to bundle links together.
Bundlenut is a simple service for organizing links and sharing them with others. Here is the bundled link I created for Medfield Technology Support. Creating your own bundle is simple and takes seconds.
Make sure to let me know how you end up using this in your class!
Well, there is a solution to both these problems as there is a new service out there that allows you to bundle links together.
Bundlenut is a simple service for organizing links and sharing them with others. Here is the bundled link I created for Medfield Technology Support. Creating your own bundle is simple and takes seconds.
How to use in Education:
- Anytime you have the laptop cart and are going to send students to multiple websites during a class, it would make sense to bundle your links.
- If you were having students do a research paper and you want to allow them to only use specific resources, you could provide that list to them in a bundle.
- Students could use this to create a works cited page (with all their research links) and could provide that to you with one url, rather than a laundry list of urls.
- If you ever present at a conference, you could post all the links you talk about in one bundle and then participants would only need to know the one bundled link.
Make sure to let me know how you end up using this in your class!
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Google - Zeitgeist 2012
Ever wonder what the top google searches were in 2012? Are you curious to find out which of these 2012 searches was the most popular: Gangnam Style, Hurricane
Sandy or Kate Middleton (answer below)?
Well luckily our friends at google have compiled a list of the 2012 top search trends as part of their Zeitgeist 2012. The list is broken down into images, athletes, events, people and a whole lot more. All of this is based on over 1.2 trillion searches. (If desired you can further break down these results by country).
I also recommend watching this 3-minute video Google put together on the year in review:
How to use in the Classroom:
I think your students would enjoy watching the above video while recounting the year that was. How many of the events on here can they recognize? You could also have students compare the search results in the U.S. to other countries, or to the world. What does it say about the U.S. society?
You might also ask your students to look at the interactive map that plots where certain events were the most popular. Why are certain searches more frequent in some countries than in others? Also how do the 2012 results compare to the 2011 results? Part of creating global citizens is to make students aware of the wider world that we live in, and this is a creative way to do that.
Click here for Trivia Answer.
Well luckily our friends at google have compiled a list of the 2012 top search trends as part of their Zeitgeist 2012. The list is broken down into images, athletes, events, people and a whole lot more. All of this is based on over 1.2 trillion searches. (If desired you can further break down these results by country).
I also recommend watching this 3-minute video Google put together on the year in review:
How to use in the Classroom:
I think your students would enjoy watching the above video while recounting the year that was. How many of the events on here can they recognize? You could also have students compare the search results in the U.S. to other countries, or to the world. What does it say about the U.S. society?
You might also ask your students to look at the interactive map that plots where certain events were the most popular. Why are certain searches more frequent in some countries than in others? Also how do the 2012 results compare to the 2011 results? Part of creating global citizens is to make students aware of the wider world that we live in, and this is a creative way to do that.
Click here for Trivia Answer.
Friday, December 14, 2012
Copyright for Educators
There is no doubt that copyright can be confusing. When it comes to education, the rules are even more confusing. Fair use is a concept embedded in U.S. law that recognizes that certain
uses of copyright-protected works do not require permission from the
copyright holder or its agent. Fair use is primarily intended to allow the use of copyright-protected
works for commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education.
However, not all uses in an academic context are automatically considered fair use.
Are you confused yet? Well, hopefully this Slideshare presentation (audio will play on playback) will help to answer some of your questions. I'ts an hour long, but its easy listening and you are bound to learn a lot of new information. If you have only a few minutes, click on a few of the slides to see what you can learn.
Are you confused yet? Well, hopefully this Slideshare presentation (audio will play on playback) will help to answer some of your questions. I'ts an hour long, but its easy listening and you are bound to learn a lot of new information. If you have only a few minutes, click on a few of the slides to see what you can learn.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
FirstClass Tutorial Videos
If you are anything like me, you probably get frustrated at times with FirstClass. Well, help is now here in the form of FirstClass Tutorial videos. Open Text has a YouTube channel devoted to learning how to use all the features of FirstClass. If you are looking to narrow your search of help topics, I strongly recommend this link instead. So next time you are struggling with FirstClass or want a refresher on how to do something, please take a look at these videos.
One of the questions I get asked a lot is how to add a signature to the bottom of your email. Check out this 2 minute video to learn how to add that to your emails:
You can also find these videos in a more organized format on the FirstClass Tutorial page.
One of the questions I get asked a lot is how to add a signature to the bottom of your email. Check out this 2 minute video to learn how to add that to your emails:
You can also find these videos in a more organized format on the FirstClass Tutorial page.
Beyond the Bubble
Beyond the Bubble
is a resource produced by the Stanford History Education Group for the
purpose of helping teachers teach with primary source documents. Beyond
the Bubble provides teachers with lessons that they can use to help
their students analyze primary source documents. Each of the lessons is
accompanied by an interactive rubric that includes sample answers
aligned to each indicator on the rubric. Learn more about Beyond the
Bubble in the short video below.
Assessments include The First Thanksgiving, The Civil Rights Movement, The Philippine-American War and much more. The interactive rubrics on Beyond the Bubble could be very helpful to some teachers when they're evaluating their students' work.
Assessments include The First Thanksgiving, The Civil Rights Movement, The Philippine-American War and much more. The interactive rubrics on Beyond the Bubble could be very helpful to some teachers when they're evaluating their students' work.
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