Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 06/23/2012

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.sharemylesson.com/ResourceCalendar.aspx?nbday=0&nbmth=7&nbyear=2012&evcode=47">July 4 lesson plans</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">As you plan for July 4th, here are some lessons and activities you can do. Share my lesson is a new site for US teachers, would you upload and share your lesson plans. We can do better than this even if the site has been up less than a week. Share those lessons. (There is a contest going right now too.)</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/july">july</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/Race-around-the-clock-times-tables-3003146/">Race around the clock times tables - Resources - SML</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">An interesting way to review multiplication tables.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/teaching">teaching</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='http://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 06/23/2012

July 4 lesson plans As you plan for July 4th, here are some lessons and activities you can do. Share...

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Why we need eFolios in schools #iste12 #socialedcon

I'm at #socialedcon at #iste12 and have some important points that I'd like to interject about why we need efolios. Since it would take too much time in the session, I'm going to share them on my blog. Please forgive me for not being able to link as easily as I'm cranking this quickly.<br /><br />Portfolios should be:<br /><br /><b>1- About learning and legacy.</b><br />It isn't just about assessment but about helping kids connect to their legacy and who that student is.<br /><br />efolios should be about taking kids from a number to a unique individual and give us a unique way to celebrate creativity beyond the standardized test.<br /><br /><b>2 - Efolios should make kids not feel like a number to feeling unique. </b><br /><br />They should be able to pull all of their lives together. Steve Hargadon shares how his daughter used her blog to get into college.<br /><br />Joyce Valenza says that "kids don't think about archiving and sharing what they are doing in their lives. We are obscuring their names of everything they achieve because of lack of privacy so the only things that people see that they are doing are frivolous."<br /><br />In my own life, I can look back on my journal when I was twelve and remember that I wanted to become an author back then.<br /><br /><b>3 - Schools need permanent museums of learning</b>.<br /><br />If I was sending my child to a new school, I would ask that school to show what their students were doing.<br /><br /><b>4 - Schools can use efolios as a way to celebrate creativity, the arts, and phenomenal work instead of the "standardized test."</b><br /><br />The group is saying that it is a problem that everything is behind a wall and @edtechsteve made a great point that students need to own their data. I agree with that and think that every annual should have a DVD where that student burns all data from that year onto the DVD.<br /><br />There is a discussion about how those kids who build efolios and have them have a "leg up" versus other children and it isn't fair so all schools should allow and encourage efolios. The digital divide is being exacerbated because the "haves" have Internet access and computers at home and can build websites relating to their passions whereas those without access are allowed only to do something behind a walled garden that is deleted every year.<br />This group also has a feeling that efolios shouldn't be "owned" by one teacher but the learner and should go from classroom to classroom. <br /><br />Joyce makes a great point that we need to collect some best practices for this.<br /><br />If you're doing efolios, please share what you're doing with efolios or your opinions on this. Remember that leaders are those who overcome barriers. You can't change your district but you can change yourself and your classroom.<br /><br />Note that I plan to release some very simple posts this week to bring you into the conversation. I welcome your comments and hope you'll forgive typos (as often I have them when typing on my ipad.) Welcome to #iste12<br /><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad<br /><br /><p class='blogpress_location'>Location:<a href='http://maps.google.com/maps?q=E%20Harbor%20Dr,San%20Diego,United%20States%4032.707058%2C-117.162483&z=10'>E Harbor Dr,San Diego,United States</a></p>

Why we need eFolios in schools #iste12 #socialedcon

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Jamaica: Day 4

I began my first full day as Mrs. Busbee with a mimosa!<br /><br />Since I woke up most days between 6:30 and 7 AM, I would retreat to the balcony and do some catching up online while Joel slept.  I had plenty of messages on Facebook to keep me occupied until 9 AM when our breakfast arrived.  We were entitled to one day of breakfast in bed (except really, on our balcony).  This is how it was delivered to us:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJl-kRwnQ21bvcHWZNfj0D1lbBf_NPokZbWL_oblwctj_1zI5sr5cyLbk-ns-HtOVqP-VZ4sso4-IkNTrnMjDfVP0LoXJve-VtrqCZp410p7OrVJqW8nXPqUnNQJL-FygbQB-rVIzBQZw/s1600/Jamaica+2012+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJl-kRwnQ21bvcHWZNfj0D1lbBf_NPokZbWL_oblwctj_1zI5sr5cyLbk-ns-HtOVqP-VZ4sso4-IkNTrnMjDfVP0LoXJve-VtrqCZp410p7OrVJqW8nXPqUnNQJL-FygbQB-rVIzBQZw/s400/Jamaica+2012+001.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />Poor Joel wasn't feeling well, however.  On day 1 of our marriage, we immediately exercised our vows: "in sickness and in health."  He ended up getting some type of bacterial infection related to his sinuses.  We learned this after visiting the nurse and doctor onsite at the resort.  So, on Sunday we took it easy.  Joel rested a lot in bed, and I did a 45 minute workout at the gym.<br /><br />At noon that day, we got to view our wedding pictures.  I wasn't pleased that we couldn't obtain all of the pictures that were taken on our special day.  Well, let me rephrase that.  We COULD have taken all of the pictures that were photographed on our wedding day, for the holy-moly price of $3000.  Uhm, no.  So we selected 142 images.  It saddens me.  142 pictures of the 600ish that were taken.  *sigh*  Originally, we were only going to get 110 images, but I couldn't part with 32 of them so we paid more than what we anticipated.  I loved you Sandals, but you were insanely priced when it came to your photography services!<br /><br />Afterward, I spent the rest of the day at the beach while Joel slept.  It was me and Fifty for most of the day!<br /><br />Later that evening we enjoyed another scrumptious dinner and glorious sunset.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio72fQH2sWeGb4FO41WYWHcsXMi6lPNNQIqH3KWZ4lsuezHrdKAuYyv2es0rA5JohfguFIAmOy8ULnrWGLxfi9FCWBJ9o6-QZjuuScY8LYyULeMOzUAVTno_HEkc_7Araqs7NqcJK_sRw/s1600/sunset+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio72fQH2sWeGb4FO41WYWHcsXMi6lPNNQIqH3KWZ4lsuezHrdKAuYyv2es0rA5JohfguFIAmOy8ULnrWGLxfi9FCWBJ9o6-QZjuuScY8LYyULeMOzUAVTno_HEkc_7Araqs7NqcJK_sRw/s400/sunset+2.jpg" width="265" /></a></div>   <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8hDj6ziNex6Iq9S1B3jR5Ls6GqeHJq4AxGUCzGO7NHXSAPTtMWSZeg1pOy8oyAUCMDeayptpHMD6FICZO0ZYkOsOla-WFeqcGFabWMEGbnxNpNuBsaK5SNp1Pn_EH7x5S_uVdrQV9YbY/s1600/sunset+joel+and+hilary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8hDj6ziNex6Iq9S1B3jR5Ls6GqeHJq4AxGUCzGO7NHXSAPTtMWSZeg1pOy8oyAUCMDeayptpHMD6FICZO0ZYkOsOla-WFeqcGFabWMEGbnxNpNuBsaK5SNp1Pn_EH7x5S_uVdrQV9YbY/s400/sunset+joel+and+hilary.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br />Afterward, we walked along the beach and took some additional pictures.  We ended up meeting a couple who were married on our same wedding date, but back in Virginia (about an hour from where we currently live) and had just arrived in Jamaica on the 10th.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Jamaica Montego Bay Sandals wedding Jamaica: Day 4

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Crowdsourced #iste12 advice

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 06/23/2012

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://pinterest.com/search/?q=%23iste12">Pinterest / Search results for #iste12</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This hashtag search shows everything tagged #iste12 on Pinterest. </p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/iste12">iste12</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.isteunplugged.com/sat-623-socialedcon.html">Sat 6/23 SOCIALEDCON - ISTE UNPLUGGED</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Socialedcon will be Saturday morning at ISTE and I'll be there to spend time with friends and meet new ones. If you're curious, here's the page with information including if they will be streaming.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/iste12">iste12</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.sharemylesson.com/article.aspx?storyCode=50000148">Common Core State Standards - SML</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Common Core information center. Some good resources on Common Core and what is happening with them.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/commoncore">commoncore</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='http://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 06/23/2012

Pinterest / Search results for #iste12 This hashtag search shows everything tagged #iste12 on Pinter...

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