Entries Tagged as 'Science Teaching'

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Science Teaching (weekly)

Flickr: Classroom III’s Photostream
Mr. Blake’s classroom photos
tags: photostream
Barnes & Noble.com – Books: Ten Easy Ways to Use Technology in the English Classrooms, by Hilve Firek, Paperback
tags: no_tag
Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms
tags: mediarich

Lesson Plans for Creating Media-Rich Classrooms

Refdesk.com … Reference, Facts, News … Free and Family-friendly Resources
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Science Teaching (weekly)

SL-Science-Center » home
Wiki site devoted virtual worlds. It’s a sort of umbrella group for all the science-related things in SL.
tags: science, sl
CSI: The Experience – Web Adventures | Online Activities
Found this activity I want to try this week with my students
tags: observations, activity
Wiimote Whiteboard | uweschmidt.org
tags: Wiimote, Whiteboard
Random Name Picker
tags: teaching, classroom, whiteboard
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Night out with my father

It has been a long time since I have taken the time to attend an event like last night. I have been invited to this annual wild game cooking party, but something has always kept me from attending. When my father, 83, visited our family doctor this week he got invited again. The doctor is [...]

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Poll Everywhere in my classroom to engage thinking

I ran across Poll Everywhere and signed up for a free account. In a recent email, the folks at Condense, Inc, recently changed from offering prepaid blocks of votes to monthly subscription plans.  Since I had registered for 100 free votes to try it out, they’ve transitioned me to their free plan which includes 1000 [...]

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

What a little cheese with that whine Caryites?

News and Observer staff writer Steve Ford wrote a great piece about Wake County Schools, in North Carolina. What Steve tip toes around is the fact that “money is the root of all evil.”
Those new rich transplants lured into the Triangle by the promise of a “chicken in every pot and two cars in every [...]

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Science Blogging Conference ‘08

With gas prices around $3.00 per gallon, and trying to budget around all the inflated living expenses, and add to that the treat of snow, I decided not to attend this year’s event in the Triangle. After reading David Warlick’s blog post , I could have kicked myself for not having made the journey.  I have attended [...]

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Martha what is that coming down the road?

 Martha what is that coming down the roadOriginally uploaded by mnesterpicsWhile reading my RSS feeds on the new and improved, still beta version of Bloglines, I came across this humorous image from mnesterpics on Flickr. I showed it to my wife and we initially thought the animals were seals. However, we laughed when [...]

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

This Makes Me Sick

Teaching is a challenge. Students today are engaged in a plethora of hardcore criminal behaviors. Violent behavior is just beneath the surface of every conversation.  Drugs plague our communities and spill over into the school yard. My point is that teaching is a hazardous endeavor. NEA has an interesting article online at the link below. [...]

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

GuitarsNotGuns

This looks interesting. Got to check this out. GuitarsNotGuns

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Kwout copy n paste

This is a neat tool for students in the classroom. If a student wants to make a direct quote from a web page, they can use Kwout to create an embedded version of the quote. North Whiteville Academy – Homepage via kwout