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Horace Sense Calgary CA (by Kevin Honeycutt)
Kevin Honeycutt is creating a youtube channel about Geography. Geography teachers might be interested in sharing and following this YouTube channel. Kevin does such a great job on so many things. It is a sock puppet, but you can also use this as a model and have your students do their own sock puppet geography reports in this style. This will protect their privacy and also let them learn about a new location.
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PBS Learning media has some cool resources and games for kids including a new PBS Math club to help kids with math. You can sign up for free for these resources. There is a middle school history game and also a virtual underwater tour you can use as well.
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Students and teachers are taking the 4 liter challenge. Here’s the curriculum and information to bring resources and instruction to children of all ages.
"To make the 4 Liter Challenge an even more enriching experience, we’ve created a free curriculum that introduces themes of water, poverty and human rights to any 7-12th grade classroom. The 4L Curriculum is multidisciplinary and designed to align with national standards. It’s built on an innovative "See, Judge, Act" model and will greatly enhance your students’ 4L Challenge."(via 4liters)
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Just got this note from my friend Jeff Stanzler at U Michigan. This looks very cool and is a website dedicated to flipping physics, algebra, and calculus. Lots of great videos and resources.
The note from Jeff to me about this site and his student:
" I wanted to share the work of a former student of mine named Jon Palmer, a Physics teacher who has done some wonderfully creative work "flipping" his classroom. He’s now devoting himself to making videos for free use by Physics teachers everywhere.
Knowing you, I figured you might appreciate his work. Here’s an intro video about his vision of the flipped classroom model. Here’s a link to his you tube channel, with more goodies.”
(via What Does It Mean to Flip a Class? (A Visual Answer) - Flipping Physics)
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FYI. Microsoft Pulled the Windows 8.1 update after it “bricked” some devices. So, if you’re trying to update Windows, wait a little while longer.
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Microsoft’s photo and movie making apps revealed ahead of Windows 8.1 release | The Verge
Here comes Windows 8 with a lot of new settings. These are talking about the Windows phone updates but other updates are on the way. “While Windows 8.1 adds a lot of features and improvements across the OS, the built-in apps include some of the biggest changes. Microsoft is detailing a few of the more creative ones ahead of the Windows 8.1 release tomorrow. The photos app in Windows 8 included Facebook and Flickr integration, but the Windows 8.1 version drops that in lieu of some improvements to editing. You can now select auto fix for a selection of different corrections, and there’s also manual cropping, red-eye removal, retouch, and other basic contrast and brightness settings. One of the more interesting features is color enhance that lets you pick an area of a photo to brighten up or darken areas of photos.”
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In honor of October, really just hours away now…..
Brew me a cup for a winter’s night.
For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;
Spice it with love and stir it with care,
And I’ll toast our bright eyes,
my sweetheart fair.
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Another figurative language game that lets students play against each other. The biggest issue with this game is knowing how to spell the figurative language. Quia is a website that lets you create activities and share with others. This game was created by Mrs. Patricia B Williams from Baltimore Maryland.
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My students found this game and used it to review for a test. They came to tell me about it because they know I share things with other teachers. When I asked these young men (very good students) how they found it, they said that they often type in whatever they are trying to study with the word “game” at the end and it helps them learn the material. “This is how we learn, Mrs. Vicki” was their comment. I thought this would be a useful observation from the mind of some very bright tenth grade boys into how they think and learn. This is a skill you can teach many of your students as well.
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November 21, 2013 will be the world’s largest elementary art project at Everyartist Live! Here are instructions for how to sign up your students and join in.
