All Blog Posts Tagged 'teaching' (111)

What If The World Cup Was Decided By Wealth? [INFOGRAPHIC]

The 2010 World Cup has captured the globe’s attention and has given us some incredible stories. The recent match between the U.S. and Ghana was a nail-biter as the two teams were pretty evenly matched. But what

if the games were instead decided by the wealth of the respective nation

and not on athletic ability?



We thought it might be a handy lesson to share with students, your friends, and pretty much everyone to give some perspective to just how much of a…

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Added by Jeff Dunn on June 28, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Utilizing MP3s in the College Classroom

Earlier this year, as I was teaching my Developmental Reading and Writing students, I noticed that during the break, they would immediately plug in their MP3 players or smart phones and begin listening to music files. They would also share music with one another. That started me thinking about how to utilize their interest in music to get them more interested in what I was teaching in the classroom. Many of my students struggle with note-taking and other traditional ways of learning new… Continue

Added by Vicki Phillips on June 8, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

Using VoiceThread Technology in the College Classroom

Recently, I decided to make a VoiceThread for use in my 20th C. American Literature class. I started exploring different teaching strategies for my students when I realized that they were not very excited to read and respond in the traditional way. A VoiceThread is a wonderful tool which enables you, the instructor, to upload your media file (like a slide presentation), add your voice to it, and then allows the students to add their comments as well. The entire VT then can be seen by either… Continue

Added by Vicki Phillips on June 7, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

TED Commandments for Speaking

Thou Shalt Not Simply Trot Out thy Usual Shtick

Thou Shalt Dream a Great Dream, or Show Forth a Wondrous New Thing, Or Share Something Thou Hast Never Shared Before

Thou Shalt Reveal thy Curiosity and Thy Passion

Thou Shalt Tell a Story

Thou Shalt Freely Comment on the Utterances of Other Speakers for the Skae of Blessed Connection and Exquisite Controversy

Thou Shalt Not Flaunt thine Ego. Be Thou Vulnerable. Speak of thy Failure as well as thy Success.

Thou Shalt… Continue

Added by Jeff Leppard on May 8, 2010 at 8:41pm — No Comments

A Classroom's Hierarchy of Needs

A Classroom’s Hierarchy Of Needs



I just got home after a morning of observing two classrooms. One was wonderful, a place that all students would long to be in. One was dreadful, a place that students would only just barely tolerate and where one student actually said, when asked to make a metaphor using the word school, “School is jail”.



What made them different? On the face of it they were both… Continue

Added by ddeubel on April 12, 2010 at 6:36pm — No Comments

Free Workshop: Spanish Language Learning and Technology

Title: Global Communication and Today’s Foreign Language Students

Presenter: Rosa Shely, Spanish teacher, Earl Warren High School

Date: April 10, 2010

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Location: Northside Activity Center, San Antonio, Texas (On Culebra just inside Loop 410)

Contact: Dr. Barbara Pino of UTSA…

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Added by Joseph Chmielewski on April 4, 2010 at 5:25am — No Comments

Wellcome to our virtual teaching encounter

This first post is for inviting to all of you to share your valuable professional and teaching experience......so follow me and be happy for ever....

Added by Rubén Almonte Morrobel on March 16, 2010 at 4:56pm — 1 Comment

Needed: New Expectations

If you were to make a graph of the appropriate closeness of a teacher to a student, it would be inversely proportionate to the academic abilities of the student. Therefore, the more academically capable the student, the more relational distance to their teacher. This could be partially due to the number of students in general education classes, versus a resource room versus a student in a one-on-one situation.



Consider how much a teacher knows about a student's family of home life. The… Continue

Added by Joe B. on March 12, 2010 at 1:15pm — 4 Comments

'No Phone Zone" | Teaching Teens the Dangers of Texting and Driving

The creation of this lesson plan was inspired by an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show that focused on the dangers of distracted driving.



The "No Phone Zone" lesson plan will educate students on the dangers associated with distracted… Continue

Added by Derek Baird on March 6, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Teach a Child to Use Picture Clues and Beginning Sounds

Teach a Child to Use Picture Clues and Beginning Sounds



Stories with a pattern and good picture clues build…
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Added by Michelle Breum on February 22, 2010 at 1:42pm — No Comments

Good Enough! Using "Alternative To" for Free Programs and Apps

Good enough! I usually cringe at that expression, since it's typically an excuse for substandard work. But in the case of…
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Added by Keith Schoch on February 21, 2010 at 7:24am — No Comments

Digital Amnesia: Reflections on Frontline's "digital_nation"

PBS's Frontline recently aired a program called digital_nation: life on the virtual frontier. The program raises some important issues about the affect of different technologies on the human psyche.



One guest argues that with each leap in communication technology something is lost in the everyday psyche of humans. He cites how Homeric bards could recite thousands of lines of epic poetry. But with the advent of books, humanity lost the ability to memorize large amounts information.… Continue

Added by Esteban Rodriguez on February 18, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments

technology

So far I've learned a lot about technology tools in my Technology Tools class and have really enjoyed seeing what is out there. Google has so many options it seems endless ;) The biggest key to success and learning about them is setting aside time to experiment and try different methods and tools. I have started with the basic Google tools and have done pretty well. As I move along I hope to be able to learn about more of them while additionally becoming proficient. Unfortunately these aren't… Continue

Added by Melissa Loetscher on February 15, 2010 at 1:22pm — 1 Comment

Keyboarding Instruction Survey please?

Hey, all, I'm a K-4 technology coordinator at University School of Nashville and I've been asked to take a myopic look at my keyboarding instruction philosophies. if you are knowledgeable about your schools touch-typing instruction program, could you take a minute to fill out this VERY brief survey? I'm out to gauge current trends and could certainly use the help...…



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Added by Scott Merrick on February 5, 2010 at 2:11pm — No Comments

Learning To Walk Before You Can Run - The Hierarchy Of Learning

The levels of learning within the cognitive domain are considered to be hierarchical, which requires the lower levels of learning to take place before the higher level learning can take place.



In simple terms you must, walk before run. Learning must take place one step at a time. However, many students expect to go from A to Z without learning everything in the middle. For example, in…

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Added by Donnie Smith on December 24, 2009 at 3:46pm — No Comments

Times They Are A-Changing

To quote the legendary Bob Dylan's famous song, "The times they are a-changin'". I am now currently teaching Math to some of the best and brightest students this side of New York. Each and everyone of them makes me proud as they have the skills in analytics and understanding numbers that may just surpass other schools.



But regarding more about me, I mentioned that times indeed change because just a few years back, I was the student and I was the one making fun of other people, or… Continue

Added by Johnny Phoenix on November 12, 2009 at 7:45pm — No Comments

Keep Students Far Away from H1N1 Flu with Multimedia H1N1 Flu Quizzes

H1N1 flu, also known as swine flu, has greatly threatened students' health and daily life. Facing the serious situation, it becomes more urgent to keep students, the group with great possibility to be infected, away from the terrible flu. For you, the teachers who are good guides to introduce the knowledge of H1N1 flu to students, a multimedia H1N1 flu quiz can help you offer students a vivid lesson to strengthen… Continue

Added by SunnyY on November 11, 2009 at 1:13am — No Comments

Keep Students Far Away from H1N1 Flu with Multimedia H1N1 Flu Quizzes

H1N1 flu, also known as swine flu, has greatly threatened students' health and daily life. Facing the serious situation, it becomes more urgent to keep students, the group with great possibility to be infected, away from the terrible flu. For you, the teachers who are good guides to introduce the knowledge of H1N1 flu to students, a multimedia H1N1 flu quiz can help you offer students a vivid lesson to strengthen… Continue

Added by SunnyY on November 11, 2009 at 1:13am — No Comments

Are You a 21st Century Learner?

Every day I walk down the hallway to my office and see a black and white poster that reads,



“The illiterate of the 21st century

will not be those who cannot read

and write, but those who cannot

learn, unlearn, and relearn."

Alvin Toffler



To me, this statement gets to the core of what needs to change in education today. We cannot teach if we ourselves are not 21st century learners. Teacher’s first need to learn with today’s technology. They need to… Continue

Added by Patty Cantrell on November 7, 2009 at 8:30am — 4 Comments

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