MSM 223: RoundTable of TwitterVerse and Student Responses.
Presented in collaboration with the Association for Middle Level Education.
Call for Action:
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Jokes You Can Use:
A Sunday school teacher asked her little children, as they were on the way to church service, “And why is it necessary to be quiet in church?” One bright little girl replied, “Because people are sleeping.”
Only in America……
1.- …..can a pizza get to your house faster than an
ambulance.
2.- ……are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
3.-……do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to
the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people
can buy cigarettes at the front.
4. -……do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.
5. -……do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.
6. -……do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in
the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
7. -……do we use answering machines to screen calls and
then have call waiting so we won’t miss a call from someone we didn’t
want to talk to in the first place.
8. -……do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in
packages of eight.
9. -……do we use the word ‘politics’ to describe the process so well: ‘Poli’ in Latin meaning ‘many’ and ‘tics’ meaning ‘bloodsucking creatures’.
10. -……do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.
There were two buddies, one with a Doberman Pinscher and the other with a Chihuahua. The guy with the Doberman Pinscher says to his friend, “Let’s go over to that restaurant and get something to eat.”
The guy with the Chihuahua says, “We can’t go in there. We’ve got dogs with us.”
The buddy with the Doberman Pinscher says, “Just follow my lead.”
They walk over to the restaurant, the guy with the Doberman Pinscher puts on a pair of dark glasses and he starts to walk in. The bouncer at the door says, “Sorry, mac, no pets allowed.”
The man with the Doberman Pinscher says, “You don’t understand. This is my seeing-eye-dog.”
The bouncer says, “A Doberman Pinscher?”
He answers, “Yes, they’re using them now; they’re very good and protect me from robbers, too.”
The man at the door says, “Come on in.”
The buddy with the Chihuahua figures, “What the heck,” so he puts on a pair of dark glasses and starts to walk in.
Once again the bouncer says, “Sorry, pal, no pets allowed.”
The guy with the Chihuahua says, “You don’t understand. This is my seeing-eye dog.”
The bouncer at the door says, “A Chihuahua?”
The man with the Chihuahua says, “A Chihuahua?????? They gave me a Chihuahua?!”
I had amnesia once – maybe twice.
Eileen Award:
- Scoopit:
- Twitter: Dr. Catherine Hart
- Facebook: Josh Flory
- Google+:
- iTunes:
- eMail:
Advisory:
A $20 Bike Made Of Cardboard Is Headed To Market
http://www.businessinsider.com/20-cardboard-bike-headed-to-market-2012-10
Middle School Science Minute
by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)
This podcast is based on the Editor’s Roundtable from the October, 2012 issue of Science Scope, a magazine for middle school science teachers, published by the National Science Teachers Association. The roundtable was written by Inez Liftig.
The purpose of the roundtable was to emphasize the importance of genetics education in middle school. It is important not only because it plays a prominent role in the new Next Generation Science Standards but also because genetic testing and gene-based medicine will play a large part in their lives.
From the Twitterverse:
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*Resources:
Fun Student Responses:
http://hypervocal.com/culture/2012/18-best-students-on-the-internet/
Next YouTube EDU Gurus:
Introducing the YouTube Next EDU Gurus. Want to learn something new? Check out these channels today!
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?annotation_id=annotation_312811&feature=iv&list=PLEoqe4x_0u5PEmoFoQNecNRJMqw2DXYHn&src_vid=KvZcVVV7CrU
Restorative Discipline
When the student-government president here at City Springs Elementary/Middle School turned into the class clown last school year and began treating teachers disrespectfully, administrators had many options for how to deal with him, including sending him home for a few days to cool his heels.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/10/17/08restorative_ep.h32.html?tkn=SUTF2jciDTH8F91y7avjwzZdnR%2B%2BCKn%2Fxmuw&cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS1
Web Spotlight:
Thinking About Cursive in a Digital World
By David Polochanin
“What does a cursive Q look like?” I asked my wife after dinner one recent night. We were helping our 5-year-old daughter form uppercase letters in manuscript when it occurred to me that I did not remember how to form a cursive capital Q.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/10/17/08polochanin.h32.html?tkn=VYMFhjYXlmJFh7XjeraeH5hTUhnjnAgattpv&cmp=ENL-EU-VIEWS1
Events & Happenings:
Calendar of Events:
Ohio Middle Level Association:
- The Ohio Middle Level Association will hold their annual conference.
AMLE Affiliate Conferences:
- The Michigan Association of Middle School Educators Annual Conference is coming up March 2013 in Dearborn, MI.
- The North Carolina Middle School Association’s Annual Conference March, 2013
Classroom 2.0’s Live Calendar.
Classroom 2.0’s Ning Blog: Archived content is available.
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