MSM 403: The Panic On Their Faces
Jokes You Can Use:
I just found out I’m colorblind. The diagnosis came completely out of the dark grey.
If you don’t pay your exorcist, do you get repossessed?
Doctor said that I may have Tom Jones disease.
OMG, I said. Is that rare?
“It’s not unusual…”
I called my boss to see if I could come in a little late.
He said “Dream on”…
He’s so nice.
How do dog catchers get paid?
- By the pound
What is a vampire’s favorite fruit?
- Neck tarine.
Advisory:
How Did “OK” Become One of the Most Popular Words in the World?
Young Boston intellectuals in the early 1800s used a humorous code of abbreviated phrases, like “KC,” or “knuff ced”; “KY,” “know yuse”; and “OW,” “oll wright.” And while most of them eventually fell out of fashion, one abbreviation persisted: “OK,” or “oll korrect.”
OK started off as the LOL of its time. Then Martin Van Buren’s presidential campaign popularized it and its brevity proved useful for sending telegraph messages. You can read more about the history of the word in Allan Metcalf’s book, OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word.
7 Lessons Every Kid Should Learn in School (That Have Nothing to Do with Curriculum)
- Scratch Your Itch
- You are in the driver seat. So buckle up and drive.
- You need to stop distracting yourself and start inspiring yourself.
- Big thinking actually does work.
- Motion creates motion…and it creates ideas.
- You better start trying new things and challenging yourself ASAP!
- Live for others, not yourself.
http://ajjuliani.com/7-lessons-every-kid-learn-school-nothing-curriculum/
Middle School Science Minute
by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)
Illuminating Food Webs: A Maker Jigsaw
I was recently reading the August, 2018 issue of “Science Scope,” a magazine written for middle school science teachers, published by the National Science Teachers Association.
In this issue, I read the article “Illuminating Food Webs: A Maker Jigsaw” written by Shelly Rodriguez, Jason Harron, Patrick Benfield, and Miriam Reyes. The article brings “making” into the science classroom by providing students the opportunity to bring the curriculum to life by combining engineering and design practices with their own creativity.
From the Twitterverse:
Looking forward to presenting at @AMLE 2018! This is an outstanding conference. So happy to join forces with the other awesome middle level teachers attending this event! #middlelevelteachersrock #AMLE2018
After another interesting day, was sure pumped to get these beauties in the mail! #fmsteach #leadlap #tlap
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The modern day retelling of Hansel and Gretel would be a very different story #DigitalNatives
A5: You Need Committees, Task Force, Leadership Programs, and Feedback From Multiple Stakeholders #leadupchat
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Let’s face it — some online spaces can be full of negative, rude, or downright mean behavior. But what counts as #cyberbullying? Help your Ss learn what is — and isn’t — and give them the tools they need to combat the problem. https://comsen.se/2xtaGP5 #DigCit #lessonplans
#mschat every Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. And as Troy says, “The Twitter never stops!”
Strategies:
Going Digital is About More than just Devices
- Technology should never isolate us.
- Unlocking Passions.
- Enable Collaboration.
- Talk Less and Listen More.
- “Care For” means more than “Care About.”
http://blog.web20classroom.org/2018/09/going-digital-is-about-more-than-just.html
Resources:
Toontastic
Free. No ads. No sign ins. Works off line.
With Toontastic 3D, you can draw, animate, and narrate swashbuckling adventures, breaking news stories, science reports, and all your other wacky ideas
https://toontastic.withgoogle.com
On line equation editor
Creates downloadable images (in many formats, gif, png, etc.) of equations. Also creates the embed codes that can be used. Uses LaTeX for math creation (which is the standard for doing such things). These embed codes include: HTML and WordPress coding.
https://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php
Picular
Like Google, but for colors.
Web Spotlight:
Print Custom Sticky Notes with Google Slides
Includes a template for printing out custom sticky notes. There are some really great examples and ideas within the post.
https://learninginhand.com/blog/print-custom-sticky-notes-with-google-slides
Are Audiobooks as Good For You as Reading?
http://time.com/5388681/audiobooks-reading-books/
Random Thoughts . . .
Moodle Moot US
I’m co-presenting! Chris Kenniburg and I will be presenting on Monday morning
https://moodlemoot.org/mootus/
For the record: The Moodle Audio works on a Chromebook Tab 10 tablet. In case you were wondering. 🙂