MSM 387: Put On Your Chair Slippers and Ctrl-Tab Your Ears For The Show!
Jokes You Can Use:
- If a firefighter has two eyes, what does a ballerina have?
- Two Too/Tutu
- What’s invisible and smells like carrots?
- Bunny farts.
Fountain Pen jokes:
- What newspaper does a fountain pen read? The New York Tines.
- Two fountain pens walked into an ice cream shop, the third one ducked.
- I heard Lamy was going to develop a new Velcro pen, but they thought it might get ripped off.
- I used to get a small shock whenever I touched my pens. Needless to say, I’m ex-static.
- Did you hear about the new anti-gravity pen? It’s impossible to grab one!
- Why wasn’t the fountain pen popular on Instagram? It wouldn’t post.
- Wanna hear a joke about a broken nib? Nevermind, it’s pointless.
- What do you call a factory that makes adequate pens? A satisfactory
- Did you hear they’re going to have a new outdoor pen show? It’s supposed to be in tents!
- What are the worst fountain pens made? Vacuum fillers, because they suck.
- A duck walks into a pen store to get a new pen and says “just put it on my bill”.
- I have an entire drawer filled with pen caps. They look so lonely there, because they have no body.
- I keep looking for camouflage pens, but I can’t seem to find any.
- I was considering becoming a nibmeister, but I heard it’s a grind.
- Did you hear about the new apocalypse pen? They’re selling like there’s no tomorrow!
Advisory:
If the person who named Walkie, Talkies…
Stamps = Lickie Stickie
Defibrillators = Hearty Starty
Bumble bees = Fuzzy Buzzy
Fork= Stabby Grabby
Socks = Feetie Heatie
Hippo = Floatie Bloatie
Nightmare = Screamy Dreamy
*Warning, some of the suggestions by others are NSFW.
https://twitter.com/i/moments/978351623662694400
OK GO! Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWGJA9i18Co&ibss=1
Yale’s Most Popular Class Ever and What We Can Learn from It
A few years ago, psychology professor, Laurie Santos, proposed a new elective class at Yale University. She believed it would be a helpful and relevant course for students. No one had any idea how popular it would become.
It’s a class on happiness.
https://growingleaders.com/blog/yales-popular-class-ever-can-learn/
WOOP
WOOP stands for Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, and Plan.
It’s a practical, accessible, evidence-based activity that helps students find and fulfill their wishes. In character development terms, WOOP builds self-control.
Good curriculum to start kids planning and making things happen. WOOP includes lots of resources to help teachers plan. Also includes workbooks for students.
Free.
https://www.characterlab.org/woop/
The Power of Yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLeUvZvuvAs
Middle School Science Minute
by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)
Density of Pop
I was recently reading the January, 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 the Disequilibrium section, “Why is regular soda denser than diet soda,” written by Todd Hoover. The article helps teachers design a 5E Unit to help students visualize the differences between the densities of diet and regular soda/pop and learn about the nutritional differences between the two.
From the Twitterverse:
8 Final Exam Alternatives (by @finleyt) #edchat #education #eLearning #edtech #ukedchat #AussieEd
I know a lot of Ts who do special activities the afternoons of testing; schedules are already disrupted, so it’s a great time to do genius hour, Breakout EDU, etc. #INeLearn
Random Writing Prompt Generator with Google Sheets http://www.controlaltachieve.com/2016/04/writing-prompt-generator.html … #edtech
james sturtevant @jamessturtevant
http://bit.ly/2pCmwTk if you are in to your kids creating EDITORIAL CARTOONS, you simply must try @StoryboardThat #satchat @markbarnes19 @MGeoghegan22 @OCMBOCESSLS
*PS – Happy Birthday to James!!
Happy #NationalPencilDay! What will you and your pencils write about today? #EngChat #ELAchat
10 Reasons to Use Inquiry-Based Learning via @sylviaduckworth #satchat
Collaborative Lesson Plan Template – http://www.alicekeeler.com/2017/04/30/collaborative-lesson-plan-template/ …
#mschat every Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. And as Troy says, “The Twitter never stops!”
Strategies:
Why dance is just as important as math in school
https://ideas.ted.com/why-dance-is-just-as-important-as-math-in-school/
Resources:
NASA SCAN
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/communications/outreach/students/txt_kidszone.html
Google Go Phone
“Android Go is a special configuration of Android Oreo designed for lower-end mobile devices, particularly those with less than 1GB of RAM. It features a number of stripped-down UI elements and variants of traditional Google apps made to optimize memory usage.”
101 Practical Ways to Ditch That Textbook: Updated Version
Here for the good stuff? You’re a few steps away from access to:
- 101 Practical Ways to Ditch That Textbook, an insanely practical guide full of new teaching ideas
- The Digital PIRATE: Tech Like a PIRATE, great activities that combine free tech tools and engagement hooks from “Teach Like a PIRATE”
- Links and resources from Matt’s keynote presentations
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Web Spotlight:
Google Tips
- CRTL | SHIFT | T – reopens closed tabs (useful as you are walking around and want to see what the students just closed)
- Extensity – quick turn Google Chrome Extensions on or off (important because each extension that is running will take resources. Extensions can also cause conflicts.)
- Rename a link – paste a web site into a Google Doc. Click on it once and pick “Change”. Make the text more user friendly (also ADA compliant).
- Randomize your class or Groups without an add-on (Create a Google Sheet with names (via form or class list), Freeze the top row (header), Highlight columns, Click on Data | Randomize range)
- Chrome tabs: CTRL | Number to go to that tab. (1-8, 9 will go to the last tab)
- CRTL | Tab will switch windows
Random Thoughts . . .
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