Web helps boost school supply drives A new study confirms what most of us in education already know: Teachers dig deep into their own pockets to make sure their students don’t go without. Teachers spend an average of $623 annually on everyday supplies like paper, crayons, and pencils, according to the study, which was sponsored [...]
Web helps boost school supply drives
A new study confirms what most of us in education already know: Teachers dig deep into their own pockets to make sure their students don’t go without.
Teachers spend an average of $623 annually on everyday supplies like paper, crayons, and pencils, according to the study, which was sponsored by OfficeMax.
About 97 percent of teachers surveyed in April reported using their own cash to buy supplies, prizes and incentives, snacks, and materials for arts and crafts projects.
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I am sitting at my desk, two computers on and one of them finally went to the screen saver. I have it set to show words and definitions. The word GEEK was it. I tend to consider myself a tech geek of sorts, not completely, but kinda of. Not sure I really fit the description. [...]
I am sitting at my desk, two computers on and one of them finally went to the screen saver. I have it set to show words and definitions. The word GEEK was it. I tend to consider myself a tech geek of sorts, not completely, but kinda of. Not sure I really fit the description. Anyway, made me think! How about you?
geek |gēk|
noun informal
1 an unfashionable or socially inept person. (I don’t think I am, or at least I hope not)
• [with adj. ] a person with an eccentric devotion to a particular interest : a computer geek. (guess I fit this)
2 a carnival performer who does wild or disgusting acts. (absolutely not)
DERIVATIVES
geeky adjective
ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from the related English dialect geck ‘fool,’ of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gek ‘mad, silly.’
Posterino provides a solution for the common problem we face in the age of digital images: We shoot a lot of marvelous pictures, bury them deep down in the file system of our computers and most of them never see the light of day again. The solution is simple: Compose a “best of” poster every [...]
Posterino provides a solution for the common problem we face in the age of digital images: We shoot a lot of marvelous pictures, bury them deep down in the file system of our computers and most of them never see the light of day again. The solution is simple: Compose a “best of” poster every couple of months and pin it on the wall in your hall. This will make you happy every time you walk by, and it will be a great eye-catcher for your friends and family too.
Do you want to compile a “best of” of your photos from the last several month or create a breathtaking present? No problem…
Templates Posterino offers a variety of templates for posters and photo frames, with grids of identically sized frames or with mixtures of shapes and sizes. And best of all, you can create your own templates too.
Fast & Easy Get started in minutes. Placing dozens of photos onto a poster needs some time and serious work. Posterino will help you by doing the major part of the hard work while you just have to fine tune the results. Choose or shuffle you pictures with just on click.
Fine Tuning You don’t have to stick with the presets Posterino did choose. You can alter your poster in any way you want. For example, you can change the size and shape of individual frames and adjust the placement of each image within its frame. Crop, place and rotate your photos as you like. It’s a breeze. A grid layout helps you position your images just right.
Customization You can choose from a varity of border sizes, shapes and shadows. You can change the background of your poster and add custom text.
Poster Printing You have various options to print your poster: Use the Kodak print service build into iPhoto or a local or internet based print shop.
Magic Trackpad The new Magic Trackpad is the first Multi-Touch trackpad designed to work with your Mac desktop computer. It uses the same Multi-Touch technology you love on the MacBook Pro. And it supports a full set of gestures, giving you a whole new way to control and interact with what’s on your screen. Swiping [...]
Magic Trackpad
The new Magic Trackpad is the first Multi-Touch trackpad designed to work with your Mac desktop computer. It uses the same Multi-Touch technology you love on the MacBook Pro. And it supports a full set of gestures, giving you a whole new way to control and interact with what’s on your screen. Swiping through pages online feels just like flipping through pages in a book or magazine. And inertial scrolling makes moving up and down a page more natural than ever. Magic Trackpad connects to your Mac via Bluetooth wireless technology. Use it in place of a mouse or in conjunction with one.
More to touch, more to love.
Your fingers will fall for the Magic Trackpad. It’s made with smooth, wear-resistant glass that feels great to the touch. And it’s nearly 80 percent larger than the built-in trackpad on the MacBook Pro, giving you plenty of room to perform gestures. Because the entire surface of Magic Trackpad is a button, you can click on objects just as you would using a traditional mouse. And Magic Trackpad sits at the same height and angle as the Apple Wireless Keyboard, so you can go from trackpad to keyboard in one seamless motion.
Bluetooth technology.
Magic Trackpad connects to your Mac via Bluetooth wireless technology. Use it in conjunction with the Apple Wireless Keyboard for a cable-free, uncluttered workspace. And if you feel like venturing away from your desk, Magic Trackpad maintains a reliable and secure connection up to 33 feet away from your Mac.
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http://mathgirlgames.com/ MathGirl Games are developed by Mother and daughter MathGirls, Lynn and Molly Rasmussen and programmer Robert Tegel Bonifacio of Code Robert LLC. “Teaching math facts has been a hobby for 30 years. Math anxiety is a miserable thing for bright children. I want to eliminate that awful feeling from every child’s experience. I have [...]
MathGirl Games are developed by Mother and daughter MathGirls, Lynn and Molly Rasmussen and programmer Robert Tegel Bonifacio of Code Robert LLC.
“Teaching math facts has been a hobby for 30 years. Math anxiety is a miserable thing for bright children. I want to eliminate that awful feeling from every child’s experience. I have discovered that there are a few missing steps in the math education of people who think they are ‘bad at math.’ No child leaves my kitchen without being asked, ‘What’s 8 times 7?’ We ‘play numbers’ until the answer is easy.”
“In the 1980s, when my children were small, I tried to build math cards and games but they simply didn’t work. Apps provide interactivity and instant feedback. Now all kids can experience my kitchen methods.”
From the designer, Molly Rasmussen: “Games for girls can be cute and fun. Why can’t math be cute and fun too? Too many math games are like homework. Math Games can look and play like real games. After graduating from Cornell University, I designed swimwear in Los Angeles for 7 years, including the Hannah Montana brand. I love the shift to education and app development. We’re taking the current trends in design and color, and current trends in gaming, to build a new way to teach math, one that appeals to girls’ senses and how girls like to play.”
From both of us: It’s fun to work as a mother-daughter team, to be able to work long distance, and to be able to make a difference in people’s lives.
Speakaboos http://www.speakaboos.com/ Speakaboos is a site that brings classic children’s stories to life! Stories with characters like Chicken Little and Goldilocks come to life through celebrity performances. Famous performers like Kevin Bacon and Nick Cannon are just some of the few celebrities that lend their voices. With beautiful illustrations and original music, children can develop [...]
Speakaboos
http://www.speakaboos.com/
Speakaboos is a site that brings classic children’s stories to life! Stories with characters like Chicken Little and Goldilocks come to life through celebrity performances. Famous performers like Kevin Bacon and Nick Cannon are just some of the few celebrities that lend their voices. With beautiful illustrations and original music, children can develop literacy skills while learning about technology in a safe and fun environment.
Literactive
http://www.literactive.com
This site is the leading provider of reading material for pre-school, kindergarten and 1st grade students. Not only are there stories, but there are activities and supplemental reading material, as well. An ESL version allows users to translate stories into another language. There is even a section of interactive poetry which includes some of the most famous poems ever written! All you have to do is sign up for free and you can download these stories and more!
Between the Lions
http://pbskids.org/lions/
This site, from PBS Kids, is aimed at getting kids “wild” about reading. With stories, games, video clips and more, there is no reason why they shouldn’t be excited to explore! The stories vary in format. Some are read by a narrator, some are interactive and some are prerecorded readings from a children’s book. Whatever you choose to do with this site, there is sure to be something educational and entertaining for your little ones.
StoryPlace
http://www.storyplace.org
Storyplace is the ultimate digital library for students. This interactive site offers preschool and elementary stories and activities. The site aims to give children the experience of going to a library, without actually leaving the computer! With themes like “Dinos Rock” and “The Three Country Critters,” kids will be reading and having fun in no time!
Big Universe
http://www.biguniverse.com
BigUniverse.com is an award-winning web 2.0 learning platform where PK-8 students read, create, research, and collaborate using online books and interactive tools. This web community uses vividly illustrated books, a fun writing tool and a safe book sharing network to instill the love of reading, writing and learning, while providing an anywhere-anytime, standards-based, education resource for students, educators, and parents.
- Big Universe Reader™ – Read hundreds of fiction and nonfiction children’s books from today’s best publishers and take optional quizzes to assess comprehension.
- Big Universe Author™ – Create, print & publish animated e-books using an easy-to-use writing tool and 7000+ images.
- Big Universe Community™ – Safely share your bookshelf, recommendations and published books with your peers only or thousands of other members.
StoryNory
http://storynory.com/
Storynory is an online treasure trove of audio stories. Here you will find a mixture of new stories, fairy tales, and specially adapted myths and histories. We also have a sprinkling of verse. We have published an audio story every week since November 2005. Storynory has grown and grown in popularity, and now around a quarter of a million mp3 files are downloaded every month from our servers.
Our stories are read by Natasha Gostwick and her clear story-telling voice has won a place in the hearts of children and adults all over the world. The founders of Storynory are Matthew Lynn and Hugh Fraser – the co-owners of a Blog Relations , an online consultancy that can help you build your reputation via online media. Storynory is a prime example of how its done. Matthew is a ghost writer for a number one best selling series of books by a well known personality. Hugh is a former BBC radio journalist.
As Kansas City, Mo., students return to their age-assigned classrooms this fall, they will begin to take assessments in math and reading—tests that will determine their mastery of specific skill sets and, ultimately, where they will be placed. Instead of simply moving kids from one grade to the next as they get older, Kansas City [...]
As Kansas City, Mo., students return to their age-assigned classrooms this fall, they will begin to take assessments in math and reading—tests that will determine their mastery of specific skill sets and, ultimately, where they will be placed.
Instead of simply moving kids from one grade to the next as they get older, Kansas City schools will begin grouping students by ability. Once they master a subject, they’ll move up a level. This practice has been around for decades, but was generally used on a smaller scale—in individual grades, subjects, or schools. Kansas City is believed to be the largest U.S. school system to try grouping by ability.
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Students at eight Victorian Government schools including those battling illness at the Royal Children’s Hospital won’t have to wait long to get their hands on Apple’s latest gadget – the iPad – thanks to a groundbreaking trial. Visiting the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School in Southbank today, Premier John Brumby announced an Australian-first [...]
Students at eight Victorian Government schools including those battling illness at the Royal Children’s Hospital won’t have to wait long to get their hands on Apple’s latest gadget – the iPad – thanks to a groundbreaking trial. Visiting the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School in Southbank today, Premier John Brumby announced an Australian-first trial of iPads in Victorian schools.
Mr Brumby said the Victorian Government would distribute more than 500 iPads, each worth $629, to eight schools so students can continue to learn with the latest technology.
“Education is the top priority of this Government and our Australian-first trial of iPads in schools will ensure our students remain one step ahead when it comes to emerging technology,” Mr Brumby said.
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Guess I will need to hook up with these folks too for my ipaod pilot in my class at Kansas State University.
Apple (Re)paves the Street By Don Mayer Small Dog Electronics Apple sold a record 3,470,000 Macs during the three months ending in June. This helped to generate $3,250,000,000 in profits (I like seeing all those zeros!). This represents a 77% year over year growth in Mac sales! I guess all those prophets of doom saying [...]
Apple (Re)paves the Street By Don Mayer Small Dog Electronics
Apple sold a record 3,470,000 Macs during the three months ending in June. This helped to generate $3,250,000,000 in profits (I like seeing all those zeros!). This represents a 77% year over year growth in Mac sales! I guess all those prophets of doom saying that the Mac was neglected for iOS4 and the iPad just don’t get it.
Add in the 8,400,000 iPhones, 9,410,000 iPods and an astounding 3,270,000 iPads and you have $15,700,000,000 of sales! The biggest increase in sales came from the Asia/Pacific region with 71% overall growth but the big news is that Mac sales saw double digit growth in each geographic area.
Apple hoarded another $4 billion in cash, swelling their war chest to over $45.8 billion of nickels and dimes hanging out. I guess giving away a few iPhone cases is not going to make much of a dent in that cache. When asked about “antennagate” and the impact on sales of the iPhone, Tim Cook simply answered, “Let me be very clear: We are selling every unit we can make.”
The Mac Business
Apple smashed the old 3-month sales record by 100,000 Macs by posting a 33% year-over-year increase. There is a move towards mobility with increases in laptops sold versus desktops, a trend that Apple has recognized very early on and has planned well for with significant offerings in the portable market.
The iPhone Business
Over 60 percent of the Fortune 500 are deploying the iPhone and 400 higher education institutions have approved it. With over 8.4 million sold in the three months, this is a healthy business for Apple. Over 5 billion apps were downloaded from the Apple App store.
With the transition to the iPhone 4, there were greatly reduced shipments in June; however, Apple still ended the quarter with a 61% growth in sales and it was over 90% if you factor in the model change.
Returns for the iPhone 4 are running below that for the iPhone 3GS and there has been no impact on sales due to all the publicity about the antenna.
The iPad Business
I can speak first hand about this one. We are selling every single iPad we can get our hands on with a high degree of customer satisfaction. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: with these numbers, Apple doesn’t need computer business market share if they can continue to simply create new markets.
Apple sold over $2 billion in iPads and would have sold even more had they had more to sell. One thing that Tim Cook is really good at is supply chain logistics and planning. He said that Apple is still “quoting longer lead times than we’d like, and we’re working around the clock to get supply and demand in balance… in the scheme of things, it’s a good problem to have.” He said sales have been positive in every country they’ve released it in thus far. Anecdotally, he believes it’s already beyond an “early adopter” phase. “I think it’s extremely unique and extremely successful.”
The iPod Business
The iPod touch is the hero here with some declines in the overall iPod business but a very strong 48% increase in iPod touch sales year-over-year. The iPod maintains a 70% market share and is the top selling MP3 player internationally.
The Retail Side
I don’t like to talk too much about the Apple retail side of the business because, they are, after all, our competition, but Apple retail had a good quarter, too. Sales were up 73% and Apple opened seven new stores in the quarter, making a total of 280 stores with average revenue per store around $9 million (per quarter!).
During the summer construction season, in preparation for the holidays, Small Dog Electronics will open one store (by contrast, Apple will open 24 stores internationally this quarter).
The greatest story in American business lore continues as Apple continues its streak of posting record earnings, but more importantly, continues its streak of producing a steady stream of products that are in the vanguard of design and functionality.
Congratulations to the entire Apple team—what an awesome quarter of success!
I was an early adopter of the Macintosh, in fact, I bought one in the fall of 1984, it was a 128k machine. Imagine that and now 360 gig hard drive with 4 gigs of RAM is not big enough…….All the software was used from floppy disks, MacWrite & MacPaint, yup that was all I [...]
I was an early adopter of the Macintosh, in fact, I bought one in the fall of 1984, it was a 128k machine. Imagine that and now 360 gig hard drive with 4 gigs of RAM is not big enough…….All the software was used from floppy disks, MacWrite & MacPaint, yup that was all I had, MacWrite and MacPaint. Remember them? MacWrite was a basic word processor by today’s terms, but MacPaint had a huge impact on my interest in using the computer as a creative and artistic tool. My journalism staff completely produced the sshool newspaper and yearbook using them that school year. And, I went on to get an MFA in Graphic Design and have no doubt the Macintosh and MacPaint were an early influence in that process.
It was the predecessor to pretty much all the imaging software we use now, MacPaint introduced the lasso tool and the paint bucket which I still use all the time. The marching ants selection is used in most Adobe software and began with MacPaint.
Apple’s drawing software was the first to let us create images rather than using code to make them. If I had to use code, I would be up a creek without a paddle. I am not a code person, and I don’t want to be! Apple has always understood what regular people (like me) needed in computers, even if at that point most people didn’t even realize they needed a computer. It didn’t take me very long to get hooked. I have have one version or another of Macintosh since 1984. I have never spend my own personal hard earned money on any computer but a Macintosh and still would not purchase anything but a Mac. How about you? Sorry, Windows folks, but in my opinion, Mac is just easier and more stable ant JUST WORKS!!
Recently, Apple donated the original source code for MacPaint to the Computer History Museum (http://www.computerhistory.org/). Apple realized the historical as well as the technical significance of MacPaint. The Computer History Museum has it available for downloaded. They say it is 5,822 lines of Apple Pascal and 3,583 lines of 68000 assembly, which means absolutely nothing to me, but, I am sure all those numbers and lines of code mean something to programmers. I can just accept the MAGIC that it just makes it work!!
If you are interested in the history of MacPaint CLICK HERE to access the Computer History Museum page about MacPaint. To my surprise, it is pretty interesting.
There are plans to create a National Learning Registry to collect digital educational materials and help teachers and students find the resources they need, according to Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Such a registry could be available within 18 months. In his speech to the National Rural Education Technology Summit, Duncan offered the example of digital [...]
There are plans to create a National Learning Registry to collect digital educational materials and help teachers and students find the resources they need, according to Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Such a registry could be available within 18 months. In his speech to the National Rural Education Technology Summit, Duncan offered the example of digital footage of the first moon landing, saying those archives can be found across several websites and that the National Learning Registry would make the data easier to find. Read the full story at Education Week/Digital Education blog
OK, I hate to be sarcastic, but is this a surprise to anybody? Gee whiz, staff development does work!! Ok, I know it has to be the right professional development and it has to be QUALITY, but come on , really!! In Birmingham, Ala., teachers are participating in workshops to help prepare them to teach [...]
OK, I hate to be sarcastic, but is this a surprise to anybody? Gee whiz, staff development does work!! Ok, I know it has to be the right professional development and it has to be QUALITY, but come on , really!!
In Birmingham, Ala., teachers are participating in workshops to help prepare them to teach using laptops. Teachers begin by learning about the low-cost computers provided through the One Laptop Per Child initiative. Workshop organizers say the success of such programs is dependent on how comfortable and familiar teachers are with the technology. “Some participants weren’t even using them in class because they didn’t know what to do with them,” said the University of Alabama at Birmingham associate professor who developed the training. Read the full story at T.H.E. Journal
I brought treats to the last day of my summer class and most of my students asked for the recipe. So hear it is: 1 cup Peanut Butter 1 12 oz package of Nestlie Butterscotch Chips Melt together Stir in 6 cups of Rice Krispies Spread in pan and let set up! ENJOY!!
I brought treats to the last day of my summer class and most of my students asked for the recipe. So hear it is:
- 1 cup Peanut Butter
- 1 12 oz package of Nestlie Butterscotch Chips
- Melt together
- Stir in 6 cups of Rice Krispies
- Spread in pan and let set up!
ENJOY!!
Most clipart collections have images available as PDF files these days. They work fine for most things, but many times you the image to be a JPEG or some other format to use. You can change the format using Preview on your Mac. Open the PDF file in Preview and choose File > Save As. [...]
Most clipart collections have images available as PDF files these days. They work fine for most things, but many times you the image to be a JPEG or some other format to use. You can change the format using Preview on your Mac. Open the PDF file in Preview and choose File > Save As.
You now have the option to choose a format such as JPEG or the flexible PNG.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEHNhcdyMtc Do we know what we are doing? Does society know what it wants? Are we still working towards reform… Ask yourself… Who seriously believes that locking 25 students in a small room with one adult for several hours each day is the best way for them to be “educated”? Every student can learn, just [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEHNhcdyMtc
Do we know what we are doing? Does society know what it wants? Are we still working towards reform… Ask yourself…
Who seriously believes that locking 25 students in a small room with one adult for
several hours each day is the best way for them to be “educated”?
Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.
– George Evans
Why do we think every 6 year old is going to be at the same place in math, english and all the other subjects so we clump them together.
We already live in a time of disconnect, where the classroom has stopped reflecting the world outside its walls. The classroom is born of an industrial mode of thinking.
Greatest hurdle in ed reform is that society doesn’t have a clear vision of what school is for
“If you put a doctor of 100 years ago in today’s operating room, she would be lost, yet if you placed a teacher of 100 years ago into one of today’s classrooms she wouldn’t skip a beat. ”
Molebash 1999
Moving from the one-room schoolhouse to the one-world schoolhouse is now a reality.”
Cisco Systems
“If we don’t focus on the experience dimension of learning, we run the risk of mistaking the publishing of information for learning and training”
Elliott Masie
In education the Use it or lose it rule may mean If you don’t use tech for learning , you may lose relevance. An educator must be relevant.
Teachers need to exist in the spaces the students exist, understand their culture. You have no credibility if you are not where they are.
“Because the generation of students that I am teaching is an instant pudding, drive-through, microwave, download-it-from-the-Internet, media-driven generation, I know that I must be innovative to keep their interest and to inspire in them a creative curiosity.”
Doug Martin
Do I create lifelong learners.
Am I preparing students for my age or theirs?
Do you have a dream project that you want to try with your students? Have you always wanted to make an impact in your school or community? What are you waiting for? There’s more grant money out there than you have time to write for. And in today’s world we need a little more than [...]
Do you have a dream project that you want to try with your students? Have you always wanted to make an impact in your school or community? What are you waiting for? There’s more grant money out there than you have time to write for. And in today’s world we need a little more than textbooks and chalkboards to adequately prepare and successfully engage our students. Here’s some of the best grant writing tips from the International Society for Technology in Education 2010 Conference.
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