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.
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 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 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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I have been a fan of Atomic Learning for a number of years. It is a very useful service. Basically, it is step-by-step video tutorials for software, but it is much more.
Atomic Learning’s online training resources teach you “how do I do that” through a library of thousands of short, easy-to-understand tutorial movies and “how do I apply that” training that can be used as an integral part of a professional development program and a valuable curriculum supplement. Atomic Learning makes it easy to learn new technology and encourage technology integration in the classroom.
I just discovered they have an pretty extensive list of for credit courses. The list looks very good and they now are offering 1 credit hour, 2 credit hour and 3 credit hour courses. And you can also just audit the course. All for a fee, of course.
Work from any computer with Internet access. Register ANYTIME as sessions are on-going and continuous. Instructor-guided courses you complete on your own schedule. Instructors grade and offer feedback throughout the course. Teachers use their existing curriculum to create practical classroom materials aligned with ISTE’s National Technology Standards.
So, if you need to get up to speed on some piece of technology or software application, and need to do it fast and when it is convenient for you, checkout Atomic Learning or maybe one of the courses they are now offering might just be what you need.
Atomic Learning is just-in-time learning tutorials that are subscriptions based, but there are always a few free tutorials for each of the software programs.
Atomic Learning: http://www.atomiclearning.com/
IT4 Educators: Atomic Learning Courses: http://atomiclearning.it4educators.com/
