September 29, 2009

Plagiarism is one of those lessons we need to review over and over again.

Though this presentation was meant for university level students, it is simple, straightforward and interestingly enough done to be used in middle school.

File it away in your Delicious.com collection of good sites, so that you will have it when the time comes.

Presentation Link:
library.cadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/

For a really fast poster about anything, Wordle will take any words you want to enter and give you many options that you can manipulate. I entered the words from the Wordle site that you see below the graphic design. Wordle formed them into the word cloud. Did you see the word cloud on CNN last night?

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. Create your own.

P.S. I used a PRINT SCREEN to save my graphic and the PAINT ACCESSORY under PROGRAMS to capture just the part that I wanted. If you want to know how to print a word cloud as a poster, I’ll send you the directions.

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds.

February 10, 2009.

This 44 minute video of Thomas Friedman’s talk at M.I.T. is so good that I don’t want you to miss it. I know it’s a great deal of your time we’re talking about here, but you could plan to watch it Wednesday after school while you’re here anyway. Based on his book, The World is Flat, he leads you to the next big change. That change, involving the vertical to horizontal shift, will affect education as well as everything else in the world. So be prepared.

Academic Earth - The World is flat 3.0

Celebrate the big day with these "Educational" valentines from ironicsans.com

What could a student do in a short blog?

How about answering a question while reading homework? The answers would be there for you before class starts.

How about keeping a reading log of thoughts or ideas that pop up?

How about requiring students to first find a few words from a reading that are difficult and then to use them in a new sentence, one new word per tweet.

Take a little time to listen to this great musical rendition while thinking of a good way to use twitter...because, ‘You're No One If You're Not on Twitter!'

50/90 :: Songs 2008 If you have a really good idea, share it with all of us.