5 Ways to Blow the Top Off of Rubrics

This is a guest post from Shawn McCusker of EdTechTeacher.org which is an advertiser on this blog.



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Beginnings, and their educational importance

“You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing.” – PLATO, The Republic, Book II. Where to begin? – an essential question in all story-telling and thus, also, in curriculum writing.



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Developing Students' Higher-Order Thinking

This article shows how different types of teacher feedback affect students’ capacity for self-directed learning. Instead of telling students what they need to know, help them uncover information and make sense of things for themselves.



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Flipped Learning Network / Homepage

The mission of the Flipped Learning Network™ is to provide educators with the knowledge, skills, and resources to successfully implement Flipped Learning. Provide professional learning opportunities on Flipped Learning.



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Practicing with Picasa

While looking at my blog stuff, I used Live Writer to insert a picture… I then discovered upon posting that the pic was uploaded to Picasa!

I am going to see if it happens again.

From Windows Live Writer

Who will win the Stanley Cup?

Web2.0Calc

http://web2.0calc.com/

I have seen several of online calculators before, but this one is amazing!!! They even have code you can use to embed it in your site!! I did however find a problem with this, the "widget" does not re-size when you use such functions as graphing or matrices. No big deal, though, just click on the link and go to the Web2.0Calc site and you are good to go!!

You can see it in use on my wiki site at MrO-Physics.

You have to try this one out!!!