We’re going to need a bigger bowl! Fisherman catches massive 30lb ‘goldfish’ |
The orange koi carp weighs 30lb - the same as an average three-year-old girl - and is thought to be one of the largest of its kind ever captured.
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What a whopper! Angler Raphael Biagini got the surprise of his life when he landed this gigantic koi carp on a fishing trip to France. At 30lb it’s thought to be the largest of its kind ever caught in the wild Read more at www.dailymail.co.uk |
Do you need some inspiration? Do you need to hear the experts talk about how best to take advantage of the Internet and particularly social media? Then this is the place! It might take you a while to listen to them all, but it will be well worth it. The Best TED Talks To Make Use Of Social Media |
Lalitesh Katragadda: Making Maps To Fight Disaster, Build Economies |
Ethan Zuckerman: Listening To Global Voices |
James Surowiecki: When Social Media Became News |
Matt Ridley: When Ideas Have Sex |
Clay Shirky: How Social Media Can Make History |
Seth Godin : On The Tribes We Lead |
Howard Rheingold On Collaboration |
Hector Ruiz On Connecting The World |
Yochai Benkler On The New Open-Source Economics |
Gordon Brown: Wiring A Web For Global Good |
I can’t even begin to imagine the patience and hard work it takes to put together these types of films. Way outside of my skill set. That said, these are some great stop motion videos via YouTube. 15 Of The Coolest Stop Motion Videos On YouTube |
 Oren Lavie’s music video for Her Morning Elegance has over 14 million views and rightfully so. It is one of the best examples of how beautifully the stop motion technique can be used to create a video. Originally used as a means of bringing clay animation to the screen, photographers and artists have taken the technique to a whole new level.
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Inspiré/Seattle Ski Stop-Motion |
The Original Human Tetris Performance |
Full content–I guess I can’t feel bad about clipping almost all of my own post! Treasure Chest–Free Books, Google Search, Wikipedia, Apple, Math, Games and So Much More |
Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest–a list of the best resources I’ve found in the past week for educators. |
“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.“ –Stephen King |
Over 40,000 free online books. I haven’t gotten around to thoroughly investigating the site but I thought I would try a test search and see what I came up with. I looked for the classic “Tom Sawyer” and found it easily. There are PDF versions, HTML versions and they are free and available for download! |
The Basic Search – The Google Basic Search is usually the first place most people begin a search and it is also the last place they end. Many times students just type in some words and get lost in millions of results trying to find an answer. This article gives some greeat search tips that as the title says are far from basic! |
Another great tutorial from the HowToGeek on expanding your use of Wikipedia. |
Take a look at this great Prezi titles “Math is Not Linear” by Alison Blank. As a former math teacher I could not agree more with the message in this presentation. |
This a a great post on what really happens when you open up social media to students in the classroom and how to use it to your advantage! |
Children can immediately learn that each action has a contributing effect. Plus, these interactive educational websites on the environment make both the teaching and learning enjoyable without losing out on the lessons. |
BEST Websites of 2010 For Games And Education education aspiring minds. Compilation of 2010′s coolest websites. |
In this article, you’ll find 15 free tools to help you facilitate remote/web-based collaboration. Whether you need basic whiteboarding/brainstorming tools or fully-featured project management applications – you should be able to find a tool or two that’s worth checking out. |
The Google Docs family has a member called Drawings and it too comes with these improved qualities. Plus the Google family of apps is one of our more visited web families anyway. Visit this great review/tutorial from one of my favorite sites: MakeUseOf |
Finally, I couldn’t call this a comprehensive recap of this week’s events without providing some coverage of the Apple announcements. Here is Leo Laporte’s TWIT Live coverage of Apple’s announcements this week. |
My latest blog post featuring tech resources for educators! Treasure Chest–Free Books, Google Search, Wikipedia, Apple, Math, Games and So Much More |
“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.“ –Stephen King |
“What does the research tell us?” I hear this question asked repeatedly by educators. Usually my answer is: “I’m not sure, I just know it works!” Research can be valuable if held in proper perspective. As this story indicates, you can justify just about anything with research if you are so inclined! But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that – for reasons that aren’t entirely clear – abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one’s risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers’ mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers. But why would abstaining from alcohol lead to a shorter life? It’s true that those who abstain from alcohol tend to be from lower socioeconomic classes, since drinking can be expensive. And people of lower socioeconomic status have more life stressors – job and child-care worries that might not only keep them from the bottle but also cause stress-related illnesses over long periods. (They also don’t get the stress-reducing benefits of a drink or two after work.) |
But even after controlling for nearly all imaginable variables – socioeconomic status, level of physical activity, number of close friends, quality of social support and so on – the researchers (a six-member team led by psychologist Charles Holahan of the University of Texas at Austin) found that over a 20-year period, mortality rates were highest for those who had never been drinkers, second-highest for heavy drinkers and lowest for moderate drinkers. The sample of those who were studied included individuals between ages 55 and 65 who had had any kind of outpatient care in the previous three years. The 1,824 participants were followed for 20 years. One drawback of the sample: a disproportionate number, 63%, were men. Just over 69% of the never-drinkers died during the 20 years, 60% of the heavy drinkers died and only 41% of moderate drinkers died. |
These are remarkable statistics. Even though heavy drinking is associated with higher risk for cirrhosis and several types of cancer (particularly cancers in the mouth and esophagus), heavy drinkers are less likely to die than people who have never drunk. Read more at www.dvorak.org |
This post by Mashable could be the number 1 reason why YouTube should not be blocked in schools. At least unblock it for teachers! Yet, I know of many schools/districts that continue to block the site. Here is what they are missing. 10 Incredibly Inspirational Moments on YouTube [VIDEOS] |
Here, we’ve selected 10 videos highlighting some of the most amazing scenes that can be witnessed on-demand through the world’s most popular online video platform. |
1. The Fall of the Berlin Wall |
3. Tiananmen Square Protests |
4. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech |
5. Professor Stephen Hawking’s Zero-Gravity Flight |
6. Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics |
8. President-Elect Barack Obama’s Victory Speech |
9. Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile |
10. Gandhi’s Dandi Salt March |
Gmail Call Gives Every Teacher a Classroom Phone–Or Does It? |
I then began to think about classroom applications. I’ve worked mostly in private schools and it seems like it is very difficult to make a call to a parent because either someone else is on the phone or you would rather not make the call when the room is filled with other teachers. How great is it that now you’ve got your own phone in your own classroom. Or do you? Here are some problems that should never happen but do: |
- Is Gmail blocked in your school/district?
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| Does your computer have a webcam/microphone so that you can actually talk? |
I made my first Google Gmail call yesterday to test it out. I have had a Google Voice account for some time now. Yesterday’s call worked just fine. From an educational point of view it puts a phone in every classroom. But after thinking about this further, I wonder how many teacher computers even have a microphone let alone a webcam! Here are more ways to take advantage of free calling in gmail. Get Caller ID from Your Computer |
Transfer Calls to (and from) Your Computer to Save Cellphone Minutes |
Find Your Misplaced Phone |
Use It for a Quick-and-Dirty Speakerphone for Group Calls |
Make a Quick Followup Call in Response to an Email |
The next step is to test out video blogging from the phone. In addition I have attached a photo of Slicky. The ability to master this type of blogging with your cellphone can be a quick and effective way for teachers to communicate with parents and takes little effort or technological skill–not to mention the complete mobility of this solution.
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