Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Episode 33 Ready on Day One

Show notes:
Discussion: @ 5:36
Dan and Jeff discuss first day school readiness.

Tech Talk: @ 48:42
Jeff reviews some web tools that will help students and parents better manage their schoolwork.
http://www.studyrails.com/view/render_page
http://www.gradefix.com/
http://www.notely.net/
http://forlater.net/
http://www.pocketmod.com/


Book Talk: @ 56:43
Dan reviews “I Carry it Everywhere” by The Telling Room Project.
http://www.tellingroom.org

Media Integration: @ 1:01:21
Jeff reviews the series “Fight Science” from National Geographic Channel
Fight Science on YouTube.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/fight-science

Did ya see?/Listener Feedback @ 1:06:58
http://knox.villagesoup.com/Education/story.cfm?storyID=124837
http://tinyurl.com/5wqckf

Music in this week's episode comes from Penmachine Podcast. “Meltdown Man” intro music by Derek K. Miller. Bumper music, “Particle Spin 30” Composed by:Roy Dank, BMI (33%), Michael Genato, ASCAP (34%), James Ronaghan, BMI (33%) also from freeplaymusic.com

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This episode was recorded August 25, 2008.

2 comments:

Richard Byrne said...

Great topics as always. My classroom rules are about the same as your's, act like a human-being, not an anima. :) Actually, the phrasing I use is "Everyone has the right to learn and I have the right to teach. Anyone interfering with those rights should be prepared to deal with the consequences of their actions."

Richard

Anonymous said...

I agree with mr. byrne, but it is also part of the problem. Statements like, "Everyone has the right to learn and I have the right to teach. Anyone interfering with those rights should be prepared to deal with the consequences of their actions." as a part of our rules are not actually understood by some of our students. What they understand is don't act like an animal. It is simple and easy to understand. PC-think makes teachers less effective because students don't always understand the backwards nature of PC expressions.