Jokes You Can Use:

A married couple, both avid golfers, was discussing the future one night.

"Honey", the wife said, "if I were to die and you were to remarry, would you two live in this house?"

"I suppose so - it's paid for."

"How about our car? Continued the woman. "Would the two of you keep that?

"I suppose so - it's paid for."

"What about my golf clubs? Would you let her use them too?

"Heck, no," the husband blurted out. "She is left-handed."

A French man nearly got away with stealing a number of paintings from the Louvre.

However, after planning the robbery and getting in and out and past security, he was captured only three blocks away when his Econoline ran out of gas. When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an obvious error, he replied, “I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh.”

This guy goes up to a bar located at the top of the Empire State Building in New York. It looks like a nice place, and he takes a seat at the bar.

On Our Mind:

Happy Birthday to Ron King!

Eileen Award

Camilla from Australia

Peter Price the Math Guy: http://www.classroomprofessor.com

Advisory:

How much of an eight hour day does a person work, on average, to pay for taxes?

http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/27256.html

Middle School Science Minute

by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or [email protected])

NASA eClips. You can view them at: http://nasa.gov/eclips. It is a great video resource for middle school teachers and students.

From the Twitterverse:

Don’t forget to join the conversation on MiddleTalk and Twitter at #midleved this Friday at 8:00 pm EST.

News:

Many high school seniors may be old enough to vote, but just one-quarter of them demonstrate at least a “proficient” level of civics knowledge and skills, based on the latest results from a prominent national exam.

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/05/04/30naep.h30.html?tkn=RMPFOV3rVoDO%2FJcoQfhRKdSuqL0NUqmg9zNN&cmp=clp-sb-ascd

District Administration

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/pmg/da0511/#/0

Strategy of the Week:

Using teaching as inquiry to guide an eLearning action plan

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/04/using-teaching-as-inquiry-to-guide.html

Resources:

Wifiiti: http://wiffiti.com/

Wiffiti publishes real time messages to screens in thousands of locations from jumbotrons to jukeboxes, bars to bowling alleys and cafes to colleges.

Use it for brainstorming

Put test questions up there for review …

Visibile Vote: http://www.visiblevote.us

Shadow a Congressman or Senator. Take a position on an issue or take theirs. Connect with legislators. Need the latest info on the legislator from your district? VisibileVote!

Econ Stories

Hayek vs Keynes in an economic showdown.

http://econstories.tv/

Say It Visually

Check out their portfolio.

http://www.sayitvisually.com/portfolio

Web 2.0 Tools for Math Educators

http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/tools_technologies/web_2_0_tools_math_educators

Web Spotlight:

20 Technology Skills that Every Educator Should Have

21 Things for Administrators.

Have Schools Reached Their Limits?

Have we reached the limits of our traditional school system’s capacity to deal with the diversity of learners that come into our schools today?

http://weblogg-ed.com/2011/have-schools-reached-their-limits/

Events & Happenings: