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Job changes.

Week “off”.

Eileen Award Monte Tatom

Advisory:

Belongings

By SAM DOLNICK

There are three million immigrants in New York City. When they left home, knowing it could be forever, they packed what they could not bear to leave behind: necessities, luxuries, memories. Here is a look at what some of them brought.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/nyregion/27belongings.html

Middle School Science Minute

by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or [email protected])

GIS (Geographic Information Systems) with middle school students. (We attach the device to an area they can’t reach, that way if they wander off the floor we can find them! Oh, wait, that’s the mental ward . . .)

From the Twitterverse:

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

Resources:

Multi-media in Education Report

http://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/multimediareport-2011/digitaledition-multimediareport2011.html?r=1130997812

77 Web Resouces to Explore this summer

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/06/77-web-resources-for-teacher-to-explore.html

Stick Pick

http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_wapp17.409d429.html

or

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stick-pick/id436682059?mt=8

Succeeding with Science

http://www.succeedingwithscience.com/

OKAPI

Reading level and CBA (Curriculum Based Assessment) probes.

http://www.lefthandlogic.com/htmdocs/tools/okapi/okapi.php

Web Spotlight:

Summer Reading List for new teachers:

http://www.edutopia.org/groups/new-teacher-connections/52655

MichiganScience

http://www.facebook.com/MichiganScience

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