Jokes You Can Use:

My cat started his writing career by authoring a feline-oriented soap opera; he titled that project, "Nine Lives to Live."

My cat's writing a feline-oriented Christmas movie script. He has titled this project: "It's A Wonderful Nine Lives."

On Our Mind:

Holidays.

Feedback.

Facebook/Google+

Eileen Award:

Eric Runyan - He followed our advice about Rick Wormeli and was greatly pleased.

Eric Stockmeyer - me too! (to several of his points)

SteveParkerZ: New Twitter follower

Dr. Monte Tatom: Cyberbully article suggestion

Advisory:

Museum of Obsolete Objects

http://www.youtube.com/mooojvm

We are the Solution

The Pledge to Stop Bullying (with video)

http://wearethesolution.net/

Middle School Science Minute

by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or [email protected])

Dave is back with a podcast about Acrylic Nails in the Lab and the safety concerns that exist.

Student safety - always a focus.

From the Twitterverse:

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

News:

What Kinds of Things DO Teachers Buy for Their Classrooms?

By Bill Ferriter

After swinging through Target and dropping another $10 bucks on supplies that I need for an upcoming science lab, I decided to pull out my envelope o' receipts and see how much I've spent on school purchases so far this year.

http://transformed.teachingquality.org/blogs/tempered-radical/11-2011/what-kinds-things-do-teachers-buy-their-classrooms

Teachers’ newest online worry: ‘cyberbaiting’

11 percent of teachers know a friend who has been 'cyberbaited,' or taunted by a student hoping to record an outburst, according to a new survey.

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/11/27/teachers-newest-online-worry-cyberbaiting/

Resources:

Using Wolfram|Alpha in the Classroom

Wolfram|Alpha is a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base. Our long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. This can be valuable to educators in many ways.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/educators/

HistoryWorld Timelines

http://www.historyworld.net/timesearch/default.asp?&keywords=

Themeefy

Create, Curate, Share

http://www.themeefy.com/landing

Web Spotlight:

Join.Me

Instant screen sharing. Instant Aha!

Get everybody on the same page, when they're not in the same room, instantly. Review documents and designs. Train staff. Demo products or just show off. join.me is a ridiculously simple screen sharing tool for meetings on the fly.

join.me free

screen sharing

250 viewers

share control

multi-monitor

chat

send files

viewer: iPad/iPhone or Android

Events & Happenings:

Calendar of Events:

ISTE News:

ISTE Eduverse Talks are the recorded sessions held on ISTE Island every week.

Ohio Middle Level Association:

The Ohio Middle Level Association will hold their annual conference.

OMLA Registration Form

OMLA Presentation Proposal Form

AMLE Affiliate Conferences:

The Michigan Association of Middle School Educators Annual Conference is coming up March 2012 in Warren Woods, MI.

MAMSE Exhibitor Form

MAMSE Registration Form

MAMSE Presentation Form

MAMSE Conference Program Book (2011)

The North Carolina Middle School Association’s Annual Conference March 13-15, 2012

Conference Brochure

Presenter’s Application

Who They Are . . .

This year’s sessions . . .

Classroom 2.0’s Live Calendar.

Classroom 2.0’s Ning Blog: Archived content is available.

Second Life:

Regular Tuesday meetings are scheduled. See the board on the ISTE Island for up to the minute details. Check frequently this week as the ISTE Annual Convention is this week.

Video: Educational Uses of Second Life