Jokes You Can Use:

“I haven’t slept for days.”

How come?

I only sleep at night.

On Our Mind:

ESL objectives, Professional Development & How to Win Friends and Influence People.

#PLNfail

Congrats to all the EMU students who were dismissed today . . .

Eileen Award:

Jeffry Prickett (Facebook & Twitter)

Eleanor Ricardo

Advisory:

Food

http://twentytwowords.com/2012/04/25/chart-showing-the-10-companies-that-own-most-of-the-food-products-we-buy/

Split or Steal

Here’s the deal. £13,600 are on the line. Each contestant must choose Split or Steal. If they both choose Split, they each get half of the money. If one chooses Split and the other Steal, the one who chose Steal gets all the money. And if they both choose Steal, nobody gets any money.

Before they choose, they are allowed to discuss their plan together. It is a battle of wits, combining both logic and the ability to read and manipulate one’s opponent. Check out how one ingenious contestant chose to let this scenario play out…

http://twentytwowords.com/2012/04/28/split-or-steal-a-creative-and-kind-use-of-logic-and-manipulation/

Middle School Science Minute

by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or [email protected])

The topic is Reading Ladders and Science. "Climb on up and enjoy the podcast."

From the Twitterverse:

News:

Change the World

Parents who sued school over son's punishment for cheating receive hate messages

http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county-times/ci_20493867/parents-who-sued-school-over-sons-punishment-cheating

and the follow up:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-school-cheat-20120427,0,1656872.story

Evaluate Me, Please

http://teachfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/evaluate-me-please/

Resources:

KANEX Pro- AirPlay® Mirroring For VGA Projector

http://www.kanexlive.com/atvpro

Technology Integration Matrix Grade Level Index

This page provides a breakdown of videos within the Technology Integration Matrix by grade level. Although you may be primarily interested in a particular level, we encourage you to view the ways in which technology is used in other grade levels. For example, you will find videos of high school classrooms in which the technology tools could be used in the same way with middle school or elementary level students. Some videos involve students from both middle and high school grades and some involve students from both middle and elementary grades. These videos appear in both lists below.

http://fcit.usf.edu/matrix/gradelevel.php

TED-Ed - Insults by Shakespeare

Watch

Quick Quiz

Think

Dig Deeper

If you sign in, you can make adjustments on most sections of the page. For example, you can deselect Quick Quiz questions, add Think questions, and add links to the Dig Deeper section.

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/insults-by-shakespeare

Google Education On-Air

https://sites.google.com/site/eduonair/home

Virtual 4T Conference

The Virtual Conference will be held May19th through May 22nd. It is a 24/7 conference and is free and open to any educator.

*Disclosure- I’m presenting a session.

http://4tvirtualcon.soe.umich.edu/

Conference Sessions:

http://4tvirtualcon.soe.umich.edu/?page_id=54

or

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Amyg3kn2ZRP0dC1yMGxfVV9xTzkwYVIzVDhhbUtfUGc&output=html

Web Spotlight:

Broomstick

I'm Sebastian, a 14 year old Kiwi innovator, Mac app developer, student and tech enthusiast from New Zealand, currently living in Paris.

http://www.zibity.com/broomstick

Dangerously Irrelevant: Web videos educators should see

http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2010/11/12-videos-to-spark-educators-thinking.html

Strategies:

TinkerCad

Design in 3D what you've always dreamed of, but never thought possible. Until now.

Join the Tinkercad community and learn how to create your first real things in just a few minutes.

https://tinkercad.com/home/

or

3D Tin

Create 3D models in your browser.

http://www.3dtin.com/

Events & Happenings:

Calendar of Events: