AMLE Feature:

Jokes You Can Use:

Boss: I’ve noticed that you go out and get your haircut during work hours.

Employee: It grows during work hours.

Boss: It also grows during non-work hours.

Employee: I didn’t get it all cut.

What did the leftovers say when put into the freezer?

Foiled again.

What’s another name for a nursery?

Bawlroom.

On Our Mind:

Eileen Award:

●Annie Murphy Paul

●Alise Herrara

●Joe Webb

●Sara Davenport Sisk

Advisory:

World of Coins

http://twentytwowords.com/2012/06/09/a-world-map-made-of-the-worlds-coins/

Food Tweeting Around the World

http://foodmood.in/

Challenges

http://twentytwowords.com/2012/06/11/10-bets-youll-always-win-unless-the-other-bettor-has-se

en-this-video-too/

Fun with Visual Charades and Narrated Slideshows Based on Fairy Tales

In their recently published article, “Five-Picture Charades: A Flexible Model for Technology

Training in Digital Media Tools and Teaching Strategies,” in the journal Contemporary Issues in

Technology and Teacher Education, Curby Alexander and Tom Hammond present a persuasive

case for using “visual charades” as a learning activity with students involving media and

creativity.

http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2012/06/06/fun-with-visual-charades-and-narrated-slideshows-

based-on-fairy-tales-edtech4u/

Middle School Science Minute

by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or [email protected])

In the Spring Edition of "Green Teacher," Emily Harris wrote an article entitled, "Fostering

Students' Water Wisdom." The purpose of the article was to bring water awareness into the

classroom and contribute to a better global future.

She says that teachers play a vital role in helping foster an early appreciation of this most

precious resource. For this reason, WaterCan developed curriculum resources in both English

and French which can be freely downloaded from the "Water Wisdom Portal" at:

http://www.watercan.com/students

She then goes on to share one of her favorite lesson plans for 7th - 8th grade students, entitled

"Water Around the World." This class project introduces students to water usage, and to data

gathering and analysis.

Dave’s Water Cycle Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw275056JtA

Hey Dave, what do you think about this?

“Voyager 1 Spaceship to Break Out of Solar System, Into Outer Space http://abcn.ws/N0eYA8”

From the Twitterverse:

News:

Thompson: The Humiliation Of High-Stakes Standardized Testing

http://scholasticadministrator.typepad.com/thisweekineducation/2012/06/thompson-pearson-anti

-testing-rally-illuminates-the-essence-of-bubble-in-testing.html

Future Shock

I'll have more to say on the iPad later but one can't help being struck by the volume and

vehemence of apparently technologically sophisticated people inveighing against the iPad.

http://speirs.org/blog/2010/1/29/future-shock.html

Computers Grade Essays Fast ... But Not Always Well

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/07/154452475/computers-grade-essays-fast-but-not-always-well?ft=

1&f=1019

What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203806504577181351486558984.html

Tools:

Quipper

Quipper produces entertaining and educational quiz apps. We also allows users to create their own apps!

Also available on iOS and Android.

http://www.quipper.com/

Go Class

http://www.goclass.com/guestapp/index.aspx

Resources:

50 Summer Learning Activities for Kids

Common Sense Media has produced a 16 page guide to summer learning activities.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/06/50-summer-learning-activities-for-kids.html

Summer Reading List

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/06/11/summer-reading-list-2012/

Web Spotlight:

TIMMS/PISA vs. Entrepreneural Spirit:

http://zhaolearning.com/2012/06/06/test-scores-vs-entrepreneurship-pisa-timss-and-confidence/

Events & Happenings: