Jokes You Can Use:

The teacher said; “Take a pencil and paper, and write an essay with the title ‘If I Were a Millionaire.’” Everyone but Joe, who leaned back with arms folded, began to write feverishly.

“What’s the matter,” the teacher asked. “Why don’t you begin?”

“I’m waiting for my secretary,” Joe replied.

Why were all the ink spots crying?

Their father was in the pen.

A fellow bought a new Mercedes and was out on the interstate for a nice evening drive. The top was down, the breeze was blowing through what was left of his hair and he decided to open her up. As the needle jumped up to 80 mph, he suddenly saw flashing red and blue lights behind him. "There's no way they can catch a Mercedes," he thought to himself and opened her up further. The needle hit 90, 100.... Then the reality of the situation hit him. "What am I doing?" he thought and pulled over. The cop came up to him, took his license without a word and examined it and the car. "It's been a long day, this is the end of my shift and it's Friday the 13th. I don't feel like more paperwork, so if you can give me an excuse for your driving that I haven't heard before, you can go."

The guy thinks for a second and says, "Last week my wife ran off with a cop. I was afraid you were trying to give her back!"

"Have a nice weekend," said the officer.

Eileen Award:

Scoopit:

Twitter: Rovy Branon , Allison Petersen

Facebook: Ella Sherman

Google+:

iTunes:

eMail:

Advisory:

Picture books

Have your students make picture books for elementary students. (This can be done the “old fashioned” way or electronically.

http://www.culturestreet.org.uk/activities/picturebookmaker/

Middle School Science Minute

by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or [email protected])

"A Special Assignment from NASA"

This podcast is based on an article from the September, 2012 issue of Science Scope. A magazine for middle school science teachers, published by the National Science Teachers Association. The article was entitled "A Special Assignment from NASA" - Understanding Earth's Atmosphere Through the Integration of Science and Mathematics. The article was written by Justine E. Fox and Nicole J. Glen.

The purpose of the special assignment was to help students understand the role of NASA scientists, while asking real world questions about the atmosphere. The unit begins with the reading of "Here's the Crusher" from the book "Even More Everyday Science Mysteries." The mystery is about a boy, Eric, who washes a water bottle under hot water and then observes what happens to the bottle. This leads students in the classroom to re-enact the mystery and then apply the knowledge to a better understanding of why certain technological items like satellites, airplanes, etc. are found in certain atmospheric levels and not others. They study the height and the temperatures of the atmospheric levels.

From the Twitterverse:

Resources:

Run for President:

http://adomatic.us/

DIY

ISTE:

Interactive, Customizable, Free:

Using Open Source FlexBooks

News:

“Using VAM to evaluate teachers is akin to using Lysol as a mouth wash because it does a good job killing germs on your kitchen counter. - Principal Carol Burris, in The Answer Sheet “

http://scholasticadministrator.typepad.com/thisweekineducation/2012/09/quotes-no-such-thing-as-good-use-of-vam-data-for-evaluation.html

No Soft Retirement

Web Spotlight:

The day I quit teaching

Posted by Brad Flickinger on Sep 20, 2012

As it turned out, technology wasn’t the problem, I was.

http://www.schooltechnology.org/2012/09/20/the-day-i-quit-teaching/

iCivics (www.icivics.org)

Events & Happenings: