Presented in collaboration with the Association for Middle Level Education.

Jokes You Can Use:

A spider just crawled under the keyboard, oh wait, it’s under “control”.

What’s Michelle O’Bama’s favorite vegetable?

What are the strongest days of the week?

My friends and I put on performance about puns. It was basically a play on words.

Why do the French only use one egg for an omelette?

What did the shy pebble wish?

BTW, you mentioned Chemistry Jokes during the podcast. Well you are right, I so share them "periodically." Here you go:

Tell a Potassium Joke? K

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What did the element say to the police? I CU (Copper)

Do you know any jokes about sodium? Na

How much do I make? Iron enough

Can Money Buy Happiness

We often hear it, but how true is the phrase 'Money can't buy happiness'? Is there a correlation between the two, and if so, what can we learn from it? It turns out, if you think money and happiness are exclusive, you simply aren't spending it right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JSIkdWxotKw#!

2012 Sports Illustrated Kids of the Year

http://mashable.com/2013/01/15/brothers-cerebral-palsy-video/

4:42

Family Treasures

Posted by Vicki Davis

I'm supposed to turn in the words for my son's annual ad today. I've been writing at 5 am. It is just one page. One page to summarize how I feel and what I want him to carry with him.

http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2013/01/family-treasures.html

Translation

Fresh Prince of Bel-Aire - Translated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LMkJuDVJdTw

Middle School Science Minute

by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or [email protected])

I was recently reading the Winter 2012-2013 issue of Green Teacher Magazine, a magazine for Education for Planet Earth. I read an article entitled "Concrete Without Quarries" written by Sam Stier, Dona Boggs and Dave Jones. The focus of the article is on sustainable chemistry labs inspired by nature. They provide a lab that helps students create concrete from car exhaust and seawater. But the greater focus of the article was to get teachers who teach chemistry to students to think of the approaches and message we send. They provide a framework for sustainable chemistry inspired by nature.

From the Twitterverse:

#mschat every Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time.

Resources:

Free Plagiarism Checker

Duplicate Content Checker for Students, Teachers, Writers. Free Turnitin Alternative.

http://plagiarisma.net/

Google Doc Sharing

Simplifying Sharing through Google Docs with students. Control whether documents can be seen by just a few students or groups or the whole class.

http://www.youpd.org/doctopus

Listening Circles

http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2013/01/listening-circles.html

Web Spotlight:

The Shape of Stories

By Maya Eilam

My take on visually presenting Kurt Vonnegut’s theories about archetypal stories, designed after researching the subject.

http://mayaeilam.com/2012/01/01/the-shapes-of-stories-a-kurt-vonnegut-infographic/

silenc

http://ciid.dk/education/portfolio/idp12/courses/data-visualisation/projects/silenc/

How to Read Faster: Bill Cosby’s Three Proven Strategies

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/16/how-to-read-faster-bill-cosby/

Why you can’t cry in Space

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/why-you-cant-cry-in-space/267147/

Look at yourself objectively

In the 1840s, hospitals were dangerous places. Mothers who went in to give birth often didn’t make it out.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/semmelweis

News:

U.S. Education Deserves the Same Statistical Sophistication as Baseball and Elections

by Martin Carnoy (Co-authored with Richard Rothstein)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-carnoy/us-education-deserves-the_b_2481128.html

Half-Baked Ideas . . .

Moodle and BigBlueButton- if each teacher was given $100 to get their own shared hosting, would it be considered expensive? from Moodle Community.