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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Doctopus and Goobric for Grading Google Assignments
Richard Byrne suggests two videos for learning how to Doctopus and Goobric for grading google classroom assignments.
Link: http://bit.ly/14zEPMg
Link: http://bit.ly/14zEPMg
Helping Grieving Students
Education Week recently published an article about The Coalition to Support Grieving Students. The coalition has unveiled "a website to help educators support students who are grieving. The site is called Grieving Students, and has an enormous amount of resources."
Link: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rulesforengagement/2015/01/coalition_aims_to_help_educators_address_student_grief_in_schools.html
Coalition link: http://grievingstudents.scholastic.com/
Link: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rulesforengagement/2015/01/coalition_aims_to_help_educators_address_student_grief_in_schools.html
Coalition link: http://grievingstudents.scholastic.com/
CC Aligned Lesson for Reading Comprehension
ReadWorks describes its mission and material as follows:
"The non-profit committed to solving the nation's reading comprehension crisis by giving teachers the research-proven tools and support they need to improve the academic achievement of their students.
ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly.
The ReadWorks curriculum is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and the standards of all 50 states. Most importantly, ReadWorks is faithful to the most effective research-proven instructional practices in reading comprehension."
Link: www.readworks.org
Science and Math Videos
Glean structured and organized hundreds of amazing t educational videos online. There are new ones posted every day. They also include interactive tools!
Link: https://glean.com
Link: https://glean.com
A LONG LONG Timeline
First, we brought you a prediction of the forthcoming year. Then we brought you a timeline of the near future, revealing what could happen up to around 100 years time. But here’s our most ambitious set of predictions yet – from what could happen in one thousand years time to one hundred quintillion years (that’s 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 years). As the song says, there may be trouble ahead...
LInk: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140105-timeline-of-the-far-future
LInk: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140105-timeline-of-the-far-future