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Tuesday, February 11, 2015
17 Iconic Frontpages
Here are 17 of the most iconic and memorable moments from the last 109 years – some good, many bad – laid out on these newspaper front pages:
Link: http://www.ijreview.com/2015/01/233718-17-newspaper-headlines-depicts-iconic-days-20th-century/
Listen to 90 Famous Authors & Celebrities Read Great Stories & Poems
Great stories and poems are sometimes even better when we can hear them read aloud, especially by their authors. On this site you can hear Maya Angelou
reading “Still I Rise,” with some ad libs. You can hear W.H. Auden himself read “As I Walked Out One Evening” from a 1937 recording in his deep baritone. You can also hear Sylvia Plath read “Ariel." Some of the other works are not read by the original authors, but are read by great voices, such as Leonard Nimoy, James Earl Jones, Orson Wells, etc.
Link: http://www.openculture.com/2015/02/90-famous-authors-celebrities-read-great-stories-poems.html
reading “Still I Rise,” with some ad libs. You can hear W.H. Auden himself read “As I Walked Out One Evening” from a 1937 recording in his deep baritone. You can also hear Sylvia Plath read “Ariel." Some of the other works are not read by the original authors, but are read by great voices, such as Leonard Nimoy, James Earl Jones, Orson Wells, etc.
Link: http://www.openculture.com/2015/02/90-famous-authors-celebrities-read-great-stories-poems.html
The 40/40/40 Rule of Teaching
"Of all of the academic standards you are tasked with “covering,” what’s important that students understand for the next 40 days, what’s important that they understand for the next 40 months, and what’s important that they understand for the next 40 years?"
Link: http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/applying-the-404040-rule-in-your-classroom/
Link: http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/applying-the-404040-rule-in-your-classroom/
Thematic Questions
Commonlit is an organization that is building sets of thematic discussion questions to use in conjunction with upper elementary school and middle school students.
A teacher selects a theme such as love, social change & revolution, or friendship & loyalty. The choice of a discussion question will lead to a set of passages for students to read to support classroom discussion. Commonlit also has a PDF of the text to download for free.
A teacher selects a theme such as love, social change & revolution, or friendship & loyalty. The choice of a discussion question will lead to a set of passages for students to read to support classroom discussion. Commonlit also has a PDF of the text to download for free.
10,000 Film Clips 500 Audio Clips and 64,000 Images
The new Public Domain Project is offering free film clips, images and audio files for anyone to use. It will have “thousands of historic media files for your creative projects, completely free and made available by Pond5.
Link: http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2015/01/free-to-use-10000-film-clips-64000.html
Digital Timelines
Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Their mission is to "organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps."
Link: http://www.dipity.com/
Create a Flowchart Online
This is a great place to create flow charts online. You can even import your own images!
Link: http://www.gliffy.com/