Great blog posts from last week:
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My Best Ideas (for now) for Book Clubs at the Middle Level – Pernille Ripp
Once or twice a year, dependent on what the students feel like doing, we set out on our book clubs journeys in 7th grade.
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How Accurate Is The Depiction Of Anti-Matter In Dan Brown’s “Angels And Demons”? » Science ABC
Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons is one of the most popular novels in the world today. However, it’s not completely factually correct. There are fallacies in the depiction of anti matter.
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‘Age Of Empires 4’ will be playable for university credit next year
There will be unique educational content on the Age of Empires website from two professors at the University of Arizona from early next year. “Engaging with the content could allow players to earn one academic credit at the university,” reads a pres…
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The Next Chapter of Teaching and Learning on Roblox – Roblox Blog
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Today I have gotten several emails from folks seeing an unusual, if not disturbing, cloud pattern in the visible satellite imagery. What is particularly odd is that the box seems to nearly remain in place over time. This is not normal.
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Frustration, defiance in village to be abandoned to the sea
FAIRBOURNE, Wales (AP) — Like many others who came to Fairbourne, Stuart Eves decided the coastal village in northern Wales would be home for life when he moved here 26 years ago.
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9 things that make viral hoaxes challenging – NetFamilyNews.org
Remember “Blue Whale”? Almost five years ago, when I was getting to the bottom of that murky hoax, it wasn’t yet understood as one. It was being called a “suicide game,” and those two words were scaring parents around the world, literally.
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Education Conference Presentations 2021 – Unreal Engine Learning HUB Private Beta
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Free Technology for Teachers: Mapping Where Food Comes From
Where Does Your Thanksgiving Dinner Come From? is an interactive storymap that I’ve shared in the past and still find to be a neat resource. The map displays where eight popular Thanksgiving foods are grown and harvested in the United States. The st…
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Extreme Precipitation and Flooding in Whatcom County
Extreme flooding forced by extraordinary precipitation has flooded the town of Sumas and other locales in Whatcom County. Landslides closed I5 and some other roads, and sewage overflows are threatening some water supplies in the area.
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Perhaps Like Me – Pernille Ripp
I have been meaning to check in on here, to write out words that do not carry the weight of the world within them, and yet every night, as I fall asleep before 9 PM, I am left with no words, no energy, no reason to share what we are doing because al…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Seven Good Tools for Making Animations
Making animations is a great way for students to bring their written stories to life on screen. Depending upon the story, the animation could be as short frame or two that plays for twenty seconds or it could be a five minute story.
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I was wrong… for many years in fact. So, here I am again, banging on about definitions. I have been here before, but usually trying to push through the idea of a more academic and “correct” definition of gamification.
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Lessons of Youth Activism, Climate Change, and Climate Justice – The Jose Vilson
“Yeah, so first of all, I just want to give a little context. So Shell and Siccar Point Energy are trying to push a new oil field on the UK Parliament, the Cambo oil field, which is gonna be off the coast of Scotland, which obviously is my home.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Overlay Historical Maps on Current Maps
Next week is Geography Awareness Week. Google Earth is my favorite educational technology tool to use to teach history and geography lessons. And one of my favorite things to do with Google Earth is to overlay historic maps onto current maps.
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Education: Time vs. Money | My Island View
I don’t think many people would disagree that the job of teaching is different in a post-pandemic era when compared to the job most teachers signed up for before 2019.
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A Principal’s Reflections: Curiosity: The Ultimate Learning Trigger
When I reflect on my childhood there were numerous profound experiences that impacted my trajectory. I still vividly remember spending my summers in Ocean City, NJ where one set of my grandparents resided. To this day there is just something magical…
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Gimkit Announces That Their Games Are Free Now! | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Gimkit is a popular Kahoot/Quizizz-like game platform, and my students have enjoyed it in the past. However, their games have only been free for up to five players, and you’ve had to pay in order to increase that number.
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Help Your Students Become Savvy Evaluators of Media Messages
In my media literacy posts, I’ve often written about how popular culture (movies, TV, film, magazines, etc.) as well as current and historic events (elections, the pandemic, civil rights, etc.
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Thawing Permafrost Could Release Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria and Undiscovered Viruses
When considering the implications of thawing permafrost, our initial worries are likely to turn to the major issue of methane being released into the atmosphere and exacerbating global warming or issues for local communities as the ground and infras…
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Hotspots with Google Slides – Learning Aloud
I was a big HyperCard fan and had a great time using the capabilities of that application to create interesting projects. I was interested in creating virtual learning environments and came up with a concept I called Grandma’s Attic.
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