Be Inspired: Cool Kids Doing Amazing Things
- At April 1, 2013
- By Mathilde Piton
You may remember yourself as a 14-year-old teenager, and immediately be thankful that this period of your life is finally over. Well, don’t be too hard on yourself, but enjoy these kids who are doing really great things at that age. Be inspired by their passions, concerns and successes! Cool Kids Sharing their Knowledge Passionate [...]
Read More»Make Connections: 5 Pinterest Boards to Follow
- At March 2, 2013
- By Mathilde Piton
Every month, I select the best of Pinterest so you can shake up your account with new content and people to follow. In January, I focused on the new year’s resolutions. February, though, was time to think globally with a particularly interesting theme: make connections. From the classroom to the entire world, how can teachers [...]
Read More»How To Get Started with Twitter in 5 Easy Steps
I’m using Twitter every day and I love this way of sharing and communicating. But Twitter can be less familiar for some of you: reading a tweet seems like a foreign language and hearing people talking about it is even weirder. No worries – this step-by-step guide will help to familiarize you with the Twitter [...]
Read More»5 New Year’s Resolutions, 5 New Boards to Follow on Pinterest for Education
In my kitchen at home, I have a big pin board full of postcards, pictures and cinema tickets. My 2013 resolutions didn’t include getting rid of any of them – even if this precarious collage threatens to fall once in a while. On the contrary, I told myself to add more stuff regularly. I don’t [...]
Read More»Top 10 Pinterest Boards on Technology and Education
Pinterest is a fun and very pretty way to share your interests with a community of shoe addicts, excited geeks, and food lovers. But did you know that the educational world is also massively present on Pinterest? That’s why at OLE, we love sharing links and pictures on our Pinterest boards for teachers or passionate educators [...]
Read More»Thanksgiving Teaching Resources
How do you usually enjoy Thanksgiving? With your family watching celebrations and parades on TV and then around the table with a big turkey? Or away on a beach under the sun? As I stated in a previous blog, it’s my first year living in the United States, and I don’t have any memory of Thanksgiving, except a Friends [...]
Read More»My First Halloween – Stories and Resources for the Classroom
This year, I will celebrate my first Halloween. It’s not that I don’t like it; it’s just that I’ve recently moved from Paris to the United States. In France, we celebrate All Saints Day on the first of November, but Halloween is not a popular event. Being new in this country is a very fun [...]
Read More»Curiosity Landed on Mars
Live Landing Spatial exploration fascinates a lot of people because it pushes the boundary of human knowledge. Space remains mostly unknown, and Mars is so far away and seems unreachable. Scientists have sent devices to Mars before, but Curiosity is the most ambitious technical and scientific project thus far. On August 5, 3.2 million people [...]
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