New Untamed Science Video Series + First Free Video
- At April 10, 2012
- By OLE
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As one of OLE’s partners, Untamed Science will be working with us to provide a free video on our blog each week for readers. The featured videos will be accessible within OLE to current subscribers, but also available to our blog readers for free. Each week, we will post a new video along with a [...]
Read More»100 Years Later, the Titanic Continues to Fascinate and Educate
- At April 10, 2012
- By Quinn
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the fateful night the “unsinkable ship” plummeted to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The Titanic disaster has been arguably the most popular shipwreck in history, and it still captures the interest of people a century after it made its ill-fated maiden voyage. The centennial anniversary has taken the media [...]
Read More»What Everybody Should Know About the Flipped Classroom
- At April 5, 2012
- By Lindsay Bellino
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What is the Flipped Classroom anyway? Flip Learning leverages new technology and ways to consume information to invert, or flip, traditional learning environments. Lectures that were previously delivered in class are now sent home as videos for students to watch before coming to class. Activities that were typically assigned as homework are now conducted in [...]
Read More»Classroom App Review Friday: Picle
- At March 30, 2012
- By Katrina Talley
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Claim: ‘Preserve the moments that matter. Telling stories with photos and sound clips.’ Price: Free Picle (pronounced “Pickle”) is a new app for the iPhone that is focused on delivering stories. Instead of having just pictures from the moments you want to capture and share, you are now able to easily integrate the sound from [...]
Read More»OLE at NSTA Indianapolis
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Pearson Online Learning Exchange will be attending the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Conference in Indianapolis, IN, from March 29–April 1, 2012. What’s OLE Doing at NSTA? When: Thursday, March 29 3:30–5:00 p.m. Where: Indiana Convention Center, 134 What: Chuck McMillan, a Pearson science curriculum specialist, will be presenting the workshop Online Learning Exchange, Powered [...]
Read More»March Madness: Using Brackets for Test Prep
- At March 21, 2012
- By Jamaal Pittman
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March Madness—the time of year where 68 teams compete over a span of two and a half weeks for a chance to win the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship. But did you know that you can use brackets similar to the ones used during the tournament to help prepare your students for assessments? Here’s a [...]
Read More»Twitter Chats Every Teacher Should Know About
- At March 20, 2012
- By Angela
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What Is Twitter? (for those who don’t know) Twitter is a microblog (a type of blog that lets users publish short text updates) and a social networking site. It is a place where education professionals and students can meet, collaborate, and exchange ideas. Twitter focuses on the question, “What’s happening?” People can post their thoughts, [...]
Read More»Pinterest for Education: Make Your Own U.S. Presidents Guess Who? Game
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Here’s a great idea for this week: Make your own Guess Who? game for the U.S. presidents. This idea was brought to us via Felicia Ciarelli’s Classroom Ideas board on Pinterest, but it was originally posted on Game Board Geek. This is a hands-on way to get your students to remember the names of the 44 [...]
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