How to Survive State Testing When Pressure Is High
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There’s no doubt that state testing is one of the most stressful times of the school year for both teachers and students. Weeks of testing gather information on the growth of each student and ultimately the success, or failure, of their teachers. Although teachers have been preparing students all year long, every teacher wants to [...]
Read More»Make Connections: 5 Pinterest Boards to Follow
- At March 2, 2013
- By Mathilde Piton
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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»5 Easy Ways to Quickly Build Your Personal Learning Network
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Last Thursday, we had such a great time with Jeff Bradbury and all of the educators that joined us for our webinar on 5 Easy Ways to Build Your Personal Learning Network (PLN). Thank you again to everyone who participated. We want to be sure that everyone in the OLE Community has the ability to [...]
Read More»Do the Math: Making a Scale Model to Understand How Close Asteroid DA14 Came to Earth
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This is another activity to help your students relate to the meteor and asteroid events of last Friday. This activity is also a lesson on using scale and building a scale model of the Earth-Moon system. (A student-facing version of this activity, with blue teacher notes and answers removed, is available as a downloadable PDF.) [...]
Read More»How To Get Started with Twitter in 5 Easy Steps
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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»Free Webinar: 5 Easy Ways to Quickly Build Your Personal Learning Network with Jeff Bradbury
- At February 20, 2013
- By OLE
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The OLE Community and Online Learning Exchange is all about connecting people, ideas, and best in class content for creating authentic learning experiences. We couldn’t think of a better candidate to host our webinar on building personal learning networks than Jeff Bradbury from TeacherCast.net. Jeff will share 5 easy ways for you to quickly build [...]
Read More»Hands-On Activity: Will a Meteorite Land Near Me?
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See other posts in this series: FAQs About Friday’s Fireball Meteor Strike and Asteroid Fly-By As you probably heard over the weekend, a large meteor entered the atmosphere and exploded over Russia last Friday morning. This hands-on activity will help your students grasp the likelihood that a meteorite will land at any given place on [...]
Read More»FAQs About Friday’s Fireball
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On February 15, a meteor exploded over the sky of western Siberia the same day Asteroid DA14 whizzed past Earth, as described in this other post. Students will likely have tons of questions about this eerie astronomical coincidence. Expect some lively discussions in your science classroom this week! To help you prepare, here are some [...]
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