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Question of the Week
Monday, May 17th, 2010 | Author:

I recently read the book 75 Cage-Rattling Questions to Challenge the Way you Work by Dick Whitney and Melissa Giovagnoli. As I read the book and thought about the “cage-rattling” questions that were developed primarily for businesses I realized that many of the questions could be revised and used to help educators think about their schools and classrooms. Feel free to post your answer to the following question using the comment link at the bottom of this post.

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Become Great!
Sunday, May 16th, 2010 | Author:

The image used to create this poster was posted to Flickr by Chad Forbes.
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May 7 – Top 10
Friday, May 07th, 2010 | Author:

I hope you enjoy the resources I have managed to discover during small snippets of time this week. Feel free to share your favorite finds of the week using the comment link found at the bottom of this post. Have a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend.

  1. A Continuously Updated Global Display of Major Interdictions – a sobering interactive display of drug dealings around the world. The map also displays various different world events (click on the blue buttons under the map)
  2. A Clusty Cloud related to the Gulf oil spill…simply click on any of the words in the cloud to learn more about this environmentally tragic accident…
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  3. Ask 500 People – a Web 2.0 polling opportunity. Post a question on this site and use the embed feature to make it available to individuals who access your classroom site. See the sample below…
  4. 7 Tips to Keep Technology from Taking Over Your Life (from Wisdom 2.0) – an article posted on Tiny Buddha that I am trying to take to heart! (tweeted by Twitter user web2.0classroom)
  5. Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers – Wow!…Open, Edit, Print…Wow! Many thanks to Diana Dell for sharing this great resource via Twitter.
  6. wePapers.com – “wePapers is a place where students (and everybody) can expand their knowledge and share their wisdom, for free.” WePapers was created to help people learn from one-another. wePapers is where you find the kind of quality information you wouldn’t find anywhere else on the web, the kind of papers you’d have to dig for in dusty library basements and still not find what you’re looking for. wePapers is also where you share what you’ve learned, with people who are learning the same thing. You can discuss your work with them and get useful feedback.” (think: peer editing, keep an eye out for cheating).
  7. ePubBud – Free children’s eBooks for any reader. Create, digitize, upload, or download an ebook that can be shared with students via interactive whiteboards, on devices, on computers, etc.
  8. Adamongo – a marvelous interactive game that will help students develop critical thinking skills to understand ads, messages conveyed by ads, and what advertisers want kids to do?
  9. A sweet video dedicated to mothers….
  10. A Mother’s Prayer – Rachel Aldous – Another beautiful video for Moms…
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