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Student blog will win $10,000 Scholarship
One blogger chosen by “the internet” will win $10,000 US scholarship … for keeping a blog. As the ratio of high school student blogs I read to the number of college student blogs I read approaches infinity, I think it a good time we troll a few of the best college bloggers in the US.…
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… I would not have heard of Paul Potts.
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Outcome-Illustrating Verbs
AKA Strong Verbs Knowledge of terminology; specific facts; ways and means of dealing with specifics (conventions, trends and sequences, classifications and categories, criteria, methodology); universals and abstractions in a field (principles and generalizations, theories and structures): Knowledge is (here) defined as the remembering (recalling) of appropriate, previously learned information: Arrange; defines; describes; duplicate; enumerates; identifies;…
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Gutenberg Books
from Gutenberg: Easy Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Call of the Wild by Jack London Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Medium Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père Winesburg, Ohio; a group of…
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No Class is Complete Without a Film Study
Watch Kingdom of Heaven and consider the following questions: What religious symbols are prominent throughout the film, and what was their purpose and place? Have you ever been in a conversation that was cut short with the phrase “god wills it”? “To kill an infidel is not murder, it is the path to heaven!” Discuss.…
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Leaving STJ? Take your blog with you.
Dashboard–>Manage–>Export Save the xml file to your disk/USB. Start a new blog at WordPress.com or Edublogs Dashboard–>Manage–>Import–>Wordpress Done. You could start your own blog on a shared server, but for true blog freedom, master your own domain and install WAMP MAMP or LAMP and WordPress yourself. I don’t plan on “pruning” the server database till…
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Business tests students: Part Deux.
From Alberta Education: Computer Adaptive Assessment Computer Adaptive Assessment (CAA) is a made-in-Alberta approach to address the individual learning needs of our students through an innovative use of technology. It is a school-based computer assessment tool that immediately ‘adapts’ or tailors the difficulty of each test to the individual student. The CAA initiative provides an…
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Private business vending tests to students
I heard about our school division particpation in a private business site geared at “vending” standardized acheivement tests to students, today . . . a day before an English 30 final, 3 weeks after the L.A. 9 final Part A, and a week after all grade 10 classes have wrapped up. A third party, non-government,…