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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: 10 ways to End the School Year on an Up Note when You're Exhausted

Fri May 24 11:57:13 +0000 2013

10 ways to End the School Year on an Up Note when You're Exhausted

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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 05/24/2013

Fri May 24 09:42:20 +0000 2013

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 05/24/2013

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Wissahickon School District: WHS Graduation Project

Thu May 23 18:57:22 +0000 2013

I'll be spending time to AJ Juliani, Steve Mogg and Rosie Esposito from Wissahikon school district. Here's a copy of their Graduation project required to graduate from their school. I think all schools should have graduation projects. There is information and manuals if you want to look into this for yourself. I saw this in Evansvlle High school as well. This can be part of your genius work. "As part of graduation from Wissahickon High School, every senior is required to complete a graduation project. The projects include research, writing and an oral presentation to assure that students are able to apply, analyze, synthesize and evaluation information and communicate significant knowledge and understanding. This is culminating project in one or more areas of concentrated study under the guidance and direction of the high school faculty. "

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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Discover Great Common Core PD

Thu May 23 13:57:09 +0000 2013

Discover Great Common Core PD

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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 05/23/2013

Thu May 23 09:42:15 +0000 2013

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 05/23/2013

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Moving at the Speed of Creativity | Redeeming the Family: Blessing Children of Incarcerated Parents

Wed May 22 16:56:02 +0000 2013

Wesley Fryer is not only a great educator but a great man. Here he shares how he and other men went into the Cushing Oklahooma correction facility and helped dads record messages to their children for Father's day. What a great thing to do. Part of my own faith is the forgiveness that we can receive and as people we must forgive and encourage those who have made mistakes. If you don't make a mistake ignore this post, if you do, then consider bringing something like this to your area. Great work, Wes. I hope our PLN's share this message far and wide. "This is a 14 minute video reflection by Wesley Fryer, who volunteered with Redeeming the Family on May 15, 2013, at the Cimarron Correctional Facility (prison) in Cushing, Oklahoma. Oklahoma currently has 17 prisons, and Cimarron is one of three which is privately operated. Corrections Corporation of America has owned and operated this prison commercially since 1997. Last week Redeeming the Family volunteers assisted 50 incarcerated dads to record video messages of love for their children, which will be mailed to their children before Father’s Day on Sunday, June 16th."

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Teaching Students to Dig Deeper | Edutopia

Wed May 22 14:30:19 +0000 2013

You can help them think deeper but it takes time and sharpening the saw. Great article. "A common occurrence in classrooms is that the teacher, when he or she sees the students struggle mightily to "think out of the box" will precipitously step in and give the students the answers, or throw the deeper learning activity out all together, thinking that the students aren't ready for it. What these students and the teachers need is to be patient, practice and build those mental muscles over time. One thing that helps teachers and students is a better understanding the nature of the advanced thinking tools."

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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: End of Year Focus Groups: Kids Ask me to Share how to get more followers so here it is!

Wed May 22 14:12:15 +0000 2013

End of Year Focus Groups: Kids Ask me to Share how to get more followers so here it is!

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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 05/22/2013

Wed May 22 09:42:28 +0000 2013

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 05/22/2013

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Why the mantis shrimp is my new favorite animal - The Oatmeal

Tue May 21 10:55:56 +0000 2013

This great cartoon can be used to talk about eyes and color but is also funny. You might want to share this with students if your class talks about these topics. Wow, the Mantis Shrimp has the ability to see this many colors?

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15 Incredible Cat Photobombs (PHOTOS)

Tue May 21 10:43:22 +0000 2013

If you need a laugh for the end of the year, the 15 incredible cat photobombs are great for a laugh.

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Anchornote - iPhone - English - Evernote Trunk

Tue May 21 10:26:26 +0000 2013

Another award winner - this is a cool app to plan your trips. You'll be reminded when you get near something what you want to do there. Very cool. (You can also import foursquare lists.)

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SignEasy - iPad - English - Evernote Trunk

Tue May 21 10:25:07 +0000 2013

Sign easy just won an award for being the simplest way to sign docs on the iphone and ipad. It links with most cloud services like Dropbox, Box and Evernote.

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HelloFax - Web - English - Evernote Trunk

Tue May 21 10:20:39 +0000 2013

You can send and receive faxes into an Evernote notebook using HelloFax. Very interesting productivity tool.

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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: 5 Important Ingredients of Good Preservice Teacher Education

Mon May 20 10:42:09 +0000 2013

5 Important Ingredients of Good Preservice Teacher Education

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Exempt Employees and Time Clocks > RC Kelly Law Firm

Sun May 19 23:50:57 +0000 2013

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However, there is some risk involved. An employer that treats a salaried/exempt employee as an hourly/non-exempt employee risks the possibility that the affected employee could make a claim for overtime wages as an hourly/non-exempt employee
For example, a salaried employee should not be docked pay for clocking in late or clocking out early.
If it is determined an employee was misclassified, employers would be liable for overtime wages of salaried employees as well as any relevant penalties.

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 05/19/2013

Sun May 19 09:42:27 +0000 2013

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 05/19/2013

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Bikes & Bullets - YouTube

Sat May 18 21:34:43 +0000 2013

This YouTube channel is an example of how parents MUST sign off on genius project. The final video "go Pro hero" is the only "officially submiited" video for this student's genius project. But he runs a youtube channel that has a bit of a cult following. I don't approve of the stunts, etc. but the child's mother does. He also did all the work at home except for the final. This is one of those challenging ones and is something to be aware that you can deal with when you have genius projects. I have parent sign off on anything students do.

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Wix.com AwesomeMadi created by Tucker2015 based on my-gallery | Wix.com

Sat May 18 20:50:43 +0000 2013

This efolio is by far one of the best. I love on the homepage. She says "Hello my name is madison and I'm an artist." yes, you are, my dear.

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Edits

Sat May 18 20:40:24 +0000 2013

I enjoy what this student did with learning to edit in Photoshop.

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