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Happy Chinese New Year! The Chinese use the lunar calendar in addition to the solar calendar. According to the lunar calendar, the new year this year was on Feb. 3, which is the Year of the Rabbit. The twelve animals in the Chinese zodiac cycle every 12 years. Because every month in the lunar calendar has 30 days, and there are no months with 31 days, every 4 years the lunar calendar is corrected by repeating a month.

The Chinese keep track of their birthdays using…

Like it or not we are constantly judged by our writing skills. Whether we are writing a term paper for a class or research report for our boss, the quality of our work will be determined in part by the quality of our writing.  This may not be fair, but there is something we can do about it.

Writing is important because it’s a communication tool. Imagine you had a great song on your MP3 player that you wanted to share with your friends, but every time you played it there was mainly…

from Chris Dawson, ZDNet

ePals, creator of the world’s largest learning network, has partnered with Dell to add its newly announced SchoolMail³⁶⁵ and its LearningSpace communication and collaboration solutions to Dell’s Connected…

Hi everyone. I would like to introduce my blog, the Mathematics and Multimedia. 

This blog has two main themes: one is mathematics and the other is multimedia. The mathematics part will discuss ideas behind mathematical concepts from elementary to undergraduate topics.  The multimedia part will discuss the use of different media such as text, graphics, sounds, video and animation in teaching mathematics. Mathematics and…

As a teacher, I can increase graduation rates of my students by increasing engagement in learning, especially when it applies to at-risk learners (Archambault, 19). So, as a brand new online teacher, I felt it was within my education, training, and scope to attempt to increase engagement in my online classroom.



Yesterday I contacted 34 disengaged students with a personalized letter inviting them to come back to the online classroom and turn in an assignment. Within 24 hours, 10 of…

Two words best describe Gordon Park’s life…groundbreakingand inspirational.

Parks was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director. He is best remembered for his photo essays for Life magazine. In the 1950s, Parks worked as a consultant on various Hollywood productions and later directed a series of documentaries commissioned by National Educational Television on black ghetto life. Beginning…

If you're like me, you get most of your tech tips from other teachers or great websites.  I've found Learn It In 5to be one of those great websites.  Learn a wide array of skills each in 5 minutes or less!

Erin Klein

Kleinspiration

If you're like me, I teach myself how to use most of the available tech tricks from other teachers or great websites.  I've found Learn It In 5 to be one of those great websites!  Super user-friendly videos that teach a wide array of skills all in 5 minutes or less... that, is something I certainly have time for.  :)

Erin Klein…

An introduction to the ins and outs of 5 free online image editing application, and some suggestions for using them in the classroom.

Last year I wrote this short series of articles in which I looked at a slew of free image editing tools found on the Web, and ultimately boiled these down to a set of 5 recommendations.  This last…

Last week, UPS showed up at my door with a box that held inside it a shiny (well, more of a matte-finished) new Cr-48. I've been using it as my sole computing device for over a week now, so I thought I'd offer my thoughts.

http://www.teachthecloud.com/2011/02/cr-48-teachers-review.html

Here are 10 videos that will get you thinking and reflecting on your educational practices and beliefs. I did a post a few months ago with 7 different videos, and the response was quite positive. Leave a comment and let me know what other videos you would add to the list. Thank you and enjoy!

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One of the biggest reasons I enjoy using Twitter is it enables me to connect with educators from all around the world. Additionally, Twitter has proven to be an efficient and effective platform to discuss pressing educational issues. Unfortunately, most…

Today we presented Pop Goes the Classroom to Gifted and Talented Educators across Arizona. It was another standing room only presentation. Thank you for your kind reception today. As you scroll through the blog you will find resources for many of the topics we discussed today from cell phone usage to educational social networks, student film making, comics in the classroom and so much more.



There were some interesting discussions from today's presentation that I want to share with…

I’ve been in a lot of meetings – some of them for work, some for volunteering and some for social purposes.  I was at a meeting last night and while it was run well there were some things that came to mind about making meetings better and using technology to do so.

There are a lot of commonalities to the meetings I’ve been to and they’re usually not good. I’m going to outline some of the annoying problems that reoccur…

I recently got to experience a 2nd grade classroom for 3 days.  I learned many new things being in there-I must thank a certain 2nd grade teacher for going on a week long class trip!  Firstly,  I noticed that no matter what grade these students are in, there are some who are noticeably struggling & some who are far out reaching their expectations.  Some of the youngsters that I had the pleasure of working with could no doubt keep up in a 5th or 6th grade classroom.  Then, there were some…

“The culturally-constructed spheres of knowledge must bear some kind of relation to the kinds of brains and minds that human beings have, and the ways that those brains and minds grow and develop in different cultural settings”

(Gardner, 2003)

Does the way we organize our society affect the way our brains are organized?

Gardner, H. (2003, April 21). Multiple intelligences after 20 years. Paper presented to the American Educational Research…