Here’s a nifty little flash application from NASA featuring Buzz Lightyear allowing kids (elementary) to participate in a variety of science activities related to the space shuttle and international space station.
Picked up this little gem via Wes Fryer over at Speed of Creativity, via Lee Ann at The Eight Floor in Tulsa, OK, via Nelson Central School in New Zealand. And here’s a link to the original post.
I’m beat. Its been a heck of a week. Being out of the district at the end of last week and planning on doing some training in NYC for almost all of next week, I had to cram a BUNCH of stuff in the last couple of days. I needed a break and thought I’d do a quick blog on a couple of things I’ve been meaning to post about.
First, I saw a cool map mash-up project on histroic Route 66. This (and other map mash up projects) would be great to integrate into a social studies/geography class. I found this one very interesting. Even inclues video interviews to create an entire oral history of Route 66. Here’s a useful bookmark list related to mashups where I found this as linked from David Warlick’s blog.
Another recent add to my del.icio.us bookmarks is this nifty little experiment by Carl Anderson, who authors a blog called Techno Constructivist (I love that name…I need a catchy title for my blog…..any suggestions?)
Spending the day at a meeting in King of Prussia required of CFF schools. Here’s my notes…
Begins with an activity to encourage discussion regarding success and challenges of the CFF implementation.
Use Rigor/Relevance as a framework for curriculum design and development
Professional learning communities - uses faculty meeting time for professional learning community
Standards in Practice - Instructional Gap Analysis Strategy
1. Discuss the purpose of the assignment.
2. Analyze the demands of the task.
3. Identify the standards that apply to the assignment.
4. Generate a task-specific rubric using the standards and the assignment.
5. Score the student work using the task-specific rubric.
6. Redesign assignment- plan instructional strategies.
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