Potomac Watershed Cleanup - April 6

(If you go to the map of cleanup sites - mine is westernmost in the watershed).

Saturday, April 6, 2013  9am – 12pm
             
                                              Find a site - Click here! 

The Annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup has become a decisive catalyst for
progress that ignites people throughout the watershed with the Alice Ferguson
Foundation’s community spirit. The largest regional event of its kind, the Cleanup
provides a transforming experience that engages citizens and community leaders
and generates momentum for change.

Become a Site Leader

Volunteer

Sponsor the Cleanup

Field trip on Saturday, October 20?

I was glad to hear from so many of you this week. I thought I'd offer to invite you on a field trip with my Virginia Tech class on Saturday morning from 9am to 12 noon.   We regularly have guests, so don't worry about blending in.

From my Fall course blog: This is just a reminder that tomorrow we'll be exploring the fall line of the Potomac, walking from Chain Bridge upstream to Lock 6, where the U.S. Whitewater team has modified the old feeder canal built by George Washington's Patowmack Canal Company.

Note that we'll be parking in the neighborhood way up the hill from the bridge.  Give yourself extra time - streets in that area are a little tricky.

Fall Line / Urban Stream Corridors

Chain Bridge, Little Falls, Locks 5 & 6

MAP:

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Science textbooks - teacher editions

While rearranging my home office I found another stash of science textbooks.  Most are biology, with a few physics, chemistry and earth science.  I thought I'd offer to you all before I published a notice on Craigslist.

Many / most are teacher editions, and of course they're all free to a good home.

I'm in Clarendon at 1615 N. Cleveland St.  Call first so I don't miss you or in case they're already snagged (I have many more in my VT Falls Church office too, and the VT semester there begins on Monday.

I also have a few science posters - sharks, mushrooms, other fish.

Jim   703-599-3643

Learn to Code (free online resources)

I missed seeing you all this week.

50 Places You Can Learn to Code (for Free) Online

If you're curious about learning a programming language then you're in luck: there's no shortage of resources for learning how to code online. University-level courses, tutorials, cheat sheets, and coding communities all offer excellent ways to pick up a new language.  Read on, and you'll discover 50 great places to learn how to code, for free, online.





www.onlinecollegecourses.com/2012/08/06/50-places-you-can-learn-to-code-for-free-online/

How to find free wifi (a perfectly good scrabble word, btw)

As prices continue to drop on E-readers, tablets, iPhones, and other electronic devices that allow people to access the internet with more ease than a traditional laptop or computer, more and more people are buying them.  The influx in people owning these devices creates a need for places where you can use them, however many places don’t offer free WiFi.  And while you could buy the devices that allow you to access the Internet, they can end up being pretty costly.  So now that you have your new tablet how do you find out who offers free WiFi hot spots?  Check out the following 10 great spots to find a WiFi Hot Spot.
(See the list here.)

Links from Lesson Presentations

Virtual Worlds -  http://www.nasarealworldinworld.org/Winners.aspx

Likelihood - lightening, lotteries, meteors, 

Lake Placid - http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/lake_placid_camp.html

Pineal gland in humans and oher animals - http://www.crystalinks.com/pinealcolors.gif

Solar compass - http://www.instructables.com/community/Making-a-solar-compass/

Rt 95  follows the fall line - Little Falls - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pr8F85twAM

vimeo - Alison - http://vimeo.com/15523599

7 Deadly Sins - 

Wisconsin Fast Plants - http://www.fastplants.org/life_cycle/

Cinnamon Basil - http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/plantgrowth/home/index.html

Agenda - last class

1. Using Tables
2. Work Time
3. Lesson Presentations (volunteer order)
4. Wrap-Up and Goodbyes

Tonight's Agenda

AGENDA
A.  Presentations of Technologies and Digital Stories
B.  Creating Rubrics - template
C.  Tools for Creating Mobile Apps
D.  Mini-Conferences / Work Time
E.  Grading Discussion Follow-Up
F.  Lesson Plan Presentations Part 1 (for those who are ready)
G.  Work Time continued

For early finishers:
1. Create a rubric for your summative assessment
2. Create a LinkedIn profile;
3. Develop an online resume;
4. Convert your resume to a Curriculum Vita - Jim's sample
5. Design and/or Build an App
6. Work on three technologies for July 31

Weather Outlook

Give yourself extra time to get to class safely.  And let me remind you of our policy:  If you don't feel safe, don't come.

Update this RADAR image here and click Composite Loop.