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.

An Introduction to Technical Education

Click on this link to the Virginia CTE Resource Center and then explore the menu on the left.  In each "cluster", you'll find a surprising collection of courses listed for grades 6-12.  When you click on the hyperlinked courses, you'll see the list of competencies for each.  Competencies are similar in function to standards of learning, but the competencies are focused on what students can do.

Reflective Writing for July 24

Discuss the role of grades in education.  Be free in how you answer, but if you are looking for direction, consider these topics that interest me:  

a.  Are grades generally used for positive or negative reinforcement, and are there strategies that would be interpreted the same way by all students?  

b. How should projects that are student-specific be graded?

c. How should groupwork be graded?

d.  Are you more comfortable being graded by a standard (teacher’s grade) or your own expectations?

OR

e. Any component of grading that interests you (which would likely, by default, interest me).

Tonight's Presentations Order

1. Patty
2. Liz
3. Amanda
4. Alison
5. Amber
6. Maria
7. Allie
8. Jen
9. Sarah
10. Sam
11. Jessica
12. Katie
13. Andrea
14. Suzanne
15. Jim