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Comment on Suggestions for resources: Do you agree? by Ben

Ben — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:23:47 +0000

@Charles: That’s an excellent point that I wish I’d included in the post. Articles any bigger than a stub generally have external links and resources sections which can connect the reader to the source. Well written articles frequently have dozens of references.

Thanks for the reminder!

Comment on Suggestions for resources: Do you agree? by Charles

Charles — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:09:24 +0000

I think these guidelines are great and agree that Wikipedia is too valuable a resource to ignore. You can add that Wikipedia often cites the source of facts. You can verify the facts by following the link to the cited article and make a judgment if the source is trustworthy . If it is from a reputable source like a journal or large publication it is trust worthy (although they can certainly make mistakes too).

Comment on Help a teacher out- Video shoutouts by Dean Shareski

Dean Shareski — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:59:20 +0000

Here you go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzDM4GhvLeE
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Comment on Scientific Method and Super Mario by Monkeymagic » Scientific Method and Super Mario

Monkeymagic » Scientific Method and Super Mario — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:03:41 +0000

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Comment on The day swine flu came to town by Ben

Ben — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:21:02 +0000

Hopefully your school doesn’t get ravaged by the flu. So far we haven’t been doing too badly, but there’s always the worry it’ll hit really hard.

I should mention that I choose to upload the files as PDFs and not just as plain ol’ Google Docs because the formatting often gets changed around a little bit. While that’s not a big deal for many documents that I want to share and collaborate on with people, that little bit of extra time adds up when I’m doing the bulk uploading I need to share every handout I give in class.

Comment on The day swine flu came to town by Patti Harju

Patti Harju — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:53:03 +0000

We have been lucky so far and not had many children out with the flu – and so far no swine flu (I am knocking on wood.) Many area schools however have been closed over the past two weeks for flu.

Thank you for the tip using Google Docs. I have not used them this way and am excited to check it out. The examples are great. Thanks again!

Comment on Problems with Pluto by Ben

Ben — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:07:11 +0000

@Meika: Got it in one. Nice work! I didn’t want to spend hours trying to get realistic sounding alien names, and my dear wife suggested I use names from the Dragonriders of Pern books.

Comment on Problems with Pluto by Meika

Meika — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:59:35 +0000

Great exercise, Ben!

I think I know the book(s) – Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffery? I didn’t recognize all the names, but Pern I got.
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Comment on Problems with Pluto by Ben

Ben — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:31:09 +0000

It’s true that students could really, truly, understand the reasoning behind the decision to make Pluto a dwarf planet and yet disagree based solely on emotional reasons. This worked so much better because the students themselves decided that Pluto fits better in a dwarf planet (even though I had to trick them into it )

Thanks!

Comment on Problems with Pluto by Kyle Simon

Kyle Simon — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:01:45 +0000

This is really great. It’s much better than trying to present support for an argument which students are blindly/passionately against. This is also a great example of how we need to go about teaching what it means to classify, compare and contrast.

Thanks.