I will be posting my feelings about the service and how I am using it soon.
Josh
So family history isn't on the cutting edge of technology. But it is really fun. And the new Family Search (http://www.new.familysearch.com) makes it a lot easier. Pulling from all the different databases that are available, it puts your family info together and organizes it. This is brilliant because lots of people were working super hard to find their ancestors only to find out some already had that info. This reduces duplication and wasted effort, and makes it easy to find out, "Where do I come from?"Check it out.
Here are two beautiful images for a desktop.
Enjoy!
In the story the teacher knew the other students were against the problem student because they wrote about him in their journals and suggested ways to deal with him.
I started thinking of a system to get student feedback in quick and easy ways. The best one I thought of was texting or emailing a question to the students that they respond to. This could be great because you could ask all the students different questions. For example you could ask students what they thought of Student 12's behavior etc.
I think that as we teach we need to include feedback loops. We need to make it easy for students to tell us how we are doing, leading to better quicker learning by our improved teaching.
I was just reading in Chip and Dan Heath's "Made to Stick" about how to get certain ideas to stick. I read about an anti littering campaign that used the "Don't Mess" slogan.
Then the crazy thought hit me... What if that ad campaign was the origin of the phrase? I googled it and amazingly enough, it was! There is even book on the story of the slogan!
As pointed out in Made to Stick, the "Don't Mess" ads were some of the most successful ever. They reduced littering by 72 percent and have become synonymous with Texas itself.
Here is some more info.
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