Colorado chemistry teacher Eddie Taylor has something new to add to his resume: He’s reached the peak of Mt. Everest. And he did it with the first team of Black climbers While other Black climbers have previously climbed Mount Everest, this was the first summit by a team of Black climbers. The other Full Circle …
Today’s Links The Trials of Academic Publishing Teachers are Leaving, Here’s Why Colophon The Trials of Academic Publishing (Permalink) First things first: I appreciate the need for peer review and understand why we have academic journals. I’m not the person you need to convince that any work any scientist or academic publishes needs to be …
As I’ve mentioned previously, this site in one form or another has existed since 2006. Through multiple platform changes and changes in focus, I’ve shared thoughts and insights here for the past decade and a half. As we all know, change is the only constant. With my job responsibilities and beginning my doctoral work, I …
Free sound effects for you to use in school projects from the fine folks at the BBC Explordle – watch a video clip and guess where the video was taken. Great for identifying context clues and environments Relationship Building with Dialogue Journals Three videos about the black hole at the center of the Milky Way
This Is Spinal Tap Will Get a Sequel 40 Years Later, Reuniting Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest & Harry Shearer The Rolling Stones released Paint it Black on May 13, 1966 How to Enter a ‘Flow State’ on Command: Peak Performance Mind Hack Explained in 7 Minutes Smithsonian, with first exhibition, previews planned National Latino …
In one demo, a Google product manager tells someone wearing the glasses, “You should be seeing what I’m saying, just transcribed for you in real time — kind of like subtitles for the world.” Later, the video shows what you might see if you’re wearing the glasses: with the speaker in front of you, the …
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Today’s Links No Butts About It We’ll Ban All the Books, Even the Digital Ones Colophon No Butts About It In case you haven’t heard, an assistant principal was recently fired because he chose to read the children’s book “I Need a New Butt” to a group of students. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/11/toby-price-principal-fired-childrens-book/ Toby Price found out that, …
OK, this is a total brain dump post as I just need to get some thoughts down. My mind is racing with ideas and I just need to write. But I’m going to share this with you because… reasons… I love reading. However, I’ve not always been the most dedicated reader. Far too often I …
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Today’s Links Rethinking the Honor Roll Stop Cancelling Recess Linkus Randomus Colophon Rethinking the Honor Roll It’s time for educators to make honor a core value in schools. It’s time to build honor into our curriculums and establish it as one of the primary social and emotional learning goals we work to help students achieve. …
Today’s Links How I would learn to code (if I could start over) Service-learning isn’t just for after school clubs Personalized certificates with The Google Linkus Randomus Colophon How I would learn to code (if I could start over) I was a computer science major back in the early part of this new millennia in …