Save time grading papers

Here's a strategy worth trying for those of you willing to do a little frontloaded work and use MS Word's Review function for student papers: http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/grammar_mechanics/how-to-save-time-grading-essays/

Online Resources for Vocabulary Instruction

from Educational Leadership/October 2010: "The Words Students Need"

To identify high-frequency cross-content words:
The Academic Word List: www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist
Word Count: www.wordcount.org/main/php

To create student-friendly word definitions:
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: www.ldoceonline.com

To support students' morphological skills and word learning strategies:
Visuword Online Graphical Dictionary: www.visuwords.com/search
WordSift: www.wordsift.com

Musical Intelligence: Listening Questions

• What does this music make you think of?
• Does it suggest colors, images, patterns, or scenes?
• What feelings does this selection evoke?
• What instruments or singing do you hear?
• Are there any repetitive sound patterns the composer used? Can you sing or tap them?
• What portions of the music did you especially enjoy? What made them appealing?
• Can you think of a situation when this music would be especially appropriate to play?
• Does this music remind you of another selection? What is similar to it?
• Can you imagine movement or dance to accompany this music? If so, can you move or dance in that way?
• If you could, would you change this music in any way? How?
• What do you think the composer was trying to communicate when he/she wrote this composition?
• Might the listener hear something quite different?
  

Put it to music

Science (and more) to Music
http://iamlodge.com/beans

Take a look at this innovative way to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom with standards-based songs; tips, ideas, lyrics, and sound files are all here.

helpful dictionary and thesaurus alternatives

helpful dictionary and thesaurus alternatives:
http://www.visualthesaurus.com
http://www.visuwords.com
http://visual.merriam-webster.com/

Resources for MI class

• Article: Brain Imagery Supports the Idea of Diverse Intelligences, Edutopia, April 2009.

• http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-brain-research

• Self test:

• http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-learning-styles-quiz

• http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/index.htm

• Journal: Edutopia, April 2009. http://www.edutopia.org/magazine/apr09

• Book: Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice by Howard Gardner

• Book: Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom by Thomas Armstrong

• Book: Becoming a Multiple Intelligences School by Thomas R. Hoerr

• Book: Eight Ways of Knowing: Teaching for Multiple Intelligences by David Lazear

• Book: Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner

• Book: Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century by Howard Gardner

• Book: Teaching and Learning Through Multiple Intelligences by Linda and Bruce Campbell and Dee Dickinson

• Book: Handbook of Differentiated Instruction Using the Multiple Intelligences by Bruce Campbell

• Science rap: http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/science-rappers-return/

• MI for kids: www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/thinking/MISmarts/smarts.htm

Wow. A blog.

Oh, yes, I did.