Summary: Jokes: Serious Questions A police recruit was asked during the exam, "What would you do if you had to arrest your own mother?" He said: "Call for backup." Great News While eating in an expensive restaurant, a patron overheard the gentleman at the next table ask the waitress to pack the leftovers for their dog. It was then that his young son exclaimed loudly, "Whoopee! We're going to get a dog." Lord Send Me A Hundred A little boy wanted $100 badly and prayed for two weeks but nothing happened. Then he decided to write a letter to the Lord requesting the $100. When the postal authorities received the letter addressed to the Lord, USA, they decided to send it to the President. The President was so impressed, touched, and amused that he instructed his secretary to send the little boy a $5.00 bill, as this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy. The little boy was delighted with the $5.00, and sat down to write a thank-you note to the Lord. It said: Dear Lord, Thank you very much for sending me the money. However, I noticed that for some reason you had to send it through Washington, DC and as usual, those jerks deducted $95. On Our Mind: ISTE 2010 and Back Channels . . . What do you get when you mash up a former VP of the World Bank, a PowerPoint, and a bunch of tech savvy educators? Conference Survival Gear Maxpedition Mongo Bag Soundpaper Listeners: Teachers in Illinois use iPod Touch to customize lessons One Illinois school district will have teachers and students using iPod Touch devices in classrooms this fall. District staff received 15 hours of training on using the devices for individualizing lessons and helping students improve reading fluency by listening to their recorded voices reading aloud. "This is the way students are wired to learn, and we are looking at every method to make learning more engaging and stimulating for our students and teaching more exciting for our staff," the district's superintendent said. David Bydlowski Science Consultant Hey Guys -- I still need to respond to your response to my response to the UDL article! I came a cross this link today - and thought you might be interested --http://atcubed.blogspot.com/2010/06/thinking-about-relationships.html -- it does go with the UDL topic. later - jen From the Twitterverse: Advisory: Xtranormal: Go Play! Report back here what you learned. We’ll talk about it on the show. Tech Tools: WordPress Now Lets You Phone in Your Blog Posts You can already write and publish WordPress blog posts from your iPhone, iPad, Android, e-mail and desktop, but now you can also post audio via your phone. http://mashable.com/2010/07/01/wordpress-phone/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29 Aviary in Education: A safe, private environment to use Aviary tools with your students * Create private student accounts * Manage assignments and projects * Use the image editor, vector editor, audio editor & music creator * All content and images are 100% school safe http://www.aviaryeducation.com/ Webspotlight: Putting the “Boy Crisis” in Context Finding solutions to boys’ reading problems may require looking beyond gender By MICHAEL SADOWSKI “The Boys Have Fallen Behind.” “Girls Lead the Nation in Reading Scores.” “Are Teachers Failing Our Sons?” http://www.hepg.org/hel/article/473 Word Games http://www.wordgames.com/ Google Apps Education Training Center Welcome to the Google Apps Education Training Center. This is an online learning environment dedicated for educators and students to learn how to effectively use Google Apps in an educational context. Access to a Google Apps Education account is strongly recommended so that you can experiment and apply what you learn. http://edutraining.googleapps.com/Training-Home Shout out: Thanks to InFocus for the shout out on Twitter and for the USB drive at the conference! News: International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE 2010)
