Summary: MSM 289: Upcoming Vacation, Back to the Future - Grammar, and Election (Signs) Jokes You Can Use: Eileen Award: Twitter: Dan Balestrero Advisory: Halloween Candy http://mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/candyx600_103014.png Idioms http://www.hotelclub.com/blog/idioms-of-the-world-infographic/ Back to The Future Grammar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXIZoaD8NBg#t=119 10 Greatest Changes of the past 1,000 years http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/30/10-greatest-changes-of-the-past-1000-years Octothorpe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEVOM0VycMI Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) From the Twitterverse: Strategies: Counter Factuals Given the perilous political circumstances in some regions of our world today, understanding what could have been, may in fact help us better understand what might be. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119357/altered-pasts-reviewed-cass-r-sunstein Resources: 6th - 8th Grade Paired Text Question Sets http://www.readworks.org/rw/6th-8th-grade-paired-text-question-sets Yummy Math http://opencurriculum.org/user/yummymath/ NASA Library of Space Sounds http://createdigitalmusic.com/2014/10/nasa-posts-huge-library-space-sounds-youre-free-use/ https://soundcloud.com/nasa Socrative Quiz List http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/10/access-more-than-1000-socrative-quizzes.html#.VFTVdlPF94U https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dtoP6ivVNJtqTw0d6OSKLEq5WlZZ7ak9onjU1kph0Co/edit#gid=20451944 Election Day Resource www.electoral-vote.com Teacher - Student Assessment http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2014/10/26/here-are-forms-my-students-are-using-to-evaluate-themselves-me/ Web Spotlight: Gifted and Talented…and Afraid http://eduguideblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/gifted-talented-and-afraid/ 50 Great Teachers: Socrates, The Ancient World's Teaching Superstar We're starting this celebration of teaching with Socrates, the superstar teacher of the ancient world. He was sentenced to death more than 2,400 years ago for "impiety" and "corrupting" the minds of the youth of Athens. http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/10/29/359325963/50-great-teachers-socrates-the-ancient-worlds-teaching-superstar Random Thoughts . . . Personal Web Site eCommunity
