I usually just publish posts in this series once each week, but some timely good ones just appeared today…
Obviously, photos can be great educational tools with English Language Learners and with any students (see The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons). I post about many photo galleries, also called slideshows. To do it in a little more organized way, though, I recently began this weekly feature called “Photo Galleries Of The Week.” This post is a “round-up” of online slideshows I’m adding to various “The Best…” lists:
I’ve written A LOT about how to help students enhance their feelings of intrinsic motivation and help them want to change their behavior and attitudes.
Many of us would also like to make change occur in our schools, districts, and in broader policy areas. Obviously, that’s a particular interest of mine, too, after spending nineteen years as a community organizer prior to becoming a teacher.
Here’s the beginning of a list sharing my choices for The Best Posts & Articles On Building Influence & Creating Change:
I’ve got to start with today’s must-read review of Robert Caro’s new biography of LBJ, written by David Frum and appearing in Newsweek, Read This Book, Obama!
I’ve written a number of posts linking to additional resources, including:
NASA released this video of a recent solar flare. I’m adding it to The Best Images Taken In Space. If you’re reading this on an RSS Reader I think you’ll have to click through to see it..
“In a healthy team, all the individual members talk to each other, not just the boss. Everyone listens as much as they talk. There is frequent communication, but it tends to be fairly fast. And people regularly make forays outside the team, learning new things, and then share when they come back.
Pentland and his colleagues generate graphics with their data and the results are striking. They draw a circle of everyone in a team, with lines between them showing the intensity of communication. In dysfunctional groups, you see a few heavy lines – the boss issuing orders to his lieutenants, say – and lots of light lines. People don’t talk among themselves. But in bastions of creativity and productivity, the boss-man does not dominate discussions and everyone is talking to everyone else.”
That’s the conclusion reported in this month’s Harvard Business Review of seven years of “of work outfitting people with electronic badges to track their office interactions” by MIT.
I’m happy to say that the positive pattern is the one used at our school and modeled by our principal.
What about your school or district?
And can we learn something from this study about our classrooms, too?
TED Talks, the well-known resource of short and thought-provoking….talks has just announced that they will be starting a regular show on NPR called “TED Radio Hour.” It begins next week.
It will be played on local stations, but will also be available on the NPR website.
Obviously, photos can be great educational tools with English Language Learners and with any students (see The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons). I post about many photo galleries, also called slideshows. To do it in a little more organized way, though, I recently began this weekly feature called “Photo Galleries Of The Week.” This post is a “round-up” of online slideshows I’m adding to various “The Best…” lists:
