My long-time pal and colleague, Des King, is entering retirement this week after a long and successful teaching career. I want to wish him all the best and to send him off with his own recommendation as the final posting of the year.
“A palindrome reads the same backwards as forward. This video reads the exactopposite backwards as forward. Not only does it read the opposite, the meaning is the exact opposite. This is only a 1 minute, 44 second video and it is brilliant. Make sure you read as well as listen…forward and backward. This is a video that was submitted in a contest by a 20-year old. The contest was titled “u @ 50″ by AARP. This video won second place.”
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The URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=42E2fAWM6rA
And so concludes Year 12 of The Teacher List! I will be in a new role next year as I begin a secondment with 2Learn.ca and am looking forward to the new challenges in education-technology that this position will present. Have a relaxing summer, everyone…
-Pete
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Connections was a favorite television show for me, so I was delighted to hear from my pal, Bill Lomax about Burke’s latest project – The Knowledge Web. The Institute exists to encourage innovative uses of educational technology and its site offers several video, blog and pod/webcast resources.
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The URL: http://www.k-web.org/
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Kelowna teacher, Sharon Affeld, told me about the Harvey Mudd College Math Department’s site called Mudd Math Fun Facts.This archive is designed as a resource for enriching your math courses and nurturing your interest and talent in mathematics! Each Math Fun Fact is a math puzzle or short article that contains a cool mathematics idea. You’ll can learn about the mathematics of things like card shuffling to poker to computer vision to fractals to music, just to name a few. This makes great enrichment material for gifted math students or problem-solving groups.
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The URL: http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/
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Edmonton teacher, Mark Sheridan, told me about this awesome resource the other day. This tool from Pilot helps you turn your handwriting into a font for use on your computer. Just download the planning sheet, fill it out and digitize it with a scanner, a camera or your webcam. The image is broken down into glyphs that are assigned keystrokes and the file is generated. It takes my students several days to create their own fonts – this method makes a lot more sense to me.
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The URL: http://pilothandwriting.com/en/
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List member, Fred Moody, told me about The World At Night (TWAN) — a program to produce and present a collection of stunning photographs and time-lapse videos of the world’s landmarks against the celestial attractions. The eternally peaceful sky looks the same above symbols of all nations and regions, attesting to the truly unified nature of Earth as a planet rather than an amalgam of human-designated territories.
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The URL: http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/index.asp
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