Creativity is messy, doodling is good. Peter Reynolds, nominated entrepreneur of the year from fablevision has given 16 year olds everywhere the ultimate excuse (especially the one sitting in a messy room upstairs at my house).
I heard the good news during my massCUE conference highlight- a session with Peter Reynolds talking about creativity and imagination and by [...]
Snippets of a learning conversation…
“I’m not ready to get my black belt, I don’t know everything I need to. I don’t want to take the test, I’m scared.”
She’s 12, do we push her to do something she doesn’t want to do. No. We made sure that she understood this..
She didn’t have to do it alone.
We [...]
Back to school is a good time to commit to searching out tools online that students can really use to make learning more effective. These are the top 12 free tools that I use with teachers and students and they can be found year round on my public netvibes page.
Many [...]
What a wonderful excuse to stay up late and camp out on the porch. This annual summer shower of meteors in sure to be a memory maker. The meteors are from the comet swift-tuttle and are estimated to be over a thousand years old. At peak times you may see over 40 an hour.
This youtube [...]
My son has always loved reading. In this photo, he’s not actually reading, a car ad caught his attention at a time when cars were his THING. He has always been a fanatical reader. I remember driving home from the library and he had finished a magic treehouse book in the car before we got [...]
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If you are in the midst of summer reading have fun with it, the following sites were mentioned in the slideshare above.
Type in the name of the book and the author into What should I read next? and the site will make suggestions for your next book.
Type in the [...]
Can you make a very reliable restaurant in your backyard?
Migrating humming birds were stopping for food along their migratory path this year and people noticed. Their progress is recorded on this map
As you can see it is over for now, the hummingbirds are north for the summer. Use the recipe here to get ready for their [...]
I took this picture from my patio in my garden and is one of my favorite photos, it was so nice of the butterfly to stay so still while eating, as if it knew it was on camera.
Did you know how important it is to keep an eye out for wildlife this summer? The National [...]
Staying out in the dark and watching for fireflies is not only fun, but you can now do it in the name of science.
Involve your kids in a collaborative science project that is hosted by the museum of science in Boston. No special training is needed and this is appropriate for all ages.
The Museum has [...]
It must be the summer heat!
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” –- Albert Einstein
Beware, this is a fun video, very silly, but seriously use it to show how important it is to learn anything really, you need to know when someone’s argument is flawed, [...]
