Winter Olympics lesson plans and resources

Bycollinsr January 12, 2006

Kathy Schrock has put together a ton of resources for using the Winter Olympics in your classroom, including the history of the Olympics, lesson plans, and activities. Check them out at her website.

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Teaching Kindergarten from home

Bycollinsr March 15, 2020

Below then you will find a list of suggestions that align with our kindergarten classroom program, the Kindergarten Program Document, and the needs and interests of our students. Source: Kindergarten From Home: Here Are My Suggestions. What Are Yours? | Living Avivaloca

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Five percent of adults illiterate

Bycollinsr December 19, 2005

According to an article on CNN, The National Assessment of Adult Literacy: “About one in 20 adults in the U.S. is not literate in English, meaning 11 million people lack the skills to handle many everyday tasks, a federal study shows.” It goes on further that 19 million American adults have “below basic” skills, which…

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How PowerPoint is killing critical thought.

Bydeanj October 1, 2015

From The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/powerpoint-thought-students-bullet-points-information This could apply to Notebook, or Google slides as well.

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Cool search site

Bycollinsr October 31, 2005

We’ve all come to love and rely on Google, but I was alerted to a new site today, Clusty. This search engine takes your search query, and “clusters” the results into different search topics. For example, I did a search on “volcano”, and not only did it give me a list of websites for volcanoes,…

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Online Google Classroom training

Bycollinsr March 31, 2015

Google has an online course with 8 lessons on using Google Classroom. Check it out: https://www.google.com/edu/training/get-trained/classroom/basics.html

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Alumni speaker for the University of Findlay College of Education

Bycollinsr April 14, 2011

I had the privilege of addressing the soon-to-be graduates of the University of Findlay College of Education on April 13. It was a pleasure to speak, although it was tough for me to limit myself to 20 minutes. A copy of the speech and the audio from the speech will be posted to http://ryancollins.org/ as…

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