HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.
HippoCampus was designed as part of Open Education Resources (OER), a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education for everyone. HippoCampus content has been developed by some of the finest colleges and universities in the world and contributed to the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC), another MITE project. NROC makes editorial and engineering investment in the content to prepare it for distribution by HippoCampus. Both HippoCampus and NROC are supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. (from the HippoCampus website)
The above hyperlinked text explains, to some degree, what HippoCampus is. To really get a sense of HippoCampus, click here and then click on one of the content areas in the sidebar. After that, explore either textbooks or courses. Enjoy!
Monday, January 31, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Digital dossiers
Are students aware of their digital dossiers? Perhaps this short video could help them think about their online activity.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Report on student science knowledge
But one national "report card" on test scores, released Tuesday morning, paints a dismal picture of how well the country’s students have mastered science.
Just 34 percent of fourth-graders, 30 percent of eighth-graders, and 21 percent of 12th-graders are performing at or above “proficient” in the most recent snapshot from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which gives science scores from 2009. A very small number – just 1 or 2 percent at each grade level – scored at the “advanced” level, and relatively large numbers of students didn’t even meet the most basic level. (Amanda Paulson at Yahoo news)
To read more, click the above hyperlinked text. To see how North Dakota is doing, click here. (Across tested subject areas, ND is mostly above national averages.)
Just 34 percent of fourth-graders, 30 percent of eighth-graders, and 21 percent of 12th-graders are performing at or above “proficient” in the most recent snapshot from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which gives science scores from 2009. A very small number – just 1 or 2 percent at each grade level – scored at the “advanced” level, and relatively large numbers of students didn’t even meet the most basic level. (Amanda Paulson at Yahoo news)
To read more, click the above hyperlinked text. To see how North Dakota is doing, click here. (Across tested subject areas, ND is mostly above national averages.)
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Extra! Extra! Read all about it.....across the world
Newspaper Map dubs itself as the World's Largest newspapersite.
The site includes a map with the familiar Google teardrop shapes on places all over the world. Click on one of those teardrops, and a box with a name of that newspaper comes up with a list of languages into which that the newspaper, if need be, can be translated. In effect, a reader can look at newspapers from all over the world.
To visit and explore the site, click here.
The site includes a map with the familiar Google teardrop shapes on places all over the world. Click on one of those teardrops, and a box with a name of that newspaper comes up with a list of languages into which that the newspaper, if need be, can be translated. In effect, a reader can look at newspapers from all over the world.
To visit and explore the site, click here.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
The world is here
Dead Vlei in Namibia in africa
360 Cities offers a host of panoramic pictures taken at places all over the world. Many of these can be embedded. And now, the site features the world largest panoramic picture. To view that picture, click here.
Monday, January 24, 2011
The importance of stories
During Friday's session of Literary Lunches, reader Dawn Botsford emphasized the importance of story.
And Botsford read from Growing Up on Cole Creek---Or Was It Just a Coulee? by Jeannette Roder Klevberg, Botsford's mother. Chronicled in this work are stories about Klevberg's youth, including that when Klevberg went to Grand Forks Central in 1948, her family got their first refrigerator. Klevberg rented a bedroom in Grand Forks, so she could attend high school in the "big town" of Grand Forks. During her time at GFC, she lived in a rented bedroom, ate at Black Cafe's in downtown Grand Forks and kept a diary of her boyfriends. And, in school, students participated in penmanship class and weekly spelling bees.
Klevberg finished her book six months before she died and turned it over to Botsford and her siblings for editing, proofreading, photos and formatting. Klevberg's family self-published the book and donated the proceeds to the American Cancer Society; the second printing proceeds were donated to Ethiopia Reads. Books from the third printing are left to sell, with a variety of organizations set to receive the profits.
Kleberg told Botsford that she had at least two more books to write, something that perhaps informs Botsford's belief in the power of story.
"I would encourage you to interview your grandparents and write those stories down. If you don't write those stories down, they will be lost and we need those stories, " Botsford said.
Botsford is an events coordinator in the office of ceremonies and special events at UND, located in the office of the vice president for student affairs. She grew up on a farm near Northwood and got both her bachelor's and master's degrees at UND. Her son, Tom, graduated from GFC in 2006.
And Botsford read from Growing Up on Cole Creek---Or Was It Just a Coulee? by Jeannette Roder Klevberg, Botsford's mother. Chronicled in this work are stories about Klevberg's youth, including that when Klevberg went to Grand Forks Central in 1948, her family got their first refrigerator. Klevberg rented a bedroom in Grand Forks, so she could attend high school in the "big town" of Grand Forks. During her time at GFC, she lived in a rented bedroom, ate at Black Cafe's in downtown Grand Forks and kept a diary of her boyfriends. And, in school, students participated in penmanship class and weekly spelling bees.
Klevberg finished her book six months before she died and turned it over to Botsford and her siblings for editing, proofreading, photos and formatting. Klevberg's family self-published the book and donated the proceeds to the American Cancer Society; the second printing proceeds were donated to Ethiopia Reads. Books from the third printing are left to sell, with a variety of organizations set to receive the profits.
Kleberg told Botsford that she had at least two more books to write, something that perhaps informs Botsford's belief in the power of story.
"I would encourage you to interview your grandparents and write those stories down. If you don't write those stories down, they will be lost and we need those stories, " Botsford said.
Botsford is an events coordinator in the office of ceremonies and special events at UND, located in the office of the vice president for student affairs. She grew up on a farm near Northwood and got both her bachelor's and master's degrees at UND. Her son, Tom, graduated from GFC in 2006.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Article of the week resources
Part of the reason my students have such a hard time reading is because they bring little prior knowledge and background to the written page. They can decode the words, but the words remain meaningless without a foundation of knowledge. To help build my students’ prior knowledge, I assign them an "Article of the Week" every Monday morning. By the end of the school year I want them to have read 35 to 40 articles about what is going on in the world. It is not enough to simply teach my students to recognize theme in a given novel; if my students are to become literate, they must broaden their reading experiences into real-world text . (from Kelly Gallagher's website)
Click the above hyperlinked text for more, including actual "Articles of the Week" Gallagher has used.
Click the above hyperlinked text for more, including actual "Articles of the Week" Gallagher has used.
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