A Step by Step Guide to Creating A Virtual Field Trip Using Google Earth February, 2014 Since I posted about the " 20 online museums for teachers and students " I received several emails with links, apps, tools and more tips related to educational virtual field trips. One of the links I got included this wonderful guide I am sharing with you below created by Silvia Rosenthal from Langwitches. The guide is about how to frame a virtual field trip using Google Earth. Being able to frame your field trip enables you to take your students into an education virtual learning trip in which they will engage in authentic and experiential learning. Silvia used Tour of Jacksonville, Florida as an example of the virtual field trip you can create for your students. How to Create a folder in Google Earth How to add an image of a landmark or building How to edit them placemarks and many more. I invite you to download this short guide and use it with your students.
HealthMap 'Growth Mindset' Gaining Traction as School Improvement Strategy Published Online: September 10, 2013 Published in Print: September 11, 2013, as 'Growth Mindset' Gaining Traction As Ed. Strategy New Orleans It's one thing to say all students can learn, but making them believe it—and do it—can require a 180-degree shift in students' and teachers' sense of themselves and of one another. While expressions like the "soft bigotry of low expectations" underscore the effects of teachers' and students' mindsets on academic success, it has proved difficult to pin down whether and how it's possible to change those attitudes once established. Nonetheless, attempts to change that dynamic, from targeted interventions to restructured schools, are gaining traction as many states overhaul their curricula to match the Common Core State Standards and incorporate student-growth measures into accountability systems. Three decades have passed since the Stanford University psychologist Carol S. —Jennifer Zdon for Education Week Those mindsets are self-reinforcing, and Ms. Mr.
20 Wonderful Online Museums and Sites for Virtual Field Trips to Use in Class January 27, 2014 Yesterday when I was working on the list of iPad apps that teachers can use with their students to make virtual field trips, it dawned on me to compile another list of web based platforms for both online museums and virtual field sites that can be used with students in class. After scouring the web for hours I finally landed on the selection below. Have a look and as always share with your students and colleagues. 1- National Portrait Gallery The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery tells the history of America through individuals who have shaped its culture. Through the visual arts, performing arts and new media, the Portrait Gallery portrays poets and presidents, visionaries and villains, actors and activists whose lives tell the American story. 2- Smithsonian Museums The Smithsonian Institution—the world’s largest museum and research complex—includes 19 museums and galleries and the National Zoological Park. 3- The Field Museum 5- The British Museum 6- Science Museum
PHAROS - Home Totnes, la auténtica transición En un pueblo de 7.000 almas, entre las bucólicas colinas de Devon, se está cociendo desde hace ocho años una revolución pausada y silenciosa. Cualquiera que llegue por primera vez a Totnes, no notará posiblemente la diferencia: los coches siguen circulando entre los caserones de piedra y -como los propios vecinos advierten- "aún no tenemos a las cabras pastando en los tejados verdes". Remontando High Street, sin embargo, uno empieza a notar que algo está ocurriendo realmente en Totnes. En plena crisis, aquí tenemos la explosión de pujantes comercios locales. Muchos de ellos admiten el pago con la divisa autóctona, la libra de Totnes. Los 40 cafés locales han hecho piña para evitar la apertura de cadenas multinacionales. La semilla del cambio se plantó hace tiempo en Totnes. "El sistema con el que funcionamos ha entrado en un callejón sin salida", advierte Rob Hopkins, cofundador del movimiento, rebautizado en su propia tierra como “el revolucionario gentil”.
Over 300 Virtual Tours & Museums around the World Tour The American Museum of Natural History The American Museum of Photography Guided Tour American Red Cross Virtual Museum American Treasures - Library of Congress The Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum Tour an Ancient Roman Villa Tour of The Andy Warhol Museum The Canadian Museum of Civilization Tour The Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo Tour The Collection at The National Gallery of Art Tour the DeCordova 35 acre Sculpture Park The Drop Zone Virtual Museum (WW II Airborne) Virtual Tour of Durham Cathedral Tour the Ellis Island, NY 1900-1920 Photographic Exhibit Tour the Field Museum of Natural History Exhibits Institute and Museum of History of Science - Florence, Italy German Leather Museum Greek and Roman Art Collection Tour the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village Holocaust Museum Tour The International Museum of Horses Tour The Jimmy Stewart Museum Museum of HP Calculators Tour The Museum of Unnatural Mystery Tour the Metropolitan Museum of Art The First Virtual Mousepad Museum Tour the U.C.
OT Without Borders | PROMOTING SOCIAL JUSTICE THROUGH OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY | Page 2 OTs have a role in public health, as in helping people stay healthy and preventing illness or injury through health promotion (as an aside the WHO defines health as not just the absence of disease or illness, but rather a state of well-being). The following quotes sum up the shift that is necessary however amongst … Continue reading I got busy with getting ready for school and now starting school, so I didn’t have time to update the blog. Lo siento!! Here are some final pictures from the end of my time in Guatemala. I learned all about cacao and made some chocolate at the Choco Museo, yum! I am back in the U.S. of A! A few of us traveled to Lake Atitlan for part of the past weekend. On Friday our field school group traveled to a town called Comalapa to do some work with a cool NGO called Long Way Home. Updates The place where we stayed in Lanquin (on my earlier weekend trip to Semuc Champey) had a professional photographer on our cave and Semuc Champey tour.