How I use Pearltrees to organize my homeschool bookmarks

BMI Calculator - Measure Body Mass Index and Body Fat Your BMI is an estimate of your body fat based on your weight and height. — Getty Images (BMI should not be used to assess a child’s weight because the appropriate weight for a child varies greatly by age.) Typically, people with higher BMIs have a greater likelihood of developing conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, and type 2 diabetes. But many factors — including your family history, eating habits and activity level — also influence your overall health. BMI calculator results are grouped into the broad categories of underweight, healthy weight, overweight and obese.

Ohio Department of Education PearlTrees is a collaborative website to store thoughts, links, videos, and notes. Teachers can easily post an idea or "pearl" on a specific topic or series of topics. Using PearlTrees provides a way to collaborate professionally with other teachers in Ohio and beyond because all “trees” are public unless you have the premium account. For every “pearl” anyone can post comments and collaborate with other professionals. People can also join together to form a team so they can contribute to a common topic. Resources, or "pearls," can be duplicated and added to multiple “trees.”

Pearltrees Pearltrees refers to itself as "a place for your interests".[7] Functionally the product is a visual and collaborative curation tool[8][9][10][11] that allows users to organize, explore and share any URL they find online as well as to upload personal photos, files and notes.[12] The product features a unique visual interface[13][14] that allows users to drag and organize collected URLs, and other digital objects.[15] that themselves can be further organized into collections and sub-collections,[16] (URLs). Users of the product can also engage in social/collaborative curation using a feature called Pearltrees Teams.[17] Pearltrees was founded by Patrice Lamothe, CEO,[21] Alain Cohen, CTO,[22] Nicolas Cynober, Technical Director,[23] Samuel Tissier, Ergonomy/UI[24] and Francois Rocaboy, CMO.[25] History[edit] Development of Pearltrees began in 2007.

19 Apps to Bring App Smashing to Your Classroom By Katie Chirhart Beginning my adventure as an iPad Lab teacher two years ago was easy. I knew everything there was to know about iPads and how to use them in the best way possible—or so I thought. Then I went to a workshop about app smashing and soon realized exactly how big the hole in my knowledge was and how many opportunities I was missing out on. App smashing is the act of using (“smashing”) two or more apps to create one project, usually an animated video that’s published online. Curating the Best of Tech and Social Media for Families Many people search the web, read content every day and share that content. While advances in search technology has made finding information easier and easier, saving and organizing information in a way that captures a story or conversation can still be very challenging. I just posted on Techmamas.com about my first experience with Pearltrees.com; I was on a Traveling Geeks trip to LeWeb and Pearltrees was one of the French companies we met. Being a visual person, the Pearltrees online application offered me the tools to capture and organize online information in a visual format that also reflected the storyline behind the issue being discussed. I decided that my next step was to use it and see what happens. What happened – is that adding content to Pearltrees became part of my daily workflow.

Lung function measured in just a phone call with new health-sensing tool According to researchers, SpiroCall allows patients to measure their lung function on any phone.Image credit: the University of Washington Traditionally, this was only conducted in clinical settings, but home spirometry is gaining acceptance in the medical community due to its ability to detect pulmonary exacerbations and improve outcomes of chronic lung ailments. However, cost and usability are often significant barriers to its widespread adoption. Now, a new health-sensing tool has been developed by a team of computer science and engineering and electrical engineering researchers - from the University of Washington (UW) - that can accurately measure lung function over a simple phone call. Most people in the developing world who have asthma, cystic fibrosis, or other chronic lung diseases have no way to measure how well their lungs are functioning outside of a clinic or doctor visit.

Visual Social Bookmarking with Pearltrees - Teach Amazing! Written by Mark Brumley Visual Social Bookmarking This educational technology post introduces you to the amazing world of visual social bookmarking. Combining a mind-blowing user interface with excellent classroom usability, visual social bookmarking sure to be a valuable tool for you and your students. Five Social Benefits of Introducing Minecraft to Your School What I love about Minecraft is that way that it brings kids together. From my experience, the social benefits of integrating Minecraft into a child’s school life are incredible. Below are five social benefits that I’ve helped to develop in students at my school through the use of structured curriculum-based activities and free-play or team-based activities both through our Minecraft club and in the classroom. Student Growth Many of the students entering the doors to Minecraft club have played the game before in some capacity. But often, the skills required to share ideas effectively, work together, and follow a team leader still need some work.

Challenge 5 - Curate Resources using Pearltrees If you listened to the episode of the Instructional Tech Talk podcast that discussed curating content in the classroom you know how valuable curating resources can be both with students and for your own resources. Social bookmarking has become a huge activity – spreading many genres and via many platforms. It has revolutionized the way in which we share and find information. Like I mentioned, there are many ways to participate in social content curation and each way looks a little different. Arthritis - Arthritis Pain Relief - Arthritis Treatment Save $100.00 with our Spring Special! New and Updated for 2016 Plus... Bonus Chapter on Osteoporosis If you’re skeptical about arthritis information you get on the internet, this will change your mind... "Learn how to enjoy life again with the amazing secrets and discoveries in this just released 'For Arthritis Sufferers Only' resource"

Utilizing Social Media and Technology in the Classroom Written by: Lauren Parmley Everywhere you look students are being discouraged from using social media in the classroom. Teachers are frustrated by them spending more time on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram rather than listening to lectures, taking notes, and doing their homework. Some teachers have taken to collecting phones at the beginning of class, deducting points for phone usage, taking the phones away if seen, and in some severe cases students are not even allowed to have phones on school premises. So it feels like a taboo subject to encourage social media usage in the classroom.

The Minecraft Effect Minecraft, the Lego-like building video game, is such a massive hit that the New York Times Magazine recently made it the subject of a cover story. What makes the game such a global sensation is its power to encourage an interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) — those pesky fields that Americans don’t seem to be able to conquer. U.S. students lag behind 34 other countries in math and behind 26 countries in science, according to a Pew Research Center study. “The game encourages kids to regard logic and if-then statements as fun things to mess around with,” according to The Times article. “It teaches them what computer coders know and wrestle with every day, which is that programs rarely function at first: The work isn’t so much in writing a piece of software but in debugging it, figuring out what you did wrong and coming up with a fix. Educators interested in learning how to design learning activities using Minecraft are in luck.