Saturday, March 14, 2015

MzTeachuh: Educational Links 3/14/15

MzTeachuh: Educational Links 3/14/15: How Technology Is Transforming 21swt Century Education http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/03/a-beautiful-visual-on-how-technology-...

Public servive announcement: The original version of this post had problems (not that I blame you, Blogger, but seriously.)

I posted the same post today 3/15/15, with the links working. Sorry for the inconvenience.

How Technology Is Transforming 21swt Century Education

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/03/a-beautiful-visual-on-how-technology-is.html

Finding the Most Creative Ways to Help Students Advance At Their Own Pace

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/06/finding-the-most-creative-ways-to-help-students-advance-at-their-own-pace/

Classroom Activities to Promote Nutrition & Health

http://www.teachhub.com/classroom-activities-promote-nutrition-health

National Poetry Month: Useful Resources for Teachers and Students

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/national-poetry-month-teacher-resources-matt-davis?utm_content=resource-roundup&utm_campaign=nation-poetry-month-resources&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_term=link

Teaching Reading: No Magic Wand Required

http://theeducatorsroom.com/2015/03/teaching-reading-no-magic-wand-required/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theeducatorsroom%2FvPKE+%28EducatorsRoom%29

Native American History Is Often Overlooked In Schools. One State Is Trying To Change That

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/13/indian-education-for-all-montana_n_6859026.html?utm_hp_ref=education

How to Integrate Tech When It Keeps Changing

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/integrate-tech-keeps-changing-todd-finley?utm_content=blog&utm_campaign=integrate-tech-keeps-changing&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_term=link

This means you!

MzTeachuh: Beware the Ides of March!

MzTeachuh: Beware the Ides of March!: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar with John Wilkes Booth (l) playing Marc Antony and brothers Edwin (c) and Junius playing Brutus. Maybe Ed...

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar with John Wilkes Booth (l) playing Marc Antony and brothers Edwin (c) and Junius playing Brutus. Maybe Edwin played Cassius.

March 15 used to be the day untenured teachers received noticed they were being let go. The irony was not not lost on anyone.

Here is Marcus Brutus played by Marlon Brando (1953.) There are many excellent film productions of the play; I saw it at the Old Globe in San Diego. As usual, Shakespeare is too cool.

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsjkfr_friends-romans-countrymen-lend-me-your-ears_creation#.UUNXkzfwXmA

Beware the Ides of March!

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar with John Wilkes Booth (l) playing Marc Antony and brothers Edwin (c) and Junius playing Brutus. Maybe Edwin played Cassius.

March 15 used to be the day untenured teachers received noticed they were being let go. The irony was not not lost on anyone.

Here is Marcus Brutus played by Marlon Brando (1953.) There are many excellent film productions of the play; I saw it at the Old Globe in San Diego. As usual, Shakespeare is too cool.

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsjkfr_friends-romans-countrymen-lend-me-your-ears_creation#.UUNXkzfwXmA

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MzTeachuh: Teaching Is...Soothing the Soul (SEL)

MzTeachuh: Teaching Is...Soothing the Soul (SEL): 1. Resources and Lesson Plans for Social and Emotional Learning http://www.edutopia.org/stw-louisville-sel-resources-downloads#gr...

Teaching Is...Soothing the Soul (SEL)

1. Resources and Lesson Plans for Social and Emotional Learning

http://www.edutopia.org/stw-louisville-sel-resources-downloads#graph5?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=STW-download-SEL-Reading-List

2. Can Fostering Positive Emotions Help Stop Suicide? http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/can_positive_emotions_stop_suicide

3. What Is Social and Emotional Learning?

http://www.casel.org/social-and-emotional-learning/

4. Five Keys to Successful Social and Emotional Learning

http://www.edutopia.org/keys-social-emotional-learning-video

5. David Greene: Building a Culture of Respect

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2014/01/dave_greene_building_a_culture.html

6. The Hidden Challenges of Teaching Homeless Students

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1763:the-hidden-challenges-of-teaching-homeless-students&catid=35:jackstreet54&Itemid=89

7. Resources to Fight Bullying and Harassment at School

http://www.edutopia.org/bullying-resources

8. True Grit: The Best Measure of Success and How to Teach It

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/true-grit-measure-teach-success-vicki-davis

MzTeachuh: Teachable Moment: Danny Boy, The Soul of Melanchol...

MzTeachuh: Teachable Moment: Danny Boy, The Soul of Melanchol...: Danny Boy - Finbar Wright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlzWRQ5e4qg Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling. From...

Teachable Moment: Danny Boy, The Soul of Melancholy, The Soul Of Ireland

Danny Boy - Finbar Wright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlzWRQ5e4qg

Oh Danny boy, the pipes,
the pipes are calling.
From glen to glen,
and down the mountain side.

The summer's gone,
and all the flowers are falling.
'Tis you, 'tis you
must go and I must bide.

But come ye back
when summer's in the meadow,
Or when the valley's hushed
and white with snow.

And I'll be here
in sunshine or in shadow.
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy,
I love you so.

But if you come,
and all the flowers are falling.
And I am dead,
as dead I might well be.

You'll come and find
the place where I am lying.
And kneel and say
an "Ave" there for me.

And I will hear,
though soft your tread above me.
And all my grave
will warmer sweeter be.

And you will bend
and tell me that you love me.
And I shall sleep
in peace until you come to me.

But if I live,
and should you die for Ireland,
Let not your dying thoughts
be just of me.

But say a prayer to God
for our dearest Ireland.
I know she'll hear
and help to set her free.

And I will take your pike
and place my dearest,
And strike a blow,
though weak the blow may be.

T'will help the cause
to which your heart was nearest
Oh Danny Boy, Oh, Danny boy
I love you so.

MzTeachuh: Women's History Month: Mother Teresa India's Mother भारत मा

MzTeachuh: Women's History Month: Mother Teresa India's Mother भारत मा: Mother Teresa "But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct...

Women's History Month: Mother Teresa India's Mother भारत मा

Mother Teresa

"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?"
Mother Teresa 1971 Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

I could put up Mother Teresa for Women's History Month and she would be enough, actually. She gave up a cushy life to follow her heart and soul. She stood up to the world, toe to toe, to represent for those she loved, the lowest of the low, the caste beneath all castes. Just like Jesus did (and does.)

I especially admire how she stood up to abortion advocates, Bill Clinton, et al, in particular.

National Prayer Breakfast Speech Against Abortion - 1994

http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles4/MotherTeresaAbortion.php
When asked by a reporter how he felt about what Mother Teresa had to say on abortion, Bill Clinton said the following: “How can anyone argue with a life so well-lived?”

Mother Teresa quotes

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/838305.Mother_Teresa

Books about Mother Teresa that may be of interest http://www.motherteresa.org/06_publication/books_en.html

Learn more about Mother Teresa.

Mother Teresa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa

Friday, March 13, 2015

MzTeachuh: Educational Links 3/13/15

MzTeachuh: Educational Links 3/13/15: Want to Get More Girls Into STEM? Give Them Real-World Work http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/03/want-to-get-more-girls-into-ste...

Educational Links 3/13/15

Want to Get More Girls Into STEM? Give Them Real-World Work

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/03/want-to-get-more-girls-into-stem-give-them-real-world-work/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

Study Links Autism Genes To Higher Intelligence

http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2015/03/13/study-genes-intelligence/20129/

A New Social Science? Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

http://www.teachthought.com/higher-ed-2/a-new-social-science-statistics-outgrowing-other-stem-fields/

Test draws on doodles to spot signs of autism

http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/blog/2015/test-draws-on-doodles-to-spot-signs-of-autism?utm_source=Autism+research+news+from+SFARI.org&utm_campaign=bca58a1ab0-SFARI_Newsletter_20150310&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0a60ccb345-bca58a1ab0-388520805

SXSWedu 2015: Big Changes and Big Themes

http://www.edudemic.com/sxswedu-2015-big-changes/

Statistic Of The Day: “Why Inequality Persists In America”

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2015/03/12/statistic-of-the-day-why-inequality-persists-in-american/

Classroom Games, Activities to Make Test Prep Meaningful

http://www.teachhub.com/classroom-games-activities-make-test-prep-meaningful

Amplifying Student Voice Through Digital Literacy

http://www.edutopia.org//blog/amplifying-student-voice-digital-literacy-andrew-marcinek?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29

What is digital literacy? http://connectedprincipals.com/archives/7773

MzTeachuh: Teachable Moment: The Irish Diaspora

MzTeachuh: Teachable Moment: The Irish Diaspora: The Irish have been leaving the Old Sod for centuries for many reasons. First, as explorers and proclaimers of the Good News of the Gos...

Teachable Moment: The Irish Diaspora

The Irish have been leaving the Old Sod for centuries for many reasons. First, as explorers and proclaimers of the Good News of the Gospel, some say all the way to the Caribbean.

Hiberno-Scottish mission

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-Scottish_mission

Then, forced immigration. I would say that the mandated expulsions of the Irish from their homeland is a marvelous example of the law of unintended consequences, though not so marvelous from the British perspective.

Flight of the Wild Geese

http://www.houseofnames.com/wiki/wild-geese

The leadership (the Wild Geese) were 'invited' to leave by the British, then fulfilled important roles in the empires and governments of Europe. Later, Cromwell especially liked to be rid of Irish Catholics, even sending Irish enslaved to the Caribbean. The Scots, especially Highlanders, were exported to Northern Ireland then to the American Colonies after the Bonnie Prince Charlie fiasco, along with the northern Irish that were troublesome to the British (for frequently having uprising for independence.) About thirty years later, the American Revolution began.

Sending Convicts To Virginia

https://sites.google.com/site/britishmuseumproject2/home/object-3

Convicts in Australia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicts_in_Australia

The Irish were loaded into 'convict' ships to Australia--Australia, now a mighty example of democracy. The potato famine was celebrated by British capitalists as a brilliant opportunity to be rid of the Irish, either by starvation, disease or evacuation to Canada or the

Grosse Isle Memorial, list of the lost.

USA on 'coffin' ships. There is a memorial in Canada at Grosse Isle, where my Sullivan ancestors arrived in 1842--one Sullivan survived, Elizabeth, my great great grandmother.

The vibrant contribution of Irish Canadians and Irish Americans is self evident, and not to underestimate the contributions of the same to the persistent, dogged, relentless cause of Irish independence. Unintended consequences (to the British.) But Irish independence is a whole other story.

Irish Canadian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Canadian

Irish American

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_American

The City of Chicago - Christy Moore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK0J5MfK4ow&feature=kp

To the City of Chicago,
As the evening shadows fall,
There are people dreaming,
Of the hills of Donegal.

Eighteen forty seven,
Was the year it all began,
Deadly Pains of hunger,
Drove a million from the land,
They journeyed not for glory,
Their motive wasn't greed,
Just a voyage of survival,
Accross the stormy sea.

To the City of Chicago,
As the evening shadows fall,
There are people dreaming,
Of the hills of Donegal.

Some of them knew fortune,
And some them knew fame,
More of them knew hardship,
And died upon the plain,
They spread throughout the nation,
Rode the railroad cars,
Brought their songs and music,
To ease their lonely hearts.

To the City of Chicago,
As the evening shadows fall,
There are people dreaming,
Of the hills of Donegal.

Here are a couple of interesting links about the Irish:

The Irish Diaspora Center

http://dlharbour.ie/projects/diaspora-centre/

The Wild Geese

.http://thenewwildgeese.com/

MzTeachuh: Women's History Month: The Bronte Sisters

MzTeachuh: Women's History Month: The Bronte Sisters: Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë, by their brother Branwell. He painted himself among his sisters, but later removed the image so as no...

Women's History Month: The Bronte Sisters

Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë, by their brother Branwell. He painted himself among his sisters, but later removed the image so as not to clutter the picture.

The three daughters of a minister in rural England almost two hundred years ago do not seem like candidates for authors of strong female characters in near-horror gothic novels-but there you have Emily, Charlotte and Anne Bronte.

Their real lives in the moors of Yorkshire germinated the seeds for Jane Eyre, Cathy and Heathcliff, and what some consider the first feminist novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

The unusually bright girls were surrounded by nurturing, attentive adults. But life in the beginning of the 19th century was difficult. At a young age, the girls lost their mother and two older sisters, had a difficult experiences at boarding schools, and their beloved brother suffered from alcoholism. However, they had been permitted creative outlets, and despite the social expectations to become a governess, teacher or wife, the three Bronte sisters adopted nom-de-plumes and wrote extraordinary novels.

Brontë family

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bront%C3%AB_family

If you travel to England, you can visit the sister's home.

The Bronte Society and Bronte Parsonage Museum
http://www.bronte.org.uk/

Jane Eyre was published in 1847 by the eldest sister, Charlotte. It is the compelling life story of a girl orphaned and navigating through a treacherous series of difficult relatives, boarding school tragedies, a Byronic figure making for tense moments while governess, stressful marriage proposals, and a denouement of crashing finality. Jane proves an indomitable taking-charge-of-her-life female character. Charlotte Bronte initiated literary insights that influenced James Joyce's stream of consciousness almost a hundred years later.

Jane Eyre has been produced in film and miniseries. This is my favorite version:

Jane Eyre (2006 miniseries)

http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jane_Eyre_%282006_miniseries%29

Linton/Earnshaw Geneology

Encouraged by the success of Charlotte's novel, Emily published Wuthering Heights. This is another doozy of a book. The story takes place in an isolated location on the English moors. Intense emotions ferment between and within the two families in the story, one fairly normal (the Lintons) and one pretty much dysfunctional (Earnshaws). Of course romance is involved. Also, profound unforgiveness, jealously, rage and several more of the seven deadly sins that makes for an enjoyable and memorable gothic novel. Heathcliff and Cathy are unforgettable.

Sadly, Emily Bronte passed away shortly after the book was published. It is considered a classic of English literature.

Heathcliff and Cathy. (1992 version with Ralph Fiennes)

This is my favorite production of Wuthering Heights, even more than Olivier as Heathcliff. Guess you can tell I like my Masterpiece Theater.

Wuthering Heights (2009 television serial)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_%2 82009_television_serial%29

Anne Bronte's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is considered the first feminist novel. Her protagonist, Helen Graham, is an abused wife who chooses to defy her alcoholic husband and takes her son with her as she flees, breaking several English laws that prohibit any women's rights. The story includes a shocking scene in which Helen slams the door in his face. (Remember, this is 1847 in Victorian England.) Where would Anne get such ideas? Interestingly enough, her father, although an Anglican minister, at one time had counseled an abused wife to leave her husband. There were many instances within the 'dissenting' churches of the time that empowered women more than traditional churches, and Anne's aunt was a Methodist. Though even now, sadly, many churches of many faiths would not support this move. So, this is still a shocking novel. The main character encounters a variety of interesting persons, observing hypocrisy in both male and female. Helen maintains her strong mores and even comes out with a happy ending. This Bronte sister also died almost immediately after her book was published. (Tuberculosis was rampant.) There was such a hubbub about this book that Charlotte Bronte did not want it republished, thinking to preserve her sister's reputation.

After meeting the Bronte sisters, we will watch how our little girls play make believe with more interest.