My Favorite Book Site

There is never enough time for me to read all the books (much less Twitter, blogs, news sites, etc.) that I want to. Another problem is finding all the right ones for me. But one incredible site for me is Jeff Schechtman's "Specific Gravity" site that is filled with all kinds of non fiction books.

Schechtman covers so many topics. One hot one in my district is project based learning - so you know his suggestion (above) is going on my list. But other recent suggestions are one on Patty Hearst, how the world is accelerating in so many different facts, a book on the Middle East and on and one every few days with a new one. Each includes a summary and an author interview.

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Exporting a Blackboard Test To Word

For those of you who want out of Blackboard (the Microsoft of platforms), one of the hardest things to move are tests. A quick way that may work in most cases is on the video above, but here and here are guaranteed ways to fully convert a Blackboard file to a Word document. Of course if you want to go the other way, here is a post on how to convert a Word document into a Blackboard test.

How to Flip Your Classroom

One of the schools, Chantilly, is going one to one this year. As part of that the teachers will be redoing how they teach. One of the ways they are looking at is flipping . So I was asked to teach some presentations on it. You can follow everything I teach as all of my links and videos will be on this page. We will start by taking a survey at tinyurl.com/chantillyinservice We will be learning how to create a short flip (defined) using Screencastomatic and what images, slides, short video and information might go into it. You can also make them using the Snagit extension here (and here is how to use it) discuss that you can always use others' videos such as ( history and science , math and grammar ) contemplate how to make sure teachers are watching the video in part using a Google Drive form or even to how to make your own YouTube playlist (2:20 in this video ) use Remind ( resources ) to literally remi...

Blackboard Test Generators

If you use Blackboard as does my county, you can find a series of Blackboard test generators here and/or watch the video above. These examples make it much easier to change a word document into Blackboard file.

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