The Coaching eLearners 6-12 Summer Session 2011 opened this week. A very exciting course for developing 21st century habits of mind.
Homework Help Site Has a Social Networking Twist
Today’s NYTimes had any interesting article called, “Homework Help Site Has a Social Networking Twist”. Poojan Nath is the founder of Piazza a website created to help students post questions and get answers.
“The whole idea of Piazza stems from the dynamics that I observed at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, an elite engineering school in India where Ms. Nath went to school. There, she had seen how her male classmates collaborated on problem sets. From the sidelines I saw how effective it was to get immediate help, from peers in the same room,” Ms. Nath, 30, said.
Although there are rival services, like Blackboard, an education software company, Piazza’s platform is specifically designed to speed response times. The site is supported by a system of notification alerts, and the average question on Piazza will receive an answer in 14 minutes.
Not in Kansas Anymore
Between the hammock and the beach, Cahuita was a very wonderful vacation.
Our front porch….ahhh!
In search of Bruno the sloth
You should be able to view the video. I am still trying to figure out how to upload a video directly into my blog from my iPad.
Before and After: Bookshelf Organization
Call me a bit obsessive if you’d like…but before you utter those words, just look at how much nicer this bookshelf looks after some simple organizing and rearranging.
- BEFORE: years of messy, toss-it-on-the-shelf activity and dust
How-to achieve the look:
- I took each and every book off the shelf.
- I separated the books by color and by size.
- Then, I re-arranged them back on the shelf in an order that would fit the bookshelf and was pleasing to the eye.
- Tip: alter the vertical and horizontal arrangement, of your books, to give more room on the shelf and some visual interest.
- After: ahhhhh!
Rolling down the river
Over last weekend we did some canoeing in Rhode Island with friends. I was happy to have kept the canoe upright…during the hours long trip. It was a good workout and fun to meet new friends…let’s not mention the ticks, low hanging tree trunks, and mosquitoes.
Megan and Mary
