Check out this article: What Top Ten List Would You Make?
My Top Ten Ways to Procrastinate Grading Papers
1. Playing Scrabble
2. Reading
3. Watching mindless TV
4. Playing with my kids
5. Cooking
6. Finding interesting articles to blog
7. On-line shopping
8. Texting
9. Facebook
10. Running (I hate running...)
Monday, November 29, 2010
Building Vocabulary
What's the value of a word? Why increase your vocabulary?
As a communicator (reader, writer, speaker), it's imperative to know a variety of words and how to use them. Understanding the nuances between synonyms helps a communicator achieve the elusive feeling of euphoria that comes in using the perfect word. Finding the perfect word for your idea is like finding the perfect shoe: when that shoe slips on your foot and hugs it just so... when you stand up and the shoe feels like air when you walk, yet protects you from the nastiness on the ground.... when the perfect shoe provides the ultimate complement to the outfit...That's the same feeling as when you find a word that says "it" just right.
How can you expand your knowledge base? 12 Ways to Learn Vocabulary With The New York Times - Check it out.
When you comment, don't forget to include a snazzy new word.
Another way to add to your vocabulary. Take these Quia Quizzes: Flocabulary: "Transformation" and Flocabulary: "Shakespeare is Hip Hop". Try making these SAT words part of your vocabulary!
As a communicator (reader, writer, speaker), it's imperative to know a variety of words and how to use them. Understanding the nuances between synonyms helps a communicator achieve the elusive feeling of euphoria that comes in using the perfect word. Finding the perfect word for your idea is like finding the perfect shoe: when that shoe slips on your foot and hugs it just so... when you stand up and the shoe feels like air when you walk, yet protects you from the nastiness on the ground.... when the perfect shoe provides the ultimate complement to the outfit...That's the same feeling as when you find a word that says "it" just right.
How can you expand your knowledge base? 12 Ways to Learn Vocabulary With The New York Times - Check it out.
When you comment, don't forget to include a snazzy new word.
Another way to add to your vocabulary. Take these Quia Quizzes: Flocabulary: "Transformation" and Flocabulary: "Shakespeare is Hip Hop". Try making these SAT words part of your vocabulary!
Extra Credit
In an effort to put off grading some papers during BAT, I scanned the Internet for some interesting articles.
This one grabbed my attention immediately. Why Extra Credit is Extra Wrong I've always thought of extra credit (especially in the way described in the article) as wrong, wrong, wrong. I also abhor giving extra credit when the assigned work hasn't been done. I mean what's the point in that, really? Over the years I've succumbed to the pressure, so I offer a bit here and there just because. Although my feeling on the subject is really in line with this article, I still offer it. I'm starting to rethink it again....
This one grabbed my attention immediately. Why Extra Credit is Extra Wrong I've always thought of extra credit (especially in the way described in the article) as wrong, wrong, wrong. I also abhor giving extra credit when the assigned work hasn't been done. I mean what's the point in that, really? Over the years I've succumbed to the pressure, so I offer a bit here and there just because. Although my feeling on the subject is really in line with this article, I still offer it. I'm starting to rethink it again....
Did you know?
(Thanks for sharing, Ryan G.)
Director George Lucas had trouble getting funding for Star Wars because most studios thought that people wouldn’t want to see it.
All the major Hollywood studios passed on Lucas’s script until 20th Century Fox gave in to his final desperate attempt (even though they also thought the film would flop!). Star Wars went on to become the highest grossing film ever at the time! Shows how much studio executives really know... (source)
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
Exercise and IQ
I find this interesting.
For years, there has been a cry for help in the fight against childhood obesity. Our kids are too overweight. Kids are not exercising. They are too plugged into technology. Kids are not going outside to "play" anymore. People depend on the schools to keep children active by making physical education mandatory. Is this enough? What about those students who "opt out" of PE by taking another elective with parental permission (like band) or even completing the course on-line. With recent budget cuts, some schools are cutting the program all together.
Read this article: Phys Ed: Can Exercise Make Kids Smarter? (shared by Francisco Rivera - thank you).
What are your opinions? Can you find any other related articles?
For years, there has been a cry for help in the fight against childhood obesity. Our kids are too overweight. Kids are not exercising. They are too plugged into technology. Kids are not going outside to "play" anymore. People depend on the schools to keep children active by making physical education mandatory. Is this enough? What about those students who "opt out" of PE by taking another elective with parental permission (like band) or even completing the course on-line. With recent budget cuts, some schools are cutting the program all together.
Read this article: Phys Ed: Can Exercise Make Kids Smarter? (shared by Francisco Rivera - thank you).
What are your opinions? Can you find any other related articles?
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