The dictionary definition leads toward many references to real estate and such, when I ran across it and decided to include it for WOTD it was in the context of “include” in the question “What do the requirements for the job entail?”
This works with the previous WOTDs when discussing points such as “What will acquiring your goal entail.”
Up for discussion in the ranks of internet common sense is this site. At the time of this posting the site is timing out when I try to check into it, but I attribute it to the coverage it received on the AP Wire today. (email me if the link is broken and I will look for a new link to the article).
Your students may first tell you that “No one uses myspace anymore, it’s old, the cool kids use facebook, blah blah blah”. The concept of this site is the same regardless of where the profiles come from - it could be DeathBook.com, DeathXanga.com - it’s the idea we want to look at.
Is this a good idea? Bad idea? Why? Do they know anyone who could have a place on the site? How would they feel seeing someone they knew on the site? What are the potential problems of this site? (ex: Misidentification of people - a live person being put on the Death site) How can it help? (ex: It’s a relevant way to remember people in a way that they participated in when they were alive.) How is it like other ways of grieving? (ex: roadside memorials, both are public and not something that everyone feels the need to do) How is it different from other ways of remembering the dead? What are the risks of having a link like this? (ex: exposing vulnerable loved ones of the dead person to the risk on people who will try to take advantage of them when they are grieving).
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What do you need to provide you with the incentive to acquire your goals? What goal represents the epitome of what you want to accomplish?
A tool that may be helpful in organizing goals is the “pocket mod” which can allow your students a way to see goals written out in a concrete fashion with some real world application (depending on the type of goal it is).
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What a great concept for back to school. Can spark conversation about goal setting for the class/day/week/quarter/trimester/semester/year. What kind of incentive is there to focusing in your class and trying to achieve a grade of their/your/their parents’ choosing? Maybe there’s not any kind of incentive - maybe that’s a whole other conversation….
This awesome little tool lets you type in an address and it gives a score for how “walkable” the neighborhood. Good for social studies, fitness or math.
(they are supported by ads. just something to keep in mind)
My goal with WOTD is that I’ll try to find usable words and then give ways to tie them together. That’s the idea anyway…
WOTD 1
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I love this word. This word is the epitome of how difficult the English language is to learn. There is no way without a dictionary or hearing it that you would ever guess “epuh-tohm” would be pronounced “eepit-oh-me”.
This lists salaries for several college degrees - mostly business/tech related but some liberal arts as well.
I haven’t spent much time on this site, but it’s developed by a retired teacher and speech pathologist who used grant money and her retirement to work on a way to help children read with greater success. It’s geared for younger students, I’m curious how it could assist in remediation of reading difficulties.
Click Here for Words Ahead
A website from a middle school counselor full of topics you’d likely ask your own school counselor about. Good information and springboard for a variety of topics.
Click Here for Scott Counseling
I admit to all the FACS teachers out there - when I had a student who could not work fractions and you gave him or her a worksheet to do that involved converting measurements (how many Tbsp in a cup sort of thing) I just pulled up this site and let them do it this way. I wasn’t going to be able to teach several years of math just to cover one assignment. And frankly if I needed to do this in my own this is exactly how I’d do it.
Their tagline is “Convert just about anything to anything else. Over 5,000 units, and 50,000 conversions.”
onlineconversion.com is a free site, but they do have ads and can make money if you click the ads to check out their sponsors.
