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Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Free resources!
I received this from Read Naturally and thought this was worth passing along!

Where's
the best place to find free resources to help your struggling readers? We offer
a multitude of them on our website--specifically in the Knowledgebase.
The Knowledgebase is full of valuable resources, including downloadable
materials, how-to videos, research studies, product samples, and much more. We
created this data hub to give educators easy access to absolutely everything
they need to turn struggling readers into successful ones.
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Monday, August 17, 2015
Free webinar
No More Homework Battles:
Learn proven homework, organization and planning techniques to make your child's school year a success
Learn proven homework, organization and planning techniques to make your child's school year a success
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (ET)
Free Webcast
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (ET)
Free Webcast
Ready for a new approach to homework
this school year?
Cut down on those dreaded homework battles. Joshua Langberg, PhD, author of ImprovingChildren's Homework, Organization, and Planning Skills, will give you the information you need to make homework more productive and less stressful for you and your child. He will also offer organizational and planning tips. Learn:
Cut down on those dreaded homework battles. Joshua Langberg, PhD, author of ImprovingChildren's Homework, Organization, and Planning Skills, will give you the information you need to make homework more productive and less stressful for you and your child. He will also offer organizational and planning tips. Learn:
- How
to set realistic homework and organization goals with your child.
- What
is positive feedback and how to share it with your child.
- How
to let your child know what you expect without a fight.
Joshua M. Langberg, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University where he serves as co-director
for the Center for ADHD Research, Education, and Service. His research and professional interests
are focused on improving the academic performance of children and teens with
ADHD. Dr. Langberg developed his Homework, Organization and Planning Skills
(HOPS) method to address the specific academic difficulties frequently
experienced by young people with ADHD.
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Friday, August 14, 2015
Free webinar: Portfolios as performance assessments
Free Webinar:
Portfolios as Performance
Assessments
At the Native American Community
Academy (NACA) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, teachers are implementing an
electronic portfolio system to evaluate students' knowledge, skills, and
understanding with the goal to create a standards-based grading system using
portfolios. Join the NACA 6th–8th grade Native Literature team in an
informative webinar to learn how they used an ASCD PD Online®
course to backward-design a portfolio system for both formative and summative
assessment purposes.
Portfolios as Performance Assessments in Native American Literature Coursework
August 20, 2015, 3:00 p.m. ET (US)
Register Now
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Okay, while I was researching articles for the STEM LibGuide which I hope to post out at the end of the month ---- I stumbled upon this article in EdTech Focus on K-12:
by D.Frank Smith
Google Spotlights 20 Student Science Fair Finalists
Check out what some of these 20 global finalists and their science projects were ----
- Matthew Reid, U.K. — Arduorbiter: Democratizing low-Earth orbit
- Pranav Sivakumar, U.S. — Automated search for gravitationally lensed quasars in the Sloan digital sky survey
- Anela Arifi and Ilda Ismaili, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Catch it on the Wing: Production of hydrogen storage material and biodiesel from chicken feathers and fat
- Zhilin Wang, Singapore — Affordable renewable energy
- Anika Cheerla, U.S. — An automated diagnosis of Alzheimer's
- Alexey Tarasov, Russia — Exploring the logic of ternary logic in electronics
- Girish Kumar, Singapore — Revup: Improving learning through automated study questions
- Tanay Tandon, U.S. — delivering rapid, portable and automated blood morphology tests
- Anurudh Ganesan, U.S. — Vaxxwagon: a reliable way to store and transport vaccines
- Eliott Sarrey, France — Bot2Karot: gardening through a a smartphone-activated robot
- Calvin Rieder, Canada — Extracting clean water from air: Solar-powered potable water
- Wei-Tung Chen, Taiwan — Calculating the 3D position of an object from a single source
- Isabella O'Brien, Canada — recycling shells to reduce ocean acidification
- Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai, India — Absorbing water pollutants with corn cobs
- Deepika Kurup, U.S. — clean drinking water through solar-powered silver
- Laura Steponavičiūtė, Lithuania — Detecting the environmental changes of nanotechnologies
- Krtin Nithiyanandam, U.K. — Improving diagnoses and treatment of Alzheimer's with a new, molecular "trojan horse"
- Yo Hsu and Jing-Tong Wang, Taiwan — Knock-on fuel: Detecting impurities in gasoline with sound-pattern analysis
- Adriel Sumathipala, U.S. — A rapid, portable and affordable means of early detection for cardiac disease
- Olivia Hallisey, U.S. — using silk to better store and easily transport Ebola antibodies
Monday, August 3, 2015
Webinar
The Importance Of Customizing
Your AAC
App – What Is Possible And What You
Should Consider
Wednesday, August 5 |
There are many
hundreds of communication apps
on the market and identifying the best fit to
meet the
needs of an individual user can be, well – complicated!
Perhaps what
we should consider is how well an app
can be customized to meet those needs
and create that
perfect fit. This webinar will focus on what considerations
to take into account when it comes to customization –
what age is the user?
What is the ability of the user?
Does the user have a visual impairment? Does
the user
require a switch? We will then demonstrate a range of
settings
within Therapy Box’s own apps that demonstrate
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Friday, July 31, 2015
Did things seem a little off today - Perhaps it is the pull of the BLUE MOON!
July to Bid Farewell With an Illuminating Blue Moon
A blue moon shines above Stockton Springs, Maine, in 2013. (Photo/AccuWeather Astronomy Facebook Fan Barbara)
By Katy Galimberti, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer
July 31, 2015; 2:47 PM ET
A blue moon, which occurs only once every few years, is set to grace skies Friday night.
However, the moon will not be cast in any colored light. Blue moon refers to the second full moon in a calendar month or the third full moon of four in a season.
The blue moon will occur at 6:43 a.m. EDT Friday, the moment the moon becomes full. However, onlookers will be able to view the moon on Friday night.
Additional information on the Blue Moon:
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