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Want to Feed Starving Children? Work on Your Vocab!
Whether you're heading toward the SATs, the ISEEs or just having some trouble understanding every word in your history textbook, this site has a really fun vocabulary quiz game that donates 10 grains of rice each time you get an answer correct to the World Food Programme.
It's PowerPoint Season!
Teachers are getting tired of grading your tests and essays. Chances are, at some point this semester, you'll have to put together a presentation. Here are 10 tips for making it awesome.
1. Apply a template to jump start your presentation.
2. Add sound effects in your slides.
3. Insert a chart or graph into your presentation.
4. Add transitions between slides.
5. Apply an animation effect to text or an object.
6. Have your presentations start in Screen Show view automatically.
7. E-mail links in your presentations.
8. Print handouts of your slides for your audience and allow them to take notes as you present.
9. Add a password to your PowerPoint presentation to ensure you're the only one who modifies it.
10. Important keyboard shortcuts to know while your presentation runs in full screen mode.
2. Add sound effects in your slides.
3. Insert a chart or graph into your presentation.
4. Add transitions between slides.
5. Apply an animation effect to text or an object.
6. Have your presentations start in Screen Show view automatically.
7. E-mail links in your presentations.
8. Print handouts of your slides for your audience and allow them to take notes as you present.
9. Add a password to your PowerPoint presentation to ensure you're the only one who modifies it.
10. Important keyboard shortcuts to know while your presentation runs in full screen mode.
This techy site gives you step-by-step instructions for each of the above tips. Use-ful!
Tips & Strategies
The 5-Minute Review
OK kids. I won't bore you with the research, but it says that a 5-minute review of the previous day's notes each day will go a long, long way to help you learn, remember, and my personal favorite: learn what you know and what you don't! But, Karolina - that's 5 minutes per class each day?! Yes and no. Here's how to make it happen:
1. Make sure you do it for tougher and/or heavily lecture-based classes.
2. Do it IN CLASS whenever possible, e.g. during roll, when the teacher is checking HW, after warm-ups, etc. You know you have the time. :)
3. What you should do:
1. Make sure you do it for tougher and/or heavily lecture-based classes.
2. Do it IN CLASS whenever possible, e.g. during roll, when the teacher is checking HW, after warm-ups, etc. You know you have the time. :)
3. What you should do:
- Re-read your notes. Connect with Yesterday You, who wrote them.
- Tag and ask questions about parts you don't understand.
- Use a classmate's notes to fill in parts you might have missed.
- Underline, box, highlight headings.
News & Research
The board of a high school in Rhode Island voted 5 to 2 to accept a plan proposed by the superintendent to fire the approximately 100 faculty and staff members. The school's four-year graduation rate is 48 percent. It has 800 students.
"High-Powered" Policymakers May Have Done Poorly on Multiple-Choice Tests in School
Some policy folk in Washington "urged a move away from of multiple-choice tests that demand factual recall, toward the development of a set of deeper, more analytical questions, tasks, and projects that ask students to solve and discuss complex problems. One example is a problem that has been posed to Connecticut high school students: Figure out how to build a statue that could withstand the effects of acid rain, then describe, analyze, and discuss your findings."
"High-Powered" Policymakers May Have Done Poorly on Multiple-Choice Tests in School
Some policy folk in Washington "urged a move away from of multiple-choice tests that demand factual recall, toward the development of a set of deeper, more analytical questions, tasks, and projects that ask students to solve and discuss complex problems. One example is a problem that has been posed to Connecticut high school students: Figure out how to build a statue that could withstand the effects of acid rain, then describe, analyze, and discuss your findings."
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