Extra: Shakespeare Uncovered [English]

Shakespeare’s birthday is coming up on April 23. The day before (April 22), you can participate in a free interactive workshop, Shakespeare Uncovered: On Air, Online, & in the Classroom.

The workshop, presented by WNET New York Public Media and hosted by Big Deal Media’s Amazing Resources for Educators community, will take place online from 4 to 5 pm (ET).

The recent PBS series Shakespeare Uncovered, which tells the stories behind the stories of some of Shakespeare’s greatest works, is featured.

The six-part series explores the world and works of William Shakespeare through interviews with actors, directors, and scholars; visits to key locations; clips from film and television adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays; and excerpts staged especially for the series.

Shakespeare Uncovered Executive Producer Stephen Segaller will provide an overview of the series, and WNET Outreach Producer Janice Fuld will showcase the classroom resources developed to to accompany the series. The workshop will also include an opportunity to view and discuss videos from the series, an overview of the companion website, and a discussion of strategies for exploring the series and related content with high school students.

Click here to register for the online workshop

Click here to visit the Shakespeare Uncoveredwebsite

The Rearview Mirror 4-13-2013

For those of you who may have missed an EDge21 featured post or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance.

Monday

Established in 1950, the Association of Teachers of Mathematics strives  to encourage the development of mathematics education that it is more closely related to the needs of the learner.

Tuesday

Making the Modern World delivers powerful stories about science and invention from the 18th century to today to explain the development and spread of modern industrial society and all its effects on the lives of people.

Wednesday

Created in 2006, the goal of theNational Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) is to ensure all teachers of mathematics have access to high quality continuing professional development.

Thursday

Math for Morons Like Us is a site created by students for students. You'll find tutorials, sample problems, and quizzes, even a place to submit questions. A formula database gives quick access and explanations to all those tricky formulas.

Stuff I Like: Forecast

Forecast is a new global, full-featured weather service that includes 7-day forecasts that cover the whole world, beautiful weather visualizations, and a time machine for exploring the weather in the past and far future.

The smooth radar animations in Forecast allow you to scrub up to a week into the future to see how storm systems will develop and evolve world-wide. Dragging the pin around explores different locations on the map.

Get up-to-the-minute forecasts that can predict rain or snow down to the minute at any location where Forecast can access radar coverage (currently the United States, the UK, Ireland, parts of Canada, and Puerto Rico). hourly and daily forecasts cover the entire globe.

Hour-by-hour observations gathered from tens of thousands of ground stations world-wide, sometimes going back a hundred years, power a sort of “time machine” that lets you explore the past weather at any given location. This data has also been used to develop statistical forecasts for any day in the future.

Forecast tries to bridge the gap between too much and too little information by keeping the interface as simple as possible, but also providing links to additional detailed information.

Watch a video: CNET How To -- Forecast.io is a beautiful weather app for any Web device

You can access Forecast from all of your devices, your desktop/laptop, iPhone, Android phone, or tablet. There’s a mobile web version for your phone or tablet. It’s completely free.

 

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Featured: 4/11/2013 Math for Morons Like Us [Math]

Math for Morons Like Us is a site created by students for students. You'll find tutorials, sample problems, and quizzes, even a place to submit questions. A formula database gives quick access and explanations to all those tricky formulas.

The creators of Math for Morons Like Us hope this site will clarify some of those confusing math concepts and help you better understand important math math ideas.

Math for Morons Like Us covers everything from pre-algebra to calculus. In the Learn section, you will find tutorials, sample problems, and quizzes. This site is designed with the assumption that you know some of the basic concepts but need some reinforcement, or you want to review things you learned in the past.  A short quiz after each tutorial lets you  test yourself on what you've just learned or reviewed.

You can communicate with others using the site's Message Board where someone else can be asked for some quick help. And, there is a separate Calculus Message Board for calc students only.

Use the Formula Database to search for commonly used formulas.  You can also add new equations to the collection.


The Educators section of Math for Morons Like Us can become a useful resource for teachers. For example, the teacher may let accelerated students get an introduction to the next math level.

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Featured: 4/10/2013 NCETM [Math]

Created in 2006, the goal of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) is to ensure all teachers of mathematics have access to high quality continuing professional development.

To do this, the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics has been developing a sustainable program of continuing mathematics professional development. The NCETM supports teaching schools and other improvement agents in their work with schools, colleges, and teachers across England.

The NCETM encourages educators to learn from their own best practices by working jointly among staff and by sharing good practices locally, regionally, and nationally.

Collaboration takes place both virtually through the NCETM portal and face-to-face through a regional network of established self-sustaining CPD network meetings facilitated by the NCETM.

Principal features provided by the NCETM include:

• Online support for professional development.

• Portal resources such as the sector magazines.

• Online development modules.

• Support for providers of continuing professional development.

The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics also funds and publishes research into effective mathematics teaching practices and continuing professional development.

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