While watching The Daily Show with jon Stewart I saw a commercial that just needed to be researched. Extenze is fake! No, really! So not only were people stupid enough to believe the BS but they sued because they had been duped. Only in America.
Now the question is do men admit they bought the product or forgo the settlement. If they submit a claim They admit they needed enhancement and they were [cough cough] stupid.
And yes, this is real.
http://www.extenzesettlement.com/faq#Q1
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Couldn't Have Said it Better
This was posted on the chemistry teacher's listserv this afternoon. It's a veteran teacher responding to a new teacher's request for help with her even newer smart board.
Just to note a Smart Board is really a glorified mouse and nothing more. The Smart Board is best used by allowing the students interact with it.
A good lesson with images and videos is a good lesson with or without the Smart Board. The Smart Notebook is pretty good software and using it allows the presentation of the lesson to be a little nicer. In the Smart Gallery there a lots of interactive calculators and timers and quiz type templates along with many images both simple and animated. I nice review activity is a Jeopardy game. I use Powerpoint to make these and I make the used links the same color as the background so it appears as if they dissappear. You can make it from scratch or you can download someone else's template.
Remember don't feel obligated to go head first into these things, as fun and pretty as they may be they are still just bells and whistles. Try to design the lesson using the Smart Board to engage the learners. Think about what would make you more interested in the lesson and then add that. The best lessons I have seen with the Smart Board are simple and take advantage of one little feature. Such as an English or History Teacher can use an interactive map to illustrate an explorer's travels by dragging a boat around the screen, or a chemistry teacher can construct an atom by dragging the pieces together. Students can match experiments with outcomes by clicking and dragging. Just like Powerpoint too many bells and whistles take away from the lesson.
Good luck
Just to note a Smart Board is really a glorified mouse and nothing more. The Smart Board is best used by allowing the students interact with it.
A good lesson with images and videos is a good lesson with or without the Smart Board. The Smart Notebook is pretty good software and using it allows the presentation of the lesson to be a little nicer. In the Smart Gallery there a lots of interactive calculators and timers and quiz type templates along with many images both simple and animated. I nice review activity is a Jeopardy game. I use Powerpoint to make these and I make the used links the same color as the background so it appears as if they dissappear. You can make it from scratch or you can download someone else's template.
Remember don't feel obligated to go head first into these things, as fun and pretty as they may be they are still just bells and whistles. Try to design the lesson using the Smart Board to engage the learners. Think about what would make you more interested in the lesson and then add that. The best lessons I have seen with the Smart Board are simple and take advantage of one little feature. Such as an English or History Teacher can use an interactive map to illustrate an explorer's travels by dragging a boat around the screen, or a chemistry teacher can construct an atom by dragging the pieces together. Students can match experiments with outcomes by clicking and dragging. Just like Powerpoint too many bells and whistles take away from the lesson.
Good luck
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Second Life
Dear Parents,
This quarter we will be using Second Life in our chemistry classroom. You may have heard some negative things about virtual worlds and Second Life in particular. I’m afraid that many of them are true. However, we will be utilizing islands created by the likes of NASA. All of the worlds that I will be having your children visit will be kid friendly. The reason that we will be utilizing this technology is that it will allow us to participate in laboratory activities that we would not otherwise be able to. It might be that we will be performing an experiment that uses equipment that we do not have or chemicals that might be considered hazardous. We would never be able to do these experiments in our classroom. By utilizing Second Life your students will have expanded educational opportunities.
Mr. Kay
This quarter we will be using Second Life in our chemistry classroom. You may have heard some negative things about virtual worlds and Second Life in particular. I’m afraid that many of them are true. However, we will be utilizing islands created by the likes of NASA. All of the worlds that I will be having your children visit will be kid friendly. The reason that we will be utilizing this technology is that it will allow us to participate in laboratory activities that we would not otherwise be able to. It might be that we will be performing an experiment that uses equipment that we do not have or chemicals that might be considered hazardous. We would never be able to do these experiments in our classroom. By utilizing Second Life your students will have expanded educational opportunities.
Mr. Kay
Thursday, November 4, 2010
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