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Comment on Lessons Learned from Marine Mammals by kfoglia

kfoglia — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:10:46 +0000

Wow!
This piece reminded of a wonderful interview I heard on NPR this past week with National Geographic photographer, Paul Nicklen. He has had many encounters with polar marine mammals. You have to listen to his great story about a female leopard seal who took a shining to him.

Listen here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120399312

And read here:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/11/polar_obsession.html

Comment on Thanks to Lisa Walker by bobmelton

bobmelton — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:56:11 +0000

You are right! Another great job Lisa! (AND Cheryl, AND Jacki)

Comment on Thanks to Lisa Walker by Patsye

Patsye — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:37:17 +0000

Hear, hear! It WAS a great conference! Thanks, Lisa!

Comment on Teaching and Learning with eBooks by rheyden

rheyden — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:51:54 +0000

Hi Cherylann! Good to hear from you, as always. No, she didn’t mention any other schools. But, if you sent her an email, I’m sure she’d be happy to tell you if there were any others. Wish you were here!

Comment on Teaching and Learning with eBooks by Cherylann Hollinger

Cherylann Hollinger — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:23:52 +0000

Thanks for the information Robin! I will be sure to share this with colleagues and other stakeholders as we go through the process of becoming a one-to-one high school. Did Jean mention whether or not she knew of any other college that conducted a similar study on the use of e-books?

Comment on Sounds Downunder by rheyden

rheyden — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:57:57 +0000

Wonderful idea, Richard. I will definitely follow Stewart’s blog. Great way to get a feel for life in another part of the world.

Comment on The Essential Biology Teacher by richardbenz

richardbenz — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:21:10 +0000

Exactly. As we have discovered, monoculture on the family farm can be a very dangerous practice!!

Comment on The Essential Biology Teacher by Brad Williamson

Brad Williamson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:10:52 +0000

You are so right Rich: “That is what this blog is all about….. ” a very well done post on just exactly what this blog and NABT are all about.

Specific to your point—I would argue the distribution of types of biology teachers and/or students fits a a skewed distribution or maybe in the last few years a bimodal distribution with those leaning more to the organismic and those leaning to the more molecular…

My point is that novelty and adaptation to a specific environmental change occurs as the distribution shifts or skews in one direction or another—directional selection. The drive to large-scale test accountability has created a stabilizing selection environment—an environment that trims the variation in the biology teacher species. Not good.

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Comment on Screenshots: How to Make Them and Use Them by rheyden

rheyden — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:24:54 +0000

Great ideas here from Kim and from “kmurray81″. You’re right, using screenshots to collect evidence of student data collection would work very well. And a good reminder from Kim that the basic “paint” and “draw” tools of Word and PowerPoint are an easy way to augment your screenshots. I haven’t tried SnapZPro, but it sounds terrific.