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CIPS, Centro Interscolastico per le Scienze

Il CIPS, Centro Interscolastico per le Scienze, è un interessante progetto di divulgazione scientifica rivolto a tutte le scuole di ogni ordine e grado di Roma e provincia.
Con sede presso l'ISS Leonardo Da Vinci (Via Cavour, 258), il CIPS - Centro Interscolastico Per le Scienze - è un polo didattico e museale in cui i ragazzi possono cimentarsi in laboratori divertenti e istruttivi sulla biologia, le scienze naturali, la paleontologia e la salute.
Potranno, ad esempio, estrarre il DNA da un kiwi, preparare vetrini di diverse cellule e osservarli al microscopio, scoprire le tante forme di vita presenti nell'acqua o cercare i reperti nascosti nello scavo paleontologico.
I laboratori del CIPS sono un valido supporto didattico per lo studio delle scienze, soprattutto per instillare nei ragazzi l'amore per la scienza, per la vita e tutte le sue forme.
Un polo scientifico polifunzionale il cui ultimo scopo è arricchire la conoscenza, affinché la crisi non impoverisca anche lo spirito scientifico!




60 esempi per usare Twitter in Classe


60 esempi di utilizzo di Twitter in aula presentati in questo articolo da università on-line. Sono davvero grandi idee per utilizzare il potere di un social network come Twitter per un insegnamento originale e competente.

Comunicazione

  1. Twitter as a bulletin board: Jim Newman at Northern Illinois University uses Twitter as a bulletin board for his class, letting students know about last minute news like canceled classes.
  2. Ambient office hours: With Twitter, Howard Rheingold at Berkeley uses Twitter for group contact, which he calls “student-to-teacher-to-student ambient office hours.”
  3. Keep students in the loop: Using hashtags on Twitter, students who were not able to make it to class can follow along and stay on top of the conversation.
  4. Assignment coordination: Instead of emailing each other or waiting to meet in class, students can collaborate on projects and keep track of changes by using a Twitter hashtag.
  5. Silencing blurters: For students who have trouble with disruptive blurting, allow them to instantly tweet their blurts silently instead of out loud.
  6. Student engagement in large lectures: In large lecture classes where student participation can be intimidating and logistically problematic, Twitter can make it easy for students to engage and discuss during class time.
  7. Parent communication: Parents can sign up to receive tweets from teachers, learning about activities, tests, projects, and more.
  8. Instant feedback: Twitter makes it easy to get instant approval and disapproval of discussions, issues, and more right in the classroom.
  9. Attendance reminders: For students who have trouble making it to class on time, send reminders before school to get them in the door earlier.
  10. Digital faculty lounge: At Kent State University, college of education teacher William Kist uses Twitter as a “digital faculty lounge” for networking with other professors.
  11. Stay on top of the learning process: Ask students to tweet and reply about what they’re learning, difficulties they’ve faced, tips, resources, and more as an online logbook.
  12. Classroom notepad: Using a Twitter hashtag, it’s easy to organize inspiration, reading, ideas, and more for the classroom to share.
  13. Completed assignments: Students can let teachers know when they’ve finished their work by alerting them on Twitter.
  14. Teaching bite-sized info: Share medical terminology, Shakespeare quotes, kindergarten activities, and more on Twitter.
  15. Twitter pop quiz: Send out quick quizzes on Twitter, and have them count for bonus points in the classroom.
 Organizzazione

  1. Twitter recaps: At the end of the day, teachers can summarize what has been learned in the classroom, encouraging reflection and discussion between students.
  2. Classroom connections: Classrooms around the world can collaborate using Twitter as a communication tool.
  3. Collating classroom views: Students can share their opinions on issues or any open questions, and they can be organized using Twitter.
  4. Corraling comments in class: Monica Rankin at the University of Texas at Dallas uses weekly hashtags to organize comments, questions and feedback that students have used in class, while also projecting live tweets in class for discussion.
 Risorse

  1. Finding great resources: Teachers can ask for recommended books, teaching tools, and ideas for lessons, crowdsourcing resources for the classroom.
  2. Following historical figures: There are many Twitter accounts set up that share the lives and personalities of historical figures, and students can follow them for fun and learning.
  3. Building a brand: Long after school is over, a personal brand will live on for students. Using Twitter in the classroom to build a brand is a valuable exercise for students.
  4. Partner with local organizations: Discuss cultural and educational events in the area on Twitter.
  5. Talk to career experts: High school students exploring their career options can talk to professions in the paths they’re considering on Twitter.
  6. Conversations are a public study tool: Long after the conversation in class is over, students can look back on the lecture discussion to find important points when it’s time to take exams or write essays.
  7. Source evaluation: Students can share resources and discuss whether it’s a good or bad source of information, encouraging comments.
  8. Foreign language news stream: Students in a foreign language class can build their reading skills and stay on top of the news with a foreign language news stream.
  9. Gather real-world data: The classroom can ask Twitter for data from their network, like temperatures, opinions, locations, and interesting facts.
  10. Following the government: Often, local and national political figures have Twitter feeds, and students in the classroom can track their progress.
  11. Ask for help or advice: Using Twitter, teachers can find out if anyone has advice about teaching issues, like when certificates expire or how to handle classroom management.
  12. Communicating with experts: Find authors, scientists, or historians on Twitter and get connected; a great resource for the classroom.
Abilità di scrittura

  1. Vocabulary building: Students can tweet sentences using a particular word to build vocabulary learning.
  2. Twitter can improve writing and punctuation: As long as students are held accountable for their grammar, using Twitter offers a great opportunity for improving writing and punctuation.
  3. Daily word games: Ask students to unscramble anagrams, contribute synonyms, or give vocabulary definitions on Twitter.
  4. Grammar review: Students can tweet past tense, run on sentences, compound sentences, and more.
  5. An exercise in learning to be concise: At the College of the Holy Cross, assistant professor Daniel Klinghard uses Twitter to teach students to be concise, summarizing major political texts without going over Twitter-imposed character limits.
 Strumenti per Insegnanti

  1. Inspirational quotes of the day: Allow students to become more familiar with Twitter, and exercise reading and writing skills by having a student post an inspirational quote tweet each day, preferably relating to course content.
  2. Conversations can continue outside of class: When students participate in Twitter discussions in class, there’s a great opportunity for conversations to continue to develop even after the lecture is over.
  3. School trip tracking: Whether it’s a field trip or a long journey, students can log and track their progress on a school trip using Twitter.
  4. Bringing characters to life: At California State University-San Marcos, students in a literature course use Twitter to bring Twilight characters to life, choosing characters from the series to personify on Twitter.
  5. Class newspaper: The entire class can come together to create a newspaper, contributing to sections using hashtags.
  6. Conference following: Students can follow professionals and industry conferences to see what’s going on in that particular realm.
  7. Bonus assignments: Give students optional bonus work to do at home, assigned via Twitter.
  8. Meme tracking: Students can study communication and sociology through the tracking of ideas and ads that spread through Twitter.
  9. Reading assignment summaries: Students can build 140-character summaries based on reading assignments, forcing a focus on quality.
  10. Link sharing: With Twitter, students can share websites with class, making relevant link finding and sharing a classroom assignment.
  11. Trend mapping: Using Twittermap, students can track what people are talking about where.
  12. Researching locations: The class can send out a tweet, asking people to give them their location, and then research that particular location.
  13. Twitter puzzles: Tweet a puzzle each week, giving a prize to the first student who shares the correct answer.
  14. Language learning: Teachers can send foreign language students tweets in a different language, and have students continue the conversation in the same language.
  15. Twitter poetry: Create a collaborative poem where each student contributes one line.
  16. Twitter book club: Within the classroom, willing participants can engage in a Twitter book club for extra credit.
  17. Word tracking: Using Twitter, students can track a word, staying on top of any posts that contain a particular word, like a movie title or store name.
  18. A Twitter story: Students can take turns tweeting stories together, using a hashtag to keep it all together as each student takes a turn to tweet the next line.
  19. Sharing microreviews: Using Twitter, students can write a short review of movies, books, and music that they’ve enjoyed (or not).
  20. Twitter haiku: Using Twitter, students can share short poems to express how they feel about a subject.
  21. Twitter art show: Students can curate their own art shows, using Twitter to share what they think belongs in a particular exhibit.
  22. Collaborative event watching: Students can “watch” presidential debates, political speeches, and other important events together outside of class time, and then continue the discussion back at school.
  23. Current events: By Twitter stalking, students can stay on top of current events through users, such as @BarackObama during the presidential elections.
  24. Find foreign pen pals: Students can use Twitter to communicate with students in a different country, learning about their hobbies, home, school, and more.


Sudoku online con o senza aiuto

Diventare un esperto di Sudoku può essere molto difficle, questo sudoku ti mette a disposizione 3 tipi diversi di aiuti, attivabili e disattivabili in qualsiasi momento tramite il bottone "AIUTI":
  • Annerisci numeri non inseribili: Quando selezioni una cella verranno automaticamente scartati dall'input tutti i numeri non inseribili
  • Evidenzia celle con errori: Ogni cella che contiene un errore di inserimento verrà evidenziata da una X rossa
  • Annotazioni dentro le celle: Dentro ogni cella comparirà il alto a destra un elenco di possibili valori inseribili all'interno della cella



50 poesie per la Festa della Mamma

Raccolta di 50 poesie e filastrocche per la Festa della Mamma





Azioni contro il TFA Speciale

Cresce e si diffonde la mobilitazione dei corsisti del TFA ordinario contro il TFA speciale: una sanatoria iniqua, dequalificante, che umilia il merito, la professione docente  e tutta la scuola italiana.
Qui il modulo per la sottoscrizione contro il TFA speciale, con possibilità di lasciare un messaggio e indicare se si è disposti ad intraprendere  azioni legali, nella eventualità sciagurata che il provvedimento diventasse definitivo.
E’ del tutto evidente che la disponibilità ad un possibile ricorso ha  puro valore indicativo, perché qualsiasi azione legale richiede firma autentica ecc….

fonte: ADIscuola

Le nuove Indicazioni per il Curricolo della Scuola dell'infanzia e del Primo Ciclo

Le nuove Indicazioni per il Curricolo della Scuola dell'infanzia e del Primo Ciclo
a cura di Giovanni Campana



ePico, Software compensativo per la Dislessia

Vai a ePico


4 Video sull’Ambiente Editor



7 Applicazioni per usare Twitter in classe


Molte persone hanno sentimenti contrastanti su Twitter: usare o non usare? Personalmente ritengo che l'uso di Twitter faciliti la crescita di personali reti di apprendimento e la capacità di sviluppare strumenti di micro blogging.
 Per accrescere le opportunità di apprendimento collaborativo fra gli studenti esistono una serie di applicazioni che rendono Twitter uno strumento ancora più utile in classe utilizzandolo come strumento social-media educativo, piuttosto che limitarsi a suo uso personale con interazioni sociali  fuori dalla classe.

Queste sono sette apps tra le più utili:



  • PollDaddy  - consente agli utenti di creare sondaggi e postare facilmente su Twitter per gli altri utenti di prendere (i sondaggi possono essere sia a scelta multipla o aperta)
  • Atlas  - consente agli utenti di esplorare messaggi twitter o tweet taggati geograficamente su una cartina (concentrarsi su una città, una regione o esplorare a livello globale)
  • Twitpic  - consente agli utenti di condividere immagini o video facilmente su Twitter inviando tramite uno smartphone, tramite e-mail o il caricamento direttamente sul sito 
  • Outwit Me  - fonte di centinaia di giochi divertenti e intelligenti come boia, trivia quiz, si arrampica parola e puzzle, e più che gli utenti possono giocare con le risposte Twitter
  • Plinky  - messaggi una nuova scrittura richiesta o sfida domande ogni giorno che gli utenti possono rispondere con testo, immagini, audio e altro ancora (questo sarebbe un grande fare adesso l'attività, anche se si sceglie di non usarlo con Twitter!)
  • Twuffer  - consente agli utenti di pre-creare tweets e impostare le date dei prossimi post (questo sarebbe particolarmente grande per educatori distacco su prove o assegnazioni future)
  • GroupTweet  - consente a più utenti (2-1000) di tweet dallo stesso account, agevolare le discussioni all'interno di un account Twitter (questo sarebbe particolarmente utile in classe, come si può vedere più in dettaglio  qui )



  •  fonte: teachbytes

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    5 Siti web utili per lavorare con i file PDF


    I PDF sono un modo fantastico per trasmettere informazioni on-line in modo sicuro, perché sono versioni di file di sola lettura. Articoli accademici e riviste pubblicano tramite PDF, così come molte aziende e organizzazioni. Oltre a utilizzare i file PDF per distribuire volantini per gli studenti on-line, in modo che non possano accidentalmente modificare o eliminare le informazioni e generare confusione.

    Purtroppo, queste caratteristiche dei file PDF possono renderli difficili da utilizzare quando è necessario modificarli o compilarli per la tua classe.

    Ecco 5 siti utili per lavorare con i file PDF:

    1. PDFSPLIT
      Ever needed to split a large PDF file into multiple sections? Or need to take a document and remove the first page? Thanks to PDFSplit you can now separate files with ease online. Just upload the file, enter the page numbers you want to split up, and press go!
    2. PDFMERGE
      The opposite of PDFSplit, 
      PDFMerge lets you combine multiple PDF files into one large file. Just upload the individual files to the website and click Merge!
    3. HTML to PDF
      Need to turn a website into a PDF file? No problem – just enter the URL in and adjust the settings, then hit Get PDF! This is especially handy if you need to convert a website into a format that is easier to print and distribute.
    4. PDFPROTECT
      Need to add an encrypted password to a PDF to make sure it is only accessible by certain people? Simple. Just upload the PDF and type in your password. You can even adjust how highly encrypted the file is!
    5. PDFROTATE
      Need to rotate the pages in a PDF file? This happens to me most often – someone will save a file in the landscape orientation and then I can’t seem to rotate it through my PDF viewer. Just upload the file here and select which way you need it rotated!


      fonte: teachbytes