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Welcome to a posting dedicated to a world of great educators. I hope you find this reflection one that you enjoy and share with others!  Please consider following me on twitter (@mjormans) and we can teach each other! Have a wonderful week! – Mike Ok, so it’s true! I have spent thirty-two years teaching because I cannot do anything else! To be ...

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/10/endangered-listing-eyed-loggerhead-turtles/ This was an article in Fox news the other day about loggerhead turtles being added to the endangered species list. One of the main reasons these turtles are suffering is due to fishing gear and careless humans causing damage to their nesting areas. Like ...

Once in a while, twice to be precise, I will post some of the most recent Teachbad bad poetry with links to the related posts. This is such an occasion. Not sure which to choose? Go ahead…read them all. They’re FREE! Enjoy the badness with a colleague or loved one. Mr. Teachbad I like a stiff drink [...]

What an appropriate time to  celebrate the NSTA Conference with a tribute to an awesome collection of  STEM resources! For those not familiar with STEM education, imagine the power in combining Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math into a program that brings cross curricular understanding with real world application. Those familiar with ...

Last week, the federal government recommended that the loggerhead sea turtle be listed on the endangered species list. Why are these beautiful marine creatures disappearing so quickly? To answer this question, we must dig a little deeper into the life of your average loggerhead. The loggerhead sea turtle is the world’s largest hard-shelled turtle ...

In my mid week blogs I like to make you area of resources, sites, and opportunities available to educators intent on bringing Twenty-first Century skills to their classroom. This week I would like to introduce you to ISTE’s SIGOL and an amazing opportunity! First, ISTE (International Society For Technology In Education) is the largest educational ...

I just want to say how much I love Apple and everyone should buy AppleCare because it’s saved my *** multiple times. 2 free batteries and 2 free iPhones because it rocks. My iPhone won’t stop vibrating and they are replacing it for free. W00t! Yay apple! I cleaned and packed so much stuff up yesterday, and spent entirely too much time on the ...

I have been given a real opportunity. Yesterday, the Deputy Head of a school I work in came along and asked me for a “favour”. As soon as I hear that word I usually think that I will be doing some task that I would rather not do but which ticks a box (of the many that need to be ticked), for the school. “We  are having most of our Year 6’s ...

Hi Everyone, I am pleased to announce that TinyEYE now offers school districts Bilingual Speech-Language Pathologists!! TinyEYE recognizes that in order to truly be of service to all school districts, students, and parents- we need to provide exceptional Bilingual SLPs who are ready to serve. We have a growing [...]

By Kathy Stemke When most animals were growing arms and legs and climbing out of the water, whales were growing fins and walking into the water. Whales changed, or evolved from warm-blooded, air breathing animals that lived on land to ocean dwellers.  Their earliest known ancestor looked like a short antelope with hoofed feet.  This mammal had a ...