Cassandra's Page Proverbs 1:2-7 To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Blog: Heart of Truth I have never had a blog. In my younger years I was warned away from them and then when I got to the age where it would have been appropriate for me to have one, I had a facebook and a myspace. Thus I had no desire to have a blog since I was connected on the internet with all my friends. Now there is a necessity for a blog in my life, and I can to learn everything I can about it!Heart of Truth Word Cloud: Who is Cassandra?
ABCya! Word Cloud In the classroom I would be able to use this website in order to create variety in projects. This would be an easy way to do a ...................................character study. Students would be able to think of different words, or phrases, or adjectives that describe a character in a book ...................................and then put all the words into the program and create a picture of words that describe the character. PreziThis is a new and improved version of PowerPoint! Not only does this program provide information for the viewers but it keeps everyone ............entertained! The program allows the user to manipulate both the y- and x- axis' to create a presentation that can zoom in, zoom out, twirl and ............twist, as well as pop in movies or videos and music clips! WebQuestOn this website, the user can find a plethora of unit/lesson ideas. Teachers from all over have created different lessons and shared them on ..................this website. The materials are listed and if it requires websites to be used by the classroom, the teacher has already found the websites to ...................use for you! It’s a great way not only to get ideas, but to incorporate technology into the classroom or even outside of the classroom. ...................You can just use the idea and materials of these lessons, or you can use the actual set up with your students! Genki English As a teacher of the twenty-first century, in your future classroom(s), it is likely that you will have students with English as a second .........................language. This website contains a great method to help your ESL students. They are items that you can buy, but youtube also .........................contains clips of videos and ideas that come from this method. Not only is it interesting, but the maker of Genki English is super-duper .........................energetic. His energy and attitude are fantastic, and he also almost always has great advice within each clip. Thinkport On this website meant for Maryland Teachers, anyone can access a variety of cool classroom tools. Under the “Think Classroom” tab, ...................there are various online field trips under the interactive media section, tools, tips, clips, and even lesson outlines. An added bonus are the ...................“Think Career”, “Think Technology” and “Think Family & Community” tabs which all go further to help the classroom teacher in their journey ...................of teaching. Rubric CreatorTaking the time to create, format, and write a rubric takes a lot of time. Using Rubistar allows you to chose various categories of ...........................importance for your rubric, and create a basic version! Then, after the website has generated the basic version of the rubric you can ...........................take the time to go in a change words or phrases to that the rubric better fits the project. Using this website cuts down on time that ...........................otherwise would be wasted. ClipArtWhen creating a presentation or an example project, ensuring that it is pleasing to the eye is key. Information is likely to be paid attention ..............to by all if there is something of visual interest for students to stare at, and many students are visual learners. This site has a large plethora of ..............clip art images other than the few provided on the Microsoft PowerPoint program. PaperRater There are various tools that can be accessed with this website. At the beginning you just past in the categories as well as what level of ......................education the paper should be at. When it gets you to the page with a side bar, you click on the first tab an then just press the next ......................button at the bottom. You canview how much plagiarism was ‘found’ in a percentage. It tells you what spelling mistakes are in your ......................paper. There is an option to see different grammar options. It rates how many ‘bad phrases’ are in your paper as well as looks at your ......................word choice, then provides you with a number that represents the amount. The site rates your transitional phrases. Even when you have ......................a good grasp on transitional phrases, the site provides you with tips and other tid-bits of information. Sentence length is looked at, and ......................you are told how many short sentences and long sentences you have as well as what kind of sentences you have. The next slide shows ......................you your word usage, sentence beginnings, and also explains how each type of word should be used. Then you are given a vocabulary ......................score as well as names the good vocabulary words you have in your paper, and provides a link to a vocab builder. The last section tells ......................you an actual grade that your paper should receive based on the level of education the paper is written for. I really like this tool and wish I ......................had been aware of it from the beginning of high school. VocabularyBuilder At the bottom of this website, there are a bunch of quizzes that can be used to build vocabulary. I didn’t look at all of the .................................quizzes, so make sure you preview them before using them. Before all of the quizzes ther is a lot of information to consider and .................................look at if you have the time. RhymeFind In the classroom during poetry units, this website would be of good use. When students are having trouble rhyming words, send them to this .....................website to in order to find words that rhyme with their ending words. However, if you want them to work on finding the words that rhyme each .....................other then this website would not be an ideal tool.
Proverbs 1:2-7 To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Blog: Heart of Truth
I have never had a blog. In my younger years I was warned away from them and then when I got to the age where it would have been appropriate for me to have one, I had a facebook and a myspace. Thus I had no desire to have a blog since I was connected on the internet with all my friends. Now there is a necessity for a blog in my life, and I can to learn everything I can about it!Heart of Truth
Word Cloud: Who is Cassandra?
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ABCya! Word Cloud In the classroom I would be able to use this website in order to create variety in projects. This would be an easy way to do a
...................................character study. Students would be able to think of different words, or phrases, or adjectives that describe a character in a book
...................................and then put all the words into the program and create a picture of words that describe the character.
Prezi This is a new and improved version of PowerPoint! Not only does this program provide information for the viewers but it keeps everyone
............entertained! The program allows the user to manipulate both the y- and x- axis' to create a presentation that can zoom in, zoom out, twirl and
............twist, as well as pop in movies or videos and music clips!
WebQuestOn this website, the user can find a plethora of unit/lesson ideas. Teachers from all over have created different lessons and shared them on
..................this website. The materials are listed and if it requires websites to be used by the classroom, the teacher has already found the websites to
...................use for you! It’s a great way not only to get ideas, but to incorporate technology into the classroom or even outside of the classroom.
...................You can just use the idea and materials of these lessons, or you can use the actual set up with your students!
Genki English As a teacher of the twenty-first century, in your future classroom(s), it is likely that you will have students with English as a second
.........................language. This website contains a great method to help your ESL students. They are items that you can buy, but youtube also
.........................contains clips of videos and ideas that come from this method. Not only is it interesting, but the maker of Genki English is super-duper
.........................energetic. His energy and attitude are fantastic, and he also almost always has great advice within each clip.
Thinkport On this website meant for Maryland Teachers, anyone can access a variety of cool classroom tools. Under the “Think Classroom” tab,
...................there are various online field trips under the interactive media section, tools, tips, clips, and even lesson outlines. An added bonus are the
...................“Think Career”, “Think Technology” and “Think Family & Community” tabs which all go further to help the classroom teacher in their journey
...................of teaching.
Rubric Creator Taking the time to create, format, and write a rubric takes a lot of time. Using Rubistar allows you to chose various categories of
...........................importance for your rubric, and create a basic version! Then, after the website has generated the basic version of the rubric you can
...........................take the time to go in a change words or phrases to that the rubric better fits the project. Using this website cuts down on time that
...........................otherwise would be wasted.
ClipArt When creating a presentation or an example project, ensuring that it is pleasing to the eye is key. Information is likely to be paid attention
..............to by all if there is something of visual interest for students to stare at, and many students are visual learners. This site has a large plethora of
..............clip art images other than the few provided on the Microsoft PowerPoint program.
PaperRater There are various tools that can be accessed with this website. At the beginning you just past in the categories as well as what level of
......................education the paper should be at. When it gets you to the page with a side bar, you click on the first tab an then just press the next
......................button at the bottom. You canview how much plagiarism was ‘found’ in a percentage. It tells you what spelling mistakes are in your
......................paper. There is an option to see different grammar options. It rates how many ‘bad phrases’ are in your paper as well as looks at your
......................word choice, then provides you with a number that represents the amount. The site rates your transitional phrases. Even when you have
......................a good grasp on transitional phrases, the site provides you with tips and other tid-bits of information. Sentence length is looked at, and
......................you are told how many short sentences and long sentences you have as well as what kind of sentences you have. The next slide shows
......................you your word usage, sentence beginnings, and also explains how each type of word should be used. Then you are given a vocabulary
......................score as well as names the good vocabulary words you have in your paper, and provides a link to a vocab builder. The last section tells
......................you an actual grade that your paper should receive based on the level of education the paper is written for. I really like this tool and wish I
......................had been aware of it from the beginning of high school.
VocabularyBuilder At the bottom of this website, there are a bunch of quizzes that can be used to build vocabulary. I didn’t look at all of the
.................................quizzes, so make sure you preview them before using them. Before all of the quizzes ther is a lot of information to consider and
.................................look at if you have the time.
RhymeFind In the classroom during poetry units, this website would be of good use. When students are having trouble rhyming words, send them to this
.....................website to in order to find words that rhyme with their ending words. However, if you want them to work on finding the words that rhyme each
.....................other then this website would not be an ideal tool.