The Cool App by WHPS: August 2015

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What apps did we leave out?
What videos did you expect to find here?
What websites and ebooks do you recommend?
Send us your suggestions to SteveEnglishTeacher@gmail.com.

The video to watch is

The HOW TO video for QA English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiSITNZqPkU ++++

The ebook to get is

Seth Godin's ebooks

TinyURL.com/GodinSchool

http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/docs/stopstealingdreamsscreen.pdf +++

TinyURL.com/GodinKnock

http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/downloads/knockknock.pdf +++

TinyURL.com/GodinBadPowerpoint

http://www.sethgodin.com/freeprize/reallybad-1.pdf +++

Here is a link to more of his ebooks.

http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/free_stuff.asp ++

Go to HUBPAGES and set up your own HubPage.

GET Seth's HubPage

http://sethgodin.hubpages.com/hub/seth-2 ++

The APPS to get are

____ Seth Godin Idea Monk

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seth.godin&hl=en ++++

and

____ Flip Thoughts

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flip.thoughts&hl=en ++++

To pass to the next level, you need to listen to xxxxx's lecture
from TED TALKS... Let's get this video to 2 million views...

How many students have dropped out from U.S schools?

The youtube moment is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzwJ-XuL6ig

See this article on CBS news about The Equity Project.

As a tribute to Mr. Gray, we have listed here the link to the Scholy app, even though it is not a free app.

We just want to congratulate him on his nerves of steel and for accepting the offer on the Shark Tank episode that he requested.

He didn't get greedy.

Here's the link to SCHOLLY

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.edu.schollyapp&hl=en +++

paste this link in your facebook page

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nyc-charter-schools-125000-experiment/

The salary per year that The Equity Project paid its teachers in its first year (as reported by CBS TV) was $_________

"NYC's $_______ Experiment"
55,000 260,000 75,000 380,000 90,000 95,000 96,000 105,000 110,000 36 1125,0003 150,000 155,000

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Page 9: 20 Apps Motivation and Dan Pink

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Get a free email letter from Dan Pink... he doesn't send spam and the e-letter is infrequent.
http://www.danpink.com/resources/
The letter sign up form usually pops up when you visit this page

The video to watch is Dan Pink telling you about the New way to "control crowds"
http://www.danpink.com/ac/crowd-control-episode-1-lawbreakers/ +++

The ebook to get is

The APPS to get are

____

and

____

To pass to the next level, you need to listen to xxxxx's lecture
from TED TALKS... Let's get this video to 2 million views...

How many students have dropped out from U.S schools?

Shark Tank Walk Off Episode please post those search terms, grab the URL link, and paste that link in your social media and suggest it to your contacts. We want students to be ready like Christopher Gray.
http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank/video/VDKA0_831bg7dt <<< paste this link

The youtube moment is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzwJ-XuL6ig

Autonomy, Mastery and P__________

See this article on CBS news about The Equity Project.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nyc-charter-schools-125000-experiment/ +++
The salary per year that The Equity Project paid its teachers in its first year (as reported by CBS TV) was $_________

"NYC's $_______ Experiment"
Passion Pedagogy Persuasion Purpose Pants Power Porpoises Prowess Pondering Prancing

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Hint to Dr. C it starts with "PUR"

page 8: 20 Apps The Brain

The video to watch is BIB Penpals on youtube
Youtube.com/BIBPENPALS
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCrNEXk34LrTKo7SzMJ3d-A +++
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx7Ie97Iofs +++++

The ebook to get is Dan Pink's "Flip" manifesto
http://www.danpink.com/resource/flip-manifesto/ +++

The website is BIB Penpals https://bibpenpals.wordpress.com/

See the list of PENPALS who want to practice English with you....

https://bibpenpals.wordpress.com/

The APPS to get are

____ Orbitor about Chemical makeup and structure of atoms
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.faur.orbitor&hl=en +++

and 3D Brain
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dnalc.threedbrain&hl=en ++++

____

Learn more about your brain in a video by Daniel Amen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z743qCPO_58 ++++

GET THIS PDF. It's a list of the Automatic Negative Thoughts that Daniel Amen discusses. The sheet comes form the National Institute of Health (a summary of Amen's work).

http://www.hr.niu.edu/serviceareas/employeeassistance/Downloads/Understanding%20Negative%20Thinking.pdf +++

MEASURE YOUR KLOUT with the Klout App
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.klout.android.moose&hl=en

To pass to the next level, you need to listen to xxxxx's lecture
from TED TALKS... Let's get this video to 2 million views...

How many students have dropped out from U.S schools?

Shark Tank Walk Off Episode please post those search terms, grab the URL link, and paste that link in your social media and suggest it to your contacts. We want students to be ready like Christopher Gray.
http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank/video/VDKA0_831bg7dt <<< paste this link

The youtube moment is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzwJ-XuL6ig

See this article on CBS news about The Equity Project.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nyc-charter-schools-125000-experiment/ +++
The salary per year that The Equity Project paid its teachers in its first year (as reported by CBS TV) was $_________

"NYC's $_______ Experiment"
55,000 60,000 75,000 80,000 90,000 95,000 96,000 105,000 110,000 120,000 125,000 150,000 155,000

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Hint to Dr. C you should know this one.... it's 5 x 25,000

page 7: 20 apps

Welcome to page 7... you are 70% through this list of activities!

The video to watch is Our Lives are What We Make of Them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ccQR0-yUOA +++

Jeremy McWilliams reads his dad's meditation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4GK5i3-tlc +++

Ms. Senn has a good "Tought for the Day" about a dangerous weapon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ammhL-Kcsew +++

The ebook to get is TinyURL.com/JCSpeech
John Corlette's speech

You can learn more at JohnCorlette.com and download his "Thoughts for the Day"
His page at MyAiglon.com
https://sites.google.com/site/myaiglon/Home/john-corlette +++

The APPS to get are
____ Skype
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skype.raider&hl=en +++

and

____ Whats App
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp&hl=en +++

and

____ QQ international
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tencent.mobileqqi&hl=en +++

Make yourself open to the world. Are you ready to become a PENPAL and

Connect with Jair da Silva Filho, a professor of English in Florianopolis Brazil

See our video recording of a Skype lesson.
Why not contact Jair? He's on Skype.

jayfilho18 on Skype

To pass to the next level, you need to listen to Arianna Huffington's lecture
from TED TALKS... Let's get this video to 1 billion views...

http://www.ted.com/talks/arianna_huffington_how_to_succeed_get_more_sleep?language=en +++

You also need to listen to a radio interview with Dennis Littky.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4618720 +++

Transcript of the NPR 2005 Radio interview

https://sites.google.com/site/transformteachingbooks/videos-by-dr-littky/transcript-of-npr-interview-2005-with-dr-littky +++

According to Arianna, many of us need more ______

food exercise education music children money shoes faster internet connection
more protein in our diets hugs sleep water pampering

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Hint to Dr. C it rhymes with "flower"

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Who is the author of those papers about Learning? Richard __CLARK__

The videos to watch are
Automatic Knowledge by Richard Clark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSK63nqEbLQ +++

and Infomration Abundance by Richard Clark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odt41Guk4gE +++

The ebook to get is
Dr. Clark's article in AFT Teacher magazine from Spring 2012

http://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/Clark.pdf +++

The APPS to get are

____ ????

and

____ ????

Look at the Lateral Thinking Puzzle:

Go Here

Search lateral thinking puzzles
http://www.folj.com/lateral/ ++++

To pass to the next level, you need to listen to Ken Robinson's lecture
from RSA Animate... Let's get this video to 1 billion views...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U ++++

You also need to listen to a video by Dennis Littky. He starts to rip pieces of paper in the first minute.

How many students have dropped out from U.S schools?

TEDx NYED Dennis Littky please post those search terms, grab the URL link, and paste that link in your social media and suggest it to your contacts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbpqVPtUIFQ <<< paste this link

In the first minute of the talk, Dennis Littky says "every ___ seconds..."

The number of students who drop out is one student every __ seconds

4 5 6 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 13 39 40

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Hint to Dr. C what is half of "26"?

Page 5: 20 Apps Sugata Mirta's TED TALK

Here is page 5

The video to watch

The Ebook to download

The website to visit
Network of Educators

The text page (transcript) of the Sugata Mirta TED Talk

http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud/transcript?language=en ++++

Go to this PAGE

https://sites.google.com/site/networkofeducators/home/articles-by-richard-e-clark

Who is the author of those papers? Richard ________

Johnson Clark Robertson Chao Gonzalez Singh Kilpadi

Llorente Yuzenas Elcome Lloyd Blazek Hutt

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Hint to Dr. C "Clark"

Page 4: 20 Apps Theme of SPACE

One of our students wants to travel to Mars.
That's her project. Everything in the school will go through that focus. She is serious and she wants to blog and create diaries about the

She even sees John Vornle's video about how to pay for the system (start with {1} manufacturing in low earth orbit, then {2} build a ship up there, then {3} get on the ship and go to Mars}

EXERCISE: Create a list of 20 books, 20 movies and 10 Musical shows that you respect. Write at least two sentences about "What is the book about?" and "why it is important to know about this book."

Free Ebook: Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman. You can find the free ebook here ready for you to download. Look at chapter 12, around page ____

http://ir.nmu.org.ua/bitstream/handle/123456789/129284/2acc6cf8d29603bd81ba8253a752e03b.pdf?sequence=1 ++++

See the SPACE PATH AHEAD

https://sites.google.com/site/theresaspacepathahead/home +++

Hear John Vornle's formula for "The New Economic Continent"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80v9NQWghSM +++

A teacher's view about space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9tDdQ7EIkU +++

Google Earth app See the Earth from above

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.earth +++

ISS Detector app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.runar.issdetector +++

EXTRA APP: Star Chart
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.escapistgames.starchart&hl=en +++

What page does chapter 12 start in the Neil Postman book Teaching as a Subversive Activity?

Page number: 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 146 162 179 180

For More Info
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Hint to Dr. C "162"

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Success in school can be measured in many ways. We like the way that Big Picture Learning measures its success: one student at a time. Their students have Personal Learning Plans and parents help decide what their child will study. Who knows the student better, the teacher or the parent?

You are a force for Good in the World. You have the "power of one click." You can recommend a link to your friends on social media. You can cause a video to get 20 or 30 more clicks just by posting the link in your faceboo wall or in your Twitter feed.

Imagine that you have your best school work in one web site
See this FREE EBOOK tinyURL.com/ShowYourWork +++

see this web site tinyURL.com/ShowYourWork1    +++

See our GUIDE TO GOOGLE DRIVE (where you can store your school work)

Your activity for this page is to find the Facebook page of Big Picture school and LIKE it.   https://www.facebook.com/bigpicturelearning?fref=ts +++

Then Find the HighTechhigh.org website and go to DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS
http://www.hightechhigh.org/schools/HTHPL/?show=dp +++

Your video to watch is the "10 Expectations" video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K96c-TGnSf4 +++

Be nice and click on the Spanish version...

Your Apps for this page are
____ Drivers Ed Florida "Deedal Studio" (or a similar app for your state or country)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northpole.world.drivingtest.florida.free +++

and
____ ACT Vocab with three tests
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.timeactive.noads.actvocabulary +++

In the Spanish version of the "10 Expectations" video, the narrator says, "Hola mi nombre es ____"... What is her name?

To pass to the next level,
Faith Amelia Josephina Bertha Betty

Elizabeth Francesca Elena Claudia Gracie

Gertrude Jane Nancy Paula Samantha Janice

Roberta Amy Daniela Abby Claudette

   Xaviera

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Hint to Dr. C "NANCY"