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- #EdchatIf you’re an educator, looking for a reason to get up to speed on Twitter, take a look at Edchat.  This is a live event that happens each Tuesday at  two times – 12pm EST/ 5pm GMT and 7pm EST/ 12pm GM - on Twitter.  Educators from all over the world chime in with their answers […]
- Type with meI just found a really sweet web 2.0 application that could be useful in the classroom. Â It’s called Type With Me and it’s basically a real time, live text collaboration tool. Â Very simple and easy to use – no sign-up required and it’s free. Â You just go to the Type with Me web site, start […]
- Thinking – at Wash U with the Life Sciences for a Global Community Teachers“The Thinker” on the Washington University Campus In the middle of one of the Washington University quads is this wonderfully whimsical re-imagining of August Rodin’sThe Thinker – a lanky looking rabbit, assuming the well-known, contemplative pose. Â I just returned from a quick trip to St. Louis and, while there, the sculpture caught […]
- Biology Challenge RevisitedIn last week’s “Biology Challenge”, I challenged biology teachers to contribute identifications and descriptions of the relationships illustrated in a photo of aphids, ants and milkweeds. Sure enough, within an hour the milkweed was successfully identified as Asclepias syrica and the aphids as Aphis nerii. A number of various Formica […]
- Biology ChallengeHere’s a cool but complex ecological interaction directly involving at least three species going on in my backyard. (Olathe, KS) We’ve had a mostly cool and wet spring to date. The plant involved is about 0.6 m tall at this point and there is a large flower bud within these leaves. For this challenge, let’s […]