Study: Reading Books Is Only Out-Of-School Activity That Helps Students Get Better Job Later Here’s what a new British study says: *Reading books is the only out-of-school activity for 16-year-olds that is linked to getting a managerial or professional job in later life, says an Oxford study. * *Researcher Mark Taylor, from the Department ...
“What makes a great scientific talk?” “What makes a great scientific talk?” is an excellent post by David Winter. His advice, though, is excellent for any kind of presentation — not just one related to science. I’m adding it to The Best Sources Of Advice For Making Good Presentations.
Excellent Info On “Value-Added” Approach To Teacher Evaluation Education writers from throughout the United States are at a meeting in New Orleans this weekend, and I’ve been reading their tweets about the conference. I was particularly interested in the session on the value-added approach to teacher evaluation, ...
Students & Visualization I’ve written a lot about goal-setting with students (see My Best Posts On Students Setting Goals) and about how to help students achieve them through visualization (see My Best Posts On Helping Students “Visualize Success”). As I’ve written in those ...
This Week’s “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t” I have a huge backlog of resources that I’ve been planning to post about in this blog but, just because of time constraints, have not gotten around to doing. Instead of letting that backlog grow bigger, I regularly grab a few and list them here with ...
Tutorials On Making Interactive Infographics NewsLab has developed some nice video tutorials on using two tools to create infographics — Google Maps and Many Eyes. Here they are: I’m adding them both to The Best Resources For Creating Infographics.
