Keeping track

This week I was really motivated to get lots of Twitter time, and I decided to keep better track of the interesting things I was learning by writing it down in a notebook rather than on random notes that I left everywhere. It has made this reflection much easier! 

Podcasts:
Truth for Teachers was not cast this week, but I listened to the 3rd challenge of the 5 day challenge. I have been able to to do pretty well with the first three days, but I haven't listened to the last two challenges, yet. It is hard to try new things this close to winter break. I feel like I am just in survival mode. Looking forward to listening to these challenge days this week. I missed your podcast this week, Angela!
Here is the link to her podcast if anyone is interested: https://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/truth-for-teachers-podcast/goodbye-teacher-tired/

Here are the titles of the first three days of the challenge:

1) Get real about how much you can accomplish each day, and eliminate the unnecessary.

2) Schedule your day to get the most important things done, instead of doing as much as possible.

3) Minimize decision-making by automating tasks and creating routines that simplify your life.

Science Friday covered the Net Neutrality issue and the house plan for taxing Grad students. A story that surprised me was about the HIV/AIDS eidpemic that is happening in the southern USA. All of which worry me for the future of our country. I also heard stories about Proton trapping, Muscle speed, Switching attention in Macacs, and research on Yeti DNA that turned out to really be bear DNA. The two stories I talked most about was the strength of neolithic women (During my archaeology unit) and robots modeled after oragami. (During a STEAM class.) I ran out of podcasts to listen to beofre the week was over. Does anyone know any good podcasts that are not on break right now? I like Revisionist History, Truth for Teachers, and Mindshift, but they are all on breaks right now! Suggestions?

Twitter - I followed a new math teacher and through her tweets I got linked to a way to use Desmos and One Note together. http://continuousformation.blogspot.com/2017/11/desmos-onenote-replay.html

George Corous lead me to an article by Katie Martin that was inspiring, and old quote of his from 2011 that talked about the difference between classroom management vs. classroom leadership. He also tweeted about an article by Marcel Schwantes that gave the 6 steps to get what you want from your manager.
I also really enjoyed AJ Juliani's post about getting students to do the talking. I plan to try some of his strategies in my science classes. https://medium.com/@ajjuliani/the-three-step-system-for-getting-students-to-do-the-talking-f1802cac8648 @ajjuliani

Tara Martin shared about students in her district who were sharing their learning portfolios.

Then I clicked on a link that took me to three articles about how CRISPR/CaS 9 works. They were fascinating, and I can't wait to hear more research about these gene editing tools. That ended up being my reading for the week.