This kid warms by heart. He teaches clearly, accessibly, about transgender identity, while also sharing a resource, the book When Kayla Was Kyle.
Watch, and learn:
YouTube lets you access "free" music (via Creative Commons) for your videos
In wonderful news YouTube announces a partnership with Creative Commons to let people use Creative Commons licensed music easily in any uploaded videos. They have an online editor to let you do so. This is great for teachers and students creating video projects. I often find myself helping students and teachers walking about of copyright traps when they just slap an iTunes song on a video and want to upload them to the web. People can also elect to share their end-product videos back into the commons allowing others to use their work. Talk about creating a useful video!
Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository - teach modern history powerfully
via cc.aljazeera.net
Al Jazeera puts a great deal of their video media into the Creative Commons meaning that your students can use it for projects as long as they cite their source (which of course, they would do!).
Use this with students, let them develop their own news summaries of what's happening in Tunisia and Egypt. Reporting history as it happens, it's like a history teacher's dream come true!
Separating Fact and Fiction in Brain-Based Learning from Edutopia
via edutopia.org
This is a nice summary of current research on brains and learning. I found the part about girls and boys brains important. There are so many books on this topic right now that it is difficult to distinguish between opinion and scientific theory.
At my school we are doing a lot of work this year on the question, "How do girls learn?" (we are a girls school)