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• Look on my works, ye Mighty...

  
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  and despair. [IMG: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oLwFe6nE5wo/UY6MZmzECHI/AAAAAAAACDY/S2VwrOORve8/s400/Desk.jpg]
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• Lighten Your Grading Load

  
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  I assign one major project, paper, or speech per month per class, and I’m often asked how I keep up with the grading load. While there are many ways to keep up with the paper load, I tend to rely most on allowing students to choose their due dates. I print out a sheet with due dates spread throughout the month and ...
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• The Choice Blog: 7 Reasons to Avoid Senioritis

  
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  Be careful. Senioritis, that intensifying disinterest in maintaining high academic standards, is real — and it is dangerous, as regular readers of The Choice are aware.        
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• small signs

  
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  I was chatting to a friend who has moved back to the states the other morning.  She has a horrid commute of 45 minutes each way (remember that people!) and occasionally gives me a buzz to catch up.  One of the things we were talking about is how you know if your kids are doing ok or not - academically in this ...
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• Sewer Grates in Dubai

  
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  As I was looking for some pictures I came across some oddball pictures, of sewer grates I took as we were doing some very last minute walking around the Gold Souk area in Dubai. Taking taxis, the amazing train system, and walking around Dubai you can’t really stop looking at all of the buildings that have been ...
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• Preparing a canvas

  
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  Painters know that before you get down to work, you have to prepare your canvas. If you’re a street artist, this means painting over the work of those who preceded you, creating an empty space for your own design. Although graffiti might seem to be a hurried medium, creating a multicolored design takes time. Each ...
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• Card Grading Guide to Better Grades

  
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  Thank you for viewing the content from GMA Grading, $2.00 Sports Card Grading - Sports Card Grading and Sports Card Pricing Sports card grading is a way to determine the authenticity and condition of a card.  The better the condition a sports card is in the harder it is to find. The better the condition the more ...
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• Automatic F

  
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  For anyone who uses the word "bard" when theyre not writing about really early texts.  Double F for anyone who uses the words "immortal" and "bard" in the same sentence. For misuse of "irony." What are the things that make you want to write the old one legged A?
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• Should homeschoolers award percentage or letter grades? Or give grades at all?

  
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  One of the decisions we have to make as educators at home is to decide what to do about grades. Unless we are trying to recreate a traditional classroom at home (something I do NOT recommend), it is important to understand how to create an evaluation system that provides valuable feedback for you and your [...]
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• Resolve Training – Grade a Short Film in Class – Austin TX, June 24-26

  
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  Patrick Inhofer from the TaoOfColor.com has scheduled a training in Austin to teach color correction and color grading a short film . Here is even better news: The classes are being held at Precision Camera .  There are at least a dozen excellent restaurants within walking distance of the location, and it’s ...
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• I no longer give As (Contract Grading)

  
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  A recent set of conversations with colleagues leads me to articulate changes in my grading in the last three years. They are strategic changes which have left my overall curve unchanged, but they have changed my relationships to my students and the relationship to writing that I seek to communicate with my students. ...
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• SaGE survey – findings and moving forward

  
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  A survey on staff and student’s opinions of Submitting and Grading Electronically (SaGE) was... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Grading anonymously

  
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  The folks at NewAPPS are having a worthwhile discussion of the merits of anonymous grading : its capacity to counteract the halo effect, how to deal with work that you can associate with a student anyway, etc. Ive used our universitys LMS for anonymous grading and found it to be a welcome reform. Do check the New ...
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• Grading Estimate

  
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  Let me guess.  You didn’t use tests on all your homeschool subjects, right?  Neither did I! And yet, somehow, my children survived!   Some homeschoolers think it’s tons of fun to go back through four years of high school records and try to find or recreate every possible test, quiz, and assignment.  For ...
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• TUDA and School Grading

  
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  (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) I had the opportunity to discuss A-F school grading with a thoughtful skeptic yesterday. Sadly my doubting Thomas remained a skeptic at the end of our discussion.  I showed him data about the trend for improving grades in Florida, and he produced data to show improving fuzzy ...
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• Words Fail Me

  
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  Im so ready for the semester to end, and Im not the only one.  I think the whole state is in a grand funk. And were expecting more snow.  Id put some seeds in small starter planters last week, including sunflower seeds.  They were doing that sprouting and growing with the seed covering still on the initial leaf ...
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• What is a Fancy Yellow Diamond?

  
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  A fancy yellow diamond is a naturally colored yellow diamond which emits yellow color beyond the normal D-Z color grade range. Fancy yellow diamonds are yellow because they have strong amounts of nitrogen impurities in their crystal structure causing the color yellow to permeate through the stone. Nitrogen is a ...
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• Positive Feedback Only

  
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  What if you only gave students positive feedback on their writing? Could you leave a comment that begins with “I like” on every student’s paper? How would that change the way you evaluate writing? Would that impact scores or instruction? Might that make you dread evaluating writing just a leeeeeeeeettle bit ...
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• A Once Proud People Begin a Fight Against Hopelessness

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 134
  (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) The Arizona Republic ran a fantastic story on their front page of this Sunday’s edition  on Navajo schools in Arizona and the efforts underway to turn them around. The story shows how school grading, digital learning and immigration reform can help people who have taken a ...
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• Doctors. Lawyers. CPAs. They get re-dos. Our students don’t?

  
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  A tweet from Rick Wormeli (@RickWormeli) has been swimming around in my mind for the better part of a month. During a standards-based grading Twitter chat, here’s what he wrote: (Note: If you don’t participate in education Twitter chats, they’re great for resources and inspiration. Learn how to Twitter chat in ...
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