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VT's FREE Newsletter for Educators - Insight, Inspiration and Ideas that Work!
iPad5 pencil AD is a VISUAL LITERACY treat
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Hello everyone
Do you know how to tie your shoelaces?
Well think again, check out the TED video and challenge your most basic understandings.
The new iPad 5 ad is amazing. So much to talk about in visual literacy. So provocative and thoughtful on many levels. How many background changes are there, what camera technique is used, what is the point (Ha! Ha!) of the pencil, what is the metaphor.
Listen to the comparative language. What is the colour space? What does that mean? What does th emusic do? Your class K- 12 will love it and all have comments to make.
Let me know what you think.
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Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.
W.Edwards Deming
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Terry Moore: How to tie your shoes
http://www.ted.com/playlists/19/did_you_know.html This is a must see. Kindergarten can watch as well as adults. DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE TYING YOUR SHOELACES INCORRECTLY. This video by inference encourages you to rethink even the most basic things in our lives. Some great words, some great scientific investigation.
Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel
http://www.ted.com/playlists/19/did_you_know.html Really if Joe Smith can do this so can you. Do you want to be part of Joe's great plan and save 571,230,000 pounds of paper practice his simple technique shake and fold. You've got to do this as a demonstration and be part of saving the planet one paper towel at a time.
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Apple - iPad Air - TV Ad - Pencil
This is a fabulous product and an amazing commercial. Love the concept. Take a look
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AUSTRALIA
The First Fleet Fellowship is a great site with details of ships and their voyages to Australia. Great images - Lists of convicts - and some personal stories form the early First Fleeters. Great information and images. And some Cartoons by ‘Humps’
CONVICTED BY ANNA CLARK
This is a great read for stage 2 students. I love the illustrations.
Welcome to the unwonderful world of kids, crims, and other convict capers.
Australia's convict history is so chocked with floggings, death, cannibalism, and very smelly feet and underpants that it's a wonder you ever wanted to read about anything else!
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Cartooning 
Cartooning With Blitz - Full Program
5 pencil method
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StoryLineOnline
Storyline Online is a collection of popular children's books read by celebrities.Visit their new site - some
great stories some with deaf signing.
RhymeBrain
Great site for rhyming or close to rhyming words. Invent-a-word, alliteration etc
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I do answer all emails so send them along with your questions ideas and great sites.
Hi there,
I also thought I'd pass along another useful resource that you might want to add to your page:
"The Ultimate Poetry Resource Guide" -
Let me know what you think - have a great day!
Best wishes,
Bev
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Next newsletter I will take look at Fibonacci patterns, Mathematics and feeling mathematical, and moving from the knowledge economy to the computational economy. Oh! and Christmas of course so send in your ides. 
Please send in any other great ideas or websites, whiteboard sites or fabulous things you are doing.
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ciao
Cathy
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