Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
Kevin-Prince Boateng Moonwalks Michael Jackson Style! Superfun!
Turn up the video to dance along with Kevin-Prince Boateng to Micheal Jackson's Billie Jean! Fun!
Back in December, strange reports from the Milan dressing room emerged about new addition Kevin-Prince Boateng, with his neck tattoos and fiery temper, doing exceptional Michael Jackson routines behind closed doors. "Boateng has a very beautiful voice," Massimo Oddo said. "He also knows how to dance," Mario Yepes added. "Kevin's specialty is the moonwalk."
(Quotation from article on-line by Brooks Peck entitled: "Kevin-Prince Boateng's Delightful Michael Jackson Routine"
Video included in that entertaining article is below:
Children's Books For Graduation :Save up to 45%!
For more fun with videos, check back on the archives below to tune into the updated videos for planting vegetables, harvesting, and cooking with Willie and John Galloway in Seattle. They're more fun to watch--planting, tossing salads, and eating together than any celebrity or reality TV. Seriously! They look like they just enjoy being together while they plant, harvest, cook--and eat! Then, after your own cooking and eating together, watch an episode (instant download streaming on NETFLIX--my favorite place) of The Unusuals. Lie To Me--also available in episodes immediately on your computer or other Netflix connection--is still my top favorite series to watch--one episode after another. Still, The Unusuals is pulling me in, one episode at a time. The casting is perfect, and each police officer has an intriguing and compelling secret. Netflix is the best thing I've discovered in years--no commercials and instant access.
Back in December, strange reports from the Milan dressing room emerged about new addition Kevin-Prince Boateng, with his neck tattoos and fiery temper, doing exceptional Michael Jackson routines behind closed doors. "Boateng has a very beautiful voice," Massimo Oddo said. "He also knows how to dance," Mario Yepes added. "Kevin's specialty is the moonwalk."
(Quotation from article on-line by Brooks Peck entitled: "Kevin-Prince Boateng's Delightful Michael Jackson Routine"
Video included in that entertaining article is below:
Children's Books For Graduation :Save up to 45%!
For more fun with videos, check back on the archives below to tune into the updated videos for planting vegetables, harvesting, and cooking with Willie and John Galloway in Seattle. They're more fun to watch--planting, tossing salads, and eating together than any celebrity or reality TV. Seriously! They look like they just enjoy being together while they plant, harvest, cook--and eat! Then, after your own cooking and eating together, watch an episode (instant download streaming on NETFLIX--my favorite place) of The Unusuals. Lie To Me--also available in episodes immediately on your computer or other Netflix connection--is still my top favorite series to watch--one episode after another. Still, The Unusuals is pulling me in, one episode at a time. The casting is perfect, and each police officer has an intriguing and compelling secret. Netflix is the best thing I've discovered in years--no commercials and instant access.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Grow. Cook. Eat.: Video Series | eHow.com
Grow. Cook. Eat.: Video Series eHow.com
Plant herbs and vegetables in your yard, even a small area.
Eat great combinations from your garden!
The first video here is for scrambled eggs with thyme (mostly cheese, eggs, and thyme beaten together and scrambled in an iron skillet with
butter. Oh, and the Seattle couple slice olive bread, toasted, and serve the cheesy, thyme eggs on top.
They are looking forward to salads and other combos later, so mark this one to come back.
You can just buy some herb plants at the store and put them in your window.
Basil is one of my favorites. Add a few bits in spaghetti sauce. Yum!
Plant herbs and vegetables in your yard, even a small area.
Eat great combinations from your garden!
The first video here is for scrambled eggs with thyme (mostly cheese, eggs, and thyme beaten together and scrambled in an iron skillet with
butter. Oh, and the Seattle couple slice olive bread, toasted, and serve the cheesy, thyme eggs on top.
They are looking forward to salads and other combos later, so mark this one to come back.
You can just buy some herb plants at the store and put them in your window.
Basil is one of my favorites. Add a few bits in spaghetti sauce. Yum!
Monday, April 11, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzgzim5m7oU
Word Power is real. The response can be inspiring, rewarding--even surprising! Is there something you can say, sign, or write today to make a positive difference for another...or for yourself? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzgzim5m7oU P.S. If you wonder why the woman who changes this blind man's sign does not also give him money, I wondered, too. However, my reasoning is that the video is all about what you can do with words alone for someone else. What do you think?
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Why Take Short Field Trips to Gardens, Parks, Museums, Art Galleries...
Example amazing field trip--www.uga.edu/botgarden
Note: On your exploratory, short field trip, check out the gift shops at every place you go. There are unique, reasonably priced, often original (art, jewelry, books) or regional, gifts to choose for upcoming holidays, birthdays, anniversaries. But you do NOT have to spend a lot of money for field trips. Plan ahead as part of your fun...and, yes, education.
Field trips put your brain and body into a multi-sensory approach to life and learning. Even a short trip to a garden wakes up every part of your brain and body. Your creativity is remembered into your mind and body, literally coalescing from fragments into ideas and plans.
Today, go on-line and find an example of a garden (maybe a botanical garden), a federal or state park, a library, a city or college or local museum, an art gallery, and a local theater for live performances. Look at the website for each and make some early notes for a visit.
Plan your first visit to be a fairly short one--perhaps combined with breakfast, lunch, or coffee in a restaurant near the 'field trip.' If you don't know the area for the visit very well, find out the menu and prices for an interesting place to eat--or just make that part of your trip more settled by choosing a breakfast chain restaurant where you know you can rest for a little while looking at your brochures, notes, or journal.
Notice I said to find examples of six different types of field trips: a garden, a park, a library, a museum, an art gallery, and a theater. Within each of these categories, the possibilities are infinite!
For the first short trip, begin with a garden--in the spirit of planting seeds: Let's say you have chosen to go to the State Botanical Garden at the University of Georgia. First, for YOUR choice, look up the website for the place. If your garden to visit does not have a website (say, it's your grandfather's garden or a community garden in the city), find a resource and ask the following: 1) When is a good time to visit? 2) Are there any tours or, if not, is there a person you can locate to ask a few questions? 3) What will be growing or blooming this time of year? 4) What is being planted this time of year? 5) Is there a way for you to get seedlings for your own window or garden? My example: University of GA Botanical Garden
Get your directions. Plan your time and transportation. Remember, the first time is an exploratory trip--just looking around and getting some ideas for spending more time on your next trip.
Note: On your exploratory, short field trip, check out the gift shops at every place you go. There are unique, reasonably priced, often original (art, jewelry, books) or regional, gifts to choose for upcoming holidays, birthdays, anniversaries. But you do NOT have to spend a lot of money for field trips. Plan ahead as part of your fun...and, yes, education.
Field trips put your brain and body into a multi-sensory approach to life and learning. Even a short trip to a garden wakes up every part of your brain and body. Your creativity is remembered into your mind and body, literally coalescing from fragments into ideas and plans.
Today, go on-line and find an example of a garden (maybe a botanical garden), a federal or state park, a library, a city or college or local museum, an art gallery, and a local theater for live performances. Look at the website for each and make some early notes for a visit.
Plan your first visit to be a fairly short one--perhaps combined with breakfast, lunch, or coffee in a restaurant near the 'field trip.' If you don't know the area for the visit very well, find out the menu and prices for an interesting place to eat--or just make that part of your trip more settled by choosing a breakfast chain restaurant where you know you can rest for a little while looking at your brochures, notes, or journal.
Notice I said to find examples of six different types of field trips: a garden, a park, a library, a museum, an art gallery, and a theater. Within each of these categories, the possibilities are infinite!
For the first short trip, begin with a garden--in the spirit of planting seeds: Let's say you have chosen to go to the State Botanical Garden at the University of Georgia. First, for YOUR choice, look up the website for the place. If your garden to visit does not have a website (say, it's your grandfather's garden or a community garden in the city), find a resource and ask the following: 1) When is a good time to visit? 2) Are there any tours or, if not, is there a person you can locate to ask a few questions? 3) What will be growing or blooming this time of year? 4) What is being planted this time of year? 5) Is there a way for you to get seedlings for your own window or garden? My example: University of GA Botanical Garden
Get your directions. Plan your time and transportation. Remember, the first time is an exploratory trip--just looking around and getting some ideas for spending more time on your next trip.
Canada most friendly, India among least friendly: Forbes - Hindustan Times
Forbes Says Canada is #1 friendly country-- US is down at "No. 4"--with negative ranking re health and finances Canada most friendly, India among least friendly: Forbes - Hindustan Times
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
NASA RSS Feeds
NASA RSS Feeds
GO HERE FOR A MULTITUDE OF SCHEDULES, EXPLANATIONS, VIDEOS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SPACE STATIONS! MAKE NASA PART OF YOUR SCIENCE, LITERATURE, MATH, AND WRITING CLASSES EVERY DAY! THIS IS EXCITING AND FUN!
GO HERE FOR A MULTITUDE OF SCHEDULES, EXPLANATIONS, VIDEOS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SPACE STATIONS! MAKE NASA PART OF YOUR SCIENCE, LITERATURE, MATH, AND WRITING CLASSES EVERY DAY! THIS IS EXCITING AND FUN!
Friday, April 1, 2011
Check out the archived videos and SAT prep questions on this site!
Cool Rocket School Tutor frequently adds videos from sites offering more activities, visual, and audio support to understanding complex information. The videos, slideshows, games, and other postings are current and fun to explore--usually revealing other websites for even more extraordinary examples of presenting discoveries, theories, and evidence in compact, bright, and intriguing ways.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
SAT Today: Pattern Q and A Strategy by cooperhomeschool@rocketmail.com
11 Practice Tests for the SAT and PSAT, 2009 Edition (College Test Preparation)
Posting by judiethcarol&rocketcat
When tutoring students about standardized tests, I like to find 'pattern' questions--with the correct answers available immediately--to display certain characteristics of test questions. Today's SAT question is one that I would use as such a pattern. It is easy to miss, yet it is also easy to get right. At least half of the respondents are missing the answer today. The strategy of using 'pattern' can help you to show what you know on a standardized test and help you to prevent what is causing some people who know the answer to miss the answer for this one today.
The strategy most likely to get this one answered correctly applies to other questions that are presented in this way. I consider today's SAT question and the correct answer ("No error") to be a worthy 'pattern' question and answer for teaching the strategy to answer this type of question because it contains some underlined portions that may make you wonder if there is a 'rule' you are not remembering.
In short, when you cannot find an error that you can explain to yourself the reasoning that this IS an error, go ahead and choose 'No Error' rather than guessing which underlined portion is in error.
If you cannot find an error that you can explain, the odds are greater for the 'No error' answer to be correct than any other option you choose!!!
To use pattern questions to best advantage while preparing for a standardized test, we need to do three main things:
1) Become familiar with the styles of questions on the specific test.
2) Understand what each style of question is testing in the test taker.
3) Practice using the 'pattern' strategy as much as possible for each style of question on the upcoming test.
For today's pattern:
1) One of the several styles of questions in the verbal parts of the SAT test is the presentation of a sentence with several portions of the sentence underlined. The test taker is to review the sentence looking for errors, especially noting potential errors in the underlined portions of the sentence.
2) For the SAT, this type of question is used to find out if the test taker is familiar enough with a variety of grammatical errors to "edit" them in relation to certain usage in a sentence. This one style of question is used to determine whether the test taker can recognize subject-verb disagreement, lack of parallel construction, misuse of possessives, pronoun-antecedent disagreement, and several other types of grammatical dysfunction.
One way to study is to make up your own practice test questions with these errors. Then, you can realize how the style of question works.
3)If you study this pattern, copying today's question from the site (www.collegeboard.com for daily SAT questions), you will find the way to study the other types of questions on the test in a way to learn the material you are studying. This is one of the highest and best uses of standardized tests!
Remember: Always study with the correct answers and solution explanations close by. Check your work immediately. Never spend time 'learning' incorrectly. Studying is only effective when you are learning and practicing with excellent and immediate feedback. If you do not have a human guide, use the resources with immediate answers--like the ASAT questions for the day!
You can write to me for more advice about studying. cooperhomeschool@rocketmail.com Come back tomorrow! judiethcarol&rocketcat
Posting by judiethcarol&rocketcat
When tutoring students about standardized tests, I like to find 'pattern' questions--with the correct answers available immediately--to display certain characteristics of test questions. Today's SAT question is one that I would use as such a pattern. It is easy to miss, yet it is also easy to get right. At least half of the respondents are missing the answer today. The strategy of using 'pattern' can help you to show what you know on a standardized test and help you to prevent what is causing some people who know the answer to miss the answer for this one today.
The strategy most likely to get this one answered correctly applies to other questions that are presented in this way. I consider today's SAT question and the correct answer ("No error") to be a worthy 'pattern' question and answer for teaching the strategy to answer this type of question because it contains some underlined portions that may make you wonder if there is a 'rule' you are not remembering.
In short, when you cannot find an error that you can explain to yourself the reasoning that this IS an error, go ahead and choose 'No Error' rather than guessing which underlined portion is in error.
If you cannot find an error that you can explain, the odds are greater for the 'No error' answer to be correct than any other option you choose!!!
To use pattern questions to best advantage while preparing for a standardized test, we need to do three main things:
1) Become familiar with the styles of questions on the specific test.
2) Understand what each style of question is testing in the test taker.
3) Practice using the 'pattern' strategy as much as possible for each style of question on the upcoming test.
For today's pattern:
1) One of the several styles of questions in the verbal parts of the SAT test is the presentation of a sentence with several portions of the sentence underlined. The test taker is to review the sentence looking for errors, especially noting potential errors in the underlined portions of the sentence.
2) For the SAT, this type of question is used to find out if the test taker is familiar enough with a variety of grammatical errors to "edit" them in relation to certain usage in a sentence. This one style of question is used to determine whether the test taker can recognize subject-verb disagreement, lack of parallel construction, misuse of possessives, pronoun-antecedent disagreement, and several other types of grammatical dysfunction.
One way to study is to make up your own practice test questions with these errors. Then, you can realize how the style of question works.
3)If you study this pattern, copying today's question from the site (www.collegeboard.com for daily SAT questions), you will find the way to study the other types of questions on the test in a way to learn the material you are studying. This is one of the highest and best uses of standardized tests!
Remember: Always study with the correct answers and solution explanations close by. Check your work immediately. Never spend time 'learning' incorrectly. Studying is only effective when you are learning and practicing with excellent and immediate feedback. If you do not have a human guide, use the resources with immediate answers--like the ASAT questions for the day!
You can write to me for more advice about studying. cooperhomeschool@rocketmail.com Come back tomorrow! judiethcarol&rocketcat
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
3 Ways to Improve Standardized Test Scores-Focus on Math
The Three (3) highest point-winners for Standardized Tests: MATH
1 VISUALIZATION, 2 POE (Process of Elimination), and 3 PEMDAS (Order of Operations):(There are some more point winning strategies--including substitution of easy numbers into pattern. Come back Wednesday!
Getting Points on Standardized Tests Involves the 3 BIG STRATEGIES.
The Simple way to answer today’s SAT question for the day is a combination of visualization and process of elimination. Over half the responders missed it!
Today’s question requires visualization. If there is a completely numerical way to scratch it out, the College Board does not tell us.
Here’s what I did: I visualized the full number of aisles the question states are covered in finding the numbers of items that are in the first few aisles (1-7) and/or in the second set of aisles which include some of the first set.
Here’s what we know and need to know: Our total number of items on the second batch can come from some of the same aisles as in the first shopping list sweep!
We have only three answers to consider, so I just did POE (Process of Elimination).
Could we get 9 items this way? Could we get 10? Could we get 11?
Yes, yes, and yes—So look below for the answer that says the answer could be all three of these.
Hooray!!! This is like a math question with no math! It’s logic.
We love logical questions, right??? (Think: goat, wolf, and goat food and a raft to cross a river with one at a time without losing the goat, the goat food—or even the wolf. How few trips can you make; and which do you take when? Remember??? Fun, right??? It’s not a riddle. It’s logic—like Order of Operations).
TWO MAJOR STANDARDIZED TEST TIPS
1) Find a pattern problem for the mnemonic ‘PEMDAS’ for Order of Operations:
Use a really good example question as a pattern, and scratch it onto your paper when you start the math section. Find a good clear problem with parentheses, exponents, subtraction within the parentheses, at least one square root, and multiplication and/or division and either an addition or subtraction outside of parentheses (needing to be next to last or last—Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, and Subtraction (PEMDAS-Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally).
2) When the numbers are manageable and visualization is, too, use POE (Process of Elimination).
These two tips can get you through many (many) points on standardized tests. Know them well, and be careful. They are usually asked in questions that seem easy. They are easy, but you need to check your arithmetic!
1 VISUALIZATION, 2 POE (Process of Elimination), and 3 PEMDAS (Order of Operations):(There are some more point winning strategies--including substitution of easy numbers into pattern. Come back Wednesday!
Getting Points on Standardized Tests Involves the 3 BIG STRATEGIES.
The Simple way to answer today’s SAT question for the day is a combination of visualization and process of elimination. Over half the responders missed it!
Today’s question requires visualization. If there is a completely numerical way to scratch it out, the College Board does not tell us.
Here’s what I did: I visualized the full number of aisles the question states are covered in finding the numbers of items that are in the first few aisles (1-7) and/or in the second set of aisles which include some of the first set.
Here’s what we know and need to know: Our total number of items on the second batch can come from some of the same aisles as in the first shopping list sweep!
We have only three answers to consider, so I just did POE (Process of Elimination).
Could we get 9 items this way? Could we get 10? Could we get 11?
Yes, yes, and yes—So look below for the answer that says the answer could be all three of these.
Hooray!!! This is like a math question with no math! It’s logic.
We love logical questions, right??? (Think: goat, wolf, and goat food and a raft to cross a river with one at a time without losing the goat, the goat food—or even the wolf. How few trips can you make; and which do you take when? Remember??? Fun, right??? It’s not a riddle. It’s logic—like Order of Operations).
TWO MAJOR STANDARDIZED TEST TIPS
1) Find a pattern problem for the mnemonic ‘PEMDAS’ for Order of Operations:
Use a really good example question as a pattern, and scratch it onto your paper when you start the math section. Find a good clear problem with parentheses, exponents, subtraction within the parentheses, at least one square root, and multiplication and/or division and either an addition or subtraction outside of parentheses (needing to be next to last or last—Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, and Subtraction (PEMDAS-Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally).
2) When the numbers are manageable and visualization is, too, use POE (Process of Elimination).
These two tips can get you through many (many) points on standardized tests. Know them well, and be careful. They are usually asked in questions that seem easy. They are easy, but you need to check your arithmetic!
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