Snack This! Bitesized Education Micro-casts

Our resumes, the clothing that we choose to wear, and even our body language help us sell ourselves to a chosen audience. Why, then, don’t we package and sell our content to our students? Use your news eyes and you’ll likely see a huge difference in how your students react to content in your class.

Sitting in a chair all day is horrible. That’s one of my main complaints for the meetings I have to attend as a professional. In this podcast I have a resident expert on mobility and work in public education. She also happens to be my daughter, Rachel.

G.W.F. Hegel was a late 1700s early 1800s philosophy. He believed that good and bad could not exist because they are constantly negating each other. So all events and people and societies are in the state of "becoming" as we all move toward perfection. This is a useful excursive in any Literature class, social sciences class, or even in considering the power science has given us and whether we should use that power (ie. nuclear bombs, stem cell research, Gene modifications, etc).

Help students become more of who they are... not who you are! None of us holds the Truth, but we all participate in the Truth. Knowing that you do not know everything is knowledge in itself and helps all of us get to a better place. In this sense, be who you are and help your students become who they are. We're all colors in a kaleidoscope and the light of purpose and self-fulfillment illuminates our way.

Multi million dollar companies are always asking their consumers how they can better be served. Why aren’t we doing this with our students? Better yet, what kind of action are we taking once we survey our students? You will be a better teacher if you take on this challenge.

Taking apart the "self" as a way to level the playing field, opening dialogue, and climb up Bloom's Taxonomy. Try it... You'll make lots of new friends!

e-Portfolios helps students show what they know! Students select the images, artificial, and mode. Think if it as an academic resume. Use them to document progress related to personal academic goals, state standards, or as an extra credit assignment. Reflection is the key with e-Portfolios!

Having fun is awesome! Having fun and learning at high Bloom’s cognitive levels is even better. Use your students innate sense of humor to hook them into your content AND improve your classroom culture! Thrasymakos.wordpress.com @Thrasymachus

Those students who raise their hands first and answer questions first are like the tallest trees that take all the sunlight from the plants below them.

What is an Edu Micro-cast and who the heck is Charles Cooper? Find out to your heart’s content in this prelude to his first Edu microcast.. @Thrasymachus Thrasymakos.wordpress.com

Being a “perfect” teacher doesn’t come from knowing your content perfectly, it comes from building more perfect relationships with your kiddos! Then the content is easier to address. @Thrasymachus on Twitter and Thrasymakos.wordpress.com blog “Humor” blog can be accessed there.