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What Motivates You?

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Josh Stumpenhorst

As educators we are not in the profession for the money. NFL players that are currently holding out for a better deal will make more in yearly bonuses than most teachers will make in a career. I have followed Daniel Pink’s work on motivation and what actually causes people to work hard and achieve more. […]

My Follow Forever

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Josh Stumpenhorst

Many of you saw and contributed to my google doc/spreadsheet with “Who To Follow” on twitter. I was blown away by the response and it truly shows the power of social media and crowd sourcing. With that in mind, I wanted to point out that this list is public and therefore editable by anyone. I […]

The Lego Classroom

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Josh Stumpenhorst

My wife and sons are on spring break this week and spent their first day off traveling to Lego Land. While there, they met with a master builder, which sounds like an amazing job, and built various Lego “things”. I spent three hours that night building “Lego things” with my sons on the floor of […]

Brain Breaks

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Josh Stumpenhorst

For a few years now we have had a physical education teacher, Nadine Stanley, speaking to our staff about what she calls “Brain Breaks”. In her presentation she shared the following information about the positives of these short bursts of physical activity in a classroom: Exercise leads to the release of: Endorphins – mood regulator […]

Are You Listening?

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Josh Stumpenhorst

When a student doesn’t have their homework in class, do you realize it is because they were up all night taking care of their siblings because their parents were at work? If a student refuses to look you in the eye when they talk to you, do you realize it is because it is a […]

Kid’s Say The Darndest Things!

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Josh Stumpenhorst

This is not going to be the most enlightening post I have ever written so feel free to stop reading now if you are looking for an educational epiphany. I am going to play the role of Bill Cosby on my own version of “Kids Say the Darndest Things” and try to make a pathetically […]

Blogger 101

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Josh Stumpenhorst

My latest tutorial…This is a very short overview of blogger and some of the features I use. The two big ones are embedding video and inserting a table without knowing HTML coding. Enjoy!

Green Screen Magic

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Josh Stumpenhorst

Here is a short tutorial on how I create some of my green screen videos. In addition, if you are interested in doing blue screen work with Movie Maker you need to check out this site: http://www.wikihow.com/Chroma-Key-in-Windows-Movie-Maker I tried to do a screen capture to show how it worked but it would not work our properly […]

Writing Activities for Social Science

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Josh Stumpenhorst

After this evenings #sschat I felt compelled to formalize all of my random tweets into a more organized post. Here is a list of ways in which I have used writing in my social science classes. Historical Newspapers – Have students take on the role of a reporter in a historical time period. I have […]

Take the Red Pill

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Josh Stumpenhorst

Four months ago, I took Morpheus’s Red Pill and it has changed my life. In the Matrix, Neo takes the red pill and has an “awakening” to the perceived real world. For me this awakening was to a world beyond my classroom. To start, I grew up in a town of 1100 people and change, […]