The 2016 Year in Review Video

End of the Year Video

Book Study, Part 1 - The Smartest Kids in the World

What did you think about what you read?

Ripley’s characters are well described , her writing style is clear , and her observations are pretty fresh. Ripley lets facts and observations guide her conclusions, not the other way around.

Which of the three students do you most relate to?  Explain why and how you view this?  What was significant to you about this student?

The experience of Tom, Tom’s U.S. math classes, everyone used calculators.  In Tom’s classroom in Poland, everyone did math in their head, to the point that it seems like they were fluent in a language he was not. I can relate to this because for myself, its hard for me to do a mathematical problem without a calculator.

What was your opinion of the different types of schools in the three countries?  

In a lot of nations, all children are learning to make arguments and solve problems they’ve never seen before. They are learning to think. Kim, fifteen, raises $10,000 so she can move from Oklahoma to Finland; Eric, eighteen, trades his high-achieving Minnesota suburb for a booming city in South Korea; and Tom, seventeen, leaves Pennsylvania village for Poland.

This is our liveBinder over our websites.Click here to open this binder in a new window.

DIIGO

What is Diigo?

Diigo lets you easily share with groups.You can annotate web pages.You are creating your personal library of online bookmarks to use in many ways.

• There is no download or installation needed, and it works for all major browsers (including Chrome!)  

• The best thing yet is that all you need to do is just drag and drop into your toolbar and the Diigolet is ready to use!

How to use DIIGO (youtube)

 How to Sign Up for Diigo?

1. Sign up at www.diigo.com.
2. Teachers should sign up for a free teacher account to get extra features.

Install the Diigo Chrome Extension

1. The Diigo Chrome extension can save you time.
2. The button is typically found after logging into Diigo the first time. (You can also use the link below.)

                                      Diego chrome extension

Annotating a Web Page with Diigo

1. Annotating a web page means that you can highlight the page.
2. You can also add a private sticky note to a page.

You can add a public sticky note to a page if you send it to a group. (You have to join a group first.)

Bookmarking a Page with Diigo

1. Anything you select with your mouse will go into the bookmark when you hit the button.
2. You have to turn off the annotation’s Highlighting feature for this to work.
3. Whatever you type in the box becomes part of the bookmark.
4. Summarize what you’ve read in the box. (This will help prevent plagarizing work by putting it in your own words.)

Be consistent with your tags so you can see patterns and organize your bookmarks.

How to Organize a Diigo Outline

1. When you have bookmarks already in Diigo, you can find and quickly add them to your outliner.
2. You can organize your outline with text that you type.
3. Click the shareable link button to share a private link for people to see your outline.
4. You can copy and paste it into Microsoft Word or Google Docs. You can also copy and paste the notes into Powerpoint and make it into an outline in PowerPoint.

Perot Museum

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