Monthly Archives: March 2013

2013 School Leadership Summit

Tomorrow is the 2013 School Leadership Summit.  There are some phenomenal speakers, including Yong Zhao, Bill Brennan, and Eric Sheninger to name a few.  There will be twelve hours of sessions, and if you can’t make the sessions tomorrow, check out the recordings which will be posted shortly after.  Here’s where you can find the schedule of sessions.  Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click on your time zone.  When you find a session that interests you, click on it.  As of now, it looks like the session links are available only for the keynotes and I’m thinking the rest will be populated shortly.

If you’re not a member of The Classroom 2.0 Ning, I would strongly recommend joining.  Steve Hargadon is an amazing educator who creates an abundance of FREE PD opportunities including the ISTE Unconference, another opportunity I would highly recommend.  ISTE 2012 was my first time to the unconcerence (Social EdCon) and the highlight of my entire ISTE experience (well, that and I was on the big screen at the opening Keynote…That was pretty exciting too!).

Attending a conference in person is pretty awesome, but also expensive (especially when you live in Hawai’i) so it’s nice to have opportunities like this one where you can take advantage of hearing from top notch educators from the comfort of your own home!

It’s Pi Day!

It’s Pi Day!  What’s Pi day?  Pi day is celebrated annually on March 13 in honor or 3.14,  the first digits in the number Pi.  Pi represents the ratio of a circles circumference to it’s diameter.  Visual?  I like this explanation:

Here are some resources that can be used to celebrate Pi day:

Flocabulary’s Pi Day Activities
I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I just love flocabulary!  This resource includes three videos as well as six lesson ideas.  My favorite is baking a Pi Pie!  Right now, Flocabulery is having a free, unlimited school wide access deal through June!  Now’s the time to check them out!

Cybrary Man’s Math Page
I like cybrary man because he does all the hard work for us.  He has a great list of Pi Day resources on his Math page.

TeachPi.Org
Click on the activities link for a great list of Pi activities!

Exploring Pi
This Scholastic resource is for grades 1-8 and includes the history of Pi and well as fun activities to use with students about Pi.

Pi Across America
Another great resource with activities and information about Pi!

#piday
Find resources and activities on twitted by using #piday.  Not on twitter?  No worries!  Just google “#piday” and you’ll have access to all the piday awesomeness!

Did you know that Einstein was born on 3/14?

Did you know that July 22 is Pi Approximation? If you use the day/month date format, July 22 is 22/7 and 22/7 is an approximation of Pi.  Who knew?

Thousand digits of Pi Image By Tom Murphy (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons