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Where I’ve gone and where I want to go…

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 01:05:13 -0600

Where I’ve gone and where I want to go…

lbjlibrary: December 4, 1966. LBJ speaks with John Steinbeck,...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:30:56 -0600

December 4, 1966. LBJ speaks with John Steinbeck, who is soon to travel to Vietnam. He will stay for five months, until April 1967. As you can tell from this conversation, the President and Steinbeck were very friendly—Lady Bird and Elaine Steinbeck, John’s wife, both attended the University of Texas, and LBJ and John had taken to each other at their first meeting in 1963. The Steinbecks also appear in at least two of Mrs. Johnson’s home movies of the Johnson family and their friends at Camp David, one from 1965 and one from 1967. John Steinbeck, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.

Steinbeck was a staunch supporter of LBJ’s Vietnam policies. Both of Steinbeck’s sons served there, Thom and John, pictured above with his father and LBJ in the Oval Office. The Steinbecks visited the White House in May 1966, shortly before John’s deployment.

While in Vietnam, the elder Steinbeck worked as a war correspondent for Newsday. Some of his columns from 1966-1967 were recently republished by the University of Virginia Press: you can listen to an interview with the book’s editor here. More on Steinbeck and LBJ here, via NARA’s Teaching with Documents.

LBJ Presidential Library photo #A2439-4, 5/16/1966. Public domain.

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Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:14:08 -0600

coloursinaflower: skeletales: The project Sum Times by...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:16:02 -0600

coloursinaflower:

skeletales:

The project Sum Times by artist Aakash Nihalani points out simple math problems in urban environments.

This is the type of work I want to do with students. Harder to do when I don’t have my own class. But I have a small group of students with special needs and I think I will create a project for June in those last weeks of school.

myampgoesto11: Tatiana Plakhova: BIO Patterns Complexity...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 06:41:44 -0600

myampgoesto11:

Tatiana Plakhova: BIO Patterns

Complexity Graphics illustrations combine the trends of multiple areas of design, such as information, math design and infographics, and brings elements from science, energetics, space, various kinds of “nets”, cultural patterns and biology.

Pearl of joy. I accidently broke my favorite pearl necklace from...

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 02:35:41 -0600

Pearl of joy.
I accidently broke my favorite pearl necklace from the states. I’m terribly upset about it. I hope it can be fixed here. #Home #pearl #joy #sad #broken

#December is approaching. #planner #daily

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:12:49 -0600

#December is approaching. #planner #daily

Another kindness note #aw

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:44:20 -0600

Another kindness note #aw

What I 'teach' on Thanksgiving...

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:04:37 -0600

kikinitinkorea:

Happy Thanksgiving from Kikinit!

Barack Obama on 'Gangnam Style': 'I think I can do that move'

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 04:19:53 -0600

koreastandardtime:

President Barack Obama took time out on Election Day — Tuesday, for those of you who aren’t American — to do an on-air interview with WZID-FM in Manchester, New Hampshire. One of the questions they asked him: will he do Psy’s “Gangnam Style” dance if he’s re-elected? Obama’s response (fast-forward to 6:24): “I just saw that video for the first time and I think I can do that move. But I’m not sure that the inauguration ball is the appropriate time to break that out.”

ambedu: gjmueller: Exposing Kids To 10 Hours Of Science A Year...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:24:52 -0500

ambedu:

gjmueller:

Exposing Kids To 10 Hours Of Science A Year Makes Them Smarter

Low-income minority fourth-graders from south L.A. improved their test scores in math and language after they got just a handful of science lessons, a new study found. College students studying science presented 10 separate one-hour lessons, and the kids rose up whole percentile ranks in other subjects.

“A lot of students say things like, ‘I didn’t know science was fun,’” said Samantha Gizerian, now a clinical assistant professor at Washington State University. Apparently they also showed a greater interest in taking books home to read, and a greater willingness to practice math. The lessons were simple, too—in one case, a college student just brought in some microscope slides from his lab.

photo via flickr:CC | jds-emma

This gives me hope for all of my after school science lessons for at risk students.

wiinga: obitoftheday: Obit of the Day: “Thirteen Cokes,...

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:02:09 -0500

wiinga:

obitoftheday:

Obit of the Day: “Thirteen Cokes, Please.”

Clara Luper, an Oklahoma history teacher, ordered those Cokes at Katz Drugstore in Oklahoma City on August 19, 1958 for herself and twelve children, ages 6 to 17. Lunch counters in Oklahoma, like much of the South, were segregated. This wasn’t just a request for drinks, but a request for civil rights.

Waitresses ignored them. Other patrons did not: leaving the restaurant, pouring drinks on them, cursing at them. (Did I mention there were children as young as six?) The group left after a few hours without a drink. They returned the next day and were served their Cokes, and burgers, too.

“Within that hamburger was the whole essence of democracy.” - Clara Luper

Note: This took place a year and a half before the much more famous sit-in at the Greensboro (NC) Woolworth’s on February 1, 1960.

Luper would continue her fight to desegregate public spaces in Oklahoma City. She was arrested 26 times between 1958 and the passage of Oklahoma law to desegregate. (Passed two days after the Civil Rights Act.)

(Fantastic image is courtesy of Black Past.)

Bad. Ass. Teacher.

everydayramny: PHOTOS OF CLASSROOMS WITH STUDENTS AROUND THE...

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 05:53:46 -0500

everydayramny:

PHOTOS OF CLASSROOMS WITH STUDENTS AROUND THE WORLD

All around the world, children are learning. They are learning all sorts of subjects and preparing for life and work in the world. Some children have access to excellent educational resources and possess all the tools they need for their early learning experiences. There are also students that do not have the access to a good education, and lack consistent teachers and infrastructure in their countries school system. Education varies all around the world, whether we realize it or not…

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lbjlibrary: May 18, 1965. LBJ speaks about Head Start: “This...

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:19:53 -0500

lbjlibrary:

May 18, 1965. LBJ speaks about Head Start:

“This is a very proud occasion for him [Sargent Shriver, head of the Office of Economic Opportunity] and for us today, because it was less than 3 months ago that we opened a new war front on poverty. We set out to make certain that poverty’s children would not be forevermore poverty’s captives. We called our program Project Head Start.

“The program was conceived not so much as a Federal effort but really as a neighborhood effort, and the response we have received from the neighborhoods and the communities has been most stirring and the most enthusiastic of any peacetime program that I can remember.

“Today we are able to announce that we will have open, and we believe operating this summer, coast-to-coast, some 2,000 child development centers serving as many as possibly a half million children.”

Full text here. Read the booklet here. Lots of OEO promotional videos for Head Start available on our YouTube channel playlist here.

springwise: Girls’ toys designed to inspire future female...

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:16:05 -0500

springwise:

Girls’ toys designed to inspire future female engineers and tech workers

Children’s toys can have a purpose beyond pure entertainment, and there have already been products designed to help kids with autism and diabetes learn to manage their conditions. Now the Roominate range of dolls’ houses aims to get young girls interested in science and technology. READ MORE…

greymatterwanted: (source Wikipedia)

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:49:56 -0500

greymatterwanted:

(source Wikipedia)

Favorite things from home: 1) Hershey’s pillow 2) Mexico...

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 01:57:00 -0500

Favorite things from home:

1) Hershey’s pillow

2) Mexico purse from Best Friend Mari

3) My University Banner

This week I am talking to students about how familiar/favorite things help us adjust to changes. I used examples of my familiar things that I brought from the states to Korea.

http://rhonderzandkimchi.tumblr.com/

These are Jupiters most famous moons out of the 63...

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:02:27 -0500

These are Jupiters most famous moons out of the 63 known.

Galileo first discovered these four.

iheartchaos: And apparently, sperm whales sleep vertically. Now...

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 04:25:10 -0500

iheartchaos:

And apparently, sperm whales sleep vertically. Now you know.

…in 2008, a team of researchers off the coast of northern Chile happened upon a pod of vertically bobbing sperm whales that seemed completely oblivious to its presence. Not a single whale responded to the team’s boat until one of them was accidentally nudged, at which point it awoke and fled, along with the rest of the group. The team’s findings suggest that, unlike other cetaceans, sperm whales appear to enter short, but periodic, bouts of sleep throughout the day — an observation that Kaplan says could hint that sperm-whales are actually “the least sleep-dependent mammals known.”

Via

I heart whales.

This is so cool!

Haikuesday, August 7th, 2012

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:48:17 -0500

We landed on Mars,
Olympics is almost done,
What’s my age again?