Innovation

Tony Morgan’s blog contained a quote that I feel should also apply to an education audience.

• “Not innovating is more dangerous than innovating. The opposite of innovation is not death; it’s mediocrity. In fact, death–or a near-death experience–might be a better outcome than mediocrity because people are forced to rebuild or move on. By contrast, people can cling to mediocrity indefinitely.” Quote from Guy Kawasaki in a recent interview with the Willow Creek Association.

Are we willing to innovate or are we clinging to mediocrity?

Web Site Evaluation

Web Site Evaluation — should students use these as a source for an informative presentation?

http://city-mankato.us
http://www.onion.com
http://www.martinlutherking.org

Learning about a site – http://www.aboutus.org
Look up wikipedia.org on the aboutus.org web site

Hot Potatoes

Looking for something to help you develop reading activities? Then try out Hot Potatoes. With Hot Potatoes you can create crosswords, gap-fills, cloze tests, matching, multiple choice and jumbled exercises.

Hot Potatoes Examples
http://www.dy-tech.info/hotpot/war/ww1.htm
http://www.iq.poquoson.org/hotpotatoes/exampleshotpot.html