Evernote

Lately I am obsessed with Evernote!  It makes everything so easy! I even have a link to the Evernote notebook that I use for Study Skills.

It is not only an amazing teaching tool, it is great for smartphone user as a learning tool.  Go! Sign up! Sign in! Get the (FREE!!) app!

Get a Job!

Often in an interview, and employer will ask if you have any questions.  Don't be caught off guard!  Ask some good questions.  This could make the difference between you being chosen for a job over another candidate. 

Think about it...Are they ways that these questions could be altered to suit a college interview? A great question can make you a stand out candidate in any arena.

Text Clues

Texts will give you clues as to how they should be read and interpreted.

Here is a nice visual to help you decode some of those clues.

Express YourSelf in Words and Pictures

This gallery of tagxedo pictures is very cool.  It is a great way to design a word cloud as part of a reflection journal or a art piece or.....you decide!

Science Videos

IB Science Videos

 

This teacher has created a series of IB Biology videos that cover topics in the Biology course.  Each one is only about 2-3 minutes long. 

 

This is a great resource!

 

Here is one of the videos.  Feel free to browse.  From this you tube site, there are links to science videos in other disciplines, including Chemistry and Environmental Systems (ESS).

 

 

Word Choice Is Important!

 

 

 

 

 

Choose Good Words for Transitions

 

 

 

 

Outline Sample

OUTLINE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

 

Background/Set up/”Hook”

 

Thesis sentence

J.K. Rowling uses the character of Mrs. Weasley as a symbol of mothers for all the children in the book. 

I.                   There are no other motherly figures (STATEMENT)

 

A.    Aunt Petunia is not maternal to anyone, and no one else has a mother (EVIDENCE)

B.     Hermione’s mother is never seen, Neville’s mother is in a nut house, Luna’s mother is dead(EVIDENCE)

C.     The other women are in no way maternal (EVIDENCE)

                                                      i.      Professor McGonagle

                                                    ii.      Bellatrix LeStrange

D.    This sets Mrs. Weasley apart as the only motherly woman in the whole series of books (ANALYSIS)

 

II.                Mrs. Weasley does motherly things (STATEMENT)

 

A.    She is a housewife, and has no job (EVIDENCE)

B.     She cooks and cleans (EVIDENCE)

C.     She knits sweaters (EVIDENCE)

D.    All these skills are ones that a perfect mother would have, and even though Mrs. Weasley is not perfect, the author gives her all these skills that an ideal mother would have and that makes her the symbol mother of them all (ANALYSIS)

 

III.             Ron, Hermione and Harry all live with her at some point (STATEMENT)

 

A.    Ron lives there and is her son; has brothers that all live there as well (EVIDENCE)

B.     Hermione seems to be there every summer (EVIDENCE)

C.     Harry always says he feels at home there, and wants to leave his actual home to go there (EVIDENCE

D.    By providing the home for all the children, Mrs. Weasley becomes the mother for them all (ANALYSIS)

 

 IV.      Conclusion

Re-State the evidence; re-word your thesis!

 

Reminders:

• Roman numerals must be arranged so that the periods align.
• Each letter in second-level division is capitalized and followed by a period.
• Arabic numbers in third-level divisions are followed by a period.
• The first word in headings and subheadings begin with uppercase letters and other words (except proper nouns) begin with lowercase letters.