While I was attending the wonderful METC conference last month, so many presenters mentioned a wonderful book, Teach Like a Pirate by Dave Burgess, that I just HAD to buy the book. I’m loving the book so much that I decided to share it with you! If you’re interested in learning how to increase student […]

Well, folks. Fourth quarter is nearly upon us! We’re on the downhill slide! The homestretch! Does it seem like this school year has flown by? I think so! As the end of the school year draws closer, many of our students may be frantically sifting through the seemingly endless labyrinth of online resources in an […]

Seriously, Flippity just keeps getting better! In addition to creating flashcards, "quiz show" review games, and certificates by simply modifying a Google Sheet template, now Flippity fans can create Progress Indicators for their students! This newest addition to Flippity includes the same simple instructions as the features listed above. Simply copy, modify, and rename the […]

Welcome to…American Government! Your Mission: The American Presidency. Objective: Concept Mastery. Fourth quarter has been, at least in my classroom, an challenging time for student motivation. The month of May is off in the not-so-distant future, and visions of swimming and sleeping late dance in the minds of our students. In a desperate attempt to […]

Wow! The response to my last post, How I’m Gamifying my High School Government Class, was AWESOME! Your encouraging comments and Tweets are so reassuring, especially since I have absolutely no idea about the world of online gaming! Some of you expressed some interest in the actual setup of my gamified unit, so here it is! […] The post Gamified American Government: The Nuts and Bolts appeared first on Teaching with Technology.

Happy Friday! In a late-night Pinterest session, I came across another neat tool for poster creation…Recite! Recite is an extremely easy to use website that requires NO sign-ups or log-ins…which is great! Simply access the site, enter your quote (or search for a quote from Recite’s database), choose a template, and voila! Your poster is […] The post Recite: Awesome Online Poster Creator appeared first on Teaching with Technology.

My gamified unit is drawing to a close! I will most definitely continue gamifying my classes next year…most likely as a course long activity. However, I will admit that, other than having no clue about the gaming world, the thought of keeping track of my students’ experience points was extremely daunting, and nearly deterred me from attempting […] The post Gamified Government: Keeping Track of Experience Points appeared first on Teaching with Technology.

My Presidents Unit is rapidly drawing to a close, and my students are preparing to reap one of the benefits of the flipped classroom. Constant access to lecture material! To help my students access and manage video resources for this unit, I created a Blendspace board that includes the instructional videos they were assigned. This […] The post Review Activity for the Flipped Classroom appeared first on Teaching with Technology.

Do your students appreciate gaming for than homework? My guess is that the closer we get to the wonderful month of May, your answer is a resounding yes Below are two of my favorite online game sites that are actually relevant  to our wonderful content!     Pursued This game begins as the player is dropped into […] The post Great Gaming Sites for Social Studies Classes appeared first on Teaching with Technology.

My gamification experiment is over, and the results are in! The most common questions I received from my students were… "Can we do this again?" And… "You mean you’re going to do this all year next year?! Why couldn’t we do it all year?!" I’d say they liked it Most of my students earned enough […] The post Gamified Government: Mission Accomplished! appeared first on Teaching with Technology.

Today, I stumbled upon an awesome new tool on Schoology’s public resource page…Quizizz! Quizizz, a gamified student response system, is fun to say and even more fun to play! Teachers simply access the Quizizz website, make a FREE account, and create their review game. Quizizz provides the teacher with a split screen during the creation process, which I find extremely helpful. […] The post How to Create Review Games with Quizizz appeared first on Teaching with Technology.

If I had a dollar for each time I heard these questions….I would be incredibly wealthy "The webpage isn’t loading" "My screen froze. What do I do?" "Um, I don’t see the right stuff on this website." Do you hear these same questions from your students? Are you frustrated with repeating the same instructions day […] The post Technology Troubleshooting Tips appeared first on Teaching with Technology.

Finally! Google Classroom has listed to the desperate pleas of techy teachers everywhere and has FINALLY added a Co-Teacher option! To add a Co-Teacher, or it seems multiple teachers, simply open a section on Classroom and select "About." This feature allows you to customize the name of your class, add a location, and most importantly, […] The post Google Classroom Adds Co-Teacher Option appeared first on Teaching with Technology.

I am SO excited to feature my first post from a guest blogger! Thanks so much to Jessica Sanders at Learn2Earn for contributing this awesome post!! Without further adieu…here are "3 Ways to Improve Student Engagement with Technology!" 3 Ways to Improve Student Engagement With Technology By Jessica Sanders Peer connections, curiosity and a thirst […] The post 3 Ways to Improve Student Engagement with Technology: Guest Post appeared first on Teaching with Technology.

Hi! I am Martha McGuire, a credentialed independent evaluator who has been working with a great group of people from around the world: Burt Perrin, Soma De Silva, Pablo Rodriquez-Bilella, Serge Eric Yakeu, Rochelle Zorzi, Ramon Crespo, Dayna Albert, Eric McGraw and Scott Bayley. We have been gathering stories about evaluations that make a difference. Here are some lessons learned about how to carry out evaluations so they can change people’s lives: Lessons Learned: We have learned a tremendous amount from the project Evaluations that Make a Difference: Stories from around the world, funded by an EvalPartners Innovation Challenge Award. A key learning was that evaluators need to understand the difference between excellent evaluation design and evaluations that make a difference for people. Evaluators need to move from conducting evaluations that are simply methodologically sound to conducting and presenting evaluations that make a difference in people’s lives. Evaluations need to go beyond being of high quality, they need to go beyond being used, they need to go beyond improving programs, organizations and policies to actually improving people’s lives. That is a tall order. So what are some of the things evaluators can do? Hot Tips: Focus on evaluation impact - think about this from the beginning of the evaluation Give voice to those whose voices are often not heard Provide evidence that is credible to users We found that in order for evaluations to have an impact, evaluation users need to value the information the evaluation provides. Having a champion of the evaluation within the organization helps tremendously. We also found that it is important to create inter-linkages between the evaluators and the users. On Saturday, November 14 at the AEA conference in Chicago, Burt Perrin and I will be conducting a workshop on what evaluators can do conduct impactful evaluations. We will use interactive methods to that will allow us to share what we have learned with you and share the knowledge that participants bring with them. We hope to see you there. Want to learn more? Register for How to carry out evaluations so they can change people’s lives at Evaluation 2015 in Chicago, IL. This week, we’re featuring posts by people who will be presenting Professional Development workshops at Evaluation 2015 in Chicago, IL. Click here for a complete listing of Professional Development workshops offered at Evaluation 2015. Do you have questions, concerns, kudos, or content to extend this aea365 contribution? Please add them in the comments section for this post on the aea365 webpage so that we may enrich our community of practice. Would you like to submit an aea365 Tip? Please send a note of interest to aea365@eval.org. aea365 is sponsored by the American Evaluation Association and provides a Tip-a-Day by and for evaluators.

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Research shows that women who speak up at all are risking more than men. Something as minor as telling observers that a CEO "tends to offer his (her) own opinions as much as possible," and that, "Compared to other CEOs, Mr. (Ms.) Morgan talks much more than others in power," caused observers to respect Mr. Morgan more and Ms. Morgan less.1 This approval or disapproval was based on gender alone. It isn’t fair. Speaking up in forceful, assertive ways is even more risky for women. They are burdened with cultural stereotypes that typecast women as caring and nurturing.2 Speaking forcefully violates that cultural norm and women experience a more punishing backlash than men. In a landmark study, Victoria Brescoll and Eric Luis Uhlmann asked the question, "Can an angry woman get ahead?"3 Their study documented the unequal penalty women experience for showing anger at work, but then went further to explore the reasons behind this gender effect. Their results suggest that the penalty occurs because observers attribute women’s anger to internal characteristics ("she is an angry person,’’ or ‘‘she is out of control") while attributing men’s anger to external circumstances ("he's having a bad day," or "things were out of control so someone had to take charge"). What this previous research, along with our own, confirms is that emotional inequality is real and it is unfair. And while it is unacceptable and needs to be addressed at a cultural, legal, organizational, and social level—individuals can take control. We wanted to develop specific skills women can use on the job to be forceful, assertive and honest—without experiencing social backlash. Our first step was to recreate the social backlash and emotion-inequality effects in a controlled laboratory setting. We wanted to demonstrate the effects in a reliable way, so we could test ways to reduce them. We created videotaped interactions so we could control what observers would see. The videotaped interactions featured either a male or female actor and took place in a meeting room seated at a table. The actors used identical scripts and we coached them so that their performances were as similar as possible. The only difference was that one actor was male and the other was female. In this first study, 4,517 participants played the observer role. Each saw a single 30-40 second performance, and then rated the "manager" using a 20-item survey. The chart below illustrates the social backlash and emotion-inequality effects we observed. The bars represent the percentage drop averaged across status, competency, and worth, in that order. Next, we decided to test whether brief framing could reduce the emotion-inequality effects. We tested three frames: a Behavior Frame, a Value Frame, and an Inoculation Frame. • Behavior Frame: The actors described what they were about to say before saying it: "I’m going to express my opinion very directly. I’ll be as specific as possible." • Value Frame: The actors described their motivation in value-laden terms before making the statement of disapproval: "I see this as a matter of honesty and integrity, so it’s important for me to be clear about where I stand." • Inoculation Frame: The female actor suggested it could be risky for a woman to speak up the way she was about to: "I know it’s a risk for a woman to speak this assertively, but I’m going to express my opinion very directly." In this second study, 7,921 participants played the observer role. Each saw a single 35-45 second performance, and then rated the "manager" using the 20-item survey from Study 1. Each of the frames worked. The chart below illustrates the positive impacts of the different frames. This study shows that framing statements can help to solve social backlash and emotion-inequality effects. We believe that each frame works in a different way. Behavior Frame: "I’m going to express my opinion very directly. I’ll be as specific as possible." We think the Behavior Frame works by setting an expectation. It makes sure the statement that follows doesn’t come as a surprise. Without the frame, observers are blindsided by the force of the emotion and may assume the worst—that the person has lost his/her temper. The frame works by preventing this negative conclusion. Value Frame: "I see this as a matter of honesty and integrity, so it’s important for me to be clear about where I stand." We think the Value Frame works by giving a positive reason for the emotion. In fact, it turns the emotion into a virtue by turning it into a measure of commitment to a shared value. Inoculation Frame: "I know it’s a risk for a woman to speak this assertively, but I’m going to express my opinion very directly." We think the Inoculation Frame works by warning observers that they may have an implicit bias. It causes them to try hard to be fair, or to adjust their judgment in an effort to be fair. We were a bit surprised at how well it worked and we are skeptical that the Inoculation Frame will work if used repeatedly. It could be seen as "playing a card"—in this case the "gender card." Our concern is that it may create short-term benefits, but damage a user’s reputation. Explain Your Intent Before Stating Your Content Speaking forcefully creates a social backlash for both men and women—though it’s more severe for women. This backlash occurs when observers use the emotion to draw negative conclusions about the speaker’s intent. The backlash is reduced when the speaker takes a few seconds to explain his/her positive intent before stating the content. We tested three of the statements a person could use to explain his/her intent—Behavior, Value, and Inoculation Frames. We can conclude that the Behavior and Value Frames are effective and are safe to use repeatedly. The Inoculation Frame works in the short term, but we won’t recommend its repeated use until we’ve tested it more thoroughly. If not acknowledged or managed well, emotional inequality and social backlash can adversely affect an individual’s career and can prove costly to an organization’s effectiveness. We believe the implications of this research will empower individuals and leaders to engage in and encourage candid discussion while minimizing negative impacts. 1Victoria L. Brescoll, "Who Takes The Floor And Why: Gender, Power, And Volubility In Organizations," Administrative Science Quarterly, 56, no. 4 (2011): 622-641. 2Alice H. Eagly and Steven J. Karau, "Role Congruity Theory of Prejudice Toward Female Leaders," Psychological Review, 109, no. 3 (2002): 573. 3Victoria L. Brescoll and Eric Luis Uhlmann. (2008). "Can an Angry Woman Get Ahead? Status Conferral, Gender, and Expression of Emotion in The Workplace," Psychological Science, 19,no. 3 (2008): 268-275. Sincerely, David

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How Will They Lead? A Job Interview for the Presidential Candidates By Ken Blanchard and Pat Zigarmi September 11, 2008 San Diego Union-Tribune As the countdown toward the November 3rd election date nears, and the country is faced with the choice between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama as our next President of the United States, we wonder how prepared we all are to make that choice.