Please feel free to add if I may have missed anything or correct if I’m even partially wrong.
tRNA molecule
• Single chain, contains 73-93 ribonucleotides
• Contains many unusual bases such as inosine, pseudouridine
• tRNA is L shaped
• 5’ end is phosphorylated
• 3’ end ends in CCA and contains the amino acid attachment, it is at one end of the L
• The other end of the L, far from the amino acid end, is the anticodon loop
Two organisations that strive to promote positive change, Media Education and Scottish Business in the Community, have come together to offer work placement opportunities in media production to people who are currently training for work in Edinburgh.
The successful candidates have been recruited through an interview process to become Production Assistants at Media Education. The PAs have spent the last four weeks producing a video, profiling the Scottish Business in the Community Excellence Awards.
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The Southern Association of Colleges and School (SACS), the chief accreditation agency here in Georgia, is recommending that Clayton County Schools lose its accreditation. The AJC article linked focuses on the fact that loss of accreditation would strip Clayton students of HOPE Scholarship eligibility. At any rate, the real losers in this system are the students and teachers. I interviewed for a teaching post in Clayton County right out of college, and I’ve never been so glad I didn’t get a job. The stories I’ve heard from teachers in that system are upsetting. What do you do to fix an entire school district that is “fatally flawed”?
Tags: Accreditation, Clayton, County, Lose, SACS, Schools
I noticed this piece on The App Gap which mentioned “knowledge artisans”, and it reminded me of a business plan I did about three years ago:
Next-gen knowledge artisans are amplified versions of their pre-industrial counterparts. Equipped with and augmented by technology, they rely on their human capital and skill to solve complex problems and develop new ideas, products and services. Highly productive, knowledge artisans are capable individually and in small groups of producing goods and services that used to take substantially larger teams and resources. In addition to redefining how work is done, knowledge artisans are creating new organizational structures and business models.
Tags: Artisans, KnowledgeMy fourth graders’ foray into the blogging world is now open. We are still discussing a name, so its current name is… “Name Goes Here” … which we laugh about, but we are trying (probably too hard) to come up with the perfect name. So anyone out there that would like to (please!) feel free to read some posts and comment. We are trying to blog a lot this week … we brainstormed some topics they want to blog about - some had a list of over 20 possibilities. You will note that most of my students are Second Language Learners (mostly Spanish, but also Vietnamese, Filipino and Portuguese). We will be trying to add posts all week.
Tags: Blog, Classroom, Commenting, OpenBack on March 1 I concluded that I was planning to use Noodletools for my graduate research (NoodleBib, to be precise).
I did so partly because of an error in trying to sign up for SourceAid.
A few days after that post a gentleman named Ronald Silvia contacted me, and it turns out he’s the president of SourceAid. He gave me a free one year subscription.
Remember, I had already paid for the one year with NoodleTools. So I was able to compare them.
Tags: Grad, School, Tools, UpdateMonday May 14th the Generation YES Olympia staff had the opportunity to meet a long time GenYES school, Rose Hill JHS located in Redmond, WA. The day was filled with topics on Web 2.0, Generation YES business structure and student voice. Students had the opportunity to take pictures, videotape and learn about web design from our web master Kevin Dibble.
After a demonstration on VideoCue Pro for Podcasting, the students, teachers and myself went to Red Robin for lunch and conversation. The rest of afternoon was spent at Capital High School, another long time Generation YES school. Scott LeDuc, creator of GenTECH, paired Rose Hill JHS students with his high school GenTECH students. Students were asked to blog on the GenTECH Blog Roll about “ How can students use Web 2.0 tools such as Podcasting, Blogging, YouTube, ect. in an education environment?” The students then had a discussion on the topic and shared projects both schools were working on in GenYES and GenTECH programs.
Tags: Generation, Hill, Rose, VisitsNew York
Five Philadelphia elementary schools replaced sodas with fruit juice. They scaled back snacks and banished candy. They handed out raffle tickets for wise food choices. They spent hours teaching kids, their parents and teachers about good nutrition.
What have they got to show for it?
The number of kids who got fat during the two-year experiment was half the number of kids who got fat in schools that didn't make those efforts.
Tags: 2-Year, Experiment, Gain, Philadelphia, Program, School, Stopped, WeightEver since hearing about the blogs of Al Upton’s 3rd graders being at least temporarily shut down because of fears that too much student information was being disclosed, I’ve wondered how I could help the situation. After much thought I decided to approach the situation with my 5th graders through what we have been learning about the Revolutionary War, and how the United States formed a new government. We focused on freedom of speech and why the founding fathers designed our government with a separation of powers … all the issues associated with “kings” and their abuse of power over the centuries and how that effected how our government was designed.
Tags: friends, From, help, little, With, YourI got wind of young edubloggers at the Willowdale Elementary School in Nebraska, and I’ve happily Furled these new examples of elementary school examples. There’s Mrs. Greenwald’s first grade blog where they are covering a whole bunch of topics, Mrs. French’s fifth grade class, Mrs. Sanborn’s fifth grade class, and Mrs. Everts’ fifth grade class. Mrs. Gibbons second grade class is just getting started.
Tags: Blogging, Omaha