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- Connecting with students online : strategies for remote teaching & learning / by Serravallo, Jennifer,author.(CARDINAL)486937;
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-171).Holding True to Priorities as We Move Online -- Partnering with Adults at Home -- Planning and Revising Curriculum Units for Online Instruction -- Managing Your Time Across a Day, Across the Week -- Setting Up Students' Independent Practice at Home -- Methods and Structures for Teaching Online.Holding true to priorities as we move online. Connection and relationships ; Emotional well-being ; Engagement ; Clear, strategic, and focused direct instruction ; Guided practice ; Access ; Assessment ; Balance -- Partnering with adults at home. Strategies. Welcome caregivers to your online classroom ; Survey students and families to understand needs ; Share the weekly schedule ; Share notes on students' work and progress ; Record how-to videos for using technology ; Offer advice about setting up learning space(s) at home ; Encourage caregivers to develop a schedule and/or routines ; Help families know what to do when things get frustrating -- Planning and revising curriculum units for online instruction. Strategies. Step 1: Identify goals and skill progressions ; Step 2: Find anchor texts ; Step 3: Try out what you'll ask students to do ; Step 4: Design assessments ; Step 5a: Map out daily reading lessons with goals and strategies ; Step 5b: Map our daily writing lessons with process and strategies ; Streamline and simplify:connect goals across reading and writing ; Plan for a monthly focus: genre, content, independent projects, or a mix ; Organize your curriculum and resources in a learning management system ; Approach your planning and teaching with flexibility and feedback -- Managing your time across a day, across the week. Strategies. Understand the pros and cons of synchronous and asynchronous teaching ; Invite your students online with you for some time each day ; Plan and record short whole-class micro lessons ; Host "office hours" for student- and caregiver- initiated response time ; Make a schedule for conferences and small groups ; Preserve space for professional learning and collaboration ; Map out a weekly schedule and set boundaries -- Supporting students' independent practice at home. Strategies. Ask students to read every day ; Give students access to paper books ; Adapt strategies for students who are reading e-books ; Adapt strategies for students who are listening to audiobooks and/or podcasts ; Create short text packets for shared reading experiences ; Rethink what it means to match readers with "just-right" texts ; Ask students to write every day ; Decide how your students will compose their writing ; Give students access to writing materials and tools ; Hold on (tightly) to writer's notebooks ; Set up a system for students to share some of their writing with you ; Ask students to do math every day ; Ask students to engage with content study every day ; Plan for students to create and move and play every day -- Methods and structures for teaching online. Strategies. Develop community agreements and norms for participating online ; Set yourself and your students up for videoconferencing ; Convert your live mini lessons to recorded micro lessons ; Make your micro lessons more engaging ; Monitor and guide students' independent practice ; Read aloud (live!) to build community ; Record read-aloud to engage, support comprehension, and collect data ; Study a mentor text for writing craft ; Confer with students live ; Confer with students when your schedules don't align ; Set up and support reading and writing partnerships and clubs ; Engage reading partnerships and clubs with "written conversations" ; Engage writing partnerships and clubs with written feedback ; Engage partnerships and clubs with asynchronous video "conversation" ; Meet with a small group of students with the same goal (strategy lessons) ; Move your guided reading online ; Apply the tech tools and strategies you've learned to lead any type of group online."The professional development for online teaching and learning that you've been asking for. An unprecedented pandemic may take the teacher out of the classroom, but it doesn't take the classroom out of the teacher! Now that you're making the shift to online teaching, it's time to answer your biggest questions about remote, digitally based instruction: How do I build and nurture relationships with students and their at-home adults from afar? How do I adapt my best teaching to an online setting? How do I keep a focus on students and their needs when they aren't in front of me? Jennifer Serravallo's Connecting with Students Online gives you concise, doable answers based on her own experiences and those of the teachers, administrators, and coaches she has communicated with during the pandemic. Focusing on the vital importance of the teacher-student connection, Jen guides you to: Effectively prioritize what matters most during remote, online instruction schedule your day and your students' to maximize teaching and learning (and avoid burnout) ; Streamline curricular units and roll them out digitally ; Record highly engaging short lessons that students will enjoy and learn from ; Confer, working with small groups, and drive learning through independent practice ; Partner with the adults in a student's home to support your work with their child. Featuring simplified, commonsense suggestions, 55 step-by-step teaching strategies, and video examples of Jen conferring and working with small groups, Connecting with Students Online helps new teachers, teachers new to technology, or anyone who wants to better understand the essence of effective online instruction. Along the way Jen addresses crucial topics including assessment and progress monitoring, student engagement and accountability, using anchor charts and visuals, getting books into students' hands, teaching subject-area content, and avoiding teacher burnout. During this pandemic crisis turn to one of education's most trusted teaching voices to help you restart or maintain students' progress. Jennifer Serravallo's Connecting with Students Online is of-the-moment, grounded in important research, informed by experience, and designed to get you teaching well -- and confidently -- as quickly as possible."--
- Subjects: Teaching; Web-based instruction.; Computer-assisted instruction.; Computer managed instruction.; Educational technology.; Computers and literacy.; Internet in education.; Distance education.;
- Customize your knitting : adjust to fit, embellish to taste / by Hubert, Margaret,author.(CARDINAL)718621;
- "Personalize any knitting pattern for a perfect fit and style all your own, with expert help from Margaret Hubert! Designers have to create knitting patterns in standard sizes, but very few people actually match up to those "average" measurements. Body shapes vary, weight fluctuates, and good fit means different things to different people; so what is a knitter to do? Customize Your Knitting teaches you how to adjust standard patterns to fit your unique measurements. Through techniques that Margaret Hubert has used for years to teach classes on custom fitting, you can learn to adjust patterns for a perfect fit for yourself or someone else. Yarn shop instructors can use the book to teach classes for their customers. However, fit is just one part of customizing a garment. Maybe you'd like that neckline a little higher, or you'd like a little flare to the sleeves. How about adding subtle shaping to the waist on a boxy but otherwise perfect sweater pattern? How about adding a polo-style button placket to that plain crew-neck sweater? Or add a sporty buttoned pocket to a sleeve for carrying your iPhone. It's easy to add your personal style with Margaret's tips. Diagrams and illustrations throughout the book will help you understand body shapes and easily compare measurements. Garment construction, specific increases, decreases, and other shaping methods, as well as finishing techniques and embellishments are all explained and photographed clearly. Make every project perfectly tailored to you!"--From Amazon.com.
- Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Knitting; Knitting;
- Grasp : the science transforming how we learn / by Sarma, Sanjay E.,1948-author.; Yoquinto, Luke,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: The adventure begins -- The learning divide -- Layer 1 : slug cells and school bells -- Layer 2 : systems within systems -- Layer 3 : revolution -- Layer 4 : thinking about thinking -- Voyages -- Outside-in and at scale -- Turn it inside out -- The showdown."In the spirit of Thinking, Fast and Slow, a groundbreaking look at the science of how we learn--and how we can use it to discover our true potential, as individuals and across society As the vice president for Open Learning at MIT, Sanjay Sarma has a daunting job description: to educate the world. But if you're going to undertake such an ambitious project, it behooves you first to ask: How exactly does learning work? What conditions are most conducive? Are our traditional classroom methods--lecture, homework, test, repeat--actually effective? And if not, what techniques are? Grasp takes readers across multiple frontiers, from fundamental neuroscience to cognitive psychology and beyond, as it considers the future of learning. It introduces scientists who study forgetting, exposing it not as a simple failure of memory but a critical weapon in our learning arsenal. It examines the role curiosity plays in promoting a state that brain researchers call "readiness to learn" (and its dark twin, "unreadiness to learn"). And it reveals how such ideas are being put into practice: at MIT (both on campus and online); at bold new programs like Ad Astra, located on the SpaceX campus; and at a law school that began teaching innovative study techniques and saw its bar-passage rate rocket to the top of its state. Along the way, Sarma debunks long-held views such as the noxious idea of "learning styles," while equipping readers with a set of practical tools for absorbing and retaining information across a lifetime of learning. He presents a vision for learning that's more inclusive and democratic--revealing a world bursting with powerful learners, just waiting for the chance they deserve. Drawing from the author's experience as an educator and the work of researchers and educational innovators at MIT and beyond, Grasp offers scientific and practical insight, promising not just to inform and entertain readers, but to open their minds"--
- Subjects: Learning, Psychology of.; Learning;
- How to raise successful people [sound recording] : simple lessons for radical results / by Wojcicki, Esther,author.; Gallo, Andrea(Narrator),narrator.(CARDINAL)608969; Wojcicki, Anne,writer of foreword.; Wojcicki, Janet Maia,1970-,writer of foreword.; Wojcicki, Susan,writer of foreword.; Recorded Books, Inc.(CARDINAL)340508;
- Narrated by Andrea Gallo.The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness: TRICK. Esther Wojcicki--"Woj" to her many friends and admirers--is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley legends like Steve Jobs, and raising three daughters who have each become famously successful. What do these three accomplishments have in common? They're the result of TRICK, Woj's secret to raising successful people: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. Simple lessons, but the results are radical. Wojcicki's methods are the opposite of helicopter parenting. As we face an epidemic of parental anxiety, Woj is here to say: relax. Talk to infants as if they are adults. Allow teenagers to pick projects that relate to the real world and their own passions, and let them figure out how to complete them. Above all, let your child lead. How to Raise Successful People offers essential lessons for raising, educating, and managing people to their highest potential. Change your parenting, change the world.
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Child development. ; Child psychology. ; Education; Family relationships.; Motivation (Psychology) ; Success. ;
- How to raise successful people : simple lessons for radical results / by Wojcicki, Esther,author.(CARDINAL)789425;
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-283) and index.The childhood you wish you'd had -- TRUST. Trust yourself, trust your child -- RESPECT. Your child is not your clone -- INDEPENDENCE. Don't do anything for your children that they can do for themselves ; Give your child grit -- COLLABORATION. Don't dictate, collaborate ; Children hear what you do, not what you say -- KINDNESS. Kindness: model it. It's contagious ; Teach your child to give a damn.The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness: TRICK. Esther Wojcicki-٢Woj٣ to her many friends and admirers-is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley legends like Steve Jobs, and raising three daughters who have each become famously successful. What do these three accomplishments have in common? They're the result of TRICK, Woj's secret to raising successful people: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. Simple lessons, but the results are radical. Wojcicki's methods are the opposite of helicopter parenting. As we face an epidemic of parental anxiety, Woj is here to say: relax. Talk to infants as if they are adults. Allow teenagers to pick projects that relate to the real world and their own passions, and let them figure out how to complete them. Above all, let your child lead. How to Raise Successful People offers essential lessons for raising, educating, and managing people to their highest potential. Change your parenting, change the world.
- Subjects: Child rearing.; Happiness.; Trust.; Kindness.; Parenting.; Education; Child psychology.; Child development.; Success.; Motivation (Psychology);
- The art of enameling; how to shape precious metal and decorate it with cloisonne, champleve, plique-a-jour, mercury gilding and other fine techniques. by Seeler, Margarete.(CARDINAL)346562;
- Introduction -- Equipment: -- Tools for metalwork -- Tools for enameling -- Enamel: -- Different properties of enamels: -- Fluxes -- Opaque enamels -- Opal enamels -- Transparent enamels -- Translucent enamels -- Mixing enamels -- Preparing transparents -- Grisaille -- Enamel-painting colors -- Fine gold and fine silver fired over enamel -- Underglazes -- Degrees of hardness of enamels -- Firing temperatures of enamels -- Firing enamel: -- Trivets -- Sample plaque -- Special sample for important work -- Samples of skin shades -- Reds and some tricky opaque's -- Metals For Enameling: -- Copper -- Tombac -- Sterling silver -- Fine silver -- Eighteen carat gold -- Fine gold -- Suggestions for the thickness of metal to be enameled -- How to make cloisonne wire -- Enameling 14 carat gold and its problems -- Metal Shapes For Enameling: -- Flat surfaces and shapes -- Setting precious stones and pearls into an enameled surface -- Moving links with enamel -- Band rings -- Slanted rim -- Box, enameled inside and outside -- Four more outlines for rings -- To fit a small enamel into a curved surface -- Cone or cylinder to be prepared for cloisonne enamel -- Foot of a large cup, prepared for gold cloisonne: -- Should the cup of the chalice be enameled? -- Enameled sphere as nodus of a cup -- How to preserve the shapes of large plaques or free forms -- Enameling Techniques: -- Sifting -- Sieves -- Stencils -- Wetpacking -- Cloisonne: -- Sizes of cloisonne wire -- Types of wire -- Small demonstration piece -- Stoning cloisonne enamel -- Finishing-three ways -- Cloisonne on vertical surface: -- Band ring -- Enameling a box -- Enameling the foot of a chalice -- Concave enamel -- Champleve -- Plique-a-jour: -- Plique-a-jour on a curved surface -- Grisaille: -- Background for grisaille -- Perfect surface -- Last touches with fine gold or fine silver -- Grain enamel: -- How to make small gold spheres (for grain enamel) -- Playful way to enamel tiny gold balls -- Mercury gilding -- Making Finished Objects: -- Norwich cross: -- Enameling -- Wood -- Pewter -- Enameled bishop's ring -- Pin pendant with carved gold figures and cloisonne -- Pewter cross with champleve and cloisonne enamels -- Serene cup, gold cloisonne and pewter -- Triptych: path of destruction -- Achieving a three-dimensional effect (the human body) -- Enameled gold frame for small gold cloisonne plaque -- Pewter setting of enameled crucifix for a processional cross -- Mosaic of gold sheet under transparent enamel -- Enameling portrait miniatures three different ways -- Thoughts On Medieval Enamels -- Epilogue -- Appendix: -- Transferring design to metal or enamel -- When to counterenamel -- Acids and asphaltum -- Approximate gauge and millimeter equivalents -- Useful hints and suggestions for repairing enamels -- Pin stems -- Lettering -- Recommendations -- Suppliers -- Index.From the Inside Flap: This authoritative, beautifully illustrated book is a boon to professional artist and amateur craftsman alike. If you are a professional, you can still learn much from the dozens of advanced techniques the author has perfected in the many years she has practiced and taught her craft. If you are an amateur, this may be your first introduction to methods of designing, metalworking, and enameling that will enable you to produce true works of art far beyond the little bowls and ash trays that usually clutter home workshops. And if you are a raw beginner, this book will teach you the basics of a fascinating and ancient craft. What workspace and equipment do you need for metalworking and enameling? You may already know-or think you do. Pages 10-15 will tell you. How do different metals affect the process of enameling? On page 16 begins the first of many clear, detailed discussions of methods suited to copper, to different kinds of gold, to different kinds of silver; the craftsman is not restricted to large enamels on copper or to small, jewel-like enamels on precious metal, for both are covered. What type of cloisonne wire should you use on gold? on silver? on copper? See page 52. Can you make your own wire? Page 32. Can you enrich the flat, shiny appearance of opaque enamels? Very easily-see page 55. Where can you get grisaille white, what thinners should you use with it, what enamels are best for backgrounds? Pages 71-74 are a full discussion of grisaille. What are the various methods you can use to prepare metals for champleve enameling? The whole subject is covered on pages 65-67. How can you repair flaws that develop during firings of an intricate plique-a-jour piece? See page 70, and also the general discussion of repair techniques in the appendix, page 122. And there is much more-how to make uniform gold balls for grain enameling (page 77), what safety precautions to take when gilding with mercury (page 78)-and over 30 pages of specific works and projects that show in the clearest way how design, enamel, wood, pewter, copper, precious metals, and your skill combine to produce finished objects. Finally, a hand Appendix lists suppliers and methods of transferring designs, counterenameling, using acids, repairing flaws, and fitting pin stems and findings. Truly a splendid and comprehensive book.
- Subjects: Enamel and enameling.;
- Graphic design / by Hannam, Ben,author.;
- Introduction: About this book ; Foolish assumptions ; Icons used in this book ; Beyond this book -- part 1. What to know before you start designing: What is graphic design? ; Developing your problem-solving skills ; Practices for creating better design solutions ; Choosing the right tool for the job ; Design is an iterative process -- part 2. Using the principles of design to elevate your work: The principles of design : balance, contrast, and emphasis ; The principles of design : unity, repetition, rhythm, and proportion ; The principles of design: movement, hierarchy, alignment, and space ; Creating grid systems and page layouts ; Constructing color systems ; Choosing type and creating a system -- The part of tens. Ten things you should know when putting together your design portfolio ; Ten ways artificial intelligence may change graphic design.The complete, full-color graphic design guide for beginners The field of graphic design is constantly evolving, with new design tools, methods, technology, and modes of expression being introduced all the time. Graphic Design For Dummies will teach you how to get started, introducing you to basic design principles as well as the latest best practices, software, and trends. You'll learn how to successfully plan and execute compelling design projects, even if you're not a trained designer. This fun and friendly book will empower you with the information you need to create design solutions. You'll also have the opportunity to test your skills with a series of interactive design activities, starting with step-by-step guidance and slowly building up your skills until you're ready to fly solo. Unleash your inner graphic designer with this Dummies guide. Create compelling visuals for a wide range of tasks and purposes Learn the basic concepts of graphic design and get the tools you need to start Get hands-on experience by following tutorials to create great designs Become proficient in graphic design--no art degree needed Graphic Design For Dummies is a practical and user-friendly resource for those looking to create better design solutions quickly.
- Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Handbooks and manuals.; Commercial art.; Graphic arts.; Computer graphics.; Computer art.;
- Basket essentials : rib basket weaving : techniques and projects for DIY woven reed baskets / by Irish, Lora S.,author.(CARDINAL)638763;
- Go beyond just following the steps--learn the methods to traditional basket weaving! The art of basketry has been passed down from generation to generation, and while there are several different kinds of baskets, this book is a comprehensive guide that focuses on one specific style: rib baskets. Rib Baskets are also known as hip baskets, egg baskets, fanny baskets, granny baskets, potato baskets, or Appalachian baskets. Join internationally known maker and talented artist Lora S. Irish as she teaches you about this timeless art form--from essential terms, tools, materials, dyes, and finishes to information on knots, spokes, weaving techniques, common basket shapes, and more. With Lora as your instructor, you'll learn everything you need to know: the rim hoops that you can use, how to add handle hoops, how to weave your locking ear patterns, how to measure, add, and anchor your spokes, how the length of the spokes defines the final shape of the basket, and more. Insightful chapters on technique are followed by three beginner-friendly projects featuring detailed step-by-step instructions and coordinating photos. After you've warmed up with the provided projects, you'll find 12 additional weaving patterns for baskets you can make. Ranging from easy to challenging, these last twelve projects take off the training wheels, helping you increase your skills from beginner to intermediate as you independently accomplish each basket. Fall in love with the enduring and organic craft of basket making. Learn everything you need to know to become an accomplished basket-weaver with Basket Essentials: Rib Basket Weaving!
- Subjects: Basket making.;
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