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The ISTE Standard that was met is:

Collaborator

Educators dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and students to improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems.

Educators:

4b: Collaborate and co-learn with students to discover and use new digital resources and diagnose and troubleshoot technology issues.

4c: Use collaborative tools to expand students' authentic, real-world learning experiences by engaging virtually with experts, teams and students, locally and globally.

4d: Demonstrate cultural competency when communicating with students, parents and colleagues and interact with them as co-collaborators in student learning.

In Particular 4c is the way that I used Padlet. In creating this online tool, it will allow students to have open discussions, see lessons, and have access to videos. It will allow students to post ideas and reflections that can be seen by there peers all while opening doors for communication.

Furthermore, 4d is another way of co-learning from both educator and students alike. This is an open forum where students, parents and teachers can discuss assignments and also enhance a student’s learning experience.

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Here is the fashion board I created for the working woman

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Here is the fashion board I created for the working woman

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This a fun way to see how your color pallet will look and ways to make it work.

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As comical as this will sound, cuz holes are cool, here is a way to fix an unwanted hole in your favorite pair of jeans.

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As comical as this will sound, cuz holes are cool, here is a way to fix an unwanted hole in your favorite pair of jeans.

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1. Find a pair of jeans that need fixed.
2. Watch the video on how to repair it.
3. Take a picture of your handy work and post it to Padlet. Let's see how your "mad" sewing skills match up to your peers.

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How to: Repair a Tear in Jeans | Hand Sew a Repair in Clothing | Easy Tutorial for Beginners

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Let's look at different ways to fix what is broken

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1. Watch this video to get an idea on basic stitches.
2. Pick up your felt pattern in class and try out your basic stitches.
3. Take a video or picture of your creation

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Hand-Sewing | Basic Stitches and Techniques

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Create a fashion board with a mix of fashion trends from the last decade. Links are provided in the lesson on what resources you can use to create your master piece

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Create a fashion board with a mix of fashion trends from the last decade. Links are provided in the lesson on what resources you can use to create your master piece

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1. Examples of what to use are Canva or Powerpoint.
2. Choose your color Pallet and make it POP!

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Read up on why high fashion is an addiction.

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Read up on why high fashion is an addiction.

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1. Take a look at what is in your drawers or closet.
2. Determine if what you have is worth all the hype.
3. Write a 2 paragraph reflection on what fashion trends are important and what matters to you.
4. Post your reflection to Padlet. See how your thoughts match up with your classmates.

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Research shows that the brain finds pleasure in the pursuit of inexpensive things, and high-street chains and online retailers sites alike are cashing in.

In wealthy countries around the world, clothes shopping has become a widespread pastime, a powerfully pleasurable and sometimes addictive activity that exists as a constant presence, much like social media. The Internet and the proliferation of inexpensive clothing have made shopping a form of cheap, endlessly available entertainment-one where the point isn't what you buy so much as it's the act of shopping itself.

This dynamic has significant consequences. Secondhand stores receive more clothes than they can manage and landfills are overstuffed with clothing and shoes that don't break down easily. Consumers run the risk of ending up on a hedonic treadmill in which the continuous pursuit of new stuff leaves them unhappy and unfulfilled. For most, breaking the cycle isn't as easy as just vowing to buy nothing. It's no accident that shopping has become such an absorbing and compulsive activity: The reasons are in our neurology, economics, culture, and technology.

Shopping is a complex process, neurologically speaking. In 2007 a team of researchers from Stanford, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon looked at the brains of test subjects using fMRI technology as they made decisions while out buying clothes. The researchers found that when they showed one of the study's subjects a desirable object for sale, the pleasure center, or nucleus ambens, in the subject's brain lit up. The more the person wanted the item, the more activity the fMRI detected.

The researchers then showed the subject the item's price. The medial prefrontal cortex weighed the decision, as the insula, which processes pain, reacted to the cost. Deciding whether to buy put the brain, as the study put it, in a "hedonic competition between the immediate pleasure of acquisition and an equally immediate pain of paying." The mindset is in line with evidence that shows happiness in shopping comes from the pursuit of goods-from the sensation of wanting something.

While pleasure kicks in just from the act of looking, there's also pleasure in purchasing, or more specifically, in getting a bargain. The medial prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain that does what's essentially cost-benefit analysis. "It seemed to be responsive not necessarily to price alone, or how much I like it, but that comparison of the two: how much I like it compared to what you charge me for it," says Scott Rick, one of the study's authors, now an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Michigan.

It's what's called "transactional utility" says Tom Meyvis, a professor of marketing at NYU's Stern School of Business and an expert in consumer psychology. "You see this a lot with clothing," he says. "Part of the joy you get from shopping is not just that you bought something that you really like and you're going to use, but also that you got a good deal."

If seeing items you want and getting a bargain both elicit waves of shopping joy, you couldn't engineer a more pleasurable consumer culture than the modern, globalized West.

Fast fashion perfectly feeds this neurological process. First, the clothing is incredibly cheap, which makes it easy to buy. Second, new deliveries to stores are frequent, which means customers always have something new to look at and desire. Zara stores famously gets two new shipments of clothes each week, while H&M and Forever21 get clothes daily. These brands are notorious for knocking off high-end designers, allowing the customer to get something at least superficially similar to the original at a small fraction of the cost, and they're priced lower than the rest of the market, making their products feel like a bargain.

The low costs mean people can buy things they don't need without much thought. If a $30 dress or shirt drops to $20 or $15 on sale, it's practically irresistible. That hedonic pleasure center in your brain lights up, with the price causing little competing pain.

The only way to turn a profit selling clothing that cheap is to sell a lot of it. That's exactly what fast fashion has been doing, and making huge profits in the process. The Zara cofounder Amancio Ortega is recognized by Forbes as the " world's richest retailer." Sweden's wealthiest person is Stefan Persson, chairman of H&M. Both their companies continue to grow.

Mid-market and luxury brands play off consumers' desire for a bargain as well, with many seeming to be perpetually holding sales. To facilitate the frequent markdowns they offer, several now inflate their initial retail prices. They're able to protect their margins and let customers believe they're getting a deal, enticing them to buy more.

Overall, clothes have been getting cheaper for decades, ever since apparel manufacturing started moving to developing countries, where production costs are significantly lower. In the U.S., the world's largest apparel market, 97.5 percent of clothing purchased is now imported, according to the American Apparel & Footwear Association. That percentage has risen steadily for years. As recently as 1991, it was just 43.8 percent.

The spread of fast-fashion chains has helped spur the process. Zara, which pioneered the fast-fashion model, opened its first U.S. store in 1989, the same year that the U.S. chain Forever 21 opened its first location in a mall.

Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index, which measures the change in U.S. retail prices, shows that while retail prices of goods overall have gone up, clothing prices have generally decreased.

Apparel Has Gotten Cheaper Though Overall Prices Have Increased

This means Americans are able to buy more clothing, and as incomes have increased overall, they spend less of their money on it.

Indeed, clothing accounted for 14 percent of Americans' total discretionary expenditures in 1901, had decreased to 10.4 percent by 1960, and then plummeted to just 3.1 percent in 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Spending on Clothes as a Share of Total Spending

These conditions make it easy for people to buy things they don't need or even really want. One email survey of American women found that those who responded owned an average of $550 of unworn clothes; and the Council for Textile Recycling estimates that Americans throw away 70 pounds of clothes and other textiles each year.

In 1991, Americans purchased an average of 40 garments per person, according to the American Apparel & Footwear Association. In 2013, it was up to 63.7 garments, down from a peak of 69 just before the recession. That means that, on average, Americans buy more than one item of clothing each week.

The consumption isn't by any means limited to the U.S. Women in Britain, for instance, now own four times as much clothing as they did in 1980. This glut of clothing is having effects beyond stuffing our closets. About 10.5 million tons of clothes end up in American landfills each year, and secondhand stores receive so much excess clothing that they only resell about 20 percent of it. The remainder is sent to textile recyclers, where it's either turned into rags or fibers, or, if the quality is high enough, it's exported and cycled through a cutthroat global used-clothing business.

Determining exactly how much time people spend shopping for clothing isn't simple. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics conducts an American time use survey, but clothes shopping is lumped in with shopping for everything else except groceries and gas. It is clear, however, that more and more Americans are shopping online, and early evidence suggests that they are shopping more often. Andrew Lipsman, vice president of marketing and insights at the Internet research firm ComScore, says that mobile shopping in particular has "exploded."

Mobile, in fact, is now the primary way people buy online, and one ComScore study on mobile shopping in five key European countries found that purchases of clothing and accessories led all other categories. A forthcoming report from the firm about the way people shop on mobile found that in January 2015, Americans spent about three hours over the course of the month shopping on phones and tablets. That was up around 3 percent compared to the same period the year before, and it doesn't include the amount of time they spent shopping on computers or in physical stores.

Lipsman points out that this mobile browsing didn't necessarily lead to purchases. Browsing is also about research and entertainment. "It is more than just transactional," he says.

It isn't restricted to e-commerce sites either. "One of the platforms that I think is really interesting right now is Pinterest, in part because people browse it for entertainment when a lot of the content is retail content," he says. Pinterest's own growth has been massive. In the last six months of 2014 alone its active users grew by 111 percent.

The obsession with looking at products, even if no purchase is intended, is especially prevalent among Millennials, the generation that grew up in the age of the Internet. A report by the Urban Land Institute, a nonprofit focused on responsible land use, concluded that 45 percent of Millennials (called Generation Y in the report) spend more than an hour each day looking at retail sites.

"Half the men and 70 percent of the women consider shopping a form of entertainment," the report explained. "They are researching products, comparing prices, envisioning how clothing or accessories would look on them, or responding to flash sales or coupon offers."

A series of separate reports on millennials reached similar conclusions: They love to shop, even if they're not buying-although plenty are buying, too. YouTube haul videos, which feature mostly teen girls posting their scores from shopping trips, have become so popular that the bigger names, such as Bethany Mota, are now bona-fide social media stars.

Studies of how the Internet plays into compulsive buying are in their early stages, but the evidence so far suggests there may be a link. One small study published in 2009 noted a "linear relationship" between online shopping and compulsive buying. Another 2014 survey of shoppers in the UK concluded that the "new shopping experience" offered by e-commerce "may lead to problematic online shopping behaviour."
"Shopping is a way that we search for our selves and our place in the world."
One of the few relevant longitudinal studies on compulsive shopping, published in 2005, looked at the way East Germans integrated into Western society after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The study found that, as East Germans settled into Western consumer culture, they showed a "marked increase" in compulsive buying. The authors concluded that postmodern consumer societies "create an atmosphere which supports the rise of compensatory and compulsive buying."

April Lane Benson, a psychologist and the author of To Buy or Not To Buy: Why We Overshop and How To Stop, specializes in treating compulsive shopping. When she describes the reasons for people constantly browsing as entertainment, she makes it sound like an existential crisis.

"I think that it has something to do with the pace that we live our lives at and the paucity of time that so many of us spend in pursuits that really feed our souls," she says. "Shopping is a way that we search for our selves and our place in the world. A lot of people conflate the search for self with the search for stuff." Shopping therefore becomes a "quick fix," as she puts it, for other problems.

There has been a backlash against what some perceive as mindless overconsumption. In the past few years a " slow fashion" movement has emerged which emphasizes buying less clothing and sticking to garments made using sustainable, ethical practices. The recent book by Japanese organizational guru Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, has led to what's been described as a "cult" of decluttering, with her acolytes boasting of shedding piles of clothing.

Donated 30 giant bags of clothes & feel MUCH better! RT A Therapeutic Approach to Closet Cleaning That Actually Works http://t.co/0O3GliLT8P
- Hillary Kerr (@hillarykerr) March 13, 2015

The Internet is also full of articles and blog posts by parents trying to raise kids with non-materialistic values, as well as blogs by recovering shopaholics.

So let's take a breath here. Residents of industrialized societies are not all doomed to endless "compensatory" shopping just because our brains seem to enjoy it and our cultures are set up for it. The five-minute break from work you take to look at clothes doesn't necessarily mean you're searching for your identity in a pair of pants, or that you're trying to fill a void.

The evidence does suggest, however, that shopping has taken on a new role in our society and in our lives. It's no longer just a transaction, a way to procure necessities or luxuries, but rather has become an end in itself. It's a leisure activity, much like watching TV. It's consumerism as entertainment.

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From Forever 21 to Online Shopping, Why Fast Fashion Is So Addictive

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Research shows that the brain finds pleasure in the pursuit of inexpensive things, and high-street chains and online retailers sites alike are cashing in.

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Watch one of the many videos on stain removers. Others can be located in the lesson plan

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Watch one of the many videos on stain removers. Others can be located in the lesson plan

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Equipment Review: Best Laundry Stain Removers & Our Testing Winner

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Check out these 80's styles. You can find any of these items at the second hand stores in your area.

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Check out these 80's styles. You can find any of these items at the second hand stores in your area.

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1. Read the article on 80's fashion trends.
2. Go to your local thrift store and find an item that you can revamp from back in the day.
3. Use your new item and see how you can make it work within your current wardrobe.
4. Take a picture, share it on your social media, and then screenshot your creation. Make sure to post a picture or link to Google Classroom.

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It's no secret that fashion trends from the 1990s and early 2000s are having a moment like never before - but the alternative era isn't the only time period pushing for a renaissance. Amidst all the mom jeans and exaggerated flares, skort outfits, printed denim, and black dress pants, fashionistas are also making room in their wardrobes for iconic '80s fashion. Naturally, we're on the edge of our seats (re: glued to our phones) waiting to see which totally rad throwback threads fully come back around.

Part of the draw when it comes to the return of '90s and early aughts clothing is that these trends all play into nostalgia. With our own fond memories of bucket hats and, um, butt fashion, we simply couldn't resist - and, naturally, the 1980s offers more of the same. Even if you didn't get a chance to live out the decade in real-time, you'll definitely want to get in on round two. Key elements of '80s fashion include color, playfulness, and comfort - all the things we're loving at the moment.

Just think about it: the '80s brought us fishnets and legwarmers, served up electric colorways and the naked dress, made a case for leggings-as-pants, and inserted shoulder pads into any blazer and blouse that designers would allow. Plus, it wasn't just the clothing that became historic: the women who made these looks their own are the same ones we draw inspiration from today. The '80s gave us Princess Diana's revenge dress and signature turtlenecks-under-sweaters moments, as well as Madonna's corsets and tulle and layered jewelry. Demi Moore and Molly Ringwald challenged gendered dressing norms, while Lisa Bonet advertised a cool, eclectic style.

If you dig deep enough, there's an '80s aesthetic for every style preference. And while we'd absolutely advise looking to the archived celebrity looks of the time for inspiration, we also went ahead and reached out to a few fashion experts, getting their opinion on which '80s styles are trending - and, most importantly, how to wear these looks today.

The '80s were a vibrant and glamorous decade, especially within the music industry. To fully recreate that iconic glam-rock aesthetic, Tobi head stylist Joanna Angeles says platform shoes, metallic staples, leather fabrics - or better yet, faux leather - and lots of glittery accents are key.

"To take it to the next level, incorporate lace, statement belts, gloves, power suits, and oversized boxy blazers," Angeles tells InStyle. "Forget less is more - with the '80s, more is definitely more, and making a statement is always the way to go."

For girls' night out or happy hour (or just because), Angeles says the '80s trend she'd gravitate towards would be a mini skirt decked out in sequins. "Pair with bold colored pointed toe pumps, a tucked-in, flowy white button-up, and chunky gold jewelry for an extra touch of glam."

Oversized Blazers With Shoulder Pads

In an exclusive interview with InStyle, co-founder of JLUX, Christina Jaide revealed her number favorite style from the '80s to wear today is an oversized blazer with big shoulders.

"They're too good to move on from," Jaide declares over email. "If you are reaching for something oversized and you are sporting a smaller frame, give the look a try with a defined waistline. Adding a belt will ensure your shape is at the forefront of your look."

Teresa Jaide, the other half of JLUX, says a bodysuit is a fashion trend from the '80s that's appropriate for any occasion, especially when worn as a sleek foundation piece.

"I would recommend going from a top to a bodysuit when sporting a look where you don't want to bulge while tucking it in - such as a classic button-down - or when you're baring your shoulders," she tells us. "Having the extra support ensures your look stays intact. Try pairing your bodysuit with wide-leg trousers or even a flowy skirt. The tightness of the bodysuit will help balance out your look."

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The '80s Fashion Trends Stylists Can't Get Enough Of

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It's no secret that fashion trends from the 1990s and early 2000s are having a moment like never before - but the alternative era isn't the only time period pushing for a renaissance. Amidst all the mom jeans and exaggerated flares, skort outfits, printed denim, and black dress pants, fashionistas are also making room in their wardrobes for iconic '80s fashion.

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You work hard to maintain your home-which is why working smart, especially when it comes to laundry, is so important. To help you out, we've culled some of the best laundry how-tos and innovative tips that'll reduce your time in the laundry room and leave your clothes looking as good as new. A piece of advice to start: Don't skip the prep work -take a peek at clothing labels for washing instructions.

While your washing machine will be doing the brunt of the work, some articles of clothing will require more of your attention. Keep in mind that delicate fabrics, like silk or linen, shouldn't be tossed into the same load as more durable pieces like cotton. Although you sometimes do need to dry clean, many stains and odors can be treated with household products you already have. Ahead, we'll explain how to launder all kinds of textiles, including the special ones.

Wash Bath Towels Regularly

There is nothing quite like a basket full of fresh, fluffy bath towels. For best results, launder towels every three to four days. For white towels, use non-chlorine bleach and wash on the hottest setting. Do not use fabric softener, which can actually stiffen towels with residual buildup over time. When drying towels, use one scent-free dryer sheet.

Maintain Your Washer and Dryer

Like all other household appliances, the washer and dryer must be cleaned and serviced. Wipe the washer's interior with a clean, damp cloth, then run a short, hot wash cycle with detergent; rinse the empty machine with a plain water cycle. Occasionally disinfect with a solution of 3/4 cup chlorine bleach and one tablespoon powdered detergent for every gallon of warm water used. Let sit for a few minutes, then drain and rinse a few times. To prevent the dryer from overheating, clean the screen or filter after every use, and remove accumulated lint from behind the dryer. Every so often, disconnect the exhaust duct to remove blockages.

Keep Clothing Clean

Prevent unnecessary washing with practical clothing maintenance tips. Apply toiletries (deodorant, perfume, hair products) before getting dressed to avoid contact with chemicals that could cause fabric soiling. Address stains as soon as possible with the proper steps, depending on the type of spot. Finally, at the end of the day, change into something more comfortable and hang clothing up to allow wrinkles to release and fabric to air out.

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Our Best Laundry Tips to Keep Your Clothes and Linens Looking Good as New

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You work hard to maintain your home-which is why working smart, especially when it comes to laundry, is so important. To help you out, we've culled some of the best laundry how-tos and innovative tips that'll reduce your time in the laundry room and leave your clothes looking as good as new.

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Taking care of our clothing can prolong the life of the material. I challenge you to go home find something worth.

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Taking care of our clothing can prolong the life of the material. I challenge you to go home find something worth.

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1. Go to the stain removal lesson plan and check out the instructions.
2. Watch the videos.
3. Find a piece of clothing that needs some love.
4. Challenge yourself based on what you have read and seen and then document the steps you took.
5. You can create a video, type a word document or take pictures and create a slide show.
6. Turn it into Google Classroom on the assignments tab.

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How to save your favorites-Proper Cleaning/Sewing options

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How to save your favorites-Proper Cleaning/Sewing options

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Saving your favorite clothing Lesson Plan 1