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Its name can be squeezed onto a tea towel, a decorative plate, a magnet, a mug, and other touristic souvenirs, but has the northern Welsh town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoc been celebrated in song?

Indeed it has. The Great Big Story's Human Condition episode, above, has vinyl proof, though the tune's unlikely to give The White Cliffs of Dover, The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond, or The Rocky Road To Dublin much of a run for the money.

Still, whichever outside-the-box Victorian thinker had the bright idea to attract tourists by expanding the village's original name - Pwllgwyngyll - by 46 letters was onto something.

Turns out you don't need natural wonders or world-renowned cultural attractions to stake a claim, when out-of-towners will make the trip just to take photos of the local signage.

Village Community Council Chairman Alun Mummery attributes the name-lengthening publicity stunt in 1869 to a local cobbler.

Or perhaps he was a tailor. That's what poet John Morris-Jones, author of 1913's A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, maintained, while refusing to outright identify this clever civic booster.

Wikipedia throws doubt on these origin stories by citing an entry in an ecclesiastical directory published a few years prior to 1869, which gave the full parish name as "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerbwlltysiliogogo."

(Close enough!)

Someone in the tourist information office told travel writer Dave Fox that it translates to "St. Mary's Church in the hollow of white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the red cave."

It's tempting to think this little Welsh town has the longest name in the world, but that honor actually goes to Bangkok.

Wait, what?

The name by which most foreigners know Thailand's capital city is actually an archaic reference to its pre-1782 location.

Thai people call their capital Krung Thep - short for Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnopparatrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukamprasit.

It means "City of angels, great city of immortals, magnificent city of the nine gems, seat of the king, city of royal palaces, home of gods incarnate, erected by Vishvakarman at Indra's behest" and looks like this, when written in Thai script:

กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยามหาดิลก ภพนพรัตน์ ราชธานีบุรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์ มหาสถาน อมรพิมาน อวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยะ วิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochians still get to brag that they have the longest town name in Europe.

Their football club, Clwb Pêl Droed Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Football Club - CPD Llanfairpwll FC for short - might well be the longest named football club in the world if it weren't for that damn Amon Rattanakosin Krung Thep Mahanakhon Mahinthara Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Ayuthaya Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit Bravo Association Football Club (aka Bangkok Bravo FC).

Some of the fun of living in a town with such a cumbersome name must be amazing tourists by how casually it rolls off local tongues.

Pub owner Kevin Bryant obliges visitors from The Great Big Story by downing a pint on camera before rapping it out.

Anything for the local economy!

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoc also got a boost from mentions on Groucho Marx's quiz show, You Bet Your Life, in a Bossa Nova-inflected Stephen Sondheim song, and in several films, including 1968's Barbarella.

As YouTuber Tom Scott points out below, long words are invariably shortened in everyday speech, and place names are no exception.

Postmaster Jim Evans advocates shortening the town name to Llanfairpwllgwyngyll.

When not actively impressing tourists, local people say Llanfairpwll.

Which is still a pretty impressive consonant to vowel ratio.
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If it takes a village to raise a child, how many people does it take to train an educator? It's hard to say, but 50 helping hands seems like a good place to start.

In the spirit of community, collaboration and information sharing, EdTech: Focus on K-12 has rounded up 50 ed-tech blogs that we deem must-reads for the K-12 community. We launched our first Must-Read IT list last year to great response so we hope that you all enjoy this year's batch of blogs as well.

These blogs are a mix of voices and include blogs authored by teachers, administrators and technology vendors. They share real-world classroom experiences, offer inspiration and distribute valuable best practices.

This list was built in part by you, our readers. We reviewed the nominees that were submitted and selected some superstars from the suggested blogs. If your blog is on our list, you can grab a Must-Read IT Blog badge for your site.

Without further ado, here is the 2013 Honor Roll:

EdReach strives to be a beacon of light in these changing times and "provides a platform for passionate, outspoken innovators."

Although teacher and librarian Linda Lindsay is surrounded by natural beauty in Maui, she spends plenty of time in front of a book or a computer. One really nice Hawaiian touch: All of her posts are signed with a smiley that has a flower in its hair (◕‿◕✿ ).

Read the blog: mauilibrarian2.com

Think you may have missed some important news in educational technology? Biology and technology teacher Michael Karlin has you covered. His blog curates the latest and greatest in ed-tech.

Read the blog: edtechroundup.org

Matt Renwick, an elementary school principal in Wisconsin, is a passionate voice for innovation and leadership in education, particularly in the area of digital literacy. He's also an EdTech: Focus on K-12 contributor.

Read the blog: readingbyexample.com

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If it takes a village to raise a child, how many people does it take to train an educator? It's hard to say, but 50 helping hands seems like a good place to start. In the spirit of community, collaboration and information sharing, EdTech: Focus on K-12 has rounded up 50 ed-tech blogs that we deem must-reads for the K-12 community.

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For many teachers, the words "flipped classroom" are nothing more than a synonym for having students watch pre-recorded lesson videos at home and then do related assignments - formerly homework - during class time. There's no doubt that that is exactly what the flipped classroom typically looks like on the surface. But when flip teaching is done right, what matters is that it uses time differently and more effectively, in ways that can profoundly benefit all learners, including students with learning disabilities.

The flip teaching model:
Extends the learning day.
The ability to extend instructional time is a huge benefit for learners who grasp new concepts more slowly, or who aren't able to process information as quickly as it's presented. With flipped learning, they can rewind and re-watch a video as many times as needed until they understand the material - or perhaps until they understand what they don't understand so they can get help in that area the next day.
Makes precious teacher time more available to students.
With instruction now happening at home on students' time, teachers have more time to observe students as they apply what they have learned. As a result, teachers have more opportunities to watch students at work, so they can better identify student learning challenges and support struggling students with differentiated activities or targeted intervention.
Levels the playing field.
Flipped instruction puts students with learning disabilities on more equal footing for effective classroom participation. Learners who formerly may not have immediately grasped their teacher's in-class instruction may now feel empowered to contribute to classroom discussions and ask informed questions instead of worrying about "looking dumb."
The Naysayers and Their Challengers
Critics of the flipped classroom approach to blended learning say that access to videos can be a problem, especially in communities with a large number of learners from low-income households. Students may not have a computer or internet connection at home, may have to share already-limited computer time with other family members, or simply may not have time at home to watch lessons for the next day. The concerns are valid, but one visionary school is demonstrating that they can be overcome.

Clintondale High School, just outside of Detroit, is the first U.S. high school to move to a flipped model of learning school-wide. With a large population of economically disadvantaged learners, the school dealt with access concerns head-on by making extra time available in computer labs during the school day for learners who need it. One student who has limited time at home because of a long bus commute watches most of his lesson videos on a smartphone as he rides home from school. In just a few years, standardized test scores have gone up and the school's failure rate has dropped dramatically from 52% to 19%.

Clintondale's teachers note that the process is not as simple as just rearranging where and when direct instruction takes place; it's essential that teachers get on board with mastering the technology and creating great lessons and learning activities. That way, students can get the most from every moment they spend learning and teachers can get maximum results for the time they spend creating content and supporting learners in the classroom.
Where Gen Ed & Special Ed Meet
A big boon for schools that move to flip teaching is that general ed technology can do double time as assistive technology for special ed. It's a benefit for everyone, helping to reduce technology expenditures, the cost of managing technology, and the time that teachers spend adapting to learners' assistive devices.

Still, flipped classroom veterans warn that setting high behavior standards for students is a must. Students need to know how they are expected to use their time at home and at school, and what specific behaviors will enable them to achieve their learning goals. Some students with learning disabilities may need additional help allocating their time and using it effectively. But when teachers, students, and parents are all on board, flipping has the potential not only to move more students to proficiency, but also to take more students beyond proficiency to the desired goal of mastery.
References: Can Special Education Students Benefit From Flipped Classrooms? Pros and Cons of The Flipped Classroom For Further Reading: How to create a 'flipped' video lecture for at-home study Related reading: The Flipped Classroom: A Pedagogy for Differentiating Instruction and Teaching Essential Skills What New Brain Wave Research Tells Us About Language-Based Learning Disabilities
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For many teachers, the words "flipped classroom" are nothing more than a synonym for having students watch pre-recorded lesson videos at home and then do related assignments - formerly homework - during class time. There's no doubt that that is exactly what the flipped classroom typically looks like on the surface.

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We are thrilled to announce that Nearpod is partnering with OZY — one of the fastest-growing digital magazines in the country.

OZY launched just over a year ago with the mission to educate its readers to see more of the world and do more in their lives. Every morning, OZY catches you up on the latest headlines with the smartest news summary around and then vaults you ahead with compelling profiles of people, trends and places long before you see them anywhere else. Guido Kovalskys, Nearpod’s CEO, has been an OZY fan since its launch, and one of the first things he reads when he wakes up is the OZY news summary, aptly called the Presidential Daily Brief.

OZY founder Carlos Watson is the son and grandson of teachers, so education is in his blood. And in Nearpod, he's found a unique partner to bring OZY's cutting-edge content into schools. "Nearpod is changing how we teach our kids,” says Watson, “by bringing current events into the classroom."

Together, we will convert the news into carefully designed interactive Nearpod lesson plans, available for free in the Nearpod Store. Our shared goal is to help teachers enlighten and stimulate conversations with their students — it's all about creating teachable moments.

We will release two new lesson plans per week, curated by OZY editors, based on what is happening around the world and topics we believe will intrigue you and generate meaningful discussions with your students. Additionally, we will send you a weekly newsletter that contains other articles you might use to spark conversation in your classroom or in your teacher’s lounge.

We are so excited to bring these two organizations together and thank you for joining us in our mission to educate tomorrow’s leaders.

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Design and share beautiful flyers just like this one!

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Survive Under 13 Guidelines - COPPA

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

The under 13 policies most Web 2.0 tools post are to comply with the FTC's COPPA rule. COPPA basically says the following: Websites can't target children, collect information from them, and then market to them without the parent's permission.

How can any child under 13 log in and create an Animoto, Voicethread or Google Doc? Any child can use almost any Web 2.0 tool with parental permission. Most school districts have a broad statement about Internet usage in the student handbook. Parents sign the agreement giving their permission for students to use the Internet as teachers and administrators deem appropriate and as described in the district's Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). In addition, "COPPA allows . . . schools to act as agents for parents in providing consent for the online collection of students' personal information within the school context" ( COPPA FAQs).

Manage Student Accounts Using GMail Plus One

Often times, a Web 2.0 application will require a valid email address to create an account. In order to maximize the safety of the online experience of students, you can create "dummy" Google Gmail accounts to allow you to control the accounts of the students. This will allow you to have greater supervision of the students' online activities.

First, you will need to have your own Gmail account. If you don't' have one, or have one for personal use, it is recommended that you create a separate Gmail account just for school use. To sign up for Gmail, go to http://gmail.google.com, click the "Create an Account" button and fill out the registration form.

In Gmail, you can have what are called "sub-email accounts." For example, if my Gmail address is scullum2012@gmail.com, I can use a sub-email account called scullum2012+student1@gmail.com. You can use as many as you wish:
yourgmail+student2@gmail.com yourgmail+student3@gmail.com yourgmail+student4@gmail.com yourgmail+student5@gmail.com NOTE: You don't actually have to create these email accounts. They all will go to the scullum2012@gmail.com inbox. Gmail ignores the "+" and anything after it.

Using Filters

Because these sub-emails will all end up in your Gmail inbox, you will want to organize them using the Gmail filters. Filters are sort of like folders. When someone sends you an email, you can tell Gmail what to do with that email. In this case, we are going to create a filter for each of the student "sub-email accounts" that we are using.

When logged onto Gmail, click the "Settings" link in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

On the Settings Page click on the Filters tab and then click "Create a New Filter."

In the "TO:" field of the filter, type the sub-email account address and click the "Next Step" button. For example: mrscullum2012+student1@gmail.com

Click "Create Filter With This Search"

In the next step, you will check the "Skip the Inbox" option and "Apply the Label:" option.

You will choose "Create New Label" from the dropdown menu and give the label the same name as you put after the "+" in your sub-email address. For example "student1"

Then click "Create Filter."

Repeat this process for each student "sub-email" account you will use. You can then use the sub email accounts to manually register your students for a Web 2.0 application. The advantage of this method gives you greater control over accounts so you can:

Help a student to retrieve a password

Ensure that the account for the Web 2.0 account does not contain personal information.

Monitor content being posted

Emails sent to the sub-email account will appear on the left side of Gmail.

Stormy Cullum

Instructional technologist with a passion to help students and teachers integrate technology into their everyday lives, both personal and professional.

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A few months back, I discovered through Twitter a super simple Google Docs trick that changed how I share Google Docs links with staff that I work with. I've performed this trick a handful of times, and every time I do, no matter what our topic of training is, everything stops because multiple teachers ask, "How did you do that!?" Once I show the trick, it is followed with... "Are you kidding me!? It's that simple!?"

The problem...

Sharing a doc link and asking a group to Make a Copy inevitably would lead to mass confusion. Most would be able to follow File > Make a Copy without any problems. But there are the handful that begin making changes on my original and therefore making changes for everyone else. In a group of 25 or larger, this can be a time killer.

The Trick...

Google has made it simple for me to FORCE my participants to Make a Copy with these steps...

1. Locate the URL of your Google Doc.

2. Hit enter, and...voila!

Now you can take that URL and share it with whomever, and they will have no choice but to Make a Copy. See the brief video below.

Force Make a Copy with Google Sheets and Slides Too...

With help from fellow colleague Deb Henkes (@dhenkes), we discovered you can do the same with Google Sheets and Slides, but it's a slightly different process...

1. It must be a Google Sheet that YOU have created. Not just one shared with you.

2. Create a shareable link by going to the blue button in the upper right-hand corner.

3. Choose any option that allows you to share with Anyone.

4. Locate the URL of your Google Sheet.

5. Hit enter, and...voila!

The process isn't quite as slick as it is with Google Docs, but this video shows the steps for Google Sheets. It's the exact same steps for Google Slides.

Final Thoughts...

I hope this tiny little step can make the difference when sharing Google Docs/Sheets/Slides with a large group where you want them to Make a Copy. It's something that takes seconds to set up and hopefully saves headaches as well.

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Frontline - Documentaries that covers current political and social issues

American Experience - Documentaries that cover interesting events and people in American history

NOVA - Documentaries covering a wide variety of topics in popular science

Nature - Documentaries covering wildlife

Most of these documentaries can be streamed through the PBS.org website, while some of them PBS is offering on YouTube now as well. On LearnOutLoud.com we’ve collected some of the best free PBS documentaries that you can stream online and we’ve embedded many of them on our site along with links to them on PBS.org or YouTube.

Start browsing these great PBS documentaries below:

Browse Over 150 Free PBS Documentaries (a variety of PBS documentaries from various PBS affiliates along with some PBS podcasts mixed in there)

Browse Over 150 Free Frontline Documentaries

Browse Over 100 Free NOVA Documentaries

Browse 50 Free Nature Documentaries

Browse 30 Free American Experience Documentaries

All in all about 500 free PBS documentaries to choose from! We’ll help you out with choosing some by highlighting ones that look the most interesting. Here’s a list of PBS documentaries we thought you might enjoy.

You might want to watch a few of the documentaries from the American Masters series which features biographies of great artists, actors and writers from the United States:

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth

Billie Jean King

The Day Carl Sandburg Died

Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin'

Johnny Carson: King of Late Night

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

And here is a variety of other PBS documentaries that might peak your interest:

10 Buildings that Changed America

The Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson sets out to explain the financial history of the world in this ambitious 4-hour documentary.

Faces of America - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. hosts these biographical episodes profiling these 12 renowned Americans - professor and poet Elizabeth Alexander, chef Mario Batali, comedian Stephen Colbert, novelist Louise Erdrich, journalist Malcolm Gladwell, actress Eva Longoria, musician Yo-Yo Ma, director Mike Nichols, Her Majesty Queen Noor, television host/heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, actress Meryl Streep, and figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi.

The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's

Is School Enough?: Learning Beyond the Classroom

Martin Luther: Driven to Defiance and Martin Luther: Reluctant Revolutionary

Your Life, Your Money - Program to help you manage your money.

And here are some key programs from PBS Frontline. If you’ve never seen a Frontline documentary you simply must watch one. Frontline has won a total of 57 Emmys, and 15 Peabodys! They’re the best:

Can You Afford to Retire?

The Card Game - Investigating the massive consumer loan industry.

A Class Divided - One of the most requested programs in FRONTLINE's history.

College Inc. - Investigating the $400 billion higher education industry.

Digital Nation - Exploring life in our digital age.

Dropout Nation - Looking at the hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the United States who quit high school.

From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians

Generation Like - Investigating the intersection of kids, corporations and the Internet.

God in America - Special 6-hour presentation brought to you by AMERICAN EXPERIENCE and FRONTLINE.

The Interrupters - Fantastic 2-hour documentary from acclaimed director Steve James (Hoop Dreams).

Is Wal-Mart Good for America?

League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis

The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela

The Meth Epidemic

Money, Power and Wall Street - A 4-hour look at what the heck happened with the financial meltdown.

The Mormons - The history and contemporary practice of Mormonism.

The New Asylums - Why are nearly half a million mentally ill people serving time in America's prisons and jails?

The Persuaders - A look at the advertising and public relations industries.

The Pot Republic - Investigates marijuana in California and the USA.

Secret State of North Korea

United States of Secrets - A look at the U.S. government's massive and controversial secret surveillance program.

And we won’t stop there. Let’s take a look at a few of the programs from American Experience. One of their major series covers the Presidents of the United States so we’ll point out a few of those:

Clinton: The American Experience

The Presidents: Reagan

JFK: American Experience

The Presidents: Nixon

The Presidents: FDR

And a few more from American Experience:

The Abolitionists - Docudrama covering William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimke.

Cold War Roadshow - Nikita Khrushchev’s tour of the U.S. in the fall of 1959.

Henry Ford - A biography of the man who led the American auto industry.

Mount Rushmore - Everything you wanted to know about America’s most famous granite cliff.

Silicon Valley - The story of the invention of the microchip.

War of the Worlds - Documentary on Orson Welles’ infamous radio broadcast.

And here are some interesting science-related documentaries from NOVA:

Ape Genius - What separates humans from our closest living relatives.

Car of the Future

Finding Life Beyond Earth

Life's Greatest Miracle - Trace human development from embryo to newborn through stunning microimagery.

Marathon Challenge

The Pluto Files - Neil deGrasse Tyson looks at Pluto.

Rise of the Drones

Solar Energy: Saved by the Sun

Wright Brothers' Flying Machine

And a few from the PBS series Nature:

American Eagle - Learn about our national bird!

The Beauty of Ugly

The Gorilla King

My Life as a Turkey

An Original DUCKumentary

Why We Love Cats and Dogs

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