Saturday, May 11, 2013
“If the Common Core Curriculum is Good for Public Schools, Then Why Are States Fighting to Repeal It?” Asks AncestorEbooks, a Family Centered Ebook Site
AncestorEbooks.com wonders if proponents against a Free-America, such as Bill Gates who is said to be the founder of CCSS, are trying to change more than just curriculum in America's Public Schools. How will future genealogists write of Education Today?
AncestorEbooks, a website for creating family oriented Ebooks, is curious as one by one, States are passing anti-Common Core curriculum bills and resolutions. Indiana's bill SB 193 has passed, Kansas HB2289 & Missouri HB616 have bills that have been introduced. Alabama’s first tries failed but passed yesterday. News about States against CCSS can be found in the current issue of EdWeek.org.
With Public Schooling being the center of Child Development in America, AncestorEbooks decided to look into the controversy. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were developed in 2009, then released in 2010, and according to About.com, ‘by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). This effort included governors and state commissioners of education from 48 states, 2 territories, and the District of Columbia.’
AncestorEbooks continues, Educational Standards are the academic information students should know and be able to preform in order to succeed in today’s world, and according to Corestandards.org, ‘The CCSS initiative is a state-led effort to ensure students graduating from high school are prepared to enter college programs or the workforce.’
‘From’, says [.faqs.org/childhood/Co-Fa/Education-United-States.html [Faqs.org __title__ Faqs.org], ‘the colonial period to the present, the question of how to properly educate and socialize children and youth has preoccupied parents, teachers, and other adults... Shaping children's character–by having them attend school punctually, obey authority, honor rules and regulations, and attend to their lessons–was central to the thinking behind all ‘public’ schools.
For over 100 years ‘The Mc-Guffey Readers...taught the values of piety and virtue, and Webster's ubiquitous spellers, ...emphasized the English language, uniform spelling and punctuation, and proper diction. Children studying geography learned of the grandeur of America and its material riches, and those studying history of its greatness among nations.’ Today’s America has the exact need today.’
On March 7, 2011 continues AncestorEbooks, Sam Dillon published an article for The [.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/education/07curriculum.html?_r=1& [New York Times __title__ New York Times] about the bipartisan group of educators and business and labor leaders who supported the new Common Core Curriculum. However, as teachers, administrators and curriculum designers began trying to implement this new program in September, problems began to emerge.
On April 17th, The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss, spoke of 8 such problems: ‘Variously motivated corporate interests, arguing that the core was being sloppily taught, organized a behind-the-scenes campaign to super-standardize it. They named their handiwork the Common Core State Standards to hide the fact that it was driven by policymakers in Washington D.C., who have thus far shoved it into every state except Alaska, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia.’
On March 4, Ms Strauss shared a letter by [.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/03/04/principal-i-was-naive-about-common-core/ [Carol Burris __title__ Carol Burris], principal of South Side High School in New York. She was named the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New York State. She is one of the co-authors of the principals’ letter against evaluating teachers by student test scores, which has been signed by 1,535 New York principals.
In her letter, Ms Burris wrote, "When I first read about the Common Core State Standards, I cheered. I believe that our schools should teach all students (except for those who have severe learning disabilities), the skills, habits and knowledge that they need to be successful in post secondary education.
"I confess that I was naïve...Testing, coupled with the evaluation of teachers by scores, is driving its implementation. Many of the teachers in my high school are also the parents of young children. They come into my office with horror stories regarding the incessant pre-testing, testing and test prep that is taking place in their own children’s classrooms."
AncestorEbooks continues, As more and more educators and administrators pit themselves against teaching with CCSS, State Legislators are being asked to fight against the total implementation of Common Core.
Representatives such as Utah's, Bountiful City Chambers, who will speak on Common Core from 7-9pm April 18th, announce on their home pages about meetings held for their citizenry.
Pearson, is the biggest education product sales company on earth.
2. Bill Gates is the second richest man on earth, a man who has almost single-handedly funded and marketed the entire Common Core movement.
Gates openly values extreme socialism and says that it’s much better than American constitutional government.
AncestorEbooks calls all parents, teachers and administrators to look past the ‘well written blogs’ and be aware of what their children are being taught. After all, how America educates the children effects all families and eventually the whole American way of life. Cristina Besendorfer
AncestorEbooks, a website for creating family oriented Ebooks, is curious as one by one, States are passing anti-Common Core curriculum bills and resolutions. Indiana's bill SB 193 has passed, Kansas HB2289 & Missouri HB616 have bills that have been introduced. Alabama’s first tries failed but passed yesterday. News about States against CCSS can be found in the current issue of EdWeek.org.
With Public Schooling being the center of Child Development in America, AncestorEbooks decided to look into the controversy. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were developed in 2009, then released in 2010, and according to About.com, ‘by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). This effort included governors and state commissioners of education from 48 states, 2 territories, and the District of Columbia.’
AncestorEbooks continues, Educational Standards are the academic information students should know and be able to preform in order to succeed in today’s world, and according to Corestandards.org, ‘The CCSS initiative is a state-led effort to ensure students graduating from high school are prepared to enter college programs or the workforce.’
‘From’, says [.faqs.org/childhood/Co-Fa/Education-United-States.html [Faqs.org __title__ Faqs.org], ‘the colonial period to the present, the question of how to properly educate and socialize children and youth has preoccupied parents, teachers, and other adults... Shaping children's character–by having them attend school punctually, obey authority, honor rules and regulations, and attend to their lessons–was central to the thinking behind all ‘public’ schools.
For over 100 years ‘The Mc-Guffey Readers...taught the values of piety and virtue, and Webster's ubiquitous spellers, ...emphasized the English language, uniform spelling and punctuation, and proper diction. Children studying geography learned of the grandeur of America and its material riches, and those studying history of its greatness among nations.’ Today’s America has the exact need today.’
On March 7, 2011 continues AncestorEbooks, Sam Dillon published an article for The [.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/education/07curriculum.html?_r=1& [New York Times __title__ New York Times] about the bipartisan group of educators and business and labor leaders who supported the new Common Core Curriculum. However, as teachers, administrators and curriculum designers began trying to implement this new program in September, problems began to emerge.
On April 17th, The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss, spoke of 8 such problems: ‘Variously motivated corporate interests, arguing that the core was being sloppily taught, organized a behind-the-scenes campaign to super-standardize it. They named their handiwork the Common Core State Standards to hide the fact that it was driven by policymakers in Washington D.C., who have thus far shoved it into every state except Alaska, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia.’
On March 4, Ms Strauss shared a letter by [.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/03/04/principal-i-was-naive-about-common-core/ [Carol Burris __title__ Carol Burris], principal of South Side High School in New York. She was named the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New York State. She is one of the co-authors of the principals’ letter against evaluating teachers by student test scores, which has been signed by 1,535 New York principals.
In her letter, Ms Burris wrote, "When I first read about the Common Core State Standards, I cheered. I believe that our schools should teach all students (except for those who have severe learning disabilities), the skills, habits and knowledge that they need to be successful in post secondary education.
"I confess that I was naïve...Testing, coupled with the evaluation of teachers by scores, is driving its implementation. Many of the teachers in my high school are also the parents of young children. They come into my office with horror stories regarding the incessant pre-testing, testing and test prep that is taking place in their own children’s classrooms."
AncestorEbooks continues, As more and more educators and administrators pit themselves against teaching with CCSS, State Legislators are being asked to fight against the total implementation of Common Core.
Representatives such as Utah's, Bountiful City Chambers, who will speak on Common Core from 7-9pm April 18th, announce on their home pages about meetings held for their citizenry.
Pearson, is the biggest education product sales company on earth.
2. Bill Gates is the second richest man on earth, a man who has almost single-handedly funded and marketed the entire Common Core movement.
Gates openly values extreme socialism and says that it’s much better than American constitutional government.
AncestorEbooks calls all parents, teachers and administrators to look past the ‘well written blogs’ and be aware of what their children are being taught. After all, how America educates the children effects all families and eventually the whole American way of life. Cristina Besendorfer
Saturday, May 4, 2013
AncestorEbooks Shares Professional Genealogists' Favorite Technologies from RootsTech’s SLC Conference 2013
AncestorEbooks shares technology products from RootsTech 2013 in Salt Lake City, UT, that make genealogy research, and creating family tree centered Ebooks, easier and more effective.
"Leave them a fullness of stories with great intention." Kim Weitkamp, www.kimweitkamp.com
(PRWEB) April 23, 2013
My Apologies for this post, which won't come together!
One of the best genealogy conferences of the year, says AncestorEbooks, took place in Salt Lake City, April 18. One of the many exhibits of the RootsTechFamily History & Technology Conference shared was about the tools that make genealogy research not just easier but more effective too.
Ball and her panel, Marie Dougan, A.C. Ivory, and Heather Rojo share fun and warm stories of their learning experiences while researching, teaching and sharing Family History. Although the conference is over, Rootstech.org has video-captured live streaming for those who enjoy ‘rubbing shoulders’ with fellow genealogists, or simply want to learn the new ways genealogy research can be made/recorded/shared/saved, saysAncestorEbooks.com.
The list of technology they recommend using for different aspects of Genealogical Research include many Mac products, such as the iPad with its camera, iPhone with GPs loaded, laptops, memory sticks, electricity converters, backup batteries, the Netbook for its keyboard, extra long extension cord for those times when a room has only one outlet, digital camera with mic and extra memory cards, and a voice recorder with extended memory.
To this healthy listing AncestorEbooks adds one more, the Fujitsu Portable ScanSnap Scanner with new productivity features that is compatible with PC or Mac, has Cloud Support for access from anywhere by Android™ and iOS compatible devices, plus new functionality allowing users to easily upload scans to cloud servers such as Dropbox, Evernote, Google Docs™, SugarSync and Salesforce Chatter™.
The ScanSnap Portable has a ‘Faster scanning speeds of up to 12 double-sided color pages per minute, even while using its advanced intelligent image-processing technology’ according to Fujitsu.com.
For family reunions the RootsTech panel recommend having a simple tape recorder with mic to record conversations, singing, story telling, arguments of worth, etc. These can then be uploaded to AncestorEbooks.comfor use in creating enhanced eBooks with a customer’s family tree.
The panel of experts recommended traveling light, as many areas require extensive walking to cover. One cemetery, The Westview Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia, covers over 582 acres and holds a mixture of nineteenth century graves, modern tombstones, ornate statuary and mausoleums.
For those planning a trek across acres of uneven ground, the Mini iPad with its iSight camera for taking self-portraits and recording genealogy findings with password protected USB sticks are a good way to travel light. The panel leader, Jill Ball, also recommends using travel-safe bags with built in mesh sides to prevent delicate research from being physically stolen, and using an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification - known as a Blink card) to prevent electronic theft.
AncestorEbooks agrees since being a licensed genealogist means the information discovered in archives, etc is guaranteed to be kept safe and secure. The RFID will also prevent theft of credit card numbers and information.
A handy app for the iPad would be the Snapheal2.2, a retina ready app for erasing or removing extra objects and text from photos, fixing skin imperfections and restoring old, damaged photos, according to Macupdate.com
During Geneacruises, or at a remote cemetery, a handy way to send messages is with the SPOT Connect, a free app which pairs the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with the SPOT Connect website.
Once the family genealogist is prepared with the correct technology, have learned to use the family history forms and worksheets such as those offered by FamilySearch.org, and have documents for proof-of-research, all the above referenced media can then be uploaded and used with the uploaded GEDCOM file in the creation of Ebooks on AncestorEbooks.com along with the photos, pics of tombstones, audios and videos from Reunions and questioning of elderly relatives, certificates and documents of authenticity.
These records and media, coupled with AncestorEbooks’s programed creation of a page for each person within the GEDCOM file, choices of backgrounds and page styles makes the downloadable Ebooks unique and family oriented.
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