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Maniscalco’s Comedy Cash Grab – October 7, 2026
Comics angry at a SiriusXM channel change, Actor/Director/Comedian Mike Binder joins us, death row survivor Christa Pike speaks, Sydney Sweeney meets with a rabbi, Maz brings trivia, a new Bonerline, and Jim’s Picks: Top Songs with Animal Sounds. Sebastian Maniscalco is on the comedian hot seat. Comedians are all mad at him over the rebranding of Sirius XM’s Raw Comedy Channel. Death Row Christa Pike is still alive… time to execute her.
Trash or Art?
A macro photography exhibit of debris collected by 5th grade students
Google Jamboard: Connecting Students, Curating Thinking and Learning
The Challenge How can I facilitate discussion, critical thinking, and collaboration amongst my students? How can students create an artifact to curate learning interactions with minimal struggle in a distance-learning, hybrid, or in-person setting ? The Tool Google’s Jamboard has helped me answer these questions in my 5th-grade- class in Northern California.
Distance Learning Tips, Tricks and Takeaways From Educator Jim Bentley
Jim Bentley recorded himself to create a personalized virtual background for his online classroom. (Jim Bentley) This report from the trenches of distance learning comes from KQED Media Literacy Innovator Jim Bentley. Not a Normal Start It was Friday before the start of the school year, and I met my students outside the cafeteria, all of us wearing masks. I handed them textbooks and a bag of resources and said, “See you Monday on Zoom.” This is not normal.
Tech + PBL Demo Slam
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Opinion | Embracing diversity is not only good for business, it's the right thing to do says Hunter Water boss
Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer comment, opinion, With International Women's Day and Harmony Day so close to each other, and in the wake of recent tragic events in Christchurch, it is a particularly important time to come together in unity and harmony. It's great to hear a lot of business leaders talking about diversity and inclusion.
3 Tips for Making Movies With Students
Introducing filmmaking to students for the first time involves a lot of moving parts. There’s conceptualization of the story followed by storyboarding and possibly research to support the writing. There’s a script to read, revise and visualize in order to select A-roll and B-roll footage that coordinates with specific words and phrases. But here’s the good news. Tip #1: Approach filmmaking from a literacy and storytelling lens.
Bentley: From Film And PSA To PBL: A 21st Century Journey with Digital Media
My students were thrilled when I asked them if they wanted to create films. They started small, creating low production value public service announcements revolving around bullying and green thinking as well as instructional math films. A visitor to our YouTube Channel , Curiosity Films, can see the evolution of my students' work over time. I first started learning how to use film in the general education classroom via professional development hosted by the Sacramento Educational Cable Consortium .
My Not Impossible Dream- Part 1 of 2
I teach In the Elk Grove School District. This district has an incredibly diverse population of 62,000 students spread out over 320 square miles.
To get the 'good debt' tick, infrastructure needs to be fit for the future
In distinguishing between “good” and “bad” debt, federal Treasurer Scott Morrison equates good debt with infrastructure investment. However, not all infrastructure investment announced in the budget is necessarily “good”. We are now in the Anthropocene – a new geological age defined by the global scale of humanity’s impact on the Earth – which places new requirements on our infrastructures.
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