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ISTE Advocacy for Education: Opportunities in Denver!

The Daring Librarian

Advocacy in Education is so important.now more than ever. The following is from Hilary Goldmann, ISTE’s Director of Government Affairs : "Once again we have a dynamic line-up of advocacy activities at ISTE2010!! YouTube ISTE Advocacy Channel – We now have an ISTE Advocacy YouTube Channel ! Wanna know how? and Apple Inc.

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

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Toward Renewable Assessments

Iterating Toward Openness

That’s the core idea between renewable assessments like Murder, Madness, and Mayhem, or Project Management for Instructional Designers , or Blogs vs Wikis , or the DS106 Assignment Bank , or The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature , and many of the other examples listed by the community here.

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Shine a Light (on Your Professional) Future!

The Daring Librarian

I was asked to give a short overview about advocacy for school libraries (and librarians) to the middle school media specialists in my district and created a Prezi giving quick highlights. Get the BIGGER Prezi Experience HCPSS Library Media Wiki. Advocacy Doug Johnson howard county schools joyce valenza library media'

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Rally to Restore Philadelphia School Librarians: Responses, reflections, and resources

NeverEndingSearch

I showed them some of the products our students created as the result of their research–the blogs and wikis; the digital stories created with traditional movie-making tools and VoiceThread and Animoto I told them all these tools are available and they are free. This was a clear vision of inequity. They looked at me stunned.

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Live Thursday, February 2nd - Panel on Personal Learning Profiles

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She did it with My eCoach as early as 1999 — way before there were blogs, wikis, Twitter or Facebook. She has had the opportunity to speak in Iowa and around the country about advocacy, technology, social media, and making a difference in education and the lives of others. Barbara is what you call a “Digital Pioneer.”

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Beyond Textbooks and OER: reflecting on #OpenEd15

ProfHacker

I realize I only have a biased slice of the conference based mainly around tweeters I know who (I realize now) mostly have similar stances as mine on openness (Phil Hill and Mike Feldstein in their keynote made a good point about how utterly useless this kind of social circle is for advocacy). This is the opposite of a textbook.

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