The Web20Classroom
JUNE 15, 2011
'The end of the school year is upon us however many are looking forward to next year. You may be thinking what can you do differently next year? How can you stand out above the crowd? How can your school become a larger part of the school community? While Twitter is beginning to catch on with many educators, schools are lagging in their adoption of the platform.
A Principal's Reflections
JUNE 9, 2011
'A few months back Verizon Wireless visited New Milford High School and we had a fantastic meeting. The end result was the formation of a pilot program where students and a teacher would be given a tablet device and then be tasked with developing a plan to extend learning beyond the school day. About a week later the devices arrived at my office. Each of the ten tablets (5 iPads and 5 Samsung Galaxy tabs) came with 3G access for the duration of the pilot program.
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The 21st Century Principal
JUNE 11, 2011
'An article today on the News & Observer''s web site , states that North Carolina Speaker of the House Thom Tillis gave his staff fat raises. He tries to justify it by saying overall he''s spending less, but I''m not sure that argument flies with all the North Carolina state employees who have seen their own pay frozen for the past three years. Also. tell that to the thousands of teacher assistant and other school employees who will receive pink slips this week or next.
SpeechTechie
JUNE 6, 2011
'Apple is having its annual developers'' conference this week, and this always brings about some exciting announcements. While we wait to hear what''s really coming up in MacLand, I thought I would cover some vocabulary that will help you stay up to date (more later this week when we find out the actual announcements). WWDC -Apple Worldwide Developers'' Conference is held each year in California (this year at the Moscone Center in San Francisco), and features workshops for developers and a keyno
Generative AI holds tremendous promise for all stakeholders in higher education. But guardrails are needed. Strong governance that empower instructors are at the core of a responsible approach to using generative AI in academia.
The Daring Librarian
JUNE 25, 2011
'I was asked recently for a quote by a N.Y. Times editor for their opinion page : Here''s the question: "School librarians are on the chopping block as states and cities seek to cut their education budgets. Do superintendents and principals see librarians as more expendable than other school employees? If so, why?" Here''s my response: "From the Daring Librarian to Teacher Librarians everywhere with love, albeit tough love - but full on love!
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
JUNE 4, 2011
'Join me Thursday, June 9th, for a live and interactive Future of Education with Troy Hicks, co-author of Because Digital Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing in Online and Multimedia Environments and author of The Digital Writing Workshop. We''ll talk about how to apply digital writing skills effectively in the classroom, since many students may be adept at text messaging and communicating online but do not know how to craft a basic essay.
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A Principal's Reflections
JUNE 15, 2011
'As the summer break quickly approaches in the Northeast I have come across various articles focusing on summer learning loss and the negative impact that time off has on students. In 2010 Time Magazine published an article that clearly articulated The Case Against Summer Vacation. Even though there is a great deal of research on the loss of learning that occurs during the summer I am perplexed by the fact that many schools and parents are not doing more to prevent this.
The 21st Century Principal
JUNE 12, 2011
'This post actually started out as a post of my favorite Web 2.0 applications, but once I started examining my list of Google Apps, I knew I could devote one entire post to those apps alone. Google offers so many useful applications to school administrators, I would find it hard to live without those apps now. Here is my most useful Google Apps list.
SpeechTechie
JUNE 26, 2011
'Hey Folks, Just finished presenting at the Social Thinking Provider''s Conference in San Francisco. Thanks so much to Michelle Garcia Winner and the Social Thinking team for having me. I''d like to share with you my presentation (so click here for that) and a few people had some difficulty accessing my links page (a little glitch- I guess we have to get used to glitches when using technology) so I thought I would simply publish those below.
Nik Peachey
JUNE 24, 2011
Over the last few weeks I have been playing with a very simple brainstorming and voting website called tricider. The great thing about tricider is that it is incredibly quick and simple to use, and yet it enables users to collect information and opinions from all over the web in a very easily digestible and powerful way. It's very easy to create a tricider topic or question and you don't even need to register, just type your topic or question into the field.
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The Electric Educator
JUNE 21, 2011
'When I was a pre-service teacher at Spring Arbor University, one of the projects I had to complete in my educational technology class was a webquest. At the time it was pretty complicated and challenging to create this type of a project. Many of my classmates opted to use PowerPoint to create their Webquest, a program ill-suited for the task. The basic premise of a webquest is to create a scenario to capture the imagination of students while they embark on a "quest" that involves research and d
The Web20Classroom
JUNE 18, 2011
'In celebration of 100,000 binders created, Livebinders is having a contest to find the most popular. So shameless plug time again. I have 2 that were nominated. The first was my Twitter binder and the other is my QR Code binder. Wanna show some love and vote for them? Click the binder below and check the box for my 2 and any others you want. (Mike Fisher''s iPad binder is pretty awesome too.
A Principal's Reflections
JUNE 23, 2011
'I came across this interesting video this morning entitled "Curriculum 2.0". Check it out below: This video, as well as the information found at the Curriculum 2.0 wiki , reinforces what I and many others believe, that technology is just one of many tools to assist in engaging students in the 21st Century. As technology and access to information continue to evolve at a rapid pace my question is when will we see curricula in schools shift accordingly?
The 21st Century Principal
JUNE 4, 2011
'“Change is a subtle thing. Change is sneaky. Although most of us are aware that something has changed in our lives, it is often very difficult to put our finger on exactly what has happened, how things have changed, or why things are different.” Ted McCain and Ian Jukes, Windows on the Future McCain and Jukes wrote that statement ten years ago, and the change they spoke of then is still raging today.
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Learning with 'e's
JUNE 30, 2011
"Miss, where does Pooh come from?" asks the little boy. The teacher raises her eyebrows, takes a deep breath and then proceeds to explain all about nutrition, eating food, the digestive system, and how waste products are eliminated from the body. The little boy nods, but looks unimpressed, and then asks a follow up question: "So where does Tigger come from?
SpeechTechie
JUNE 27, 2011
'I am sitting at San Jose International Airport in the Jet Blue Terminal as I write this (Sunday), exhausted yet also energized and inspired from my experience at the Social Thinking ™ Providers'' Convention in San Francisco. I first learned about Social Thinking in probably 2003 (?) when I was struggling to figure out what to do with all my "pragmatics" groups of students with Asperger''s, High-Functioning Autism, and related issues, and found my practice totally revolutionized by the concepts
EdTechSandyK
JUNE 27, 2011
'I have to start this post with a disclaimer. Please note that in this post I am referencing "second-hand" information from a meeting/workshop I did not attend. I was conversing with a colleague today and he shared that at a recent gathering of K-12 Chief Technology Officers, the topic of training educators on new technology came up. There seemed to a prevailing tendency reported among the CTOs to roll out new technologies without setting up formalized training for the end users.
The Web20Classroom
JUNE 14, 2011
'I don''t often promote my own stuff but in this case I am going to do a little shameless promoting. Tomorrow I am doing a free webinar for Simple K12 entitled, Navigating Social Media Policies, One Schools'' Journey. I get asked a lot about what policies schools should have about social media and what guidelines they should have to teach their students about social media.
Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape
The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
JUNE 15, 2011
'We are pleased to announce the Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference, November 2 - 3, 2011. The conference will be held online, in multiple time zones over the course of two days, and will be free to attend. To be kept informed of the latest conference news and updates, please join the Library 2.0 network. The call for presentation submissions will go out July 5.
The 21st Century Principal
JUNE 15, 2011
'In a time of tight budgets and few resources, administrators need to find as many ways to save money as possible. In an earlier post , I suggest Google Docs as an alternative to purchasing Microsoft Office as an office suite. Google Docs does provide users many useful features that extend far beyond what can be obtained from a locally installed office suite like Open Office or Microsoft Office.
SpeechTechie
JUNE 21, 2011
'Hyperbole and a Half is a narrative/comic blog created by Allie Brosh that will likely make you giggle quite a bit. Allie relates her experiences in her own unique way, and draws very funny pictures.that I can relate to. I first thought of posting about Allie''s blog because she has a few terrific posts on social interactions that could be great for a teenage group: The Four Levels of Social Entrapment humorously details various situations in life where we have to "fake it" socially, and could
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EdTechSandyK
JUNE 8, 2011
'Search Engine Roundtable Wordle used under a Creative Commons License courtesy of Flikr user toprankonlinemarketing. I am putting together a three hour staff development session for K-12 teachers entitled Google Search and Beyond. I get kind of excited about search tools and digital literacy, so I''m having fun working with this theme. I know many in my PLN have excellent ideas for teaching teachers about effective search strategies and ways to pass them on to our students.
The Web20Classroom
JUNE 10, 2011
'Technology Tools to Get Teachers Started | Edutopia tags: technology web2.0 favorite When Wikipedia Is the Assignment tags: wikipedia favorite What About That Twitter Thing? tags: twitter favorite Digital Storytelling with the iPad tags: ipad digital storytelling digitalstorytelling favorite Online Math Help & Learning Resources tags: math favorite Here Be Dragons: An Introduction to Critical Thinking tags: criticalthinking favorite livebinders4teachers Wiki tags: LiveBinders favorite Ten Best
A Principal's Reflections
JUNE 30, 2011
'Last fall I hosted a conference at my school that turned out to be a great success. The idea was to create an event at a high school like no other in the area where passionate presenters and a major conference feel would have attendees leave inspired to initiate innovative change in their instructional practices. Building upon last year''s event I am proud to officially announce Edscape 2011 will be taking place at New Milford High School on Saturday October 15, 2011.
The Electric Educator
JUNE 7, 2011
'Image: Flickr Via Dakiny In a word, no. Here''s why. 1. Collaboration While it is nice to be able to edit iWork projects from any of iOS/OS X device, there is no collaborative editing feature. Six people on an assortment of iDevices can''t work together. 2. Browser vs. Desktop Apple continues to develop software that is dependent upon the hardware on which it runs. iLife and iWork will become increasingly more complex and require increasingly more powerful Apple hardware (desktops, laptops, and
Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
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The Daring Librarian
JUNE 5, 2011
'Only 3 weeks until the ISTE11 conference kickoff with Mario Armstrong! OhEmGee, I am SO excited! Besides being super busy with with ISTE Board service, meetings, poster sessions, Blogger cafe hanging, and playgrounds - I''ll be presenting twice on two exciting (but very different!) panels! !! Game Show Learning! Learning Tools Family Feud: Crowdsourced Edition with Geek Tribe pals my dear mentor the amazing Joyce Valenza, super cool & smart Shannon M.
wwwatanabe
JUNE 27, 2011
'I was asked to present ten coaching tips in ten minutes at ISTE. Here are the ten I presented today: 1. Building relationships is key. It takes time and energy to build those relationships, but it''s the key in coaching. 2. Work with the willing. It is more effective to work with those who are willing, and forcing someone won''t get the results the students deserve.
EdTechSandyK
JUNE 24, 2011
'Life-Long Learner Wordle by EdTechSandyK Feel free to re-use, but please give credit. To be a good educator is to be a life-long learner. I''ll never forget hearing over and over in my first few years as a teacher that it was important to be a life-long learner. There I was, believing that with a B.A. under my belt I had arrived at a destination, only to discover that a journey encompassing the rest of my time on the planet had just begun.
The Web20Classroom
JUNE 1, 2011
'Google Earth Hacks - Fun stuff for Google Earth. tags: googleearth favorite Three Trademarks of Effective Leaders tags: leadership favorite Becoming an eTeacher tags: e-learning onlineteaching favorite The Ultimate Guide To Using iPads In The Classroom tags: ipad favorite Discuss: 10 Mindful Ways to Use Social Media | Tricycle tags: social media favorite 12 Healthy Habits to Grow Your Online Presence and Keep Balance in Your Life tags: digitalfootprint favorite Engaging the Parent Community tag
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