The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 9, 2013

October marks Connected Educator Month. The idea is to help more educators look beyond the walls of the classroom and look to the brilliance of others to learn from and learn with. Connected Educator Month Events -This month is full of activities put on by many different organizations. Want to learn more? Read this.)

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

In today’s K-12 education ecosystem, most classroom management tools have moved online. The first ‘lite’ option that most educators think of is Google Classroom. It’s easy to use, accessible from all devices, collaborative, and integrates with lots of education apps. Designed by Freepik.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

Technology in education is the greatest show on earth. You get CEUs (Continuing Education Units)–between 18 and 24 hours, depending upon the class you select (where applicable). 1. ” Education’s fix requires technology. Digital portfolios—via wikis. The classroom is a wiki. How is it taught?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2023

On my blog, in educator forums, and in the virtual meetings I moderate, there’s lots of confusion about what can be grabbed for free from online sites and what must be cited with a linkback, credit, author’s name, public domain reference, or even as little as an email from the creator giving you permission. Or students?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 29, 2015

Many of the comic creation tools are easy to use and allow learners to choose from a library of characters, props, scenes, and templates. Best one in my opinion that allows adding your own images along with their library of characters, backdrops, and more. Embed in a blog or wiki. Frames set and students can fill in the story.

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Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2014

There are a lot of course management tools available for educators, including Blackboard and PowerSchool, that allow educators to do attendance, grading, post and organize resources and lessons, and interact with students. There is a resource library with videos, web sites, wiki’s and more. Many of them cost money.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2016

Technology in education is the greatest show on earth. ” Education’s fix requires technology. Summer PD: The Tech-infused Teacher is for credentialed and non-credentialed K-12 teachers, tech teachers/integration specialists, library media specialists, and pre-service professionals. Digital portfolios—via wikis.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2015

Technology in education is the greatest show on earth. ” Education’s fix requires technology. Summer PD is for credentialed and non-credentialed K-8 teachers, tech teachers/integration specialists, library media specialists, and pre-service professionals. Digital portfolios—via wikis. The classroom is a wiki.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 29, 2016

Many comic creation tools are free, easy to use and allow learners to choose from a library of characters, props, scenes, speech bubbles, and templates. Students add their own images or can choose from their library of characters, backdrops, and speech bubbles. Embed in a blog or wiki. Students can draw in the comic.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Two elements from my training as educator lead me to really embrace this topic: Background in Experiential Education. ” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiential_learning ). The maker movement and maker education are becoming very popular in school and after school settings, libraries, and community centers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Take the mystery out of copyrights –by the Library of Congress. Wiki Images. iSafe – A helpful resource completely centered around E-Safety Technology and Education. Copyright and Fair Use –Common Sense Media video. Copyright Law Explained (fun video, informative, thorough). Copyright law curriculum.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

This is a continuation from yesterday''s post on changing roles , disruptive innovation and the survival of higher education. One of the most popular and easy to use tools in the wiki – a shared website which anyone can edit. We therefore designed a number of activities for the wiki. Changing Times It is now time to take stock.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2023

And in some cases that has caused new kinds of challenges, since those fees are often paid by college libraries, and not every scholar in every discipline has equal access to support. To pay 13 bucks a month for Amazon Prime, you get I think something like 15,000 movies and TV shows, you know, as a lending library, that's not a bad model.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

Minecraft: Education Edition —currently available for Windows 10, macOS and iPad devices—is nearly identical to the version students play on their own at home. The main difference is that the education edition comes with tools for teachers to make classroom implementation easier. Try Minecraft: Education Edition for free!

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

They have a large library of music to add to your creation and being able to choose the starting point for the music is a big plus. Here is an example, something simple, that you can do with Animoto Animoto for Educators offers free accounts to teachers and other educators. Tons of great ideas here.

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

But I want to highlight are the best blogs, wikis and people from the past year. Best Librarian/Library Blog: Van Meter Voice : I have been following Shannon and the amazing work she is doing in her library for sometime. He works tirelessly to promote all that is good in education. 15 to see who the winners are.

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The 21st Century Principal

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It provides answers to the administrator who feels just a bit lost when someone starts talking about blogs, wikis, or Twitter, or who isn’t quite sure about all this talk about 1:1 initiatives, open source software, or using mobile phones in the classroom.

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The Electric Educator

APRIL 27, 2011

Retails for $299, educators pricing is $179. for educators. Presentations can be embedded directly into a blog or wiki page. Wikispaces is a easy to use wiki interface that allows you to create a website on which you can post videos, handouts, links, and files. Accepts multiple audio and video tracks. Follow them here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

According to the National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education Research Review and Resources , no matter income or background, students with involved parents are more likely to have higher grades and test scores, attend school regularly, have better social skills, show improved behavior, and adapt well to school.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 16, 2016

When done editing, students can add music from an included royalty-free library. Free for educators; web and mobile app. Besides saving their own masterpieces, students can view the works of other students in the walled garden of their private Storybird library. Sound confusing? VoiceThread. Fee; web or iOS. Freemium; web.

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The Electric Educator

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The Radcliffe Camera in Oxford Take, for example, the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It is one of the world''s literary repositories and one of the largest libraries in the world. Organization is key for such a large library. Others were simply Google Docs presentations shared on my classroom wiki.

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MindShift

JULY 31, 2016

Excitement about school makerspaces has been in the air, but many educators eager to create hands-on learning spaces in their schools still aren’t sure how to get started or why it’s worth the effort. Luhtala is blessed with a big library, but for most of her career it has been dominated by large bookshelves. GETTING RID OF BOOKS.

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Jordan Teacher representative of WE, the Caucus of Working Educators, Jessica Way Former Philadelphia school librarian and leader in APPS, the Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools, Debbie Grill Masterman High School senior Kayla Johnson. (See See video at 28:40.) She has called it home for eight years. I am standing here in privilege.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

On my blog, in educator forums, and in the virtual meetings I moderate, there’s lots of confusion about what can be grabbed for free from online sites and what must be cited with a linkback, credit, author’s name, public domain reference, or even as little as an email from the creator giving you permission. Wiki Images.

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The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

I started blogging in 2006, a few months after I saw the amazing (& now retired TL) Francey Harris’s present her landmark blog, Gargoyles Loose in the Library at my first AASL05 in Pittsburgh. Why struggle with a static library web page when I can have an ongoing conversation with my students, parents, & community with a blog?!

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

This is number 4 in the series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future.' Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. BMC Medical Education, 6, 41. How much will Web 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Klein , Global Educational Consultant, Maureen McLaughlin from the U.S. We look forward to seeing you there!

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wwwatanabe

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Likewise, I hear from others their list of educators and students who inspire them, and therefore expand my PLN. Thank you, Edublogs , for providing this opportunity to acknowledge amazing educators around the globe, and for raising the awareness of the awesome impact social media and web 2.0 can have on our learning and our learners.

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TeacherCast

MARCH 25, 2015

Jeff sits down with Hadley Ferguson, the Executive Director of the Edcamp Foundation and Shannon Montague, an edcamp organizer and educator to discuss the edcamp movement. She is a member of the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Mentor Advisory group. What makes Edcamp an unconference?

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

This post looks at a progression of student thinking (and questioning) about the value of Wikipedia as they move across educational stages. Our study examined the behaviors and choices of 175 student participants, across six educational stages, as they engaged in four tasks in response to a grade-appropriate science research prompt.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As shown below, well-designed serious games can teach, educate, and inspire. Therefore, we educators need to educate ourselves on game based learning. Does Gamification in Education Really Improve Learning? Gamification in Education – a piece I wrote for Edutopia on this topic. By Jennifer Roland.

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Nik Peachey

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Using wikis for teacher development. Using wikis with EFL students. Creating a Wiki. education. (3). Posted by Nik Peachey. Teaching Speaking in Second Life. Create your own social network 7 steps. Skype Part 2 Online Workspace. Dictation goes Web 2.0. ► May. (8). Using Product Reviews. Skype Part 1 Recording Audio.

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The Daring Librarian

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Decorations, tablecloths, candles, writing activities, dating profiles on Good Reads , Shelfari , LibaryThing , or Shelfari -- so being naturally enthusiasticaly indolent, I wanted to find a quick & dirty way to get kids looking at books, checking out books, and moving around the library. This is my version. How YOU Doin? Hot Set Up!

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The Daring Librarian

DECEMBER 6, 2011

I can''t help but be psyched that I was nominated for Best Librarian/Library blog ! Both here to you my dear Daring Librarian blog readers and to my students, family, & community at the Daring School Library Blog! Best Librarian / Library Blog - The Daring Librarian.com Nominated by The Library Girl, Jennifer LaGarde !

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The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

ve created a new Sqworl group to save all those amazing blogs & educational sites I run across that I''m keeping an eye on to make next year''s noms EASIER and hopefully faster! NEXT year for this I''ve got a new idea.I''ve Free Web Tool - PicMonkey - Made of Win! Lifetime Achievement - Sue Waters (I swear, this is NOT a suckup!)

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Our little group of Hawaii educators ROCKS! I voted for: Padlet , Pinterest , Canva , Google for Education , Dropbox , and Commonsense Media. Yes, I did indeed vote in the Library/Librarian blog category, but I am refraining from publicly mentioning my choices in this blog. Please consider #edchatHI for your vote.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update February 25th Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. These events bring together educators, learners, leaders, and others to rethink and reinvent education. These events bring together educators, learners, leaders, and others to rethink and reinvent education.

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