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2014 Was One Wild Ride

A Principal's Reflections

With 2014 coming to a close in a few days there is no better time than now to reflect on this past year. Here are some professional highlights from 2014: Digital Leadership was published by Corwin on January 14, 2014. CBS Channel 2 NYC visited NMHS again on May 16, 2014.

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Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

Microsoft purchased “Minecraft,” an immensely popular world-building game, in 2014, and immediately churned out an education edition. For example, students can see what elements make up a grass block or use helium to make pigs fly, a “Minecraft” blog reported. Break Out of the Digital Mold. Teachers Learn Something, Too.

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31 Days of Digital Goodies

Teacher Reboot Camp

Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar. One way to engage students is to create interactive digital calendars. December is the month for advent calendars, so I’ve created the Digital Ideas 2014 Advent Calendar to give you a hands-on example of how this works. Math tricks calendar .

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31 Days of Digital Goodies

Teacher Reboot Camp

Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar. One way to engage students is to create interactive digital calendars. December is the month for advent calendars, so I’ve created the Digital Ideas 2014 Advent Calendar to give you a hands-on example of how this works. Math tricks calendar .

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Parchment Merges with Credentials Solutions to Take On Transcripts and Certifications

Edsurge

Next for the newly joined company is expanding the network of issuers who receive and send credentials including transcripts, diplomas, certificates and digital badges, says Parchment CEO Matthew Pittinsky, who will lead the new company. Parchment bought AVOW Systems in 2012 , and Credentials Solutions bought eScrip-Safe in 2014.

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5 Takeaways from my #NotAtISTE14 Experience

EdTechnocation.com

This year, I wasn''t able to make it to the ISTE 2014 Conference. It includes so many great posts of resources gathered from ISTE, blog posts, and sharing of notes taken during sessions and keynotes. ISTE2014 and #NotAtISTE14 How was your ISTE 2014 experience? 2014 Conference ISTE NotAtISTE14 reflection'

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Can Online Courses Help Fix Teacher Professional Development?

techlearning

Back in 2014, I made such an attempt , and although it was successful not only for our district, but for other districts as well, disruption in the professional learning space, has been limited.

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