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The Conversation We Need To Have With Leadership

Teacher Reboot Camp

This post is part of Scott McLeod’s Leadership Day 2014. PD should give your Ts a GEM: it should “Grow You”, “Engage You”, and “Mean something to you” — GNichols (@Think_teach) August 6, 2014. Unfortunately, many of our administrators do not know how to value your time or support you.

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How Teachers Can Learn From One Another at Unconferences, Meet-ups and Edcamps

MindShift

The session on grant writing, for example, was a dud because everyone there wanted to learn how to write them and nobody knew where to start. In fact, once you start a legitimate event, the Edcamp Foundation is willing to send you materials and funding to help with the organization, such as breakfast. HOW TO DO A SMALL UNCONFERENCE.

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Happy Blogging! My Top 5 Blog Posts of 2014 and My Favorite 6

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

Inspired by Alice Keeler''s Top 10 Blog Posts of 2014 ( I HIGHLY recommend you add her to your MVP list!), These posts had the most traffic in 2014: 1. Resources Mentioned in Edcamp Online , Oct 25 2. Resources Mentioned in Edcamp Online , Oct 25 2. I decided to create a list too. What is the Mindset of a Maker Educator?"

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Learning Revolution Newsletter - Weekly Free Event Calendar - Conference Keynotes Update - Edcamp USDOE - Digital Citizenship

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update June 3rd, 2014 Discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. And finally, the 2014 Global Education Conference will feature Rana Dajani, Daniel Edelson, Kern Kelley, Jennifer D. Klein, Tonya Muro, Thomas Röhlinger, Homa Tavangar, and Jennifer Vollmann.

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Rethinking Professional Development So It Actually Improves Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

I’ve talked to some administrators who say, “Hey, we did an EdCamp last month, and the teachers loved it. I don’t know how to do that with a textbook. I don’t know how to do that with a packet of worksheets. He received his Masters in Instructional Technology through the University of Northern Iowa in 2014. Blog: [link].

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Parent/Educator EDU

My Island View

In September of 2014 I wrote, Educating Parents About Education , a post supporting the idea that we need to better educate parents about education in order to have them engaged as advocates and not adversaries for much of the needed changes in education in regard to methodology, pedagogy and technology.

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Silicon Valley Cue

My Paperless Classroom

How to make a puppet: 1. Add eyes pic.twitter.com/iFH6Rt87AY — Sam Patterson (@SamPatue) September 13, 2013 The Edcamp workshops were only and hour and even though the ethos of Edcamp is conversation based the 2 Edcamp puppet sessions I have lead ended up being mostly me talking. Make a shape 2. Cut a mouth hole 3.

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