A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

In case you didn''t know there are thousands of educators and an array of learning communities over at Google+. From my point of view educators become quickly attached to one specific social media tool as their go to source for his/her Personal Learning Network (PLN). Nor should it be considered the best learning option for all.

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Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 10, 2014

I learned some great things from United Technologies when I worked at Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky Aircraft. They use a system called ACE, Achieving Competitive Excellence, and parts of it are related to having an organized work space so that you can be more efficient. As an engineer, it was vital to be organized.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2018

The learning potential of VR is incredible. Younger students—preschool to early elementary—typically learn through experience. Putting them into immersive environments can complement the learning they’re doing at home or in the classroom and extend their understanding of new concepts and ideas. Feasibility. Special Education.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

3 e-learning megatrends. The bots get smarter as they deal with the query, quickly learning to anticipate and better resolve the issue at hand. As a conversation with a chatbot proceeds, it learns your needs and communication style and adapts accordingly. These are not just trends; these are megatrends. Inbox zero.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Digital portfolios, e-portfolios, or online portfolios stand as a cornerstone in the intersection of teaching, learning, and assessment. In today’s discussion, I’m delving into the realm of e-portfolios with a focus on their impact on learning, particularly from a student-centric viewpoint.

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The Web20Classroom

MAY 11, 2012

Download: "Own Your Space" was written by Linda McCarthy, for Internet savvy "tweens" & teens, and their parents or educators. NETS Aligned Tools tags: web2.0 resources literacy A Teacher’s Field Guide to Parents | Ecology of Education tags: parents favorite Why Do We Connect? . NETS Aligned Tools tags: web2.0

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 30, 2014

I learned some great things from United Technologies when I worked at Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky Aircraft. They use a system called ACE, Achieving Competitive Excellence, and parts of it are related to having an organized work space so that you can be more efficient. As an engineer, it was vital to be organized.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2020

December invites us to step back to reflect on the events, learnings, and open questions of 2020. This learning journey demands persistence, determination, and humility; we’re committed to staying thoughtful and asking these tough questions each day. Share your #EquityReflection on Twitter and make sure to tag @DigitalPromise!

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2016

30+ ideas to improve learning with awesome classroom design From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A well-designed classroom boosts student learning by as much as 16% (Barrett, Zhang, Davies, & Barrett 2015), but overdecorating is a distraction. Blog Posts. Barrett, P.

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Learning With Lucie

APRIL 8, 2017

I would have to say that my experience started in the late 90's when were first learned how to publish on the web using HTML and FTP, but in 2006 when I discovered blogging tool I quickly knew that a new digital portfolio platform had been born. The blog platform and the routines we had for using them made this possible.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Amazon Prime Day discounts for teachers are the topic of our blog post today! To learn more about the benefits of Amazon Prime for teachers and students, check out Amazon Prime Teacher Guide. With its expandable double-deck design, this bag offers ample space, making it an excellent choice for those long teaching days or field trips.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Whether it be a back-to-school fair, a health and resources pop-up, a community market, or a standalone event, an ACP enrollment event is an excellent way for community members to learn about the program, ask questions, and get enrollment support. Think outside of the box in your outreach!

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Kyle Pace

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Overall, Instagram provides an engaging space for teen coders to highlight their coding journey, get inspiration from others, and collaborate with the next generation of programmers. Include relevant tags like #teencode, #codinglife, #developersoftiktok, or specific languages like #python and #javascript. Let’s code together!”

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 6, 2019

I was honored to have been interviewed for Educational Leadership, ASCD's flagship magazine, on the power of Twitter as part of a Personal Learning Network (PLN). As you will see, the true power of connected learning is what you glean from the people you engage with. You can read the article HERE. We don’t know what we don’t know.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 6, 2022

I'm writing this partially to explain the lack of content on this blog in that area; partially to get some things off my chest; partially to explain why productivity still matters to me, regardless; and partially to gauge how many people care about this subject. " responses, I do try to listen and learn.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 18, 2022

This blog post is part of my personal challenge to take one quote from this beginning of the year compilation and dive deeper into what the quote means to me! This would be a great challenge for not only someone diving into blogging, but it could also be great for a podcast challenge as well. On to this week’s post!

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

But that’s what we do—we remove support structures from them so that they’re learning on their own. The students handle everything—invoicing, project management, quality control, shipping, communication with customers—and learn the importance of things like showing up on time. DreamYard Maker Jam, 2016. Source: DreamYard. “We

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 18, 2018

Trevor MacKenzie on episode 315 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Then use these as leveraging points to create powerful learning opportunities. Then it’s just really meaningful learning, isn’t it? Listen Now. Vicki: Wow.

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Get to know influencers and tag them as relevant. If you have information they may find relevant to may be able to help with, tag them. Put your Twitter handle in your online spaces i.e. website, blog, wiki. Don''t forget to let people know how they can follow you in your online spaces. Give viewers a link.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 14, 2017

They can save you tons of time, you can use them to improve communication with parents and students, or create real learning impact. offers fun, social learning games, for any subject; you just have to find the best one for your class. The learning experience can’t get more immersive than this. These can be great.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Also, be sure to check out our tips video for parents , as well as our detailed review of Seesaw's potential for learning. Seesaw is a digital platform where teachers of all grade levels and content areas can create learning tasks and assignments for students. What is Seesaw? Who can use Seesaw? How do teachers use Seesaw?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2017

All which came with a hefty price tag. But sometimes these conversations focus too much on the furniture, at the expense of how they shape the learning environment. This was possible because the new layout of the room allowed students to move about freely, choosing a space that works best for them.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Like it or not, at this point in time Facebook is the winner when it comes to social learning communities. It is also where organizations have learned staff can effectively connect to keep communication going and learn and support from one another. In addition to her award-winning blog, The Innovative Educator , Ms.

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 28, 2017

I am past the seven-year mark of my digital portfolio (you are reading it right now), and I would say that both personally and professionally, nothing has made more of an impact on my career or learning. The hard part is convincing others on why it is so powerful to create a blog as portfolio and stick with it. There is a difference.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 28, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Using your smartphone, you can now scan a human. Jaime shares 12 top tips and resources for engaging learning with immersive tech, including 3D scanning, 3D printing, and more. So I was going to write a blog every single day. Links added by author.

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The Web20Classroom

MARCH 12, 2013

Visit my post on hashtags and chats to learn more. Both these services allow you to tag your bookmarks making it even more easy to find the resources you need. Check out this post to learn more about setting up Diigo and getting all the nifty educator only features. Perhaps you even have a blog or two that you read.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 12, 2018

The book was published in 1995, just as the Internet was beginning to invent for itself a space that previously had not existed. The following year I joined a ground breaking project in which my team set up digital learning spaces for businesses and individuals in hard-to-reach rural areas that until then had no infrastructure.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 4, 2019

The huge community features blog posts, excerpts, giveaways, author interviews and excerpts, bookshelf lists, a book apothecary, podcasts and more. Jen pointed to the most important learning. If you’d like your work to be discoverable, tag everything with #bookbento or #digibookbento. Books the least important part of it.

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Tom Murray

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Simply digitizing past practice serves little instructional purpose and ultimately leads to low levels of learning. These types of practices have lead to a number of studies that have indicated that purchasing more technology does not increase student learning. An app is available for Chrome as well.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The conversation is about Artificial Intelligence. Learn more or connect with Amanda on Twitter @ AmandaFoxSTEM Brad Weinstein Brad Weinstein founded TeacherGoals in 2014 as a way to inspire educators that do such important work with students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Require Less Space – you get the same data stored in a much smaller surface area. This is easily done with a Chrome extension like QR-Code Tag which will grab the QR code for URLs. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Have younger students scan a QR code so they don’t have to type the long URLs.

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Buncee

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Recently, we were honored when Rachelle Dene Poth shared her thoughts about Buncee and Immersive Reader on Eric Sheninger's blog A Principal's Reflections: Reflections on teaching, learning, and leadership. Click the button below to read the blog post for yourself! Read Rachelle's blog post here! About Rachelle.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Each post, for the most part, contains ideas and strategies focusing on improving teaching, learning, and leadership. By the time I actually got around to posting this piece on my blog the Houston area is still drying out. I learned of a few families who lost everything. You can’t put a price tag on that. Life is a gift.

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TeacherCast

MAY 22, 2020

Someone comes up to you and asks how to “do YouTube” You go off in a monologue for 30 min about the importance of Video SEO and how to keyword search your competitors using the best apps to dig into Keywords and Tags. It is at that moment you realize that the learner's eyes have glassed over. This is a big one!

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Social tagging for example, is becomes increasingly stronger as people populate it with content and links. Blogs rely not only on content, but on users, and ultimately on the dialogue that ensues between all those who read the content. So how does Learning 2.0 For me, Learning 1.0 (if By contrast, Learning 2.0

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Write Out 2020, a free two-week event running from October 11–25, 2020, was organized as a series of online activities where educators, students, and the public were invited to explore national parks and other public spaces to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Now we often do this without thinking; it’s become a natural way we navigate online spaces. Keyword Searches in Spark I’m a huge fan of Adobe Spark and if you’ve visited my blog before that’s no surprise. In the screenshots in this blog post, you can see the search features in each of the three Spark tools.

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