My Island View

DECEMBER 28, 2016

This year I made a few changes to my WordPress Blog site. Does the average person even know or understand what a blog is? Do professionals understand how blogs influence their profession? Are teachers using blogs as both relevant reading and writing tools? Are students using blogs to create their voice?

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Heather Callihan in episode 143 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Safely Involve Students in Social Media and More Ways to Give Students a Voice. Our students are in the classroom. Heather teaches us how. Listen Now. Enhanced Transcript.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

The post 15 Ways for Students to Use Google Keep [infographic] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. There are so many possibilities that I decided to put together this post and infographic with ideas for how Google Keep can be used in the classroom: 15 Ways for Students to Use Google Keep! 15 Ways for Students to Use #GoogleKeep.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

We adapted the Design Thinking Process to include additional phases based on our own experiences in schools with educators and kids. We adapted the Design Thinking Process to include additional phases based on our own experiences in schools with educators and kids. Post by Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Crossed posted at [link].

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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). Does it help to focus in on one platform--like Twitter or FB--or do you need to build a diverse network with blogs, social media, podcasts? You can read the article HERE.

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My Island View

DECEMBER 2, 2022

As an educator, I was an early adopter and advocate for social media as a tool for professional collaboration, and development. Along with all this, I began to explore Twitter as an additional source of educator collaboration. In addition to direct exchanges of information, I used it to move traffic to my other collaborative sites.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2019

Tom Loud on episode 509 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Tom Loud dropped out of high school because he didn’t connect with his teachers. Now, Tom is a 10-year classroom veteran who is working to make his classroom (and help others) connect with kids in new ways. I hope you enjoy!

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 11, 2022

Click To Tweet. Ebooks are a great way to have students create any of those storytelling ideas. Stop motion animation in Google Slides can be a little more complicated, but also a really fun way for students to show through images. . Another fun way to tell stories through geography is with Google Earth.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

I believe that by working together and encouraging openness, we can make a difference for our students, the communities we live and work in, and the places where change is needed. Collaboration . Keeping these habits in mind, I’ve encouraged my Kindergarten students to use everything from Twitter to Skype to padlet to blogging.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I promise you will find some great information coming your way this school year…So Sign Up Now and please pass this on with a retweet! – Mike Gorman ( [link] ). Our standards are filled with nouns and verbs. It is back to school time 2020 for many of us in the United States and beyond. Check out my Booking Page . Thanks so much.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 1, 2012

The following is a guest blog post by Dr. Greg Farley. Check out his blog Embrace, Adapt, Enhance. We then went to the cafeteria where students were allowed to use devices during their lunch period and to our surprise, most students were eating, chatting (face-to-face), and just hanging out. I was impressed.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 17, 2015

What are the best ways for a teacher to engage their classroom in a global conversation? From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Because of the way students form their opinions, if you’re not building a bridge, you’re building a wall. There is no middle ground here.

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Digital Promise

MAY 14, 2019

If you’re looking for innovative ways to involve your community, see if some of the examples below inspire you to act. Holding in-person events (on large and small scales) for community members. One major way to connect with families and members of the community is to hold in-person events.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Join the movement by accomplishing any goal from any of the cycles then letting us know through a reflection or status update on our Facebook community , Twitter ( #30GoalsEdu ), or Instagram.com/30goals. This year, we also have the additional challenge of using our accomplishments to inspire other teachers and students.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Join the movement by accomplishing any goal from any of the cycles then letting us know through a reflection or status update on our Facebook community , Twitter ( #30GoalsEdu ), or Instagram.com/30goals. This year, we also have the additional challenge of using our accomplishments to inspire other teachers and students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Doug Green on episode 284 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Dr. Doug Green challenges our thinking about school, how we should teach, and the flaws with the testing programs we have in education today. It’s Way More Complex.”. www.stlinatl.com.

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My Island View

JANUARY 29, 2020

Technology can be most effectively used for collaboration. These sites are designed for collaboration and collaboration is a key component in adult learning. My driving force, in all that I now do in education, hinges on one belief: If we are to better educate our kids, we need first to better educate their educators.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Tom Loud on episode 212 [A special encore episode] of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Now, Tom is a 10-year classroom veteran who is working to make his classroom (and help others) connect with kids in new ways. Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2019

She describes herself as mom, teacher, friend, collaborator, math lover, and problem solver. As a K-5 interventionist and blogger, she tweets practical math lessons and motivational quotes. Tweeting from El Paso, Nancy Crouch is a source of education excitement. Teachers to Follow on Twitter (+ Teacher Experts). I am GISD proud.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2015

.’ You might even understand the purpose of a PLN–to provide educators with a collaborative learning environment–but think you don’t need one, or staff development provided by your school is all you can handle. What is a PLN. According to D. It doesn’t mean they have all the answers. Why build a PLN.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 21, 2018

Stephanie Goldman on episode 316 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Stephanie calls this the ACE method of mentoring: Access, Collaboration and Experimentation. The A stands for access, the C stands for collaborate and the E stands for experiment.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 31, 2017

A conversation with Greetzel Mojica on episode 88 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Here’s the tweet that got us interested in what Greetzel is doing with her sixth graders. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes. Stream by clicking here. Full Bio As Submitted.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Our challenge is… how to break down the classroom walls even more with the technology we have today. Before continuing, I would appreciate having you take a moment to subscribe to this Blog by RSS or email and follow me at ( mjgormans ). Also, please share this post with others and even provide a re-tweet with tools at bottom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

You can establish a personality or “build your brand.” She also insists the term “digital citizenship” is rarely the best way to get people to pay attention.) What does it mean to be a good citizen? It’s also bigger things, like voting, volunteering and treating everyone around you with compassion and respect.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 28, 2014

He is trying to bring Admin, Educators, Parents, Students, Community, & School Board together in a transparent way. You have taken control of your own learning You have made the decision to be a public learner, swimming through social media waters using tools like Twitter, Google+, Linked In, blogs, etc. Share your story.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

The post 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Users with a personal Google account can now both join and create classes. This opens so many doors for teachers, students, and parents to connect, collaborate and learn. 20 NEW Ways to Use Google Classroom. Keep reading!

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

But it was a wake up call to me and the way I approached delivering Professional Development. How to send a Tweet. Now, I am by no means the first person to think about flipping PD or faculty meetings. Lucky for me (and him) he was just asleep. I'm going to bet we can all recall a meeting or boring PD we had to endure.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 16, 2021

Click To Tweet. Thank you to Becky Young for this tweet: Almost done catching up #TCEA before the recordings disappear tomorrow! This learning can take place anywhere, anytime, and it is personalized and differentiated. This learning can take place anywhere, anytime, and it is personalized and differentiated.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 13, 2017

“ What works ought to drive what we put in front of our children. ” – Jim Shelton. to address an essential question: How might we collaborate to ensure evidence of impact, not marketing or popularity, drives edtech adoption and implementation? In action sessions, participants developed next steps for moving the work forward.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2018

We do this in different ways. Mr. Jasper had a way of making each kid feel special. Jasper had a way of making each kid feel special. He has since moved on to a middle school assistant principal position and I am confident he continues to care about kids much in the way he did when he was in the classroom.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2016

To ban or not to ban, that is always the question when it comes to personal devices in the classroom. If used intentionally, mobile devices can be an express pass to exploring beyond the walls of our schools. If used intentionally, mobile devices can be an express pass to exploring beyond the walls of our schools.

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My Island View

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

There is however a growing number of educators using Twitter who look for strategies to better serve them in social media for collaborative learning. First, we must understand that the worst advocates for collaborating with Twitter are more often educators who are collaborating through Twitter. I will attempt to keep it simple.

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ProfHacker

APRIL 26, 2017

Watch recording below (or read the storify by Robert Schuwer, and some crowd-curated select quotes from blogs Twitter and the hangout itself): This conversation was sparked by controversy over David Wiley’s initial blogpost (he has since revised his view) on what open pedagogy is, as part of the #YearOfOpen invited posts.

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My Island View

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I see the benefits of having a collaborative tool like Twitter to improve the profession of teaching. The very things that need to be exchanged for collaboration include: articles, posts, movies, podcasts, websites, whitepapers, videos, interviews, and now even books.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 10, 2018

Mike Lawrence on episode 287 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. With a big hat tip to our mutual friend Hall Davidson who started this event, we learn the ins and outs of student media festival and how you can “steal” their ideas and run your own!

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 6, 2010

I joined with 50 other exemplary administrators all on a journey that took our learning to levels not readily imagined; hence my analogy to “Lighting in a bottle.” Anyone reading the tweets from #GTAdmin could feel the excitement, I am sure. The conference was held on March 5, 2010 in San Antonio, Texas. and technology do)?

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

This year, with the help of ISTE Librarians Network President Nikki Robertson, I asked our colleagues who attended the Network Breakfast to help us all out by sharing their biggest takeaways. For instance, Kasey Bell generously shared her own resource-packed presentations on her Shake Up Learning Blog prior to the conference.

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