Sat.Nov 26, 2016

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Personal Finance Tips and Edupreneurship | @NJEA

TeacherCast

In this episode, New Jersey Educator, Gabs Tanglao reminds us of why it is vitally important to know where your finances are going and how to make the most of your savings. The post Personal Finance Tips and Edupreneurship | @NJEA appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. In this episode, New Jersey Educator, Gabs Tanglao reminds us of why it is vitally important to know where your finances are going and how to make the most of your savings.

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6 Great iPad Apps for Handwriting Notes

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

November 26, 2016 If you find it hard to make the transition from pen and paper note taking to digital note taking, the apps below will definitely help you strike a balance between the two.read more.

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Skypeathon 2016

My Paperless Classroom

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with New Jersey educator and Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, Steve Isaacs and TEDx Speaker and Middle School Educator Marialice Curran to discuss how the Skypeathon has impacted their classrooms. The post How can I Participate in the #Skypeathon with my students? | @Microsoft_EDU appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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A Must Read Interactive Guide for Teachers New to iPad

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

November 26, 2016 For those of you new to the world of iPad, here is a great free interactive guide from Apple Education to help you make the best of iPad in your teaching and in your professional.read more.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Understanding Publishing Settings in the NEW Google Sites | #AskTheTechCoach

My Paperless Classroom

Google Sites is a new and amazing application, however, publishing can be a bit of a tricky task. Here are some tips and tricks to get the most out of your website. The post Understanding Publishing Settings in the NEW Google Sites | #AskTheTechCoach appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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What's Up with Android on Chrome?

The Electric Educator

The announcement of Android Apps coming to Chromebooks was one of the biggest announcements from Google in 2016. The original announcement happened back in May and the Google Play store is rolling out to more and more Chrome devices. I'm a big believer in ChromeOS (I wrote a book about it!), so I was interested in this major update to an already great platform.

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Ever Since Then

Reflections

I think it was third grade, maybe second. The older gentleman would pick me up from my classroom and walk me to speech therapy. My memory sees it as a space under a stairwell. He'd hold my chin and say the sounds over and over asking me to repeat them. SHHH.CHHHHH. He'd give me reminders about slowing down when I talk. I felt a bit of shame I couldn't get those sounds right and I couldn't no matter how hard I tried get my brain to slow down when I talked.

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Most Memorable Blogs Posts of the Year – 2016

Reading By Example

Every year around the Thanksgiving holiday, I provite a short list of memorable blog posts I read the last twelve months or so. This is not an award show. I cannot say that these are the “best blogs” of the year or anything, although these posts were very well written. I curate other writers’ posts on my own blog for two reasons. Selfishly, I want to have an easy way to come back to what they wrote to read again and possibly inform my own writing.

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A Career Caught in the Swirl of Ed Reform: What I’ve Discovered

The 21st Century Principal

My entire career as an educator, all 27 years, has been spent in the perpetual swirl of “reform” that enveloped education when I first set foot into the classroom. It was in the cusp of the “Era of Accountability” that I began teaching, and the clarion calls for site-based management, uniform standards, and testing were just beginning to resound. Soon to follow was the Total Quality Classroom movement, multiple intelligence theory, and right-left brain theory, critical thinking teaching, thinkin

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Google Sheets: Split and Transpose

Teacher Tech

Google Sheets: Split and Transpose This Google Sheets trick helps you to extract lines of text out of a single cell and have the text in individual cells. Rubric Where I was doing this was using a rubric. Multiple criteria were entered into a single cell, but this made it difficult to mark each of the […]. The post Google Sheets: Split and Transpose appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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#TrumpEducation Still Popular But This Presentation Hack Is The Most Popular Post Innovative Educators Are Reading

The Innovative Educator

Innovative Educators have gone through a wave of emotions following the election and at times it is the last thing we want to think of. That was evident this week on the Innovative Educator blog. The series of posts I shared on what a #TrumpEducation means, was nudged out of the top. Taking the lead this week is a post where I share how this “ Hack Will Help You Deliver Killer Presentations.

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Truth, truthiness, triangulation and the librarian way: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

NeverEndingSearch

We were guaranteed a free press, We were not guaranteed a neutral or a true press. We can celebrate the journalistic freedom to publish without interference from the state. We can also celebrate our freedom to share multiple stories through multiple lenses. But it has always been up to the reader or viewer to make the reliability and credibility decisions.