Sat.Nov 13, 2010 - Fri.Nov 19, 2010

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Social Media With Promethean

The Web20Classroom

'Over the last few days I spent some time with the folks at the Promethean Headquarters in Alpharetta, Georgia, talking to them about their social media presence. If you didn''t know, they have one. Well, sort of. In visiting, I hoped to talk to them about what they can do to increase their presence and how each of the different teams in Promethean can utilize things like Twitter, blogs, and Facebook to reach out and advance their mission.

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Make a Virtual Turkey

SpeechTechie

'The Make a Stuffed Turkey game at Primary Games is a fun way to work on sequencing and helping kids understand all that goes into a Turkey Dinner. The click-and-drag activity prompts each step in "making" a stuffed turkey, and is great fun (though the music is annoying). Language Lens Consider a predictive pre-activity- brainstorm ingredients that go into making a turkey!

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A new economic model for Higher Education: Part 1 history

Connecting 2 the World

More and more people have recently been writing about a new economic model for higher education ( Andy Coverdale , Clark Quinn , and Tom Haskins , just to name a few). However, as we grapple around the world with how higher education should be structured and funded, we aren't willing to reexamine the underlying beliefs upon which the funding and academic structures were created.

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Vuvox

wwwatanabe

'Fun little editor combined with appreciation for our AJUSD teachers. and voila, my first Vuvox collage: P.S. For those of you wondering, I changed the music to something I made on GarageBand so that I wouldn''t be breaking any copyright laws.

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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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Download YouTube Vids 4 School in4 Easy Steps and YAY Math!

The Daring Librarian

'Problem: Teacher Wants to Show a YouTube Video A few days ago one of my awesome 7th grade math teachers came to me in the library with her laptop & a problem. She had downloaded a kick butt Math video (above) from YouTube but couldn''t get it to work. (she had downloaded it as.html) Could I help? Sure! Solution! KeepVid.com Now.of course YouTube is blocked in my school (yeah, I''m fighting that, too!

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Hope to see you at ASHA!

SpeechTechie

'I''m getting excited for midweek when I will be heading to Philly for the ASHA Convention! I''m involved with two presentations (what was I thinking?) and my handouts are all uploaded. I hope you''ll check ''em out and put me in your Planner if you are attending. The first is a poster- "Narrative Rubrics to Support Evaluation and Eligibility in School Settings (Session 1140, Thurs 3:00-4:30).

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I Can See Why He's One of the 20 to Watch

wwwatanabe

'I''m still pondering all that I got out of the T & L Conference in Phoenix last month. One of the presentations was a combination of technology integration for STEM projects. The two presenters were Robert Miller , one of NSBA''s " 20 to Watch " for 2010, and BrainPOP''s Kari Stubbs. I loved the practical ways Miller used BrainPOP to engage students. and was entranced by his integrating the GPS into his curriculum.

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Completely Online Global Education Conference -- a sign of the times

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

'Courtesy of teachthought.com It''s history in the making -- Global Education Conference 2010 will be completely online, and it involves a a multitude of big players. November 15-19, 2010, and absolutely free! It''s mind-boggling: 397 general sessions from 62 countries, plus 63 keynote speakers. I don''t see a search box, but there''s the schedule of offerings and times, for those of us who live in Hawaii.

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Plimoth Plantation

SpeechTechie

'Check out an excellent site by Plimoth Plantation that you can use for so much more than talking about Thanksgiving. You Be the Historian presents a number of interactives that present a balanced view of what happened in Massachusetts in the 1620s, and also a context for working on language skills and strategies. Here''s a breakdown of a few of the activities.

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Week of November 15, 2010 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page.

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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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EduBlog Awards 2010 Nominations

The Daring Librarian

'The 2010 Edublog Awards – Nominations Open! Nominations: Close Friday 3 December! Voting: Ends Tuesday 14 December! Award Ceremony: Wednesday 15 December! The EduBlogger award nomination process is a wonderful opportunity Pay it Forward by recognizing those in our PLN for their hard work and generosity. Thank you all! (and I wish I could name more than one on several of these categories!

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Tools to Help Become a Tech Savvy Educator

A Principal's Reflections

'Cross-posted at The Educator''s Royal Treatment. As I mentioned in a previous post I have been working on a educational technology presentation for principals in a NJ school district. The title I chose was "Harnessing the Power of Educational Technology" as I firmly believe that the many free tools available at our fingertips possess the ability to enhance our effectiveness and efficiency as administrators.

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Balance the Federal Budget

SpeechTechie

'Seem like an activity that is a little out of reach for your middle or high-school students? The New York Times recently published an interactive that allows you to select and cut spending areas from the budget and eliminate shortfalls. This would be a good experiential activity for students who have current events assignments and need to meet standards of understanding how the government works.

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Qwicki

SpeechTechie

'Qwiki is a brand new site that has great potential for use by SLPs. Enter a search term into Qwiki (right now, the available terms are limited), and a wall of images and video-like a dynamic slide show-results, along with audio providing information about the topic. This is why the site is called "The Information Experience." Right now, Qwiki is in Alpha, which means it is in the very early stages of testing.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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Tables Around The World

SpeechTechie

'Click the link below to see the essay Check out Time Magazine''s excellent photo essay, What the World Eats, Part I , which features 16 families from around the globe, a visually stimulating photo (look for things your family eats too!) of their week''s groceries, and the cost of feeding their family. This site will give kids- who probably never asked their parents how much it costs to feed them- some healthy perspective in this Thanksgiving season.

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Adding Blogger Gadgets & Customizing Headers

The Daring Librarian

'I get really excited when, after I give a keynote or do a preso at a conference, people from those events contact me later with questions about new things they are trying that is making them feel that awkward growing feeling! Much like I felt a few weeks ago with creating my first Wikipedia page. Several of these wonderful educators are trying to create new blogs and Twittering for the first time!

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