A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

'Tomorrow I welcome back my teachers and am extremely excited to share with them some of the things I have been working on over the summer. Probably the most significant is the Tri-State Educational Technology Conference (TSETC) that will be held at New Milford High School on Saturday October 2, 2010. This event came together so quickly as a result of a conversation I had with Schoology as we threw around some ideas on how we could collaborate.

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The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 31, 2010

'Critical thinking In the classroom tags : criticalthinking favorite 10 Google Forms for the Classroom | edte.ch tags : googledocs GoogleForms favorite critical-thinking - home tags : critical-thinking criticalthinking favorite Getting Started with Google Docs in the Classroom - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education tags : googledocs favorite Watch and Learn: 20 Free Educational Video Sites!

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EdTechSandyK

AUGUST 29, 2010

'What you post online can have serious ramifications for your career. I''ve said it before , I''m saying it again, and I''m pretty sure this won''t be the last time I write about it. My hope is that people will listen and consider what they post on their social/professional networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. I read and think a lot about this topic, so the CNN clip below caught my attention.

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SpeechTechie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

'Our students tend to be distractible. Correct me if I am wrong. I believe YouTube has enormous potential for instruction (hopefully your district does, too, and doesn''t block it), but nothing annoys me more than when I take the time to locate a fun instructional video on YouTube, and while I am presenting it, student B says "OH, there''s a link to _, can we watch that too?

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The Daring Librarian

AUGUST 29, 2010

'( an after-school special webinar that''s not totally awkward !) Monday September 13th - 8pm EST ( NOTE: changed date due to Labor Day holiday ) Guests: Gwyneth Jones, Shannon Miller & Keisa Williams Host: Gwyneth Jones Back to School Special : Wikipage A casual discussion to generate ideas on how to build school allies, support new teachers & become indispensable to admin & staff at the beginning of every school year.

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The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 29, 2010

'One of the challenges teachers face when teaching kids about content on the Internet is evaluation. It can be difficult for kids (especially the younger ones) to know or be able to see that even if a website looks fancy the information it contains can be misleading or flat out wrong. Most times when kids are giving an assignment the first place they go is Google which can lead them to sites in their quest for information that might not be what we as educators want them to have or, again, could

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SpeechTechie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

'Please check out Moms with Apps today for a description of two great free apps available from the U.S. (I feel I need to qualify that after a Canadian reader- thanks Janelle- pointed out that a free app wasn''t free there) iTunes store today, Friday, September 3. Montessori Crosswords (only on iPad, sorry, and now that I have one I could test it out!

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Connecting 2 the World

AUGUST 30, 2010

Well, last month was especially busy as we start looking for colleges for next year for my son and he registered to take a couple of college courses while he is in high school. I'll blog about that experience later. Today, though, was the first day of classes for me. I'm excited as I'm trying out 3 new things: 1) I've created a facebook group in place of the Ning.

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The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 28, 2010

'Googlize Your Lessons tags : google googledocs lessonplans PD favorite Wolfram Alpha Tools in the Classroom | Hack Education tags : wolfram favorite math How to start a PLN tags : PLN favorite ISTE | Essential Conditions for the NETS for Students tags : iste favorite Project-Based Learning Strategies and Research for Educators tags : pbl favorite Posted from Diigo.

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The Daring Librarian

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

'I was asked to give a short overview about advocacy for school libraries (and librarians) to the middle school media specialists in my district and created a Prezi giving quick highlights. I based it on the powerful & informative School Library Journal article co-written by Joyce Valenza and Doug Johnson that really spells it all out! Things That Keep Us Up at Night along with a few of my opinions thrown in for good measure.

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SpeechTechie

AUGUST 30, 2010

'In addition to providing great therapy resources, the Web can also make our complicated SLP lives a little less complicated. Please click on over to the ADVANCE Speech in the Schools Blog to check out my first post in a series of I-don''t-know-how-many-yet on the usefulness of specific (free!) Google tools. This week, let''s tackle that ever-fun calendar problem!

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 30, 2010

Anyone who blogs regularly will have discovered several truths. The first is that you are only as good as your last post. Many people struggle to maintain a regular blog that is consistently good, or at least meaningful. The blank page and writer's block are familar companions to all authors. But there is a contradiction here. Although you are only as good as your last blog, all your previously blogs are also out there, archived, published for people to read (and for you to revisit, if you wish)

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The Electric Educator

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

'Every once in a while I have an idea that turns out as well as I envisioned it. Today was my lucky day. Today was the first full day of school. In my 9th grade biology class I gave an overview of the year using PowerPoint. While I was talking about the various units, projects, and assignments for the year, I asked the students to complete a short survey using my iPod Touch.

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SpeechTechie

AUGUST 30, 2010

'If you have given Kerpoof a brief look but not signed up for their free Kerpoof Scholastics service, I would really recommend joining. Scholastics gives you the opportunity to set up classes (say, a grade-level group) and control logins, passwords and how the site is being used. In addition, you will receive some newsletters that give quite specific academic applications of Kerpoof.

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