Sat.Nov 27, 2010 - Fri.Dec 03, 2010

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Talk is Cheap

A Principal's Reflections

'I was re-reading a recent post by George Couros ( Is Change the True Barrier? ) and began to reflect on some of the comments made directly on his site as well as those in the Twitter stream. The following comment by David Jakes really got me thinking: " Perpetual never-ending conversation about change is the barrier." As I looked more into the recent pleas for change in education I came across this video: Talk is cheap (I do think this is a pretty good video though)!

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6 Nifty Ideas For Using Google Apps In The Classroom

The Web20Classroom

'Over the past few weeks I have collected some great classroom resources surrounding the use of Google for various classroom activities. Here are a few of my favorites. (In no particular order. I don''t want to make anyone jealous or anything.) Googlios [link] E-portfolios are becoming more and more popular. This site teaches educators and students how to organize all of their digital content in one place (a Google Site) for showing off their best work.

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Voice Cards App

SpeechTechie

'Voice Cards is an iPhone/iPod/iPad app you can use to create stacks of "flash" cards with auditory rather than written information. The app is currently priced at $.99- very reasonable for such a versatile therapy resource. Voice Cards is really easy to use and has many applications for SLPs- it would be motivating to use with students'' vocabulary lists.

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Livescribe Pencast Book Reviews & More!

The Daring Librarian

'Or.Craft Time with the Daring Librarian! Addmitedly, the Daring Librarian is a geeky gadget grrl! I''ve been talking about the Livescribe pen on my Gadget-A-Go-Go wiki & in presos for years now! Finally, I got one! Woohoo! now.what to do with it? Hmmmm SO many ideas! Background information: the Livescribe pen will record audio and writing/drawing and can play back with just a tap of the pen.

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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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Are You Meeting the Needs of Today's Learner?

A Principal's Reflections

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Live Tuesday Dec. 7th with Kieran Egan on "Re-Imagining Education"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Tuesday, December 7th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Kieran Egan , director of the Imaginative Education Research Group. Dr. Egan''s work focuses on a new educational theory and its implications for a changed curriculum, teaching practices, and the institution of the school. He is the author of over 20 books, including most recently The Future of Education: Reimagining Our Schools from the Ground Up , and Learning in Depth (coming 2011).

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Classifying feedback

Connecting 2 the World

My laptop battery is not working, so lately I have been hand writing all of my perceptions as I analyze my data. However, my work yesterday resulted in an insight I wanted to share. This is still a work in progress, so I am open to any research that someone might be able to point my way. In describing the collaborative process, many of the participants (members of the distributed group) used the word "feedback" often.

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Celebrating Diversity- A Capella & Viral Style!

The Daring Librarian

'or. It''s a Maccabeats Chanuka! Our middle school kids really got into the Maccabeats Candlelight ( lyrics ) video this morning on MHTV- our live TV news broadcast. In fact, people were singing it all over the school! I just had to share the Maccabeats because they are a bucket full of AWEsome! This music video re-mix mash-up teaches diversity, history, and pure potato latkes love!

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Live Thursday Dec. 9th with Julie Young from Florida Virtual School

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Thursday, December 9th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Julie Young, President and Chief Executive Officer of Florida Virtual School. In 1997, Julie Young pioneered the launch of Florida Virtual School with the goal of providing high quality, online courses to students throughout the State of Florida. That vision has resulted in Florida Virtual School’s becoming the largest provider of Internet-based courseware and instruction for middle and high school stu

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Saturday Screencast: Google Lit Trips and "Make Way For Ducklings"

SpeechTechie

'This is the inaugural edition of the Saturday Screencast! I''d like to publish a screencast at least once a month, but probably more frequently. This one is based on a resource I presented at ASHA, and which a few eager attendees had questions about after the session. This is one of those resources that''s sorta hard to explain without showing how it works, hence the screencast.

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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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Speak Up 2010

wwwatanabe

'made on Wondersay - Animate text with style The Speak Up survey collects authentic feedback from students, families, and educators across the country. Data from prior surveys show students are primarily interested in: 1) social based learning; 2) un-tethered learning (anytime, anywhere, any device); and 3) digitally-rich learning environments. When given the question, "What is the ultimate digital textbook?

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What Librarians Make -- Joyce Valenza Says It All

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

'Inspired by Taylor Mali''s "What Does a Teacher Make?" and in response to articles by Dr. Marc Bernstein, Superintendent of the Valley Stream (NY) Central High School District that question the relevance of libraries, Librarian Joyce Valenza says it all about what it means to be a librarian. ¡Bravisima, Joyce! Here''s the text, from the Neverending Search article : What librarians make.

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Tuesday Live in Elluminate with Phillip Schlechty - Leading for Learning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Tuesday, November 30th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Phillip Schlechty, author of Leading for Learning: How to Transform Schools into Learning Organizations. " Leading for Learning offers educators the framework, tools, and processes they need to transform their schools from bureaucracies into dynamic learning organizations.

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Explore and "build" your own model village

SpeechTechie

'Bekonscot Model Village and Railway in the UK has a great visual and interactive website that allows you to take a photo tour of their modeled towns and then create your own. Language Lens: Discussing and creating a small town is a great way to target a variety of language skills and concepts, among them the categories of buildings, businesses, and other places in your neighborhood/city, spatial concepts, and storytelling skills.

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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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UDL Explained

SpeechTechie

'Not every consultation between an SLP and a student’s teachers is about technology, of course, but on some level, every consultation is about Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Check out Chris Bugaj’s terrific video UDL Explained and please give him a vote over at the People’s Choice Awards for UDL ! On my Mac, the video opened in Windows Media Player , so you may need to make sure you have that (good application to have on your computer anyway).

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Week of November 29, 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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Week of December 6, 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.