The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

'I dunno about you but I might do about a billion searches a day. From everything to how to unbrick a phone to a recipe for a holiday party to how to spell words, search is a natural part of how I browse the web. Sometimes its easier to just search for a site, even when I already know the address. (I think that might be on the verge of lazy, but hey, I own it) Kids do a lot of searching too.

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The Mobile Native

DECEMBER 2, 2011

'QR codes, also known as Quick Response codes, are starting to pop up everywhere, and now they are finding their way into classrooms. Here are some QR code resources and links.

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The 21st Century Principal

DECEMBER 2, 2011

'As a high school principal, it is glaringly clear to me that we’ve got to find a way for high school students to earn college credit while still enrolled in high school. Before the imploding of the economy, and massive budget cuts, my students had several options to earn college credit both online and through a local community college. Now, there are no opportunities for my students to earn college credit.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 2, 2011

We have had pencils in our school now for some time, and we were one of the first to adopt them, but it has been an uphill struggle. There aren't enough to go around, and often several of the children have to crowd around to use the pencils at the same time. But we are better off than many schools. We have a well equipped pencil suite where the chained desktop pencils are used in special sessions, and often, as a reward for good behaviour children are allowed to come into the suite (under teache

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

'Pencasting to Support Critical Thinking | Livescribe Education tags: livescribe criticalthinking favorite Google SketchUp-Tutorials tags: sketchup google favorite tutorials Quality Rubrics tags: rubrics favorite “Twitter? I Don’t Get It!” A 3-Step Guide For Newbies tags: twitter favorite Ultimate List Of Twitter Tools tags: twitter favorite Critical Thinking Foundation tags: criticalthinking critical_thinking favorite Nine Tenets of Passion-Based Learning tags: favorite passion passionbasedlear

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EdTechSandyK

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

'After watching the Edublog Awards process for a few years, and even voting in the final round before, I''ve decided it''s time for me to get involved at the grass-roots level by making some of my own nominations in 2011! As many have lamented in other posts around the edubloggersphere, it is often difficult to pick the people/resources that are "the best," but if I look at it from the perspective of "Who has influenced/helped/inspired me most recently?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

'Join me Thursday, December 1st, for another live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar as Tasha Bergson-Michelson brings Debbie Abilock and Jole Seroff together for a panel and audience conversation on "search literacy" in education: what is search literacy, what sources should students be using, how do we help them evaluate what they find, what are the biggest misconceptions about search, and what is the school''s role in teaching search literacy and skills?

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wwwatanabe

DECEMBER 1, 2011

'One of the lessons I''ve learned is a strong leader is someone who can start the momentum and will continue to carry it through. You see, just having the vision and getting it rolling is a step in the right direction, but to continue to nurture it and finish what you''ve started is what counts. Professional Development and Project Based Learning Project based learning (PBL) and professional development (PD) require some effort to complete.

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The 21st Century Principal

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

'There is no doubt, the Web is all about sharing documents, and new tools are arising all the time that facilitate our ability to do just that. Recently, someone shared a new Web tool developed called TagMyDoc.com which allows users to share their documents through the use of QR codes. TagMyDoc basically allows users to use QR codes as a means to share and provide access to documents.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

The notion of learning spaces is gaining traction across all sectors of education. Learning spaces are not only used to describe places we can learn, but can also be representative of the human mind. The only difference other than scale, is that physical learning spaces have their limits, whilst no-one has yet been able to define the boundaries of the human mind and its capabilities.

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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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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

'This info and video appears as part of our Essential Tech Skills 4 SLPs site but I wanted to make sure you ran across it, so am posting it here too! Apologies for the length of the video, but it was tough to make that mini-lesson more mini. The skills demoed here can be used to make your own visuals such as the PowerPoint cue cards I posted about some time ago.

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The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

'I''m shamelessly lifting & adapting from Joyce''s NeverEnding Search blog this week - if you follow my Tweets you''ll know we''re dealing with a family emergency right now (see below) but the TL Cafe is so close to my heart I gotta give you the heads up, right!? "Time to look back at the best of 2011 in our school library/edtech world and share!

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The 21st Century Principal

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

'All of the resources I''ve shared in the past on this blog have involved some kind of educational value. During the Holiday shopping season, we all find ourselves looking for tools to help us make the best decisions regarding which products to buy. Recently, someone shared an interesting consumer tool called "Find the Best." "Find the Best" appears to be a web tool designed with the consumer in mind.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Technology supported learning has long been a contested terrain, and there are at least two views about its effects. The first, a long established claim, is that all technology is neutral, and that 'media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction, but do not influence student achievement, any more than the van that delivers our groceries can cause change in nutrition'.

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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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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

'Kids with communication and Social Thinking ™ difficulties appreciate discussing how public figures commit social foibles. I recently explored these ideas with a few middle school groups in conjunction with some YouTube clips. Both of these mini-lessons arose naturally out of the groups'' discussion and interest, which is one reason why YouTube is such a great tool- I was able to pull up a video at a couple of taps (on my iPad) to deepen the context and guide some discussion and thinking that I

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

'I''m a Big Fan of Cool Cat Teacher Vicki Davis. So when I saw mention of one of her most popular posts of 2011, 11 Lies Social Media Hides , I was intrigued to read it. The article is a great reality check for anyone on Facebook and Twitter. I will use some of the information in my literacy classes. So, being the eager sharer that I am, I decided to share it not only on Twitter as is my custom, but to pass it on to my friends on Facebook as well.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

'I have the pleasure again this year of co-hosting the annual Edublog Awards, designed to promote the educational value of social media. I encourage you to consider nominating someone or a site for an award in one of the eighteen categories, and to do so this week! Here are the Web 2.0 Labs projects I hope you''ll consider nominating: Future of Education interview series for "Best Open PD / unconference / webinar series" Classroom 2.0 community for "Best educational use of a social network" Clas

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Our society is becoming increasingly globalised; influenced by world events; as we connect into a worldwide web of content, networks, people, media and tools. Many of us do so willingly, but there is a very real underlying tension between the effects of the global and the desires of the individual. We all need to make choices, but how free are we to choose?

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SpeechTechie

DECEMBER 1, 2011

'December is Blog Awareness Month on SpeechTechie, a month of posts dedicated to blogs (and blog-related tools) of interest to SLPs! Blogs, to be honest, have developed a little bit of a bad rap. Though it was once quite trendy to have a blog, the term "blogger" now has some connotations that aren''t so positive: wordiness, self-absorption.but enough about me.

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The Daring Librarian

DECEMBER 2, 2011

'To celebrate the #Eddies this year I thought I would do my nominating both on my professional blog and on our NEW! Daring School Library Edublog ! The EduBlogger award nomination process is a wonderful opportunity Pay it Forward by recognizing those in our PLN for their hard work and generosity. I wish I could name more than one on several of these categories!

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

'There has been a great deal of information lately on the World Wide Web and in the media on the flipped classroom approach. I still get the sense that many educators are unsure of what this actually means and entails. I myself have done quite a bit of research as of late to gain a better understanding. Image credit: [link] There are two main components associated with the flipped classroom approach to teaching and learning.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 1, 2011

This week at the ICELF event at Unitec in Auckland I was given one of the highest honours I have ever received. My opening keynote at the conference was preceded by a Maori Powhiri (welcoming ceremony) in the Marae (Maori sacred meeting house) followed by the ceremonial welcome which included the pressing of noses and foreheads ( Hongi ) with several of the university staff and dignitaries.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

If you are ever in New Zealand's capital Wellington, you should not miss the chance to discover one of the country's most important industries - movie making. New Zealand really is Middle Earth, and Wellington is at the epicentre. It is of course, where the classic movie Lord of the Rings was shot, and it is also where other movies including the Narnia saga and the forthcoming movie the Hobbit have originated.

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