Sat.Feb 25, 2012 - Fri.Mar 02, 2012

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Misguided Efforts in Educational Reform

A Principal's Reflections

'A few weeks back I passed along an Education Week article to administrators in my District that highlighted the many technology challenges that states anticipate with common tests. Below is a response to the article from Danielle Shanley, my Director of Curriculum and Instruction, as well as her sound synopsis of the misguided educational reform movement.

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What Do You Mean Evernote Could Get Better?

The Web20Classroom

'Last time I wrote about the way I organize myself completely changed for the better with Evernote. Really, I can''t talk enough about this program and the endless possibilities there are for it. (Just look at the comments from that post.) In that post I gave a few resources for learning about Evernote and even fewer with how to use it in the classroom.

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5 Areas of Consideration for Developing a BYOD Policy for Your School or District

The 21st Century Principal

'While there is some debate about whether a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Policy perpetuates inequities and the technology gap, school districts in times of tightening budgets and limited resources are looking for cost-effective ways to increase student access to technology. While BYOD should not be a substitution for adequately funding access to technology for all students, it is a means by which we do not have to ask students to unplug when their walk through our school building doors.

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Have You Been Ignoring or Are You Oblivious to Google's March 1st Privacy Policy Change?

EdTechSandyK

'Our district technology director mentioned Google''s impending privacy policy change to me weeks ago, but I was not paying too much attention until this last week. A pretty significant privacy policy change takes effect March 1st (tomorrow). Reactions around the ''Net range from neutral/positive to highly alarmed. Ultimately, if you have personal accounts with Google (Gmail, YouTube, Google Apps/Docs, Picassa, Blogger, etc.), you should educate yourself about this.

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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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Moving Schools Forward With BYOD

A Principal's Reflections

'The following is a guest blog post by Dr. Greg Farley. Greg is the Director of Technology at Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District and an Adjunct Professor and course developer at the Graduate Schools of Education at Monmouth University and Drew University. Greg also conducts workshops at K-12 schools and universities and mentors doctoral students and administrators in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

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Everyone Needs A Classroom Champion

The Web20Classroom

'Recently I became part of one of the most awesome projects anywhere around. Imagine you are 9 years old. You and your classmates are watching and learning about the Olympics, talking about the importance of fitness, graphing the stats of athletes in the various competitions, and discussing goals you have for now and the future. Then picture when an Olympic athlete that you have been watching appears in your classroom from Bejing or Alberta or South Africa via telepresence to check in on you and

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Library 2.0

Learning with 'e's

What does the future hold for our university libraries? Are they obsolete or are they essential? The library has long been seen by many as a very traditional, conservative institution, and is often portrayed as a place where rows upon rows of antiquated book shelves slowly gather dust. Yet a visit to the university library today will reveal a substantial investment in technology to streamline research and provide users with a more seamless and rewarding experience.

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SpeechTechie Hits the Terrible Twos!

SpeechTechie

'Two years ago today, I published my first post here! I can''t have imagined what starting this blog would bring to my life- so many great connections with wonderful professionals. Thank you all for continuing to read my tech ramblings! I thought I would re-post my first effort, revolving around Google Earth, because I realize I still really believe in this tool.

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Live Tuesday February 28th with David Weinberger on How the Internet Is Transforming Knowledge and Expertise

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Tuesday, February 28th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with David Weinberger about his new book, Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren''t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room. We used to know how to know. We got our answers from books or experts.

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Stardock Fences: Free or Inexpensive Way to Organize Your Computer’s Desktop

The 21st Century Principal

'On occasion, I’ll walk into another school administrator’s office and while we sit and talk, I look at their computer monitor, and it looks like this: Disorganized Desktop Perhaps that is just a bit exaggerated, but it does have the same effect. There are any number of ways for Windows 7 users to organize desktops. Stardock offers a solution to Windows users in its product called Fences.

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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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How will we work, play, and communicate? Here's Corning's fantastical vision

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

'I discovered and shared this fantastical video a year ago, and my friends were just as amazed as I was! It''s Corning''s vision for the future. One year and 17 million+ hits later, I went back to look for the video to show to a student, and I was pleasantly surprised at what Corning came up with next (just a couple of weeks ago in fact, and already with almost a million hits).

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Animonths: Domo Animate!

SpeechTechie

'To continue the theme of highlighting resources that use animation as a tool for targeting speech and language goals, for the next few posts I am going to focus on the Go! Animate websites, starting with Domo Animate. These webtools (Flash-based, so not available on iPad) allow you to use a simple interface to create short, animated movies. Domo Animate (so named because it utilizes some anime characters such as Domo, but also has other character choices) is a great place to start for its simpl

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Everyone's a critic

Learning with 'e's

Everyone's a critic, they say. Until it comes to academic writing, that is. Many students fail to realise their full potential when it comes to essay writing, usually because they can't seem to find their way out of the descriptive cul-de-sac they make for themselves. If they could only find it within themselves to write critically, they would earn higher grades.

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iMovie in Your Classroom

Comfortably 2.0

'Looking for that one app that you can integrate seamlessly into your classroom? Give iMovie a try! Yes, it is a bit on the pricey end at $4.99, but the cost shouldn''t be an issue when one considers the possibilities with this app. iMovie by Apple iMovie was one of the first apps that I downloaded after @chericson handed me my new iPad2 at the beginning of the school year.

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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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On Aer

Learning with 'e's

I spent two great days in Ireland this weekend, and would like to thank my hosts at the Computer Education Society of Ireland for inviting me. It's a beautiful country, the culture is rich and the people are all so friendly. Ahead of my keynote speech at the CESI 2012 conference in Portlaiose, this weekend, I did an interview for Dublin City FM 103.2.

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Animonths: Go! Animate's Quick Video Maker

SpeechTechie

'Go! Animate''s Quick Video Maker is a web tool (flash-based, not iPad friendly) you can use to create simple dialogues between animated characters in a particular setting. Go! Animate allows you to do quite a bit, though with limitations, with your free account. Within the Quick Video Maker itself, certain settings and characters require a "plus" account, and you are limited to 10 lines of dialogue.

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From the Mouths of Babes: Blogging with Grades 1-3

Comfortably 2.0

'I finally worked up the courage to start my own blog this summer. @jdog90, a fellow educator that I had the privilege of working with for ten years was always pushing me to think and teach outside of my comfort zone. He encouraged me to give blogging a shot.