A Principal's Reflections
JULY 27, 2011
'Over the past two years I have seen some dramatic shifts in an effort to transform New Milford High School into a 21st Century institution of teaching and learning. With a change in mindset and a great deal of support, I have been able to successfully empower my staff to integrate a variety of digital tools, including social media, to engage learners.
The Web20Classroom
JULY 29, 2011
'Starting today is the Reform Symposium. It is 3 days full of free, online professional development. Started by several of my friends, most notably Shelly Terrell the Reform Symposium brings together educators from across the globe to learn from and with each other. There are several keynotes over the 3 days, lots of panel discussions and you could even win an iPad.
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EdTechSandyK
JULY 26, 2011
'Last month when I first posted on this topic , I stated I would share my own thoughts in the comments or possibly in a follow-up post after giving readers a chance to comment. (Reader comments were wonderful for adding to my perspective; thank you!) I did share some thoughts in the comments, but I''m not done, so here I am with a follow-up post as well.
SpeechTechie
JULY 26, 2011
'Cross-posted on Therapy App 411 In a related post , I described the important skill of saving images from the Web on standard laptop and desktop operating systems (i.e. Mac OS X and Windows whatever), which SLPs would need to do in order to create visuals using web images and utilize the features of inserting images in many web tools (e.g. Glogster, Voicethread, and countless others).
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Learning with 'e's
JULY 25, 2011
Last night I took part in a 3-way Skype podcast recording for TeacherCast.ne t , which was hosted by Jeff Bradbury, who is based in Philadelphia, USA. My co-panellist was Mark Greentree , who was speaking from Sydney, Australia. One of the scheduled questions which we never got around to addressing was: What should a parent expect from a teacher in the 21st Century?
The Web20Classroom
JULY 26, 2011
'You might remember a year back I was able to participate in one of the first #140Confs in Los Angeles and the another in NYC. This year Jeff Pulver has teamed up with the most awesome Chris Lehmann to bring the #140EDU Conference to the masses. This 140 is different from the others in that it''s focus is all on education. More importantly how real-time information sharing is changing education.
EdTech Update brings together the best content for education technology professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
wwwatanabe
JULY 25, 2011
'It''s scary to take your first steps into PBL. What if it doesn''t work? What if I don''t know what to do next? The first steps often are the scariest; however, most of us who try it are sold by the success. Preconceived Scare-Factors about PBL In the past year, I''ve heard the following three preconceived notions about PBL: I have heard people describe their PBL as having choice boards or menus for student choice; but in actuality, what I hear them describing is differentiated instruction (DI)
SpeechTechie
JULY 25, 2011
'This past Thursday, I had the privilege of doing a fly-by at Mindwing Concepts day-long workshop, Narrative and Expository Writing with the Story Grammar Marker® in order to cover a few tech complements to their great tools, including the Mindwing Blog that I help to write. During my presentation I talked about Popplet , which is a terrific tool for concept mapping and breaking down expository text.
The Web20Classroom
JULY 25, 2011
'7 days I was unplugged. For some one who is plugged in just about 24/7, having nothing that connected me to the outside world was interesting to say the least. I normally have a computer, iPad or Galaxy Tab, and phone within reach at all times. But for my annual vacation I didn''t even bring these things with me. (I did take a phone just for emergencies but it was in my truck the whole time.
Learning with 'e's
JULY 29, 2011
Welcome to the future? Whenever we consider the future, it is always elusive, and always just around the corner. It is never quite here. We live in the present. All the time. All each of us have is our memories of the past, and a future that is imaginary. Until something happens, we really don't know what the future will bring, and anyone who says they know what the future holds is either a liar or deluded.
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.
Connecting 2 the World
JULY 28, 2011
My dissertation not only looks at distributed group collaboration, but also how that effects organizational learning. The following is my discussion on organizational learning, including how I differentiate knowledge management from organizational learning. Organizational Learning Theories There are two prevailing schools of learning theory at the organizational level.
SpeechTechie
JULY 27, 2011
'Hey Folks, hope everyone is having a great summer! This Monday I had the great experience of attending Edubloggercon East here in my hometown of Boston. Edubloggercon is an unconference (like Edcamp ) in which the agenda of discussion-based sessions is created by attendees based on interests and needs. You do not have to have a blog to attend; it is open to all educators and FREE, so I hope some SLPs in the area might consider coming next year (especially since I may help with its organization,
mauilibrarian2 in Olinda
JULY 28, 2011
'I recommend these search engines to our students, grades six through twelve: Search engines to try: Google * Apple engine - Teacher selected and approved free resources Bing vs.Google - You''ll see results from both engines side by side. Heapr - Search Google, Twitter, Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia super fast SearchCredible - Enter a query. Search credible resources.
Learning with 'e's
JULY 26, 2011
The Reform Club is the London gentleman's club to which Victorian adventurer Phileas Fogg returns after his fictional epic, and highly entertaining journey around the world in 80 days. Jules Verne's hero made it back in time and against all odds, to claim his reward of £20,000. The Reform Club is still there, and ironically, it hasn't changed all that much since the days of Jules Verne.
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.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
JULY 23, 2011
'Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly 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.
SpeechTechie
JULY 29, 2011
'Another great day of sharing and learning at BLC11! One thing (that I love) about going to a conference geared more towards general educators than SLPs or even special education teachers is that you constantly are reframing everything you are hearing so that it applies to our specific population. I try to do that as much as possible in these tweets and am hoping that you are finding them helpful.
mauilibrarian2 in Olinda
JULY 26, 2011
'Jennifer LaGarde, aka The Library Girl, created a graphic that says it ALL for us school librarians and I think she should make a poster of it and market it. I definitely would buy one! Librarians are Ready, Are You? (the article and the graphic) Here are suggestions for Jennifer, and anyone interested in sharing their killer creation with the world.
SpeechTechie
JULY 28, 2011
'Hey Folks- The BLC conference sponsored by November Learning is quite an experience! Some of the brightest minds in education and technology come together for this 3-day conference right in my good old town. Seems people come from all over, and I am so lucky to just be able to hop on the T the next couple of days to have this experience. My colleague Brian Hammel and I were discussing how it seems to be much more fun to tweet than to take notes in a Google Doc, so we are trying that!
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