The Web20Classroom

MAY 29, 2013

'I had a wonderful conversation this morning on Twitter with a teacher from New Zealand that commented on a tweet about using Skype Classroom to go global. She mentioned how her students were going to Skype and talk to kids in Iowa. How awesome is that! I just love the fact that the world gets so much smaller when we use technology like that. There really are endless learning opportunities for students (and teachers as well).

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 29, 2013

'One of our guiding beliefs here at New Milford High School is that our students will find purpose and meaning in their respective learning experiences. Over the years we have added a series of new courses (19 in just two years), re-written the curriculum of existing courses, made available online courses as part of the VHS Collaborative , and developed numerous authentic learning experiences focusing on the unique interests of our learners.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

MAY 30, 2013

'UPDATE AS OF 1/15/14: The company Gobstopper has changed its name to Curriculet, but this update hasn''t changed how I use Curriculet with my students. The stories and information in the below post still hold true despite the change in company name. While I''ve written quite a bit about assessing writing (ad nauseum) via digital means, reading instruction and assessment have remained a primarily paper-based enterprise in my class.

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The 21st Century Principal

MAY 27, 2013

'“The real role of leadership in education is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control; creating a climate of possibility, and if you do that, people will rise to it and achieve things you did not anticipate and couldn''t have expected.” Sir Ken Robinson, TED Talk "How to Escape Education''s Death Valley" What is ultimately wrong with No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and the Common Core State Standards?

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 26, 2013

'The Leaving to Learn movement, started by Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski is built on the idea that a great way to learn to find success in the world is to be in the world. The first step is taking down the barriers between school and the outside world and letting students leave, to learn. Washor and Mojokowski recently published a book on the topic.

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MAY 30, 2013

'Close reading is a strategy for reading complex text. In Part 1 , the focus is how to do a close reading. The focus in Part 2 is how to annotate with iPads. The focal points of this post are the teacher steps in close reading; how to create text dependent questions for informational text in 6th-12th grades; annotating in Diigo; and creating writing activities to go with close reading.

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The 21st Century Principal

MAY 29, 2013

'“If a company is not nimble enough to rethink its strategy while it still has the assets and strength to change and adapt, it is doomed to wither or die.” Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman Blockbuster, Borders, and Circuit City are examples of companies that failed to be “nimble enough” to rethink how they do business in the face of change around them.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 28, 2013

'A contributing factor to the high school dropout rate and one of the biggest complaints of students is simply that “I’m bored.” And.many teachers know that their students consider them boring. So, what’s the answer? Some would say that y ou need to be an entertainer. I was recently interviewed on BAM radio by Rae Pica along with Mike Muir, Lee Kolbert, and Pat Hensley who wrote, “ Should Teachers Be Entertainers?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2013

'We are pleased to announce the Global 2013 STEMx Education Conference , the world’s first massively open online conference for educators which focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and more. The conference will be held online, around the clock, over the course of three days, September 19 - 21, 2013, and will be free to attend! Our founding sponsor is HP, and core conference support also comes from the International Society for Technology in Education® (ISTE).

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 29, 2013

'If you are immersed in technology mediated communication, there are no apparent barriers to membership of your community of practice. It is your personal network. It is your virtual community. Call it what you wish. To me it resembles a global digital tribe. It is tribal because the global online community exhibits many of the characteristics of traditional, territorial tribal practice.

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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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The 21st Century Principal

MAY 25, 2013

'Graduation and end of the year festivities have prevented my from posting as much as I would like this week, but here’s what most everyone has been reading on my blog. Which Model of Project-Based Learning Is Needed for 21st Century Schools? Using Yong Zhao’s PBL framework from his book World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students , this post looks at the various iterations of Project-Based Learning and provides some thoughts about what form is best for 21st century lea

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 29, 2013

'Not only is use of social media good classroom practice, but in places that have quality reviews (an assessment and evaluation system for schools), engaging parents with social media will help schools shine. School quality reviews are used as evaluation tools in places such as England, Wales, and New Zealand and have recently made their way to the United States in places like New York City.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 28, 2013

'Join me today, Tuesday, May 28th, for an unique live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with authors Dan Willingham and Doug Lemov to talk about education, success, and what really works. Please note that this show is earlier in the day than usual. In When Can You Trust the Experts : How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education , psychology professor and returning guest Dan Willingham laments that "the last fifty years have encapsulated a flood of educational quackery and nost

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Saving Socrates

MAY 27, 2013

'I do not consider myself a fundraiser. I actually hate fundraising. I hate asking people to part with their hard earned money for a cause I believe in and they might not. Charity is personal, and I always felt like a beggar asking people for anything without giving them something directly, and tangible in return. Hence, I have and continue to always shy away from outright fundraising projects or jobs.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 30, 2013

'In the July 2013 edition of Wired magazine, Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard Law Professor and author of The Future of the Internet) warns of the danger of censorship now we are moving to the cloud. Zittrain is worried about the possibilities of ''censoring, erasing, altering or restricting access to books'', and argues that digital texts are ''increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers or libraries.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 27, 2013

'Editor's note: This post is from Rhonda Bliss. The mother of Jeff Bliss known for telling his teacher how he felt about packet-driven learning. I share this post with the permission of Rhonda Bliss. The original post can be found on Jeff Bliss's Facebook page here. By Rhonda Bliss It has been 2 weeks and Jeff's words continue to resound throughout the educational community of the world.

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SpeechTechie

MAY 30, 2013

'As the school year winds down, activities for carryover and maintenance are a frequent request of parents to their child''s SLPs and special educators. For parents of younger ones, PBS has provided a great answer with their free app, PBS Parents Play & Learn HD (also for Android , especially nice since not all families have iOS devices, and bilingual in English/Spanish, as not all families speak English!).

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Hansen's Link to Tech

MAY 31, 2013

'#powerpoint Microsoft Office support has a great section on their website full of short training videos. Here is a great one I found for PowerPoint 2010 tips and tricks such as: using Microsoft templates, cropping images into shapes, screen clipping, and more. Click Here to view the webpage.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 25, 2013

'I''m very much looking forward to taking part in the EDEN Conference in Oslo between June 12-15 this year. Last year I was unable to attend EDEN, due to pressure of work. This time I made sure I would have the time, by blocking out my diary for the conference week. I''m glad I did. I have been given the honour of being invited to chair the keynote sessions of Sugata Mitra and Sir Ken Robinson, and to moderate a debate between them both on the future of education.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 25, 2013

'Here’s the roundup of what''s been popular on The Innovative Educator blog this week. Below you’ll see the top weekly posts along with the number of pageviews. I hope there''s something that looks of interest to you. If it does, check it out. If you’re inspired, share it with others and/or leave a comment. Post Views The packet-driven classroom May 19, 2013, 8 comments 4043 Was Jeff Bliss disrespectful for using his student voice.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 25, 2013

NWP teachers from across the country have come together to plan their own massive, open online collaboration—or, mooc—as part of the Summer of Making and Connecting. Using a range of tools on the open web, participants are invited to learn new skills, make projects, and connect in conversations around the theme of Making Learning Connected.” The mooc begins June 15; interested participants should sign up to receive more information.

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Hansen's Link to Tech

MAY 30, 2013

'#smart #smartboard #edtech Have you ever walked into a room with a SMART Board and noticed that every time you touch the board it''s a bit or way off. This is a sign you need to orient your board and it is super easy to do. 1. To orient the SMART board, press and hold the On-Screen keyboard and right mouse buttons at the same time until the screen changes. 2.

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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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The 21st Century Principal

MAY 30, 2013

'For those of you who have a bit of time on your hands this summer, and want to explore some applications, here’s my “Apps-I-Use-Everyday List.” Let me know what you think, or if you have an alternative app that you think is better. Evernote : Evernote is one of those applications I access at the start of every single day. I use it for so many activities during the course of the day from logging events to drafting quick notes to meeting notes.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 27, 2013

'If we scratch just below the surface of education, and we examine the nature of knowledge, we see an interesting challenge. It is increasingly apparent that knowledge as we ''know it'' is inextricably linked to those who are in control of it. The knowledge gate-keepers have been in charge for some time, and knowledge is power. But all of this is already changing, as those beyond the inner circle begin to understand that through technology, they can create knowledge too.

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Hansen's Link to Tech

MAY 30, 2013

'#smartboard #edtech Looking for a great place to download FREE pre-made SMART Notebook files for your SMART Board or SMART Table? Visit SMART Exchange [link] The Smart Exchange has tons of SMART user and teacher made SMART Notebook lessons and activities that are ready to use. * Recommendations: S earch for lesson by exact content (i.e. fractions) not by the general subject (i.e.

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Hansen's Link to Tech

MAY 30, 2013

'When handing off your iPad, iPhone, iPod, iWhatever to a student or your child I''m sure you would want them to use a particular app for learning or just to have fun at home. Enabling Guided Access is the way to do just that. How to turn it on: Locate and touch the Settings App. Touch General. Swipe up to you get to the bottom of the screen and touch Accessibility.

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Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions

The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.

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Hansen's Link to Tech

MAY 30, 2013

'A lot of teacher''s want to write on their SMART Board while using their non SMART brand document camera. #smart #smartboard #edtech If you would like to do so, follow these simple steps. (Get Google Doc Directions) Turn on SMART Notebook application. Click the View Screens menu on the toolbar and choose Transparent Background. Locate the icon for your document camera software: ImageMate (Elmo brand) ArcSoft (Epson brand) If you are using an Elmo document camera just maximize your screen.

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Hansen's Link to Tech

MAY 30, 2013

'#edtech #ipadchat If you are fortunate to have iOS devices in your building (iPads, iPods, iPhones) you might want to find out if there are any Apple TV''s available. Click here to view a resource I made on how to AirPlay your device to display on an LCD projector. To find out more about what is AirPlay click here. To find out more about what is an Apple TV click here.

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Hansen's Link to Tech

MAY 28, 2013

'Common Google Apps Click here to view an ongoing Google Doc that I''ll be updating over time. * Google Drive Allows you to store your files in the cloud, share them, and have access to them from anywhere. * Found in Google Drive * * Google Docs (Word Processing) Create, share, and work on documents together in real-time. * * Google Sheets (Spreadsheets) Create, manage, share, and work on spreadsheets together in real-time. * * Google Presentation (Presentations) Create presentations together, e

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Hansen's Link to Tech

MAY 28, 2013

'#ipadchat iMore is a really nice blog for help with you iOS device. [link].

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