A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 31, 2011

'This morning I read a great article on PBS Media Shift by Audrey Watters entitled " Why Schools Should Stop Banning Cell Phones, and Use Them For Learning." Up until this past year the rule of thumb was that students could bring their phones to my school, but they could not be on, seen, or heard. This rule applied throughout the school day, on or at any school-sponsored functions, and was strictly enforced.

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SpeechTechie

AUGUST 28, 2011

'Whiz Kid Games is a British resource of repetitive, well-paced and language-based games designed for kids with autism, but adaptable to other populations of students. Games such as "A Day at the Market" teach about scripting, sequencing, and schema, as well as being a context for vocabulary and sentence development. I have often found resources such as Whiz Kid Games to be great pairings with activities designed to build play scripts and interaction.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 27, 2011

This week's eAssessment Scotland Conference was an interesting and thought provoking event. Hosted by the University of Dundee , the conference attracted almost 300 delegates from all over the UK, and farther afield and as could be expected, saw a number of papers presented on all aspects of technology enhanced learning and assessment. These included presentations on the use of blogs, peer collaboration, mobile assessment, serious games, Google forms, Mahara and other e-portfolio applications, a

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wwwatanabe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

'In my last post, I reflected on a conversation that clarified PBL. When we crafted the Driving Question or Essential Question , the teachers became comfortable with their PBL. What is an Essential Question? The purpose of an essential question is to connect relevance of the main concept or big idea back to the learner. It focuses the learner on what''s important.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

'Mr. Toda says this is the dirtiest he''s ever seen a computer. "It''s a record." Mr. Toda announced. Click on photo twice to get an extreme closeup :/. Mr. Toda cleaned it up, added more memory, and it''s good to go. Thanks, Mr. Toda! (??? ? ) @castlelibrary This post was originally published at mauilibrarian2 in Olinda.

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SpeechTechie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

'Hey folks, I hope everyone has had an awesome summer! I can''t believe it is over. I have been slowish on the posts here as I am gearing up at a NEW SCHOOL as the.8 SLP (I have Fridays off for consultations, presentations, and writing), but I am sure I will be getting up to speed in coming weeks. I am looking forward to a few "theme weeks" exploring some ideas and tools in depth.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 27, 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.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

AUGUST 31, 2011

'These are the online tools and resources I will be recommending to Ms. Reed''s Honors Bio students today, for their research projects. They''re aiming for publication, so only the best will do. ????? Search these DATABASES for stellar results: Online Databases available through Hawaii State Public Library System (your library card needed) Recommended: Academic Search Premier, Gale Virtual Reference Library (science) Direct link to EBSCO (your library card needed) Recommended: Scholarly Journal

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Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

My class is writing a blog on computer mediated communication and technology. Check it out in the weeks to come. My first post to introduce the blog is here.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 30, 2011

Creativity is such an elusive thing. For some, waiting for inspiration is a familiar past-time. It's more than just staring at a blank page, or waiting for that tune to arrive out of thin air. If the muse has deserted you, it can be quite a time of anguish, particularly if your living depends upon being creative. At that moment there is simply nothing you can do.

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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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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

I took some risks today during a workshop I gave at Plymouth University. The workshop was all about creativity and how we can tap into imagination in learning contexts. I tried out several things I had not attempted before in workshops, but that was the idea - often, creativity requires some kind of risk. The Your Idea, Our Health event was a health related conference, so there were lots of delegates of the nursing and midwifery persuasion in attendance.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 29, 2011

Anyone who writes regularly will tell you this: There are times when you struggle to write something worthwhile. or even anything at all. Call it writer's block, call it the white page syndrome (or white screen in the age of the word processor), call it whatever you wish - there are times when the words won't come, and there is very little you can do about it.

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