A Principal's Reflections

JULY 13, 2014

'I was recently notified by William Jenkins that EdShelf announced it will be ceasing trading at the end of this month. However, as this has been a popular resource with users a teacher called Alicia Leonard has launched a #SaveEdShelf campaign. This is a model that I have been trying to establish in the UK and progress has also been slow. Therefore, I wanted to show my support for Alicia’s campaign and published this post “ Don’t Leave EdTech Startups Sitting on the EdShelf ”.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 17, 2014

'I''m not stating anything new here when I say that the more I use my GoPro Hero 3 camera, the more I love it. From taking it to the beach to capturing images in my own backyard, I''m impressed with the quality and versatility. So far, there are only two accessories that I have invested in for the GoPro: the floaty backdoor and the handlebar mount. Being new to the GoPro, I did not want to spend money frivously on accessories and instead researched accessories that would be the most versatile.

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My Paperless Classroom

JULY 16, 2014

'source: Wikimedia commons This week I am honored to be presenting at November Learning''s Building Learning Communities Conference. I have posted the slide deck I am using and links from the presentation here. Please join the conversation in the comments or tweet your ideas and questions to me @SamPatue and use #BLC14. Thank you for learning with me.

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 13, 2014

'Editor’s note: This guest post from Chris Casal started as a comment on “ Filtering social media in schools because it’s a ‘distraction’ ” which appeared on Scott McCleod’s Dangerously Irrelevant blog. Social media is no different than pencil and paper. I doodled a lot in the margins of my physics book. It wasn’t Twitter and Facebook that made me doodle but I doodled nonetheless.

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Ed Tech Now

JULY 17, 2014

'Those of us advocating new approaches to ed-tech in UK schools need to take the time between now and the next election in May to build a case that does not assume that the argument for technology in education is self-evident.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 16, 2014

'While at #ISTE2014 , I attended the TechSmith party at De Biergarten in Atlanta, GA. It was thoroughly enjoyable chatting with Twitter & FlipCon folks face to face over some GOOD German food. There was Foosball and even pictures with our heads atop German attired folks ( Here are some pictures from Kristin D.) We chatted about FlipCon vs ISTE , general ed tech issues, the value of open-source internet, and at one point with Brian Bennett , a very important topic: how to make homemade Spaetz

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 16, 2014

'Some people think I’m lucky because I have always loved my work in education. As a result, I’m often asked for advice on how to get a job you love in education. Because this has come up so often, I decided it was time to share. Below are seven strategies that have worked for me. Perhaps some of this will be helpful for others.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 15, 2014

'I was invited to do a Google Hangout video interview ahead of the Reform Symposium online event last week. I was interviewed by Shelly Terrell about my work, my teaching philosophy, and yes. the new book I''m currently writing. Minding the gap was one of my key messages in the interview. The sign stencilled onto the platforms in London''s underground stations warns of the gap between the edge and the train.

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Connecting 2 the World

JULY 14, 2014

'Mobile Technology is here to stay. It is a fact of academic life. Many of us may try to resist integrating mobile technology into our classrooms. However, the fact is that it is now a part of our students'' lives and it is something as teachers we need to think about whether we work in a traditional classroom or online. What are some ways in which mobile technology has changed the classroom?

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Comfortably 2.0

JULY 17, 2014

'I was stumped in Kindergarten. We were creating books using the My Story app and the teacher and I wanted all of the students to be able to use the same pictures for each page of our book. All of the pictures we wanted them to use were on Mrs. Ostdiek''s iPad. How in the world were we going to get the pictures to each student iPad? Email? Dropbox?

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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 Innovative Educator

JULY 12, 2014

'Here’s the roundup of what''s been popular on The Innovative Educator blog. Below you’ll see the top posts along with the number of page views. I hope there''s something that looks of interest to you. If it does, check it out. If you’re inspired use one of those icons below the post to share it with others and/or leave a comment. Entry Pageviews 10 Ways Social Media Can Improve Writing in Your C.

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 14, 2014

'News-O-Matic is a fantastic new free iOS app that I just found out about through a promotional email. This is an app designed for kids 7-11 yrs old to bring them 5 daily news stories containing articles, videos, and photos. These stories are on a number of different subjects such as: sports, science, world news, and more. Also, these stories are aligned to 3rd/4th grade Common Core Standards, has a variety of fun activities for students to complete, as well as full audio support for challenged

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Educator Innovator

JULY 15, 2014

The Mozilla Foundation launches a worldwide celebration of web literacy this week, bringing tens of thousands of digital enthusiasts together for ‘Maker Parties’ that place internet learning and making at the center of 21 st -century citizenship. Focused on the use of Webmaker tools, Maker Parties include young people as well as adult educators, all with the aim of helping us become creators of the web so that we’re not simply consumers.

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Hansen's Link to Tech

JULY 16, 2014

'Google + Hangouts By: Google Need : You need a G+ account to use it. What: B rings one-on-one and group conversations to life with text, photos, emoji, and video calls for free. Connect with friends across computers, Android and Apple devices. Abilities: text-based chat, video chat, receive phone calls, accessible on any device/computer and, screen share, remote desktop connect, connect to Google Drive, live broadcast stream your video chats with Hangouts On Air and much more!

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The 21st Century Principal

JULY 13, 2014

'In may, I became an official Mac User. This occurred after being a PC user whose experience with computers began all the way back to MS DOS and Windows 3.1. My first personal computer was a Windows 3.1 Dell computer whose processor was less powerful than those found in phones, and you can purchase flash drives that have more storage space than my first hard drive.

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 16, 2014

'SquirrelThat is a free iPad app that is excellent for note taking. This is a great tool that students can use when researching a project or taking notes during a lecture. Best of all, it''s simple to use and lets students share their notes w/ others. Also, the abundance of features for makes SquirrelThat a nice learning tool as students can annotate on their notes, draw, add media, and more.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 14, 2014

At the end of the 2014 school year, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) honored 24 graduating seniors from 12 different high schools. While celebrating students’ academic achievement is a common focus at the end of the school year, what made this event stand out was something that was starkly missing. There was no mention of “GPA, college acceptance, honor roll, or magna cum laude;” instead, students received accolades for “empathy, making a difference, and using digital media.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 15, 2014

'The Learning Revolution Weekly Update July 15th, 2014 A museum is a place where one should lose one''s head. - Renzo Piano The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners in the learning professions. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds.

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The 21st Century Principal

JULY 17, 2014

'Alexandria, VA ( 7/17/2014 ) — ASCD , a global community dedicated to excellence in learning, teaching, and leading, is pleased to offer a variety of professional development resources for new teachers entering the education profession this upcoming school year. Through ASCD resources, teachers will find support from leading experts and veteran educators who understand the challenges of the early years in the classroom.

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 14, 2014

'thesaurus.land is a interesting new site that lets a person type in a word and then generate a list of synonyms for that word. By clicking on the words generate will list a bunch of synonyms for that, and on and on. I recommend checking out thesaurus.land by clicking here. Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo''s excellent blog for the tip.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 17, 2014

#CLMOOC , the Making Learning Connected MOOC, is going strong with lots of making going on! One of the features of this year’s collaboration is the new and improved Make Bank. Participants of last year’s MOOC may remember the make bank which was a place for people to find or post “make” projects for others to try and remix. The new Make Bank is better organized, more visually appealing, and has the ability to add examples and tutorials to makes that are uploaded.

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 15, 2014

'Writer to Read is an amazing iPad app designed for kids 3-10 yrs to help w/ their Reading & Writing skills by creating a book. W/ that in mind it also makes it an ideal app for introducing digital storytelling to students that is aligned to Common Core Standards. The way this works is a child/student write''s a sentence to the best of their ability and then an adult/teacher translates the sentence into proper text.

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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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Technology Tidbits

JULY 14, 2014

'Care Bears Love to Learn is a free iPad app I downloaded the other day for my 3 yr old girl. This is a fun app that has young kids engaging in educational activities such as: matching, puzzles, shapes, counting, and more. Also, it has high replay value as the farther along one plays the more Care Bear stickers a person unlocks. It''s a simple and fun game that should provide hours of play for young learners.

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The 21st Century Principal

JULY 18, 2014

'In the 21st century, it is impossible to dismiss the powerful possibilities that exist due to online learning delivery systems. I have seen that learning evolve over the years from models where teachers simply tried to "teach as they did face-to-face" in these online environments, to today, where teaching has evolved with techniques only possible in these virtual places of learning.

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