Sat.Mar 23, 2013 - Fri.Mar 29, 2013

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Why Everyone Needs A Champion

The Web20Classroom

'I am a proud 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 your

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Skip high school. Go straight to college. Here’s how!

The Innovative Educator

'By Rylie VanOrsdol In my fourteen years of life, I have been public schooled, online schooled, charter schooled, private schooled, Montessori schooled, and homeschooled. I’ve skipped a grade and completed a grade in three months online. After all the learning options I have experienced, what I have found is that the traditional path was unable to meet my needs.

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It's ALL ABOUT TIME! Mobile Projects in Minutes

MSEDTechie

'As educators we want to create awesome lessons and projects for our students, but we all struggle with just one problem. TIME! Our days, weeks, and hours are structured as such that we always have very little time to cover very complex content. Prime example: You have this great idea for your students to create a video project to show their learning of a science lesson they just completed, but you don''t have a week to spend doing it with iMovie, so you just X the whole project.

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Technology won't replace teachers, but.

Learning with 'e's

"Technology won't replace teachers, but teachers who use technology will probably replace teachers who don't" This was just one of the contentious and thought provoking statements made at Learning Through Technology this week in Glasgow. #LTT2013 was one of two conferences I was invited to speak at this week. I made my way up to Glasgow after speaking at #LILAC13 in Manchester.

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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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mARch: A Visit to the App Store and the Moon

SpeechTechie

'mARch has been a lot of fun! Hopefully it has opened up an awareness of augmented reality and what''s available through a handful of simple (or not quite entirely simple, in Aurasma''s case), cheap apps. A lesson I will share, however: searching the app store for augmented reality apps produced 100s of results, 90% of which were less than useful. Many of these apps are free but serve a singular purpose: marketing.

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7 free ways to capture student responses without costly clickers

The Innovative Educator

'Most educators are familiar with student response systems (SRS) a.k.a. clickers. Common brands are eInstruction, Sentio, TurningPoint, Activote. Those who use the systems know they run about $2,500 - $4,000 (depending on various options selected) for a class set and allow educators to track student learning, engage an entire class as they collect real-time responses from students, and enable them to quickly assess understanding and achievement.

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How to Archive Tweets Using TweetChat and Google Drive (and How to Find Educational Chats to Follow)

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

'I love my PLN! I learned about archiving Twitter Chats ala Tweetchat and Google Drive from Brent Catlett. I met Brett at the Google Teacher Academy in New York and I''ve been learning from him ever since. Thanks, Brent! Why Tweetchat and Google Drive? It''s so easy to set up! You can store all of your chat archives in one spot, Google Drive. Here''s a 7-step recap of what I covered in the 3-minute screencast tutorial above. 1.

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mARch: Create Rooms with SnapShop

SpeechTechie

'SnapShop Showroom (free) is a fun little app that allows you to create and save rooms using furniture from many well-known realtors such as IKEA and CB2. You can use their limited background library, a saved picture from the web (as I did below) or a picture from your camera- the fact that you can snap your current surroundings and then put furniture in it is what makes this app augmented reality: This video shows an earlier version of the app in action.

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The hottest posts that everyone's reading

The Innovative Educator

'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 this week. 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. Entry Pageviews 10 Do’s and don’ts to using PowerPoint to deliver.

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Just a Day Away: Yong Zhao, Michael Fullan, Bill Brennan, and the 2013 School Leadership Summit

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Thursday, March 28th, is our inaugural, online, and free School Leadership Summit. [link]. We invite you to join us for a very full day of sessions from Yong Zhao, Michael Fullan, Bill Brennan, and 67 other presenters as part of a virtual and collaborative global conversation on school leadership. The hour-by-hour conference schedule, with instructions for attending, is available to view in 35 different time zones at [link].

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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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Using QR Codes!

MSEDTechie

'What are they? This cute little girl describes using QR code in her classroom. (Her accent is so cute) Web definitions A QR Code is a matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by QR scanners, mobile phones with a camera, and smartphones. The code. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_codes QR CODES 101 Glogster How can you use them? Create computer generated graphs , upload them to fotobabble, Add your voice then create a QR code Great App for scanning/Reading QR Codes w/ Kids There are so many di

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mARch: Out of Bubbles? Try BubblesAR

SpeechTechie

'Bubbles have long been a go-to speech and language therapy tool. They''re great, I am not suggesting you stop using them to target /b/ and /p/ sounds, "wet," etc. But, if you run out of bubbles, or want to try something new to engage kids in a joint attention activity, BubblesAR (free) is simple and cool. Tap the circle to blow a bubble in your "room" (the camera is activated).

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Nothing new under the sun

Learning with 'e's

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." - Ecclesiastes 1:9 "In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society , children play with information" - Henry Jenkins "Goo d artists borrow, great artists steal." - Pablo Picasso What do these quotes have in common?

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Authentic Learning Experiences as a Way to Increase Student Engagement and Ownership

Saving Socrates

'When I first started at New Milford High School, I discovered there was no Model UN Team. Having been involved with two previous teams before and having chaperoned countless conventions, I knew how great Model UN was at taking a student who really knew nothing about what was going on in the world, who had no experience public speaking or conducting intense research and writing, and throwing them in the center of intense debates and enthusiastic discussions.

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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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Mystery Skype & Why I love Twitter!

MSEDTechie

'I discovered Mystery Skype! Where have I been? After doing a little afternoon techie browsing, I came across a Mystery Skype lesson. For our 1st annual Digital Learning Day my school participated in Mystery Skype. Basically, two classrooms Skype each other, and ask each other questions to try and figure out where the other class is located. How we did it?

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The mobile classroom

Connecting 2 the World

As part of the flipped classroom , I was given an ipad to use. At first I was excited because I thought I would be able to tape and project some of the classroom activities (very important in communication education). However, I soon found that logistically this was difficult. An unexpected outcome that was noted when my class was observed was that the mobile devise also put a barrier up between my students and I.

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Reflecting on EdCamp Omaha.

Comfortably 2.0

'Too many words come to mind when trying to describe my experience at EdCamp Omaha today, so I thought I would create a Wordle summarizing this amazing day. A HUGE thanks to Josh Allen and Kristina Peters for organizing this wonderful day of learning!

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Flipping your class with Cheryl and Karl from the Flipped Learning Journal

My Paperless Classroom

'In this presentation Cheryl and Karl share their adventures in flipping. This should be required viewing for all teachers before they flip. Part One Part Two This session was awesome and just the tip of the iceberg when it come to the knowledge that lives on the F lipped Learning Journal.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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What's tested influences how it's taught

The Innovative Educator

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The Device Conundrum - 1:1 vs BYOD

A Principal's Reflections

'Cross-posted at the Huffington Post. As we continue to advance in the digital age schools and districts are beginning to re-think pedagogy and learning environments by instituting either 1:1 device programs or Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. In my opinion, schools that wish to create the most relevant and meaningful learning culture will go in one of these directions.

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Becoming a Connected Educator, Building your PLN

My Paperless Classroom

'This is a full recording I made of the presentation for SVCUE13. Please let me know if you need the slides on their own and I will figure out how to upload those. The session was awesome. Thanks for stopping by!