Sat.Feb 02, 2013 - Fri.Feb 08, 2013

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Leadership Ignited

A Principal's Reflections

'I have tweeted over the past couple weeks my excitement for the new structure of the NASSP Annual Conference. The leadership of NASSP is well aware of trends in and the value of connected learning and have created a learning experience that will meet the needs of all attendees. The revamped event, appropriately named " Ignite ", is a great example of a national organization breaking away from traditional conference constructs to create a relevant and meaningful learning experience for it''s mem

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The Administrator PR Machine

The Web20Classroom

'It seems like everywhere we turn, education is under the microscope. From members of Congress to the mother next door, everyone has an opinion on education. What we should do and how we should do it. And, to me at least, the focus is on the negative. "This is what''s wrong." "Why aren''t these test scores better?" "What was that teacher thinking?" But as someone who spends a lot of time walking the hallways and seeing kids in the classroom, there is so much good out there.

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Dropbox adds new features - document preview and photo sharing

Educational Technology Guy

'Dropbox , the very popular cloud file/sync/backup/sharing service , has announced some new features, including document preview and photo sharing and sorting. You can preview PDF, DOC, DOCX, and PPT files by double-clicking on them. This way, you can see if that is the file you want, or even view what you need, without downloading it. Dropbox has also added some features for photos.

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Ideas for Establishing & Revising Your School or District's BYOD Policies

The 21st Century Principal

'A Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy is a necessity in a 21st century school. I am not sure deciding whether or not to provide wireless Internet access to students is even optional anymore. With more and more of our students getting technological devices with WiFi capabilities, they come to our schools with the expectation that they are going to be connected.

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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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8 ways to use social media to connect and coordinate with parents

The Innovative Educator

'Social media can be a powerful tool to coordinate and connect with parents. At the school level, this is important work for everyone, from the classroom teacher to the principal. Some districts even have paid school employees called parent coordinators who are responsible for engaging with and involving parents in the school community. It is their job to create a welcoming environment for parents as well as to identify and address parent and related school/community issues.

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Twitter for Professional Learning - #TCEA13 #Twitter4PL

EdTechSandyK

'Today @MagisterWarren and I ( @EdTechSandyK ) are presenting a workshop on Twitter for Professional Learning at the TCEA 2013 Convention and Exposition. Below is a link to the LiveBinder with all of our presentation resources. If you are in the workshop with us, we hope you enjoy it! If you are just stopping by this blog, I hope the resources in the LiveBinder will be useful to you.

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Knowing When Not to Say Anything: 4 Times Silence Is Better Than Words

The 21st Century Principal

'"While embracing the value of straight talk, school personnel also need to realize often there is one communication tool that is even more powerful and effective: no talk at all," writes Robert D. Ramsey in his book How to Say the Right Thing Every Time: Communicating Well with Students, Staff, Parents, and the Public. Because we are all teachers, we always seem to fall into the trap of thinking that we are obligated to make a point, teach a lesson, or "impart ''wisdom.

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Social media for teachers

The Innovative Educator

'Illustrated by Peter Grundy From Scholastic Instructor SOURCES: Social media PD: Project Tomorrow, “Speak Up 2011.” Twitter: Semiocast. YouTube: NielsenWire, “August 2012, Top U.S. Online Video Sites.” Facebook: Yahoo! Finance, “Number of Active Users at Facebook over the Years.” Pinterest: Repinly.com, “Pinterest Stats”; fastcodesign.com, “The Astounding Power of Pinterest.”.

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Organize, Curate, and Share Your Online Resources - #TCEA13

EdTechSandyK

'Scan the QR Code to Go to the LiveBinder Today Kim Garcia ( @DigitalLearners) and I ( @EdTechSandyK ) are presenting on the topic Organize, Curate, and Share Your Online Resources. Posted here are a link and a QR code which will take you to a LiveBinder with the resources for our presentation. We hope you enjoy the learning! Click to Access Livebinder: Organize, Curate, and Share Your Online Resources - TCEA 2013 Alternate Link to Livebinder: [link].

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Livescribe announces Discounted Education Pricing on SmartPens.

Educational Technology Guy

'I''m a huge fan of the Livescribe SmartPens and use them daily in my role as CIO. I had also used it as a teacher. May administrators I know are looking at them for teacher evaluations and notes and students love them. These pens let you take handwritten notes, as well as record audio, and then sync these notes to Evernote, Google Drive and more. It''s a great way to take notes and then have them available anywhere.

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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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5 Ways Schools or Districts Can Immediately Use Technology to Engage in Authentic Learning

The 21st Century Principal

'"Opportunities brought about by the recent developments of technology have been almost completely missed in education," writes Yong Zhao in, World Class Learners; Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students. Take a quick look in schools, and you will see that there are a great deal of "missed opportunities." You are still likely to see students sitting in rows, teachers at the front of the room lecturing, or students flipping pages in a textbook and answering questions at the end of chapter

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iversity 'social reading' tool enables collaborative engagement with learning materials

The Innovative Educator

'iversity is a blend of a social network and an online learning workspace that aims to provide a state-of-the-art alternative to the clunky course management platforms such as Blackboard and Moodle and users can sign up for free. The platform can also be used to organize research projects or study groups and it embeds a ''social reading'' tool similar to Book Glutton that allows members of a group to collaboratively annotate documents and images.

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Tonight - Laura Grace Weldon on "Free Range Learning"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me tonight, Thursday, February 7th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with Laura Grace Weldon on her book Free Range Learning : How Homeschooling Changes Everything. I''ve long argued that the homeschool movement has for decades now intellectually explored a lot of the same territory that the ed tech movement explores through constructivist and social software, particularly self-directed learning and student agency.

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Why Do Educators Use Twitter?

EdTechSandyK

'In preparation for a workshop I am co-teaching at the 2013 TCEA Convention and Exposition on Twitter for Professional Learning , I sent a few requests out to my Twitter followers to ask them to share why they use Twitter as educators. Considering it was Super Bowl Sunday, I think I got a pretty good number of responses! I asked the respondents to use the hashtag #Twitter4PL and used Storify to aggregate responses based on the hashtag.

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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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5 Keys to Effective Social Media Strategy for Schools and School Districts

The 21st Century Principal

'Should schools and school districts have a "social media strategy" like business and industry? In the corporate world, social media has moved from being a novelty to a deliberate strategy to engage the public. It seems like schools and school districts mostly do social media as an add on, where someone in the central office "just happens" to post announcements to Facebook or Twitter.

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Solution to combatting lonely, isolated educators: #PLN

The Innovative Educator

'Feelings of isolation occur with some regularity among educators, especially those who teach in specialty areas and/or small schools. Teachers spend much of their day separated from peers in classrooms that can become silos. However, technology is providing new ways for teachers to connect with peers both near and far. In this show, listeners are invited to j oin BAM radio''s Rae Pica for a discussion about overcoming isolation by builidng a personal learning network.

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Changing the world

Learning with 'e's

It's not often you get to talk with someone who has changed the world. That's exactly what I did this week in a glittering lounge in the Carlton Ritz Hotel, when I sat down with Steve Wozniak , co-founder (with Steve Jobs) of Apple. Wozniak designed the first Apple computer, and together with Jobs, set in motion a company that continues this day to mould our use of digital technology.

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Takeaways from #tlchat #sschat combo convo "Student Collaboration, Research Skills and Tech Integration"

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

'Yes, this was a very special collaboration indeed, between #TLChat and #SSChat (teacher-librarians and social studies teachers). My main takeaway too-good-not-to-share from TLChat''s Virtual Cafe''s "Student Collaboration, Research Skills, and Tech Integration" was presenter Ron Peck''s slideshare. Thanks, Ron! Tlc chat 2 from Ron Peck Due to technical problems, I didn''t get on until the Cafe was over half over.

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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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Equipping Students with a Baloney-Detection Kit in the Information Age

The 21st Century Principal

'According to Michael Shermer, "Skepticism is the rigorous application of science and reason to test the validity of any and all claims." He also points out that skeptics aren''t "closeminded or cynical;" they are "curious and cautious," and their beliefs are open to revision when the facts change. In an information-rich world where we are bombarded with all manner of fantastic claims and ideas, one would do well to adopt some degree of skepticism.

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The hottest posts 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. 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. Article Page views 7 ways to support your child in being digitally responsible.

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PBL = Puppet Based Learning

My Paperless Classroom

'Yesterday I rolled out my newest Project Based Learning adventure. The goal is to create a full length puppet production of Julius Caesar in our English class. How to build a puppet So I started learning about puppet building with a youtube search. I should say, I learned 90% of what I know about puppet making from watching youtube. Here is a short playlist.

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Collaboration Rocks! Librarians & Social Studies Teachers Talk Live

The Daring Librarian

'Join us for a lively and informative discussion on t ips, tricks and sound ways to get students collaborating and researching using the best of current technology integration tools. I''m very excited and honored to announce and moderate a very special # TLChat & # SSChat collaboration on the TL Virtual Cafe ! Twitter and Social Studies Chat stars Ron Peck @Ron_Peck & Melissa Seideman @mseideman will be our guest speakers.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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21st Century School Leaders Must Search for New Ways of Doing School

The 21st Century Principal

'"Our Education System Isn''t Broken, It''s Designed to Create Winners and Losers" according to Camika Royal in a post by that title on Good. That argument is made by others as well. Our education system with its grade levels, standardized testing, and accountability measures is all about labeling both kids and educators as either "winners" or "losers.

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What does an Ed Tech Coordinator Do?

The Innovative Educator

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You can't walk where I walk

Learning with 'e's

Someone once told me that life is like a fast moving stream. You can put your foot into it, and even let it flow over you for a while, but you can never put your foot into the same river twice. That's quite profound, but there is something even more profound. It is this: You can't walk where I walk. In other words, you can't experience what I experience.

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Community Service Graduation Requirement: Making 21st Century Global Citizens

The 21st Century Principal

'In order encourage civic engagement and to foster the idea that giving back to the community in which we live is a virtue, our school adopted a community service requirement for graduation early in its founding. At our high school, students are required to earn 150 hours of community service before they graduate. In order to make sure students earn those hours, we have implemented a rather simple system that ensures our students meet these requirements.

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The Roses and Thorns of an LMS Strategy: How to Flourish with the Right LMS

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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2 Favorite Tech Tools to Save Web Content for Later Reading

The 21st Century Principal

'Here''s a common tech problem those of us who read a lot of web content encounter: You encounter three articles on the web, and you don''t have time to read them. The old fashioned solution would have been to bookmark them and return to them later when you had time. But let''s throw in a wrinkle. You are going someplace where you will be unconnected for a day or two, but you would still like to be able to read those three articles.

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