Sat.Jan 29, 2011 - Fri.Feb 04, 2011

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The Road Less Traveled

A Principal's Reflections

'Educon was an amazing experience for me both professionally and personally. It provided me with an opportunity to put a face and voice to so many educators from across that country and Canada that have inspired, motivated, supported, and challenged me ever since I discovered this vibrant, connected community of learners in March of 2009. As I have written numerous times, I have grown and learned more in this short period of time than from any other professional development opportunity.

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What Is It About #Educon? My Reflections.

The Web20Classroom

'This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend Educon 2.3 in Philadelphia. For those who don''t know, Educon is an educational conference that us put on by the students and staff of the Science Leadership Academy , lead by Chris Lehmann. Really, it is more the students who do everything. From running the live streaming to the EduConcierge who would tell you the best place to eat and print your boarding passes for you, kids were everywhere doing any number of jobs.

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Collaborative Story Writing with Google Docs

The Electric Educator

'This past week I started to train my 9th grade students to use Google Docs, part of the Google Apps for Education suite. One of the assignments that we did together was a collaborative class story. Here are the rules: 1. I wrote the first sentence to get things going. 2. Every student adds one sentence to the story. 3. Students were not allowed to change anything that someone else had written (with the exception of spelling) My class of 18 was in our media center working on individual desktops.

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Calling All Daring Librarian Superheroes!

The Daring Librarian

'Shamelessly I will report on this - Why S hameless ? (capitol S) Because, of course, this is the answer to my every fevered redheaded dream to be nominated for a special Superhero lunchbox ! So just even reporting it makes me feel all squirmy & excited & dreaming of it! And of course if any of my dear gentle good readers think.no.even I can''t go that far!

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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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Scratch!

SpeechTechie

'I recently received a great email from Jen, a reader, that can serve as a post all on its own. I asked her if it was OK for me to post it as such, and she said yes, so here it is! Hi Sean, I''m a new follower of your blog (on Facebook too!) and I thought I''d send you a quick e-mail about a neat use for Scratch (which you probably already know about - from the MIT Media Lab - a programming language for kids that allows them to make interactive projects).

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Live Interview Thursday, February 3rd - Karen Hume on "Engaging the 21st Century Learner"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Thursday, February 3rd, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Karen Hume on her book Tuned Out: Engaging the 21st Century Learner. Date : Thursday, February 3, 2011 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am GMT (next day-- international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate. Log in at [link]. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early.

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A great way to capture life where your live

Connecting 2 the World

Over the last two days we had constant snow (actually the whole month of January and it looks like February is on its way). The Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences has begun to keep a blog (which it started a few years ago but abandoned until this semester). As part of their blog, they included a time lapse of 52 hours of the various storms we had passing through.

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Superbowl Commercials and Language Therapy

SpeechTechie

'The Superbowl approaches this weekend- what a great topic to engage your students as you sneak in some language strategy teaching! The game itself is often, well, boring, and besides the food, the other thing about Superbowl Sunday that people love is the commercials, often expensive productions that cost even more to air. Commercials are short pieces of discourse that use specific structures and strategies to convey their messages; these correspond to text structures that our students need to

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Live Interview Tuesday, February 1st - David Wiley on Open Education

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Tuesday, February 1st, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with David Wiley , Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology & Technology at Brigham Young University, Chief Openness Officer of Flat World Knowledge , and Founder of the Open High School of Utah. David is well know for his work on open content, open education, and informal online learning communities.

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5 people to follow in 2011

The Electric Educator

'Note: This is the third part my series "5 things to watch in 2011" Future installments will include: Five companies to watch in 2011 Five trends to watch in 2011 Five technologies to watch in 2011 Five blogs to read in 2011 Here''s who I''m paying attention to in 2011. Adrianna Stone is a High School science teacher in Houston, Texas. I attended her session on "Engaging a Gaggle of Googlers" at the Virtual School Symposium in Glendale, Arizona this past November.

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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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How do I pursue self-selected Professional Development?

wwwatanabe

'How often do teachers get to choose their professional development based on their strengths and passions? How often do they get to engage in meaningful conversations about learning? Following blogs that resonate with my pedagogical beliefs for learning provide me with the professional development that meets me where I am. How in the world do I have time for this?

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Groundhog Day!

SpeechTechie

'Groundhog Day is rather strange, when you think of it. Nevertheless, there''s a lot of language involved: the who/what/where/when/why of it, concepts around weeks and seasons, conditional if/then regarding if the groundhog sees his shadow, groundhogs themselves and what category they belong to, comparing and contrasting with other animals and their psychic abilities, etc.

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A Day Without Chemistry: Pirate Ninja Style!

The Daring Librarian

'A Video from the American Chemical Society Our MHTV top story today made me have to get a little shady -access my inner Pirate and bring out my secret Ninja side- all for a good cause. Here at Murray Hill Middle School we LOVE Science! So it did not come as any surprise that our interest was piqued today when we found this great story on Student News dot net - a press release about a hot new animated video celebrating International Year of Chemistry - and it took a bit of finagling to get it (i

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Week of January 31, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for 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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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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Posts Elsewhere!

SpeechTechie

'Hey Folks, Please check out some posts that recently got published elsewhere! On the Mindwing blog, just in time for Valentine''s Day, some ideas for teaching kids about the "Six Universal Feelings" as story elements and expanding feelings vocabulary. Heidi at Mommy Speech Therapy sure knows how to make beautiful graphics, and was kind enough to ask me to write a post about Virtual Pet Therapy- animal-themed mobile apps for language development.