Sat.Jul 28, 2012 - Fri.Aug 03, 2012

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Connectedness as the Standard

A Principal's Reflections

'I am extremely excited that August is Connected Educator month. In my opinion, being a connected learner, leader, and/or educator is no longer an option. My personal and professional journey in this area is well documented and something that I regularly present on. When I think back to my life as an educator prior to becoming connected, I can honestly say that I was isolated, naive, and definitely not as well rounded as I am today.

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Connected Educators Month.Make It Last All Month

The Web20Classroom

'Kicking off today (Aug. 1) is Connected Educators Month. Through a partnership with the US Department of Education, the idea is to get the word out about what it means to be a connected educator and the importance of being connected. There are lots of webinars, panels, discussions and resources to share. You can learn more about it by visiting the Connected Educators Calendar.

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Infographic on 21st Century Classroom - what do you think?

Educational Technology Guy

'I was sent the following infographic about the "21st Century Classroom" this week. As I was looking at it, I found some interesting statistics and agree that Project based learning, social media, and technology are all important for education. What do you think about the information presented below? Components of a 21st Century Classroom - An infographic by the team at Open Colleges.

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MC Assessment = Meta Cognitive Assessment

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

'To be a progressive teacher, you find and do what works. Period. The students should be stakeholders in their education and have accountability, responsibility, and be actively engaged in and out of the classroom. Period. I apply the theories and philosophies of Bloom , Bandura , Vygotsky , Maslow , Gardner , and many many many others. I''m a proponent of critical thinking, cooperative learning, metacognition, blended learning, flipped learning. see a pattern?

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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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Remind101 - A Safe Message System for Teachers

The Mobile Native

'As a student at Michigan State University, Brett Kopf struggled with dyslexia and ADD. Likely during a class in which he should have been paying attention, his mind wandered to a potential solution for his resulting disorganization - if there was a service that could send him a text message every time he had an assignment due, test, or schedule related announcement, his status as a student could dramatically improve.

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Connecting Educators - Reflecting on Ning and Educational Social Networking After Five Years

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Tuesday, July 31st, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with David Deubelbeiss, founder of the Ning network EFL Classroom 2.0 --like my Classroom 2.0 network also in its fifth year, and with over 25,000 members. As "pioneers" of connecting educators through Ning, David and I will talk about educational social networking and social media for both teacher professional development and also for student learning.

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NBC's censoring of the Olympics: Social media and lost opportunities

Connecting 2 the World

Let me begin by stating I am a big fan of the Olympics. Overall, NBC, the American television corporation with rights to broadcasting the Olympics, with one exception, has done a pretty good job of covering the games on its free, open access station. They have included a wide variety of sports in all day (more or less)coverage. However, they have really missed the boat on their social media/online coverage, which could have real repercussions from fans in the future.

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iPad Essentials- Displaying PDFs on iPad

SpeechTechie

'In my last post, I talked about the potential benefits of using iBooks for displaying and interacting with ePub books in therapy. iBooks is also useful as a collection spot for useful PDFs that you might want to display as visuals in a therapy session. What is a PDF? A PDF is a Portable Document Format, and we have seen them more and more over the past few years.

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Connected Educator Month - Week One's Amazing Schedule!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Connected Educator Month kicks off this week, and serving as a consultant to the event with significant responsibility especially for this week''s events, I humbly think you''re going to be BLOWN AWAY by the opportunities to learn and participate. All activities are free! Connected Educator Month is a U.S. Department of Education’s Connected Educators initiative, coming out of Director of the Office of Educational Technology Karen Cator''s working group on "online communities of practice.

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Great infographic with mobile productivity tips and tools

Educational Technology Guy

'We use our mobile devices more and more for work, business, school and more. Tony Vincent has a great site, Learning in Hand , where he has been posting information, tips and resources about using mobile device in learning for years, starting with the Palm PDA''s. He created a great infographic with his tips and tools for mobile productivity. It has some great information for teachers and students, and anyone else for that matter, for being more productive using mobile devices.

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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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Evernote for HootSuite - save social media to Evernote

Educational Technology Guy

'Evernote is an awesome app that allows you to take and share notes, web clippings, audio notes, upload files, and much more. It also allows for other apps to work with it. HootSuite is an app that you can use to access and manage your social networks, such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ Pages. Now, you can also work with Evernote with HootSuite.

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Splashup - free online image editing

Educational Technology Guy

'Splashup is a free online image editor that I learned about from a fellow webOS fan, Aaron Gallo, on his blog, Novacharter. It is easy to use and even let''s you "jump right in" and edit photos and images without needing an account. The controls and commands are similar to many other image editing apps so it''s easy to get started. It''s all online so there is nothing to download or install.

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Great cheat sheet on Ed Tech topics and terminology

Educational Technology Guy

'Edudemic has a great infographic and cheat sheet on educational technology terminology from Boundless. This will help new and veteran teachers with some of the terminology being used in education. Check it out: This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy. Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article.

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