Sat.Jun 12, 2010 - Fri.Jun 18, 2010

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Priceless Moments

A Principal's Reflections

'Early this morning I was greeted by a 12th grade student who wanted to give me a gift. She asked that I not open it until she had left and I reluctantly obliged. A few minutes later I unwrapped the gift to reveal a picture frame that was hand-decorated by the student. In the frame was a photo taken of the both of us at the senior prom that occurred a little over a week ago.

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The (Almost) Complete Summer Reading Recommendations List

The Web20Classroom

'Last week I started the #sumread10 hashtag on Twitter so that anyone could submit their summer reading recommendations. Here is the list of all the books that were submitted: Reading Made to Stick by Chip Heath & Dan Heath Rococo by Adriana Trigiani Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer Theodore Boone Kid Lawyer by John Grisham Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky Maledicte by Lane Robins Sustainable Leadership by Hargreves and Fink Motion Leadership by Michael Fullan Th

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FREE App Today: Tales2Go

SpeechTechie

'At IEP meetings each year, when parents would ask, "What can we do at home?" our team''s responses inevitably included reading to/with the child and having the child listen to audiobooks. Audiobooks serve some pretty clear language-enhancing roles such as: -Exposure to complex language, vocabulary and sentence structure that exceed what the child could read and comprehend independently.

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Summer Blog Makeover

The Electric Educator

'After nearly two years of using the standard blogger template, I decided that it was time for a blog makeover. I have been (and will continue to) make adjustments and improvements. Many of the features that I have incorporated into my blog came from carefully reviewing YOUR blogs and noting things that I liked. Here are the tools that I am using: The header of my blog was created in Photoshop with instructions from this site.

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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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Join Our Geek Tribe for ALA10 & ISTE10

The Daring Librarian

'As promised, we have FREE Geek Tribe graphics for you ! My buddies Diane Cordell , Joyce Valenza, and I have designed a special badge that you can print out in colour or black & white so that you can join our Geek Tribe family and REPRESENT at the #ISTE10 Denver or #ALA10 DC Conference!! Since we''re split up between the two competing conferences we want to show our Ed Tech solidarity by flaunting our sign!

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The #Edchat Special Conversation With Howard Rheingold Wrap-Up

The Web20Classroom

'Last night over 150 people joined us in Elluminate to talk to Howard Rheingold on how do we get kids thinking critically about the information we find online and off. It was a great discussion with tons of information. First here is the link to the archive of the Elluminate session. It lasted a little over and hour and well worth the time to go back and really listen to what Howard has to say.

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Sports and culture: the case of the World Cup

Connecting 2 the World

Yesterday, my son watched the England vs. USA soccer world cup game. As I am sure there was a different vibe in England, this was actually well watched by many of my son's friends.even those that don't play soccer. Throughout the game, my son was texting one of his best friends from grade school. "What are they thinking??" (The US). "They should be playing the Latin American game.

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Librarians Go Lady Ga Ga over Ghostbusters

The Daring Librarian

'after a long day making phone call after phone call to the homes and parents of all the kids that still have out Library Media books (87!!) i needed a little video fun! so from the YouTubes. Created by Sarah Wachter and featuring "students and faculty from the University of Washington''s Information School get their groove on".ALSO featuring our own Mike Eisenberg !

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New Posted Resources 06/15/2010

The Web20Classroom

'100 Ways To Use VoiceThread In EDU - Voicethread for Educators tags : voicethread , favorite Google Docs Presentation for Diocesan School Tech Conference by Cecelia Foster on Prezi tags : googledocs Differentiate-with-Technology - home tags : differentiation , technology , favorite Digital Literacy Tour tags : digitalcitizenship , InternetSafety , favorite Posted from Diigo.

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PLNs and Keeping our Brains Moving

SpeechTechie

'I finished my SLP master''s in 1999. I don''t know about you, but I sometimes worry that all the content I learned at that time is being eradicated by less important clutter in my brain, such as reality TV show plots, others'' Facebook status updates, etc. One very positive movement in educational circles aims to promote more useful brain-stuffing- I am speaking about the development of Personal Learning Networks or PLNs.

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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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An #Edchat Conversation-Howard Rheingold and Critical Thinking

The Web20Classroom

'On Wednesday, June 16, at 5pm PDT/ 8pm EST (Convert To Your Local Time Here ), members of the EDU PLN Ning and participants of #Edchat will have the unique opportunity to join Howard Rheingold in a conversation about teaching Critical Thinking. Howard Rheingold has graciously agreed to take questions from members of the Ning. He wants you to share your examples and suggestions on how to teach critical thinking.

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New Posted Resources 06/12/2010

The Web20Classroom

'Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Tips for Teaching Wikis: How I explain it to students tags : wiki , wikis , favorite 4 Tips for Integrating Social Media Into the Classroom tags : socialmedia , favorite Over 100 ideas for using Twitter in the Classroom | Emerging Internet Technologies for Education tags : twitter , favorite TeachersFirst: Wiki Walk-Through tags : wiki , favorite Creating a Glog by Dorene Bates on Prezi tags : glogster , prezi , favorite Posted from Diigo.

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Describing by Parts

SpeechTechie

'Playing with Plants and Animals is a cute resource for younger students from the e-Learning for Kids site. The activity has two sub-sections in which you reconstruct a plant or animal according to its parts. Language Lens This activity could be a good supplement or tool to teach students the strategy of describing an object according to its parts.

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Bookfellas: Bring Back Your Books - Or Else!

The Daring Librarian

'I hope you don''t have any overdue books! Or the Bookfellas may just visit and give a gentle reminder. This video is an oldie but goodie.all students appearing in this video have since graduated from high school! Yeah.this is how we rock the iMovie OLD SCHOOL STYLE!~ See? We had the situation before the Jersey shore was even an idea in some MTV programmers dream!

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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.