A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 30, 2011

'Last fall I hosted a conference at my school that turned out to be a great success. The idea was to create an event at a high school like no other in the area where passionate presenters and a major conference feel would have attendees leave inspired to initiate innovative change in their instructional practices. Building upon last year''s event I am proud to officially announce Edscape 2011 will be taking place at New Milford High School on Saturday October 15, 2011.

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SpeechTechie

JUNE 26, 2011

'Hey Folks, Just finished presenting at the Social Thinking Provider''s Conference in San Francisco. Thanks so much to Michelle Garcia Winner and the Social Thinking team for having me. I''d like to share with you my presentation (so click here for that) and a few people had some difficulty accessing my links page (a little glitch- I guess we have to get used to glitches when using technology) so I thought I would simply publish those below.

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The Daring Librarian

JUNE 25, 2011

'I was asked recently for a quote by a N.Y. Times editor for their opinion page : Here''s the question: "School librarians are on the chopping block as states and cities seek to cut their education budgets. Do superintendents and principals see librarians as more expendable than other school employees? If so, why?" Here''s my response: "From the Daring Librarian to Teacher Librarians everywhere with love, albeit tough love - but full on love!

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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 27, 2011

'I have to start this post with a disclaimer. Please note that in this post I am referencing "second-hand" information from a meeting/workshop I did not attend. I was conversing with a colleague today and he shared that at a recent gathering of K-12 Chief Technology Officers, the topic of training educators on new technology came up. There seemed to a prevailing tendency reported among the CTOs to roll out new technologies without setting up formalized training for the end users.

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The Electric Educator

JUNE 29, 2011

'I was fortunate enough to be granted an early invitation to the new Google social media experiment called Google+ today. I would recommend that you take a quick look at the Google Blog for a quick overview I approached Google+ with great skepticism. And for good reason: Orkut : Fail (in the US anyway). Google Knol : Fail Google Wiki Search : Fail Google Wave : Fail Google Buzz : meeeh.

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SpeechTechie

JUNE 27, 2011

'I am sitting at San Jose International Airport in the Jet Blue Terminal as I write this (Sunday), exhausted yet also energized and inspired from my experience at the Social Thinking ™ Providers'' Convention in San Francisco. I first learned about Social Thinking in probably 2003 (?) when I was struggling to figure out what to do with all my "pragmatics" groups of students with Asperger''s, High-Functioning Autism, and related issues, and found my practice totally revolutionized by the concepts

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wwwatanabe

JUNE 27, 2011

'I was asked to present ten coaching tips in ten minutes at ISTE. Here are the ten I presented today: 1. Building relationships is key. It takes time and energy to build those relationships, but it''s the key in coaching. 2. Work with the willing. It is more effective to work with those who are willing, and forcing someone won''t get the results the students deserve.

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The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 27, 2011

'I''m sold. I have been using my Kindle for about a week now, and I can say it was one of my own best technological investments of the year. I have boldly finished my first book on the device, James Rollins'' book Excavation. I realize Rollins'' book wasn''t exactly educational, but I actually read the book from cover to cover, or should I say from digital file to digital file.

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Connecting 2 the World

JUNE 26, 2011

I know that I have a number of readers of this blog from New York state. However, many are from outside of the state and the country. I am always interested in the blogs that I read, about learning what their end of school year is like. So I decided to write a "cultural" piece about how students (at all levels of education) end their school year in our state.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 28, 2011

'Long before I took a job at Elluminate, the company''s flagship program had become a significant part of my work. To say that I was a passionate user might even have be an understatement, as the live events first for Classroom 2.0 and then FutureofEducation.com were some of the best professional experiences I''d ever had. When my consulting work with Ning wrapped up and I got a call from Rajeev Arora saying he was hoping I''d come work for Elluminate, it was clear I''d found my dream job.

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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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SpeechTechie

JULY 1, 2011

'I''m trying out something new here on SpeechTechie- Link Friday! I encounter a lot of things on the web that prompt a tweet out to SLPs, but not necessarily a lengthier analytical post. These include articles about language or technology, other SLPs'' blog posts, or quick-hit tech resources that don''t take more than 140 characters to position as candidates for your therapy activities.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JUNE 28, 2011

'Search PlanIt is a fantastic new teacher-led lesson plan search engine developed by a teacher. Now that piqued my interest right away -- I had to know more. Who is this person, how did he/she do it, and what is the story behind Search PlanIt ? Curtis Cook was easy to find, and he graciously answered all of my questions. His story and the story behind Search PlanIt is a fascinating one!

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 30, 2011

Photo from Theirhistory on Flickr "Miss, where does Pooh come from?" asks the little boy. The teacher raises her eyebrows, takes a deep breath and then proceeds to explain all about nutrition, eating food, the digestive system, and how waste products are eliminated from the body. The little boy nods, but looks unimpressed, and then asks a follow up question: "So where does Tigger come from?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 26, 2011

'Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly 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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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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Mark Smithers

JUNE 28, 2011

I’ve been working on educational technology strategy and implementation for what feels like as long as I can remember but one thing I have always intended to do was to develop a visualisation of educational technologies in the form of a ‘map’. There are a number of such maps around already. Some of these are very good but they were never quite what I wanted.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 27, 2011

'Saturday was a terrific day! Thanks so much to all who came, and especially to those who helped in any way. There are some "Teacher 2.0" t-shirts left, and I''ll have them at the ISTEUnplugged area starting this morning, along with the purple Blackboard Collaborate buttons (and my snazzy Teacher 2.0 wristbands!). The official word from Bb Collaborate is that they will be walking around handing out tickets for people caught wearing the button or the t-shirts, and then using those tickets to raff

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