A Principal's Reflections
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
'The following interview took place after Education Week''s Leadership Forum "Unleashing Technology to Personalize Learning" on 10/5/10 in Washington D.C. In order to increase access and use I am now utilizing Facebook with students and parents in my District. There are so many people already using Facebook to interact with their friends and family.
The Web20Classroom
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
'Recently I asked this: We encourage our kids to be life-long learners. And when they ask why we tell them all kinds of things like it is important to stay relevant in our careers and it is important for humanity to have people who enjoy learning, etc. (You probably have something much more creative and fun than mine.) But that lead me to educators and life-long learners.
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The Learning Revolution Has Begun
NOVEMBER 3, 2010
'The online 2010 Global Education Conference kicks off on November 15th for 5 days. As co-chair of the conference, I''m both nervous and excited! The conference has garnered incredible support--we currently have over 90 partner organizations , 120 international educator advisors , 36 keynote speakers , and over 300 worldwide presentations --all around helping students and educators to connect globally.
Connecting 2 the World
NOVEMBER 2, 2010
I recently read two good blog posts about higher education: one by Clark Quinn and the other by Andy Cloverdale. In both posts they point out the need for change in the way that education is provided at the University and the way instructors/professors are trained to teach in the University. This and the extreme budget cuts to our university in the face of rising enrollments got me thinking about the call for "reform" in how our universities are run in the US today.
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SpeechTechie
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
'This summer, right about when we were planning a big trip to Europe, I discoved TripIt when it was featured on Lifehacker. TripIt is a great free online service that builds your travel itinerary and keeps it organized for you. You know all those emails you get when you reserve flights, cars, and other travel activities (that you struggle to locate later).
The Web20Classroom
NOVEMBER 5, 2010
'Center on Instruction tags : instruction favorite Student Interactives - ReadWriteThink tags : interactive writing reading literacy favorite 100 Terrific Sites to Find Primary Source History Documents tags : primarysources favorite TCEA 2010 - iPhone/Touch Apps Member Suggestions tags : ipodtouch favorite iPod ipodtouchclassroom [licensed for non-commercial use only] / FrontPage tags : ipodtouch favorite iPod Top 10 Ways to Declutter Your Digital Life, 2010 Edition tags : organization favorite
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The Electric Educator
OCTOBER 30, 2010
'Collaboration has been identified as a critical skill for students of the 21st century. The next generation of jobs will be primarily collaborative in nature. Science, engineering, and technology companies are seeking out individuals who can work as part of a team to solve complex problems. Teaching students how to collaborate with one another is an important part of the classroom, especially the STEM classroom.
SpeechTechie
NOVEMBER 2, 2010
'UPM Forest Life is a gorgeous interactive website created by an international forestry company. UPM is a paper producer but takes efforts to do so in a sustainable manner; I think this website is a nice effort to raise awareness about sustainability. The site allows you to explore a number of beautifully photographed forest scenes through clickable hotspots that bring up further images or video, along with text about forest sites.
The Web20Classroom
NOVEMBER 2, 2010
'Google Earth Resources tags : GoogleEarth favorite Google Search Tricks by Tony Vincent on Prezi tags : google googlesearch favorite Student Blogging Guidelines | always learning tags : blogging blog favorite All sizes | The Collaboration Cycle | Flickr - Photo Sharing! tags : collaboration favorite Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
'Join us early morning Wednesday, November 3rd, for a special live and interactive FinNode Social eLearning webinar: Transforming the Learning Environment - Leveraging Learning Communities: A Finnish and American Perspective. School leaders from the US and Finland will share best practices on their successful learning communities and how it is transforming learning in their schools and expanding these learning communities outside their schools.
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.
The Web20Classroom
OCTOBER 30, 2010
'Digital Citizenship Wiki Bookmark tags : digitalcitizenship favorite Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff – TechLearning.com tags : facebook parents favorite 10 Ways to Promote Writing for an Authentic Audience - NYTimes.com tags : writing favorite YouTube - How Search Works tags : search google searchengine favorite Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy tags : documents favorite YouTube - jrsowash''s Channel tags : google favorite Educati
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
'Join me Thursday, November 4th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Steven Farr, Chief Knowledge Officer at Teach for America and the author of Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher''s Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap. Date : Thursday, November 4th, 2010 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT ( international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
'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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