A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

'The other day I began conducting formal observations of my teachers. My second observation of the day took me to an English class. During the opening moments of the 9 th grade English class I was pleasantly surprised when the teacher quickly reviewed the summer choice reading assignment that was due in a few days. She used social media, specifically Twitter, to increase student engagement as well as relevancy and meaning.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

'An interesting infographic from PBS on what teachers want for technology in the classroom: Related: 10 Essential Educational Resources for Teachers - my list. 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. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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The Web20Classroom

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

'A while back I wrote a 3 part series on Twitter. In Part One I shared how I do Twitter PD, which might not be the way you think. In Part Two , I crowdsourced what some folks on Twitter wish they had know before getting started. And in Part Three I shared some of my tips tricks and secrets. I am revisiting the tips and tricks section because a few things have changed, or been added to and I have some new ideas I want to share.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

'Join me today, Tuesday, September 25th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Ron Ritchhart on his new book, Making Thinking Visible : How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners. Ron has been a researcher at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education since 1994. His research focuses on understanding how to develop, nurture, and sustain thoughtful learning environments for both students and teachers.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

'Week 2 Break Down: 1. Narrative Terms & Literary Devices 2. Collaborative Google Docs 3. Socrative Space Race 4. Seniors vs Freshmen "Bouquet of Sunflowers" by Claude Monet Oil on Canvas, 1881 "Flower"by Katherine Baker, Microsoft Paint, 2012 With the freshmen, I start the year off working with Narrative Terms and showing how an author can add artistry to writing.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

'Google has a cool new app for Android , called " Field Trip ". It helps you find things about what''s around you. It runs in the background and when you get close to something interesting, it pops up with details about that location. You can use it to learn more about historical locations, buildings, stores and restaurants and more. It takes information from a variety of sources, along with your location data, to produce these results.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

'Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. While a wave of courses from prominent universities are now labeled as MOOCs, we''ll drill down on the connectivist roots of the early MOOC offerings and discuss the importance of the differences between them and the current breed.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

The personal learning environment (PLE) is still a bone of contention. Over at the Open University of Catalonia, in Barcelona, Ismael Peña-López has been doing some stirling work on theories surrounding Vygotsky's learning model and PLEs. His article can be accessed here in its entirety. Ismael starts by simplifying Vygotskian theory. He reasons that for Vygotsky, learning features three distinct layers: 1) What learners can achieve independently, 2) what they can do with the help of someone els

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

'Google Maps is a great resource for more than just finding your way around. It includes street view, inside building views and panoramic views, along with other resources that make it great for education. Take virtual field trips around the world and take virtual trips to museums. Google has just announced a new set of panoramas in Google Maps - The Great Barrier Reef.

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The Daring Librarian

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

'Life is not filtered. But the Internet is - at my school. What are we teaching the kids? How can we teach knowledge, discernment, and ethics without giving them a chance to make good choices and yes, sometimes mistakes? Celebrate: Banned Websites Awareness Day "AASL has designated October 3 as the second annual Banned Websites Awareness Day. To raise awareness of the overly restrictive blocking of legitimate, educational websites and academically useful social networking tools in schools and sc

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

'Join me today, Thursday, September 27th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview with Tom Vander Ark on his book, Getting Smart : How Digital Learning is Changing the World. Tom is founder of GettingSmart.com , and also CEO of Open Education Solutions and a partner in Learn Capital, a venture capital firm investing in learning content, platforms, and services with the goal of transforming educational engagement, access, and effectiveness.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

As I was walking in to the university yesterday, a thought struck me. I asked myself the question, why do I work at the university? It certainly isn't because of the money. Firstly, I could earn a heck of a lot more in other industries. Secondly, I don't really need to work any more. I don't have a mortgage on the house now, and my children are grown up and independent (two of them are living in their own houses now).

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

'Digital Citizenship is an important topic and something that we must teach our students ( and ourselves ) in today''s digital world. Edmodo, a great educational app , and Common Sense Media have created a Digital Citizenship Starter Kit that teachers can download to use with their students. It is an page PDF file that is free. The Digital Citizenship Start Kit includes a poster and lessons and activities that cover topics such as privacy, internet safety and security, plagiarism, and cyberbully

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SpeechTechie

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

'Hi, I am presenting at the Social Thinking Provider''s Conference today in Minneapolis and wanted to share this weblist of supporting resources with participants (and you). Thanks.

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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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Comfortably 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

'It all started with this Tweet: Brent Catlett, an Instructional Technology Teacher in Bellevue, Nebraska and an even better human being, reminded me today of something that I had been wanting to do. I wanted to write a blog post about a really cool feature that I read about last week pertaining to creating e-Pubs within Wikipedia.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

I spend most of my time in the future, but I do go home at weekends. At least, that is my explanation about why I am so fascinated with the future. I always have been, ever since I was a little boy and started reading science fiction novels. From Asimov to Heinlein, and Clark to Wells, I hungrily devoured them all and fed my mind on what was to come.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

'Professional Development and Faculty Meetings are typically held face-to-face and many times are longer than they need to be, or too much time is spent on things that only affect a small percentage of those present. There are some tools and resources that can be used to change how and when PD and Meetings are held. 1. Google Docs/Google Drive - use Google Docs for meeting and PD agendas and shared resources.

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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

'In 9th grade English we read The Odyssey, we read the Fagles translation and we read the whole thing. I try to leverage the students interests into projects that get the students to think about the major themes in the story and to work together. This class began with a journal prompt inspired by my own chance encounter with the word "earworm." As the students shared their journals (very high energy) I played pieces of some of the songs.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The futurologist Ray Kurzweil once said that 'change is not linear, it is exponential.' Sociologist Alvin Toffler described three waves of evolution in our interaction with tools. The first two, the agricultural and industrial revolutions laid the foundations for the larger, Third Wave - the technology revolution. Prior to the technological wave, life changed relatively slowly, and change was linear, but in the advent of new technologies, we are lurching from change to change without pause.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

'Evernote is a great resource for teachers and students. Take notes, organize information, clip web sites, research, lesson plans and more. But it is also a great tool for administrators. All of the notes can be created and accessed from desktop computers and tablets and smartphones, so it''s easy to use and access. Evernote can be used by administrators for: 1.

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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

'Join me Monday, September 24th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with returning guest Nikhil Goydal about his book, One Size Does Not Fit All : A Student’s Assessment of School. "17-year-old Nikhil Goyal offers a ground-breaking prescription for transforming American schools. Drawing from hundreds of interviews with renowned thinkers like Howard Gardner, Seth Godin, Dan Pink, Noam Chomsky, Diane Ravitch, and Frank Bruni, Goyal calls to radically redefine the way

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

If I have learnt nothing else this week, I have learnt that the future is a very, very big place. I wrote recently that we live in exponential times , and this was brought home to all of us this week at The Windsor Debates. We are simply not prepared for the future. We are not ready for the rapid and wide reaching changes that will impact us all in the next few decades.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

'LearnMe Calendar is an app that helps young students learn about calendars. It is touch based and interactive and is very easy to use. As the students work through using the app, they learn more about today, tomorrow, weeks, months, holidays and more. There are educational games built in to help students learn. It works like a regular calendar, allowing students to add events, navigate around a week or month or year, and adds other features, like a drag and drop game for US Holidays, matching g

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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

'GoAnimate is a site that lets you easily create animated videos. There is a free version and a discounted education version. The free version allows you to easily make the videos, record your own voice or use the built in ones, and share the video. The Schools account is a private environment, with school safe content and moderation available and includes all of the premium features at a discounted rate.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

'Google Docs will no longer export files into the old Microsoft Office Formats (.doc,xls,ppt). Instead, it will download the files as.docx,xlsx, and.pptx. You can also still download files in.odt,rtf,pdf.txt formats. This will also affect Google Apps accounts. (And Google Drive since that''s where everyone''s Docs are going. You can still import these older Office file formats, but if you then export them, they will export in the new formats.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

'I am an Android fan and user. However, I have a loaner iPad for testing and reviewing apps. I also have a webOS tablet. I''ve used the app stores for all of them, and Apple''s is the worst in terms of customer experience. 1. Google''s Play Store and Palm/HP apps were easier to search and easier to install (no need for iTunes!). I could even browse the sites and select the app to be downloaded to any of my devices remotely. 2. iTunes.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

'comPADRE is a great resource for Physics and Astronomy teachers and students. It is a network and collection of free online resources for students and teachers. The collections are organized by Students, Teachers, and Faculty (higher ed). Resources include tutorial sites, games, research, career information, online magazine, teacher lesson resources, and much more.

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This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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