A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 22, 2012

'I am extremely excited that my second book is now available through Solution Tree entitled What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Science. It was a great deal of fun co-authoring this book with Keith Devereaux , one of my Science teachers at New Milford High School. It is our hope that this book becomes the go to resource for principals looking to establish and maintain effective science programs that focus on doing science as opposed to just knowing.

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Educational Technology Guy

AUGUST 20, 2012

'Prezi , the zooming presentation tool that makes presentations engaging and fun, has added some cool features. Prezi has added 3-D backgrounds for the presentations, which can add some great images to your presentations. Also added are Fade-In Animations like PowerPoint has to slowly reveal your content or only have it come up once you click. Great for posing questions and hiding the answer.

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The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 21, 2012

'Last week on #edchat the discussion turned to blogging and the importance (or maybe not) in and out of the classroom. As always the conversation was a lively one with lots of different ideas on student blogging, administrator blogging, platforms and more. (Check out the archive to read and follow all the discussions.) I wrote about how to be come a blogger a while back.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 19, 2012

'With two weeks until school is back in session and in preparing for my presentation on Edmodo for the upcoming TeachMeetNJ unconference , I''ve been reflecting on past practices and thinking about how I structure the educational process in my class. Prior to the digital revolution, I used worksheets as the hub for lessons and content. I can hear the gasps of horror right now, but let me explain.

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The 21st Century Principal

AUGUST 19, 2012

'What if you only had time and money to use and purchase six tools to teach your entire curriculum? What would those six tools be? Authors Harvey Silver, R. Thomas Dewing, and Matthew Perini seem to do just that in their book The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with Common Core. Many of us are right in the midst to implementing the Common Core Standards, whether we philosophically agree or disagree with the need for their existence.

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Educational Technology Guy

AUGUST 20, 2012

'Welcome back to school! I hope everyone had a great summer and was able to relax and recharge. Our district starts with teacher professional development and classroom setup this coming Thursday, K-9 start next Tuesday, and 10-12 start Wednesday. The summer has flown by! The beginning of the year is always a little crazy for all teachers. Getting your room setup, implementing new ideas into your lesson plans, getting to know your students, and just settling back in to the routine can be busy and

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SpeechTechie

AUGUST 24, 2012

'In a recent post, I discussed the essentials of using iBooks as a tool for displaying (and saving) PDFs files you possess, download or create. Thanks to Alex Dunn ( @smartinclusion ) for pointing out in a followup discussion on Twitter that interactive whiteboard lessons such as those displayed on a Smartboard can also easily be saved as PDFs and reviewed in that manner.

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The 21st Century Principal

AUGUST 18, 2012

'No one argues any more that principals must take on the role of being an instructional leader in their schools. It is widely accepted, but often having credibility in that role is difficult when principals do not have experience teaching, or don’t really understand what being an instructional leader means. Author of the book The Principal as Instructional Leader: A Practical Handbook , Sally Zepeda points out that, “ Principals who are instructional leaders ‘link’ the work of leadership and lea

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Educational Technology Guy

AUGUST 20, 2012

'Discovery Education , best known for it''s Streaming video service and Science TechBooks , also has a great YouTube Channel. Discovery Education''s YouTube channel has great resources, including webinars for teachers, and many other videos. They have playlists and tags so that you can better find what you are looking for. The webinars are excellent, with many of them from Steve Dembo, on all kinds of topics including Web 2.0, Social Media, how to use Discovery Education products and resources,

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 23, 2012

This is the third in a series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future.' Yesterday's post can be found on this link. Previous posts in this series have outlined the need for universities to respond to changes, and to develop strategies for survival in a world where the future is uncertain. It is increasingly apparent that learning technology and digital communication will play a key role in the shaping of future higher education.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2012

'Many of you have already begun your school year, I can see from my social media channels. This is a time of excitement, but also of some anxiety! I myself have some transition nervousness as I have cut out the public school piece of my job(s) and will be working in private practice (also consulting to schools on students with social learning and language challenges), continuing my app work with Smarty Ears , and running workshops on tech integration!

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The 21st Century Principal

AUGUST 18, 2012

'A veteran teacher once told me in the early days of my career as an educator, "Be careful what you wish for. When federal and state agenices do away with one policy, they almost always come up with something much worse." In my naivete, I obviously did not believe that. I still had an unwavering faith in the system, and that those who make the rules always mean well and often know more about those things than I do.

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Educational Technology Guy

AUGUST 20, 2012

'Lifehacker is a great site with tips, information, and resources on pretty much everything, from cooking to travel to technology to education. They have a great resource called the Lifehacker Packs for Students. These are lists, with links, to great apps for students. They are sorted by operating system and then by category. There are some great apps here and it''s a great place to find great apps for students all in one place.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 21, 2012

This is the first in a series of posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future' The dynamics of education in the 21st Century are very different from those witnessed in previous years. In the last century, education (in all its forms) was based on the assumption that knowledge content was scarce, and that formal education (university, college, school) was the only place it could be accessed.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2012

'Today is the first day of the free and virtual Learning 2.0 Conference , being held in conjunction with Connected Educator Month. While tomorrow is the actual start of the formal sessions and keynotes--there''s a pretty incredible lineup of speakers--today is the (very cool) experiment of holding a virtual SocialEdCon. SocialEdCon (formerly EduBloggerCon) is the six-year-old unconference on social media, technology, and education change that is held a couple of times a year at different ed tech

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MSEDTechie

AUGUST 24, 2012

'As an educator we set goals for ourselves each year. Rather it be to dedicate more time to exploring different ways to provide engaging instruction to students, or just finding ways to work smarter and not harder. After surfing the web for awhile, I came across a very interesting article outlining 10 important resources any 21 century teacher should be using in their classroom.

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Educational Technology Guy

AUGUST 20, 2012

'Google maps is a great resource. I use it for navigation and looking at cool places. Many teachers also use it in their classrooms to show students different places in the world for Geography or History class. Google has added some more Street View images to Google Maps that can be used for virtual field trips. They already have some great imagery of the Amazon and Antarctic, and now they have it for Brazil and Mexico.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

This is number 4 in the series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future.' Yesterday's post can be found at this link. The web is constantly changing. Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 22, 2012

'Not one to shy away from experimenting with an online event (especially during Learning 2.0 ), I want to invite you to tonight''s virtual "Pitchfire" from 7 - 9pm US-Eastern Time ( international time conversions ). We''ll be hosted by Startup Weekend EDU''s Khalid Smith, and we''re modeling what we do after the hugely-successful physical event we did on Saturday night at ISTE as part of ISTEunplugged.

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MSEDTechie

AUGUST 21, 2012

'Well with week 1 down, and let''s say about 40something more to go, I''ve had a few days to reflect, and think about the school year ahead. I must say, I think this might be one of the most successful starts to the beginning of the school year I have witnessed in a long time. Although I feel that my "to do" list never gets shorter, and it never ends, I do find joy in being able to have a job/career I absolutely love!

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My Paperless Classroom

AUGUST 20, 2012

'Hello, this is a Brand New Freshmen. I''m sorry for this being so last minute, i didn''t see the written part of this assignment on the website and only found out very recently about it. Thank you so much! eek, am I not supposed to wright an explanation point on an email to an English teacher. This is the email I just opened. I love this opprotunity.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 22, 2012

This is the second in a series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future' Yesterday's post can be found on this link. ‘May you live in interesting times’ (Old Chinese curse) We live in tumultuous times where change is constant and disruptive and where technologies are increasingly pervasive throughout society. Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2012

'This is it! The fifth and final day of our virtual (and free) Learning 2.0 Conference. Tonight we almost reached 5,000 attendee logins for the week--wahoo! And have we got a great day planned for you! Sugata Mitra tells us about students teaching themselves. Audrey Watters denounces robot learning. Angela Meiers reminds us that we matter. Heidi Hayes Jacobs reappears after a scheduling snafu.

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Comfortably 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2012

'Get ready for a great learning experience! Edcamp is coming to Central Nebraska! Maggie Mintken, Assistant Principal at Grand Island Senior High, and I had a great discussion this summer as a result of her first Edcamp experience in Omaha last spring that was organized by Josh Allen. We recognized the need for a "workshop by educators, for educators" in Central Nebraska.

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MSEDTechie

AUGUST 24, 2012

'Top 9 Free Web Tools to Develop Students Creativity Check out this list of great web resources that foster creativity with your students.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 21, 2012

'Tuesday we had 20 hours of great virtual sessions and keynotes in our Learning 2.0 Conference. The session recording links are HERE and the links for the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings of the keynotes a part of the keynote session descriptions HERE. MP3 (audio only) recordings of the keynotes are available at FutureofEducation.com. Join us Wednesday for whatever sessions you have time for--they are all free and first-time attendees are especially welcomed.

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

The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2012

'We had a fun and fascinating day today with the first ever SocialEdCon unconference held virtually. Over 225 people showed up, and while lack of familiarity with the unconference format and with Blackboard Collaborate (as well as some tangible hesitation to use a microphone or webcam) mean that we now have some specific ways to think about making this kind of event better--I actually think the format has HUGE potential.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 22, 2012

'Hard to believe we''re at day four of the virtual (and free) Learning 2.0 Conference. We have some great sessions and keynotes for you! Don''t miss Gina Bianchini talking about Ning , Mightybell , and creating social software that educators love. Yong Zhao tells us about the ideas from his newest book, World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students.

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MSEDTechie

AUGUST 24, 2012

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