A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Whether it be in the form of endless piles of paperwork, never ending observations, meetings with parents, attending events, developing a master schedule, or constructing a school budget – there never seemed like enough time in my day to even get those responsibilities done. Consider flipping your faculty meetings.

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Digital Badges Personal Learning Network Flipped Classroom Meeting 378

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments.

Digital Citizenship 284

Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety Assessment 284

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

How to power through a difficult parent-teacher meeting comes to mind, but there are many challenges that teachers learn how to handle in time. building a personal learning network online. Online learning is not about absorbing information in front of a screen. Give timely feedback.

How To 282

How To Personal Learning Network LMS Training 282

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and participate in a weekly video meeting. Classmates will become the core of the teacher’s ongoing Personal Learning Network. Develop and employ a Personal Learning Network.

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki Personal Learning Network 237

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2021

Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and participate in a weekly video meeting. Understand the secrets to picking good digital writing tools while working with classmates in a hands-on and non-threatening writer’s workshop format. INTASC 1, 8.

Blended Learning 206

Blended Learning Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki 206

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2020

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Professional Learning Network. Building Digital Citizens.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety 219

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2020

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Educators participate in this three-week hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop as they learn to use widely-available digital tools to help their students develop their inner writer. Price includes course registration and all necessary materials.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and participate in a weekly video meeting. Understand the secrets to picking good digital writing tools while working with classmates in a hands-on and non-threatening writer’s workshop format. INTASC 1, 8.

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Blended Learning Common Core Wiki Digital Citizenship 182

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and participate in a weekly video meeting. Understand the secrets to picking good digital writing tools while working with classmates in a hands-on and non-threatening writer’s workshop format. Starts Sept.

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Blended Learning Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki 174

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 8, 2020

Understand the secrets to picking good digital writing tools while working with classmates in a hands-on and non-threatening writer’s workshop format. Resources include a blend of videos, pedagogic articles, lesson plans, projects, and virtual face-to-face meetings to share suggestions with classmates in a collaborative environment.

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Digital Citizenship Tools Common Core Wiki 220

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 28, 2019

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Educators participate in this hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop as they learn to use widely-available digital tools to help students develop their inner writer. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Personal Learning Network 168

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and for some, participate in a weekly video meeting. Understand the secrets to picking good digital writing tools while working with classmates in a hands-on and non-threatening writer’s workshop format.

Digital Citizenship 184

Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki Personal Learning Network 184

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 1, 2019

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments.

Digital Citizenship 204

Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety Assessment 204

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 7, 2019

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments.

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Groups Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety 183

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and for some, participate in a weekly video meeting. Understand the secrets to picking good digital writing tools while working with classmates in a hands-on and non-threatening writer’s workshop format.

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Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki Personal Learning Network 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 5, 2018

Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards, complete weekly projects/summatives, and participate in a weekly video meeting. Classmates will become the core of the teacher’s ongoing Personal Learning Network. Everything is online.

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Blended Learning Digital Citizenship Wiki Common Core 150

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APRIL 23, 2018

Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and participate in a weekly video meeting. Understand the secrets to picking good digital writing tools while working with classmates in a hands-on and non-threatening writer’s workshop format. INTASC 1, 8.

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Blended Learning Digital Citizenship Common Core Wiki 155

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2018

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Educators participate in this three-week hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop as they learn to use widely-available digital tools to help their students develop their inner writer. Price includes course registration and all necessary materials.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Internet Safety 151

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 22, 2013

Quality professional development rests in the ability of the organization to not only meet their needs, but also that of its constituents. Educators now have to attend mandate-driven workshops on the Common Core, teacher/principal evaluation, and student growth objectives. Something has to give though. The key word here is forced.

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Edcamps Common Core Personal Learning Network Training 309

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Educators participate in this hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop as they learn to use widely-available digital tools to help students develop their inner writer. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Personal Learning Network 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Educators participate in this three-week hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop as they learn to use widely-available digital tools to help their students develop their inner writer. Price includes course registration and all necessary materials.

Resources 150

Resources Common Core Digital Citizenship Personal Learning Network 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 11, 2019

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Today: Mentoring and Classes. Building Digital Citizens.

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Resources Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Social Media 170

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Instructional leadership was a routine part of the job along with the budget, master schedule, curriculum development, meetings, email, phone calls, and many other duties. Grow Professionally Attend at least one conference or workshop a year that is aligned to a major initiative or focus area in your school/district.

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Strategy Social Media Assessment Conference 311

EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The conference, which more than 3,600 people attended in 2017 according to ICE, will hold more than 400 informative sessions and workshops. We are excited to have CDW•G create a modern learning environment for educators to experience what classrooms today can not only look like, but how they can better facilitate learning.

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Conference EdTech Education Learning 194

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Professional Learning Network. Building Digital Citizens.

Digital Citizenship 78

Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Assessment Common Core 78

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 7, 2011

How do you use the Web to build and participate in personal learning networks? How do you start building your own personal or professional presence on the Web, and what kind of work opportunities come from doing so? As I''ve given workshops on "Teacher 2.0" are here: [link].

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Lenovo Personal Learning Network Conference Social Media 49

Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2016

Not quite sure how you're going to run formative assessment in your classroom, or lead professional development workshops? Here's one to read: South Carolina educator Carla Jefferson takes a stab with her article on the four types of teachers you meet in PD sessions— and how to manage them. It's that time of year: back-to-school.

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Schoology Personal Learning Network Education Online Assessments 68

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 21, 2015

How to create a vibrant, healthy Personal Learning Network. Screencasting was quite popular in these two classes as well as Summer PD workshop. How to create professional blogs. How to embed materials into digital portfolios. Lots (and lots) of students don’t have internet access at home.

Digital Citizenship 150

Digital Citizenship Flipped Classroom Personal Learning Network Twitter 150

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 4, 2015

They also become supplemental learning spaces for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-related classes and courses. Blended and virtual learning : Traditional schooling, as dictated by brick-and-mortar buildings and mainstay pedagogical techniques, no longer meet the diverse learning needs of all students.

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Digital Badges Learning BYOD Flipped Classroom 150

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Join me in Australia in February of 2013, where I''ll be doing a series of workshops, masterclasses, and consultancies in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Perth. The workshop activities will enable educators, as the "lead learners", to build educational resources for their students, themselves, and their institutions. The Educator 2.0

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Personal Learning Network Education Trends Personalized Learning 43

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

A participative workshop particularly for those feeling dispossessed or discouraged by the current educational system, designed to provide a meaningful path forward to improve personal or community educational opportunities. Saturday 8am - 3pm - "Hack Your Education" workshop for students, teachers, parents, and/or administrators.

Education 55

Education Social Media Personal Learning Network Libraries 55

MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Meeting this challenge is a huge task. Teachers need the opportunity to collaborate, they need to have a sense of ownership in their learning, and they need to feel valued. Their professional learning should be personalized. Gamification can personalize learning for teachers.

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Gamification Survey Edcamps Training 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 24, 2011

More than half of all faculty at the University of Findlay utilize Blackboard Collaborate for everything from live online classes and office hours, to meetings and virtual conferences. How do you create and build your own personal reputation in an authentic way? What is the value of a personal learning network?

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Blackboard Moodle Personal Learning Network Online Learning 46

EdTechSandyK

DECEMBER 15, 2009

It has been stressful trying to get everything in place in time to meet deadlines, but extremely rewarding as well. Something that became evident to me as I was working with my team was the fact that I was experiencing cooperative/collaborative learning at the same time that I was reading about it.

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Learning Twitter Personal Learning Network Training 40