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Using Pop Culture to Teach Writing Skills

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In 2007, she was named a member of the USA Today All-Teacher Team, and in 2011 she was awarded the Massachusetts Commonwealth Award in Creative Leadership.

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5 Trends to Watch in 2011

The Electric Educator

The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that "the rate at which Americans went online with their handheld on a typical day increased by 73% in the sixteen months between the 2007 and 2009 surveys."Both Look for mobile devices and applications to dominate the news and innovation cycle of 2011. 5 things to watch'

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Communicating and Connecting With Social Media (An Excerpt)

A Principal's Reflections

The book is entitled Communicating & Connecting With Social Media: Essentials for Principals and will be available from Solution Tree on May 19, 2011 Using Twitter to Build Your School’s Brand The good news is that open-communication practices in a social media world don’t have to be intimidating. See figure 1.1 for a visual.)

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Rethinking Balance

The Principal of Change

” George Couros, primarily from 2007-2017. October 22, 2011 Happiness and Balance August 29, 2011 Defending from Twitter Overload November 10, 2011 Lost in Learning. “Balance is stupid.” That was me. Maybe I didn’t say it exactly that way, but I was thinking it.

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April 1, 2011: What Stunt Will Google Pull Off?

The Electric Educator

2005: Google Gulp (Google enters the beverage market) 2006: Google Romance (Find your soulmate) 2007 (Google was very ambitions in 2007, creating many April Fools jokes) Gmail Paper Archive (distrust digital? You can find me on Twitter (@jrsowash), Google+, Linkedin (jrsowash), and YouTube (jrsowash)'

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Here's a Neat Infographic on 'The History of the Hashtag'

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

According to the infographic, Chris Messina first suggested using hashtags for Twitter groups in 2007. Tumblr followed later that year, Instagram started using hashtags in 2010, Google Plus hopped on the bandwagon in 2011, and Flickr barely beat out Facebook to avoid last place in 2013.

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Dear ISTE (reprised)

NeverEndingSearch

The organization acknowledges the accelerated pace of change and is entering the process of seeing what works, what is still relevant, what is obsolete, what is still missing since the last refresh in 2007. The 2007 standards described a landscape in which we were using technology to learn. ISTELIB on Twitter. 2014/15 Webinars.