Kleinspiration

APRIL 6, 2014

2014 has been fantastic so far! This year, I was awarded the 2014 Pre-K - 12 MACUL Teacher of the Year Award. NETA : April 24 - 25 (2014) Nebraska In a few weeks, on April 24th, I will fly to Nebraska to keynote their annual state technology conference, NETA: 2014 Mission Possible. Connected Educators : Jackson, MI April 26, 2014 Right after Nebraska, I''m going to try to make it to the Connected Educators unConference in Michigan.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

With 2014 coming to a close in a few days there is no better time than now to reflect on this past year. Here are some professional highlights from 2014: Digital Leadership was published by Corwin on January 14, 2014. On February 27, 2014, CBS Channel 2 NYC visited NMHS and did a nice feature on our makerspace , which aired during the five o''clock news. CBS Channel 2 NYC visited NMHS again on May 16, 2014. My last day as Principal was September 3, 2014.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 18, 2014

My own list is what I found to be the most powerful education related videos of 2014. Let me know of any others that you found of value during 2014! I love end of year “best of” lists. They all, in some way, address the mind, heart, and spirit of education. Each touched me in some way to help illuminate the purpose and core of education. Malala Yousuf Nobel Prize Speech.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 15, 2014

This post is part of Scott McLeod’s Leadership Day 2014. PD should give your Ts a GEM: it should “Grow You”, “Engage You”, and “Mean something to you” — GNichols (@Think_teach) August 6, 2014. Edchat Thought-provoking admin Administrators leadership leadershipday 2014 leadershipday14

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Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners

DECEMBER 31, 2014

In 2014 ThingLink worked hard to provide teachers and students with a powerful and flexible tool for teaching and learning that is useful across all content areas. 2014 Thinglink EDU ThingLink offers the education community tagging tools to bring images and video to life. It works across platforms and provides teachers and students with the ability to add rich media contents to any video or image.

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The Web20Classroom

DECEMBER 31, 2014

2014 was filled with all sorts of conversations, mostly centered around personalization of learning and creating more student centered environments and I don''t see that slowing down in 2015. What a year it has been. And now that it''s coming to a close I like to take a look at the most popular posts here and do a bit of looking into the crystal ball to see what conversations might be on the horizon for next year. First, the most popular posts!

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 9, 2014

I will be presenting at the Google for Education CT Summit on June 21st, 2014 on Chromebook and Google Apps deployments. The Summit is two days, with presentations and workshops by a variety of educators, Google Certified Teachers, Google staff and more. It''s a great event with some great learning and sharing planned. Here is the event website: [link] Here is the event Google+ Page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cdmsgr0sqmq20iaht6frk95ek6s?authkey=CLeunPTcr9jknwE

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CUE

JUNE 16, 2014

Written by CUE Member and ISTE’s 2014 Kay L. The post Everything You Need to Know – ISTE 101: Atlanta in 2014 appeared first on OnCUE. Bitter Award Recipient Bill Selak @billselak It’s almost time to hang out with 20,000 of my closest friends. Well, there’s me, 5,000 exhibitors, and 1,000 sessions. And there’s you, of course! If you’ve never been to an ISTE Conference, I need to warn you: it’s big! […].

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Kevin Corbett

JULY 25, 2014

The former Wall Street technology analyst, now a general partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers , published her latest report on the state of the web on May 28, 2014. The continued growth of mobile Internet usage is perhaps the most powerful theme from her INTERNET TRENDS 2014 REPORT. Source: INTERNET TRENDS 2014 – CODE CONFERENCE. Mary Meeker May 28, 2014. Mobile Learning Technology internet trends report 2014 Mary Meeker Mobile Momentu

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 15, 2014

2014). Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Undergraduate students taught by lectures are 1.5 times more likely to fail than those involved in active learning. – Bajak, A. In my new book, The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers , I talk about how even the best lectures aren’t fair for the majority of students in our classes.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Pablo Beltrán (@pbeltranp) December 9, 2014. Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. – Peter Drucker. A year ago, I created a technology course on Moodle for Spanish teachers as part of the Ministry of Education of Spain.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 1, 2014

December is the month for advent calendars, so I’ve created the Digital Ideas 2014 Advent Calendar to give you a hands-on example of how this works. Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar. One way to engage students is to create interactive digital calendars. Throughout December, you will discover free web tools, apps, and resources by clicking on each day in the calendar below. You will also be given a challenge so that you are motivated to try out these ideas.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 19, 2014

2014, July 23). A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. – Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Our world is full of hero potential waiting to be motivated, supported, and skilled. Teachers hold the key to unleashing that potential, yet many are wounded heroes themselves. According to Teachers Count, the average teacher impacts 3000 students within a lifetime. How many students have you already impacted?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! I’ve been quite blessed to travel to over 20 countries and help teachers integrate technology even in places with very little funding. You can watch a video of me helping students in Ogulin, Croatia to get an idea of what this looks like in action. Often, we are not fortunate to work in schools that provide us with the budget to get the technology we want.

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The details of the session are as follows: Session Code: 1718 Title : Pairing EVEN MORE Picture Books & Apps to Contextually Address Language Objectives Day : Saturday, November 22, 2014 Time : 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Location : Orange County Convention Center Room: W414CD Session Format: Seminar 1-hour Abstract : Support for using picture books in intervention is long-standing and relevant to the development of language skills.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 15, 2014

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” by Plato. Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Throughout my teaching years, I’ve struggled with getting my students or trainees to readily participate. Learners are shy about exposing themselves to peers, especially if they do not know them well.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. – Bob Kerrey. Teaching citizenship isn’t an additional part of the curriculum. A good lesson plan or project will get students to learn how to be kind, generous, problem-solving, caring, compassionate, imaginative, creative, emphatic, and/or helpful while also getting them to learn.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! During one of my teaching internships, my mentor had us create books we read to children from the Boys and Girls Club. I still have my construction paper book with my poor drawings. My artistic abilities didn’t matter to the kids who were just excited to have someone spend time with them. Our learners have the power to greatly impact others with their creations.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. – Dr. Seuss. Often, you will see me include pictures of my pug in my webinars, keynotes, or profile pictures. I had few people question if this is professional. When I conduct classes- online and offline- I am more concerned with building relationships with my students and getting them to warm up to me.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. – Joseph Pulitzer. The best kind of learning motivates you to question, explore, make it your own, then pass it on. I’m not interested in my students coming to specific conclusions or answers.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 14, 2014

Part of the Byte-sized Potential and Mobile Learning categories. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. – Yousuf Karsh. Most of our students love learning and creating even if they do not express this in our classes. Millions around the world read, create, produce, direct, summarize, translate, edit, and share outside of learning institutions everyday on their mobile devices or through the web.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 16, 2014

ASCD 2014 Change Daniel Pink Leadership To Sell is Human I’m not going to lie; Daniel Pink is one of my heroes. After reading his book Drive a few years back my professional practice was significantly changed for the better. His work really made me critically reflect upon my leadership practices. This led to a decision to give my staff and students more autonomy , which resulted in a greater sense of ownership of their learning.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! I am not a teacher, but an awakener. – Robert Frost. Many students take notes, because the teacher requires it, but many do not know how to take notes effectively. Students also don’t know how to preserve paper notes well. The ink gets smeared, the paper gets tattered, and their isn’t a quick and easy way to categorize or search paper notes.

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Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Google is known for providing constant updates to it''s products. In a post on the Google Drive Blog , Google summarizes some of the updates that they did to Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms over the last year. It''s pretty impressive and made these products much more useful, especially for Google Apps and Chromebooks users.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Well I missed out on writing a review for 2013 so I thought I’d get in reasonably early and write some predictions for what might happen in 2014. It will get louder in 2014. Expect MOOCs to continue to be the most high profile focus of academic angst in 2014. Look to corporate training and private online higher education providers/suppliers to be the ones looking for learning designers in 2014. These types of projects will be just outliers in 2014. TL;DR.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Holiday Apps for Creating Gifts & Learning 2014 from Shelly Sanchez Terrell. Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. – Hamilton Wright Mabie. Students are excited about the holidays and celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or their school break. Get them learning and celebrating with digital devices, web tools and apps.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! I’ve been quite blessed to travel to over 20 countries and help teachers integrate technology even in places with very little funding. You can watch a video of me helping students in Ogulin, Croatia to get an idea of what this looks like in action. Often, we are not fortunate to work in schools that provide us with the budget to get the technology we want.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. – Bob Kerrey. Teaching citizenship isn’t an additional part of the curriculum. A good lesson plan or project will get students to learn how to be kind, generous, problem-solving, caring, compassionate, imaginative, creative, emphatic, and/or helpful while also getting them to learn.

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Learning in Hand

DECEMBER 31, 2014

This means I can easily see the most popular links I shared during 2014! I shared hundreds of links in 2014, and I''m proud that 8 out of my top 10 most clicked links are my own blog posts or creations. And as a bonus, below are my biggest tweets from each month of 2014. link] (thanks @mrbadura & @Swenson_n111) #ipaded #edtechchat pic.twitter.com/1YTrnhdavr — Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent) January 11, 2014. gcucore — Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent) May 2, 2014.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 15, 2014

This post is my contribution to Leadership Day 2014. 21st Century Leadership Change Digital Leadership Innovation Jared Wastler Laura Fleming Leadership Day 2014 legacy Spike Cook Legacy is such a deep and meaningful word in my opinion. The term can best be described as how someone is remembered and the specific contributions he or she made while they were alive.

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Mark your calendars for October 25, 2014 from 12:30 p.m. October is right around the corner… And that means it’s almost Connected Educator Month ! Edcamps are a significant part of the Connected Educator Movement. With over 500 face-to-face events in dozens of countries, educators everywhere are coming together to learn and share organically. Edcamps are unconference events designed for educators. The schedule is built on the day of the event by the participants.

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

For me, the holiday followed soon upon returning from the ASHA 2014 Convention in Orlando, where I presented and also attended many sessions. Thanks for the tweets, Brittany and Angela: Awesome tip from @SpeechTechie look for blogs on the best books of the year now that we''re approaching 2015 #ASHA14 — Brittany Lehane (@Britt_Lehane) November 22, 2014 Woot! asha14 #a1718 — Angela Saus (@CrissXAppleSaus) November 22, 2014 PHEW! Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

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The Playground Advocate

JANUARY 3, 2014

I have one resolution this year: Maximize Happiness First off, I would encourage everyone in the world to begin 2014 with this video: I think if I managed to keep the spirit of this video in mind throughout 2014, I would have done everything I need to do to make life happy. I wish you all a happy 2014. So it''s a new year, and as my wife pointed out to me, I of all people, "Mr. English Major", "Mr. Symbolism", ought to recognize the power of the new year to inspire renewal.

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My Paperless Classroom

DECEMBER 30, 2014

So here is a quick reflection on 2014 and the top 5 things I learned in 2014. Without a doubt, 2014 has been a year of collaboration. So here I am at the end of 2014, wondering what the year ahead holds. I thought I was done blogging for the year. I am working on a couple of posts, but I wasn''t going to post anything else. I was going to take the time off. The thing about blogging is that it helps me make sense of the work that I do.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Holiday Apps for Creating Gifts & Learning 2014 from Shelly Sanchez Terrell. Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. – Hamilton Wright Mabie. Students are excited about the holidays and celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or their school break. Get them learning and celebrating with digital devices, web tools and apps.

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