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A PLN Quick Start Guide

A Principal's Reflections

The construction of a PLN enables educators to harness the power inherent in 21st Century technologies in order to create a professional growth tool that is accessible whenever, wherever. Tablet apps are great tools to access RSS feeds and create your own customized news feeds. Educators can even create their own RSS feeds!

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To Disconnect or Not

A Principal's Reflections

Image credit: [link] Prior to leaving for Disney we decided as a family not to bring any computing or tablet devices. Disney has an incredible app that allows you to check the wait times for rides in real time as well as access/change FastPasses and dining reservations. By the way, all Disney World parks have free WiFi.

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Small Changes, Huge Results

A Principal's Reflections

It was at this time that I saw the error in my ways and began to leverage the power of a Personal Learning Network (PLN) to effectively integrate an array of tools that I had never knew existed. our tablet pilot program discussed at Learn@Lunch) The second small change was educating my staff on the value of web 2.0

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ClassFlow Marketplace lets teachers buy and sell original content

eSchool News

For purchasers, the new ClassFlow Marketplace helps teachers save time associated with lesson preparation by providing access to a marketplace prepopulated with thousands of digital teaching materials designed by expert educators from around the world.

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15 Non-librarian blog(ger)s too good to miss!

NeverEndingSearch

Examples of recent posts include Alexa, Can you give girls a voice , and How Tablet Games can Teach Skills to Students with Visual Impairments. May you find many of their stories here on the pages of this blog and add them to your personal learning network (PLN. Matt Miller’s Ditch That Textbook.

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10 Super Geeky Tips for the New Year

The Daring Librarian

After you set up your home WiFi network, did you set a secure password to protect it from squatters? Not only can strangers steal your signal for unlawful activities, but they can creep in and gain access to your personal documents and information, which can lead to identity theft. If not, now''s the time to do that.

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Don't Be a Rotary Phone: Librarians Step Up

The Daring Librarian

Same thing with libraries and books.the technology has changed from etchings on cave wall, parchment scroll, wax tablet to Kindle but we''re still reading. Yes, it''s a pain to learn new things - but to stay vibrant, relevant, and effective practitioners of information technology we must bite the bullet and learn.

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