A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 16, 2013

Earlier this year she experimented with using Twitter to foster creative thought. In your comment for both photos, you will quote the lines accurately and include the parenthetical documentation for the act, scene, and page number. A rubric as well as the Common Core Standards that are to be assessed can be found HERE.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 16, 2017

An excerpt from Making The PYP Happen : The use of ICT: Can document the learning, making it available to all parties. The document also makes reference to further uses of technology in specific subject areas, but again, these are identical to non-IB schools. Can provide opportunities to rapid feedback and reflection.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 5, 2016

People can respond via text, videos, images, and documents. You can even integrate a Twitter hash tag. The beauty of this tool is that within each board responses can be text, video, images, or attached documents. Let’s use the power of social media to crowd source even more examples.

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Tools Poll Everywhere Game-Based Learning Social Media 150

My Island View

JANUARY 29, 2020

Technology’s effect on education is difficult to assess, because it is not just the technology that affects the learning. If there are three teachers teaching the same subjects in a school and are given equal access to technology, how can the technology impact on learning be fairly assessed? Twitter is the backbone of my PLN.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2017

Rather than a two-page printed document that can be lost and serves only one user, a digital portfolio posts your resume online, in an easy-to-understand format. Include not only the step-by-step, but samples, artifacts, assessment strategies, feedback from students and parents, and reflections from you after it’s completed. .

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Robotics Social Media Chromebook Common Core 153

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2017

The school day has just ended, there are three different assessments that need to be graded (×30.), It can be simply a place to house important documents and resources for learners, or it can be a tool that facilitates assessment and feedback. Why do weekly faculty meetings have to be the most dreaded part of a teacher’s week?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. I enjoy learning from all of you.

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Learning in Hand

DECEMBER 28, 2017

I share helpful links for educators on Twitter and Facebook everyday. Let's see what resonated on social media in 2017. In addition, Twitter Analytics provides me all sorts of statistics about my tweets. Google Document URL Tricks. A Visual Guide to Formative Assessment Tools. 30 Ways to Use Padlet.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

After floods, cables and wires may not be safe to use, he adds, so a new one-page planning document was recently added to cover the issue. Beyond issuing alerts to local media, the district used its phone trees to send out automated notifications to parents, while superintendent Alberto Carvalho updated his Twitter account regularly.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

When appropriate, students can learn to share their work through social media or sites like Youth Voices , extending their sense of audience, purpose, and genre that comes from a foundation of good writing instruction. Assessing one’s own writing and providing feedback to peers both help to move students forward as writers.

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Wiki STEM Strategy Twitter 90

Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

At the recent ALT-C Conference in Nottingham (which I couldn''t attend) a very good question was asked by Renee Filius on Twitter: How can we enable true two-way interaction between lecturers and students that is not too time consuming? 2) One popular social media site - Twitter - is a different proposition entirely.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 18, 2022

Social media has over a thousand posts on how awesome it is. I was introduced to it via my history teacher network on Twitter (a plug for using Twitter for professional purposes). Teachers can also benefit from the merge function of documents from OneDrive or Google Drive, combining multiple documents into one PDF file.

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techlearning

MAY 1, 2018

With these technology tools, the writing process can be improved at all stages from planning to writing to self editing to peer editing to assessment to revising to publishing. This add-on provides a list of rhyming words for any word you select in a Google Document. The student can search for websites, images, and more.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

These are perfect for when you need to compare documents, are grading papers, or are doing research for a lesson plan or project. It is also a receptacle for documenting the processes in action. Jim on Twitter. On-Air Coaching] How to Choose a Digital Assessment Strategy. The Instructional Coaching Guru. Jim’s Books: .

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My Island View

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Since I have become so immersed in the concept of connectedness through social media, I too often forget that not every educator gets it yet. I have trouble understanding why so many educators are still clueless about the need for collaboration and its link to social media and technology? Reflection and Growth.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. Social media curation efforts can help us fuel participatory culture as we build and connect communities. Each collection can include web pages, images, documents, eBooks, and more!

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techlearning

JULY 25, 2018

Students can access a variety of digital assets such as images, primary source documents, podcasts, articles, and videos, then are empowered to become content creators with a suite of content creation tools that help teachers and students safely and easily collaborate in real-time on virtual projects.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Students can access a variety of digital assets including images, primary source documents, podcasts, oral interviews, books on tape, articles, videos, and more, and are empowered to become content creators with a suite of content creation tools that help teachers and students safely and easily collaborate in real-time on virtual projects.

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STEM Social Media Differentiated Instruction Education 40

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. Every district will have one of these documents describing the use of internet for educators and students. All educators and students should become familiar with this document.

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techlearning

JUNE 20, 2018

Discovery Education’s Techbook series saves teachers’ time with a comprehensive design that places model lessons, student activities and assessments at their fingertips. With Streaming Plus, students can access a variety of digital assets including images, primary source documents, podcasts, oral interviews, articles, videos, and more.

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Hansen's Link to Tech

JUNE 9, 2015

Using a web-based central location to communicate, collaborate, assign, assess, and create allows for great opportunities for teachers and students to efficiently learn especially in a real-wold context. Start using an LMS (Learning Management System) such as Google Classroom , Schoology , Canvas , Edmodo , Moodle. Here are my top 5.

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Educator Innovator

AUGUST 26, 2014

As the new school year begins, articles and resources dedicated to helping teachers develop curriculum and assessments aligned to the Common Core literacy standards are popping up everywhere. This was originally posted at Common Sense Graphite. Tap into digital literacy and civic education skills at the same time!

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. This document usually spells out the important ways the internet can be used with students. Some districts will even have a Social Media Policy either separate from, or part of, the AUP.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 4, 2015

ISTELIB on Twitter. Back in 2011, in the face of the release of a number of standards documents describing the role of school professionals engaged with integrating technology into learning programs, I argued for a set of standards for teacher librarians. Librarians Network on Facebook. Librarians Network Website. 2014/15 Webinars.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

21st Century Leadership Shift Happens (must see video for any educator unfamiliar with the tends and impacts associated with technology and social media. Principals can use social media for communication, public relations, branding, professional development, and opportunity. Learn more about Google Docs here.

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Tools Social Media Smartphone Education 309

The Principal of Change

APRIL 9, 2015

Differing between the time when you “google” something versus asking the same question on Twitter can not only help you get better results, but in the long run, save time (which no one has enough of). Self-Assessment. If you want to read both part 1 and 2 as one piece, here it is on a Google Document. ). Quick Guide.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Participants will design powerful learning experiences for these classrooms as well as formative and summative assessments. individually you are going to do a search for STEM/STEAM related resources from social media such as Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram using hashtags (#STEM, #MakerEd, #STEAM, #edtech) to help identify them.

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Course STEM Assessment Strategy 156

Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Assessing the Travel Ban : What New Data on Overseas Recruitment Does – and Doesn’t – Tell Us.” More via The NYT : “Harassment in the Tech Industry: Voices Grow on Social Media.” ” Education in the Courts.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2014

Reinventing Writing is written for any teacher using or trying cloud documents with students. Follow us on Twitter: #liveclass20. Education Revolution Google+ Community Alternative Assessment Models. Learn about SAMR, see examples of classroom activities, and learn about some new digital tools you can put in your “app pack.”

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Libraries Conference Game-Based Learning Education 55

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 10, 2019

The re-imagined ESIFC includes increased or new attention to pre-kindergarten, multiple literacies, digital citizenship and civic responsibility, multiple perspectives, personalization of learning, design thinking, student voice and agency, and social and emotional growth. Offered as Word documents, these tools are easily adaptable.

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Digital Citizenship Libraries Secondary Social Media 76

Testpress

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We are addressing this going forward by documenting what new features gets released every month. This can help you in assessing your costs and the impact your videos are creating for your students. Feel free to follow us via social media using the links below Twitter LinkedIn Facebook.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Instead of reserving them for high-stakes assessments like final exams, some professors now use these tools for routine work like weekly quizzes. National publications have started to document the outcry, including articles in Vice , The Verge and The Washington Post. This might be a good opportunity to rethink assessment,” he says.

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The Electric Educator

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wave replaces the need for multiple services such as a Wiki to post work, Google Docs to collaborate on documents, email to communicate asynchronously, and instant messaging services to communicate synchronously. My students continually struggle with data aggregation, analysis, and assessment. I always appreciate feedback on my posts.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 1, 2015

Whether it’s giving a presentation, writing documentation, or creating a website or blog, we need and want to share our knowledge with other people. This information-packed resource from digital experts Anderson and Whitby makes it easy to build a thriving professional network using social media. Learning Culture.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

a backchannel device–to assess student learning while it’s happening (with tools such as Socrative, Today’s Meet, or Google Apps). a backchannel device–to assess student learning while it’s happening (with tools such as Socrative, Today’s Meet, or Google Apps). Social media.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Libraries Chromebook 150

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 7, 2018

Hope King on episode 306 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The winning nominator and his or her nominee each win a $20,000 package including one 7000 series SMART Board and SMART Document Camera, 30 Chromebooks, and SMART training and implementation.

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How To Social Media Company Assessment 170

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

As its name suggests, Formative is an online tool that teachers can use to create formative assessments (you see what they did there?) However, GAFE also provides apps like Google Classroom which allow you to organize your students into classes, assign assignments, create assessments using Google Forms, etc.

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