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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

2 – Designing Online Assessments As you assess learning online, you’ll want to use the research-based best practices for online assessments. Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential. Check out Designing Online Assessments for Students — a course that can help you in this area.

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ISTE Certification 02

Dangerously Irrelevant

Despite my familiarity with all of the ISTE Standards, I have found that I am thinking much more deeply about the ISTE Standards for Educators as I go through this process with my cohort (which I appreciate)… One of our activities asked us to reflect on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines.

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What are this year’s top trends at SXSW EDU?

eSchool News

Race, Social Media & the Role of Schools. Future of Assessment & Accountability. Beyond Rubrics: Embedded Assessment in Making. Playful Assessment: Don’t Stop the Fun. UDL: Designing for Learner Variability. Related sessions: Belonging, Culture, & School: Student Perspectives.

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10 Ways to Use Defined Learning for Project-Based Learning Excellence

The CoolCatTeacher

These projects are created around Understanding by Design (UbD) principles to emphasize STEM education and have tools to help students customize, evaluate, assess and create portfolios. Defined Learning makes using project-based content easy to bring into any subject. Each project is organized around real-world examples making it relevant.

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The Social Learning Summit Is Tomorrow - Online and Free

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The conference theme is the use of social media and Web 2.0 Venable Social Networking for Social Good with TakingITGlobal for Educators by Kate Gatto Social Networking for Teacher Education by Leigh A. in teaching and learning, and the URL for attending is [link].

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To Flip or Not to Flip? That is the Question!

Fractus Learning

Social media has connected friends and family across the globe, but it has quickly become a tool for bullying and narcissism. What if we were to identify and plan ways to overcome potential high-probability barriers in the very methods, materials, and assessments used in our lessons?

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Professional Learning Communities: Using the 5Es to Give Teachers Agency and Maximize Productivity

Catlin Tucker

They may conduct online research, talk to colleagues, join a Twitter chat, connect with experts on social media, and/or commit to a book study. Evaluate: Assess the Effectiveness. Check out my newest book UDL and Blended Learning: Thriving in Flexible Learning Landscapes ! The goal is to learn as much as they can!