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Forging Ahead With Change

A Principal's Reflections

It is not uncommon now for classes to be Skyping with students in other countries, using Twitter as a learning tool, constructing QR codes for artwork, blogging, or creating multimedia projects using a variety of interactive web tools that are blocked in many schools across the country.

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Student Response Tools for the Digital Classroom

Class Tech Integrate

Whether your class is 1:1 with a specific device (Chromebooks, iPads) or you have a BYOD environment (Bring Your Own Device),there are many websites that work as an excellent option for teachers to gather responses from their students. As always in my blog, I will just name a few of the many tools that I have found beneficial.

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Student Response Tools for the Digital Classroom

Class Tech Integrate

Whether your class is 1:1 with a specific device (Chromebooks, iPads) or you have a BYOD environment (Bring Your Own Device),there are many websites that work as an excellent option for teachers to gather responses from their students. As always in my blog, I will just name a few of the many tools that I have found beneficial.

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Teaching Gen Text authors explain why cell phones should go to school

The Innovative Educator

You can read the entire piece at BYOD Goes to School, Here is what we said during our interview with the author of the article. Apps that Webb has used include Celly , which allows teachers to text students while not revealing phone numbers, and Poll Everywhere , which helps teachers conduct polls through text messages.

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The Seeds of Innovation

A Principal's Reflections

The following is a guest blog post by Dr. Franklin Turner who recently visited my school. Lastly, I used Poll Everywhere in my senior seminar the next day and it was a big hit. BYOD BYOT educational leadership educational technology mobile learning devices' My college students really enjoyed using it.

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How to Use Technology in Your Faculty Meetings

Gaggle Speaks

Here’s how: Incorporate BYOD. In addition to spicing things up a bit, text message polls using a tool like Poll Everywhere will make it easier to keep track of votes rather than counting the hands in the air. Have a faculty blog. Engaging faculty using technology isn’t as hard as you think.

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5 Ways Teachers Can Encourage Deeper Learning With Personal Devices

Edsurge

Here are 5 ways to get to curate that practice by making your class a BYOD zone. Websites such as Poll Everywhere allow teachers to pose questions to students during presentations, demonstrations or lectures and students can respond with immediate responses displayed on a projector. Often times great “aha!”