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5 Essential Practices for Designated and Integrated ELD

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Elizabeth Iwaszewicz talks about five strategies for designated and integrated English Language Development (ELD). Today’s Sponsor: Metaverse is a powerful augmented reality app. They have a new classroom management tool called Collections.

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9 Great Nonprofits to Support School Leaders

Tom Murray

The Council of Chief State School Officers is a nonpartisan, nationwide, nonprofit organization of public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education in the states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity, and five U.S. Connect: www.ccsso.org , @CCSSO. extra-state jurisdictions.

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Close to 10% of students got into MIT by excelling in a MOOC. Then, if you are lucky, all of your teachers will have a blog.

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In June, a Unique Chance for Educators to Renew, Remix, Reimagine at CLMOOC

Educator Innovator

This led to another insight,” he wrote on his blog. “I So who is the MOOC designed for? With collaboration between elementary school teachers, college professors, afterschool programmers, master tech users, and beginning bloggers, “It ends up being a pretty dynamic network.”. Beyond that, there are few requirements.

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Practicing the Principles of Connected Learning

Educator Innovator

If you are organizing a course, MOOC, or co-learning community, daily connects are one of the most powerful and yet simple tools at your disposal. Norris Elementary School in Southampton, Massachusetts, and technology liaison with the Western Massachusetts Writing project. Hodgson is a full-time sixth-grade teacher at William E.

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Literacy in the Digital Age: 9 Great Speaking & Listening Tools

Educator Innovator

Editor’s Note: Teaching Channel has partnered with Student Achievement Partners on a blog series about digital literacy tools and their effective use by educators. isn’t simply limited to YouTube either (though it does work seamlessly there); Khan, Vimeo, and several MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) platforms work as well.

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Khan Academy redux

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

It was originally posted at the old Casting Out Nines blog at the Chronicle. My own contribution to those debates remains the single most viewed post I’ve ever published in nearly ten years of blogging. It would be absurd to say that her elementary school is a curriculum. The difference is more than merely semantic.