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Formative Assessments Are Easier Than You Think!

The Web20Classroom

Backchannels-Hugely popular at conferences and other educational gathering the backchannel provides a way for participants to share in conversation while participating in learning. Poll Everywhere - Another one of my favorites, simply because of the variety of uses and methods of submitting responses.

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Be Present

A Principal's Reflections

Now, the beginning of the year was extremely rough as over six of the seven hours that my students were in school were spent conducting pre-conferences, observations, write-ups, and post-conferences. A Math teacher using Poll Everywhere in AP Statistics to check for understanding.

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Climate is Everything

A Principal's Reflections

As a culminating activity, Mr. Manzo asked the students to take out their mobile devices and submit their questionnaire answers using Poll Everywhere. In preparation for the activity he informed the students yesterday to bring their cell phones in (they were shocked).

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Here's what you missed at the MidWest Technology Conference 2014 #METC14

MSEDTechie

I had the pleasure to attend and present at the Midwest Technology Conference in February. This conference was packed with experts sharing their knowledge with cool and exciting ways to integrate technology in the classroom. I left feeling refreshed, revived and rejuvenated ready to tackle the last few months of school.

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The Case for Quiet Kids: Helping Introverts Get Heard in the Classroom

Edsurge

As a student, my parents would inevitably hear the same thing at every Parent-Teacher conference—some variation of: “She sure is a spirited one!” Predictably, it is now me who hears the same thing year after year at Parent-Teacher conferences: “He needs to participate more.” or “Participation isn’t an issue for her!”

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The Blended and eLearning PBL Classroom… A Journey from Analog to Digital Project Based Learning

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Why not have students vote on what attributes are most important using a survey or polling tool such as Poll Everywhere ? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Mike Gorman.

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New Year, New Adventures

A Principal's Reflections

Tri-State Educational Technology Conference (TSETC) : I have previously blogged about this event, but am compelled to mention it again. The conference will be held on Saturday October 2, 2010. Initially I would like to see some pilot classes begin to use Poll Everywhere to increase student engagement.