Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 9, 2014

A year ago, I created a technology course on Moodle for Spanish teachers as part of the Ministry of Education of Spain. The teachers are very new to web tools, developing Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) and are currently teaching full time. The course is task based and I’m fortunate to be one of the instructors.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 29, 2020

But with the coronavirus pandemic disrupting more traditional professional learning opportunities like in-person conferences and workshops, it's time for you to chart your own course. Fortunately, there are plenty of informal ways to learn and grow professionally on your own.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

DLNchat-ters offered ideas about how to better use tools for online discussions. Use active learning techniques. Have the community include more individuals than just those who are in a particular course or course of study, or even including those who aren’t students,” Dannon Loveland suggested. Simple as heck, right?”.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 9, 2021

You might say, “practice, of course!” It’s more of a thought experiment to introduce today’s topic: how to research as a teacher, which brings us to…. Read more: Top learning myths to leave behind in 2020. Your personal learning network (PLN)? How to access information like a pro. Gathering new ideas.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 19, 2020

The best advice I can provide is to understand that making teachers go through the motions like it is a typical school day might not be the best course of action. You can either lurk and learn or develop your own Personal Learning Network (PLN) to farm the best ideas and strategies that are actually working in similar demographics.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 5, 2016

Here are the basics: Course Description. The 21 st Century lesson blends technology with teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. Classmates will become the core of the teacher’s ongoing Personal Learning Network. Course Objectives. I truly learned so much.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Discover more ways to design engaging distance learning experiences by taking my new accredited graduate course , Online Learning: Best Practices to Leverage the Power of Distance Learning. Discover more ways to integrate technology effectively by taking one of my fully accredited online courses or get one of my books !

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 8, 2013

They desperately sought time during the school day to engage in professional growth opportunities, learn how to integrate Web 2.0 tools, and develop their own Personal Learning Networks (PLN’s). Math teacher Jeff Fiscina learned how to create engaging learning activities using Educreations.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Discover more ways to design engaging distance learning experiences by taking my new accredited graduate course , Online Learning: Best Practices to Leverage the Power of Distance Learning. Twitter Chats, webinars, MOOCs, online courses, online conferences, virtual events, livestreams, Edcamps, Facebook groups, #Hashtags.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

Experience Online Learning The biggest ways that I have been able to develop my skills in online teaching is to experience it myself. For instance, I took an online course taught by Sean Michael Morris through the Digital Pedagogy Lab a few years back. Sometimes that takes the form of becoming a student.

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The Web20Classroom

MAY 12, 2014

So we had to look at how to reclaim some of that time. Traditional PD models can be flipped too, where work is done before to learn basic skills via video or through course work. Then face-to-face time is spent going deeper with that understanding, creating something or looking at how the learning can be applied.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2017

The 21 st Century classroom blends technology with traditional teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. This three-week course (July 10-July 30) digs into the digital ideas and tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. Course Objectives.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 5, 2017

The 21 st Century classroom blends technology with traditional teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. This three-week course (July 10-July 30) digs into the digital ideas and tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. Course Objectives.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2016

The 21 st Century classroom blends technology with traditional teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. Course Objectives. At the completion of this course, you will be able to: Painlessly add flexible, authentic, and transformative technology to your classroom. Course Highlights.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 12, 2018

Each elementary school in the district has a makerspace within its resource center (and the fifth-to-eighth grade students have access through a related studies course), where all the robotics activities are happening. Then we enrolled students in courses on the website. We are in our third year where we have total participation.”

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 23, 2020

For email, of course I use Gmail, where I use a similar color scheme with Stars and the Boomerang Extension , so I can practice Inbox Zero. I have a personal system where in my outliner I keep the day’s count of Keep Notes and Email (plus voicemail and pinned tabs that require follow up) so I can calculate how many hours I’ll need.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 25, 2016

Time after time, they took responsibility for their own learning. They worked together as a Personal Learning Network. Sure, I was there to answer questions, but often, another classmate jumped in with solutions and how they made things work. Some of the problems students faced down: How to use twitter.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 27, 2017

As such I did what I was trained to do and what I thought was the most logical course of action to get buy-in from my staff. I spent a great deal of time writing numerous detailed memos on everything from technology tools to improve assessment, developing a Personal Learning Network (PLN), and embracing innovative ideas.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

The 21 st Century lesson blends technology with teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Price includes course registration and all necessary materials. Can also be taken for college credit.

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My Island View

JANUARY 29, 2020

This includes how to use technology to learn more technology. How to develop a personal learning network through technology should be a course offered in every teacher preparation program. Of course my favorite chat is #Edchat which I founded along with Shelly Terrell and Steven Anderson.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Money Matters – My dad was all over me even as a young adult about creating a personal budget in order to manage my finances. I learned more about money management and budgeting from him than I did any course I ever took. Empathy – All throughout my childhood my parents taught me how to be empathetic.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 21, 2015

Some of the problems students faced down: How to use twitter. How to use GHO. How to make a tagxedo interactive. How to work tech tools into their unique student groups. How to create screencasts and screenshots. How to create professional blogs. How to embed materials into digital portfolios.

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 13, 2016

The post How to Boost Your Teacher Brand appeared first on Shake Up Learning. It’s also the best way to promote your personal and professional brand. Your brand is what you represent, the content that you share, your audience, your Personal Learning Network (PLN), and your teaching philosophy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 29, 2018

Here’s how to make sure it goes smoothly: Do set the goals for the day. I dug through the many ideas from my personal learning network and came up with these popular morning meeting activities: a greeting where everyone greets everyone else. Never use one two days in a row (except, of course, the greeting).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Ray’s story is a reminder that we are not merely teaching content: we are teaching young humans how to be better. Social and emotional learning is learning about life and how to function as a member of society. One method of instruction will not reach all students, but many modes of instruction can reach many students.

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There is no box

JUNE 30, 2015

In college, some of my best learning experiences were working on group projects. We also used study groups to self organize around a specific course, topic or test. Both those group learning experiences were constrained by proximity and time. Why then do we not move into an era of learning to network and networking to learn?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2016

To help you out this new school year, EdSurge has been compiling 52 stories from educators in each of the 50 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia over the course of the past year. How are educators collecting and using data to tailor and improve instruction and practices? Edsurgechat : the Fifty States edition.

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The Web20Classroom

MARCH 12, 2013

This post sums it up nicely how to set that up, even providing directions on how the form can automatically send email feedback to the teacher. Of course, I want you to check out the Social Networking In Plain English video to get an idea on how social networking works. Its part of my job. What do you think?

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Innovative educators know how to move technology from being viewed as a weapon of mass distraction to being used as a tool of engagement, but this isn’t intuitive for everyone. Tech is a powerful teaching and learning tool that has the ability to transform education. Not sure how to begin?

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My Island View

JANUARY 7, 2016

Of course we should not tell folks how to use Twitter, since it is a matter of personal preference as to how each user uses it and what each gets from it, so the best we can do is model what we see as successes in our own personal use. I also add people who intelligently participate in education Twitter chats.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 27, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. cyberbullying.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 6, 2010

This was visible in the form of simultaneously listening, taking notes while utilizing Google Docs, engaging in a Twitter backchannel, and of course, the sharing of ideas on how we as administrators could effectively and efficiently use the array of Google tools. The fact that backchanneling was encouraged was cool in itself!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. cyberbullying.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. In this class, you’ll learn what topics to introduce, how to unpack them, and how to make them authentic to student lives. image—how to use them legally. cyberbullying.

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Gaggle Speaks

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Find out how to use hashtags by watching our video (below). You can create your own Personal Learning Network (PLN) for free. Of course, like any social network, Twitter takes some getting used to, which is why we put this video on the Cyberwise Learning Hub. Within seconds.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2022

Click the course titles for more information. The 21 st Century teacher blends technology with teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. The Tech-infused Teacher. Certificate. Group enrollment.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

I find it interesting that for the course I am taking, Technology and School Leadership , I drive two hours round trip once a week to participate in the learning. Technically, we could facilitate the course through the learning management system (Canvas). There are times in which virtual learning is a necessity.

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