A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 30, 2012

'Cross-posted at teach.com. Education is currently at a crossroads as traditional methods and tools are changing as a result of advances in technology and learning theory. We are beginning to see some schools across the country take the lead in merging sound pedagogy with the effective integration of technology. These schools and educators, whether they realize it or not, are not only enhancing the teaching and learning process, but they are also providing their learners with essential skill set

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The Web20Classroom

APRIL 23, 2012

'Today (April 23, 2012) is the 7th Anniversary of the first video ever being uploaded to YouTube. You can still see that first video here. Many districts are realizing the potential that YouTube learning can have in the classroom. There are lots of great videos and channels out there on 1000''s of topics. I have put together a list of some of my favorite tools to use with YouTube.

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The 21st Century Principal

APRIL 28, 2012

'Many school leaders and policy makers still express a high level of skepticism regarding social media’s potential as an educational tool. This is evident by administrative efforts across the country to block and ban the technology rather than engage it instructionally. As authors Ronald Williamson and J. Howard Johnston write in their book The School Leader’s Guide to Social Media : “Given the explosive growth of social media, and its tremendous potential to change the way we communicate, learn

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SpeechTechie

APRIL 5, 2012

'I think about this time last year, I wrote a career update. At that time, I was switching from my position as an Instructional Tech Specialist at a middle school in my district of Newton, MA, back to an SLP position at the elementary school level. So here I am again. It has been a very rewarding year at school and in other aspects of my work life. Interest in my professional development services has been very steady, and in fact, more than I can really handle in the one day a week allotted for

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The Electric Educator

APRIL 23, 2012

'This post provides an overview of iTunesU Course creation process along with suggestions and tips for creating an outstanding course. To view a completed course, I would recommend looking at the " Google in the Classroom " course that I developed. For several years academic institutions have posted content to iTunesU. The problem with this system is that there was no systematic way to organize this content into a coherent sequence.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 23, 2012

'Notes from FutureofEducation.com Webinar Steve Hargadon , Moderator Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay , authors of Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds [link] Book was three years in the making. Steve says it''s like an encyclopedia of how to use Web 2.0 to make education connections. Julie says they really wanted to highlight the work of many great teachers.

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The Web20Classroom

APRIL 12, 2012

'Infographics. You have probably seen them before. There are so many out there on a wide variety of topics. Here are just a few. (Click the images to see more): The Computer Can Be A Dirty Place Visualizing Wikipedia Even Batman has an infographic These really are a great way to visualize data. And believe it or not, you don''t have to be a graphic designer to create them.

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The 21st Century Principal

APRIL 8, 2012

'His Holiness, the Dalai Lama writes in the book In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy : “As children grow older and enter school, their need for support must be met by their teachers. If a teacher not only imparts academic education, but also assumes responsibility for preparing students for life, his or her pupils will feel trust and respect, and what has been taught will leave an indelible impression on their minds.

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SpeechTechie

APRIL 2, 2012

'I am not a huge fan of April Fool''s tricks, but I do enjoy Google''s famous annual pranks. They used to have just one or two, but they have begun to announce a range of silly innovations each April 1, one for each of their products. This video is a compilation of four of the video "announcements" from this year: Exploring Google''s April Fool''s pranks can make for a good language lesson!

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 28, 2012

Well. not exactly. Paulo Freire, that great Brazilian educational thinker died in 1997, just as the World Wide Web was emerging in the Western world. So Freire didn't actually live to see the power and potential of social media, or the impact blogging would have on education. But what would he have said about blogs if he had been witness to the participatory web in all its present glory?

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 21, 2012

'Join me Monday, April 23rd, for live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with good friends Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis, authors of Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time. The book presents a seven-step approach to transforming teaching using current pedagogies, technology tools, and global collaboration to create standards-aligned, technology rich, cross-cultural learning experiences that enhance 21st century student engagement. "

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 23, 2012

'While attending the NSBA Annual Conference this past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend Sal Kahn’s keynote on Sunday. Khan is the creator of Khan Academy. He began his keynote by sharing a video montage of Khan Academy highlights and then presenting some impressive statistics on usage. To date, these statistics are: 140 million+ lessons delivered, 500 million+ exercises done, and 6+ million unique visits per month.

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The Web20Classroom

APRIL 18, 2012

'More and more students have access to mobile devices. In the last Pew Internet study , 77% of all teens have a cellphone. I wasn''t able to find research on pre-teens but from the work I have done in my own district I would say almost 50% of them have cellphones as well. And these aren''t smart phones. (Although, we know many have smart phones.) These are just plain, ol'', regular cell phones.

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The 21st Century Principal

APRIL 13, 2012

'In an interview with James Bellanca, education scholar Linda Darling-Hammond clearly delineates 3 practices administrators must engage in to bring our schools into the 21st century. (The interview can be found in the book 21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn.) "School leaders in the next decades need to engage in three practices that we haven''t always seen as part of school administration.

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SpeechTechie

APRIL 23, 2012

'As April- Autism Awareness Month- draws to a close, I wanted to share a presentation I made this weekend in Florida at NOVA Southeastern University, sponsored by the Florida DOE and the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD). The focus of the presentation was technology resources (web-based and iOS) that are dedicated to or can be "re-purposed" for use with the population of students with autism at various levels of functioning.

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The Electric Educator

APRIL 13, 2012

'One of the more obscure parts of Google Docs is the drawing tool. This tool is best used for more intricate charts and diagrams that would be very difficult to create and work with in a document. Concept maps, organizational charts, and food webs are some examples of illustrations that would be best created in the drawing tool. Here''s a quick overview on the features of Google Docs Drawing.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 15, 2012

For me, one of the highlights of the Estonian Elearning Conference in Tallinn was listening to Stephen Harris , principal of the Sydney Centre for Innovations in Learning. SCIL is an Australian secondary school that practices teaching and learning within open spaces, where student autonomy and personalisation of learning are top priorities. Under Stephen's leadership, the school enables BYOMD - bring your own multiple devices, which means that students can learn in a number of different spaces a

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 1, 2012

'The following is a guest post by Danielle McCartan. Danielle is a foreign language teacher at Ramapo High School in NJ and currently enrolled as a graduate student at the College of NJ. This is being posted with her permission. Society has evolved from the days of the infamous phone call: “Hi, did you get my e-mail?” Push notifications take care of that problem.

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The Web20Classroom

APRIL 9, 2012

'(So this is post #500. Thats pretty cool. Thanks for reading!) It''s been a while since I last wrote about QR Codes. Last year (and somewhat this year) QR Codes were a hot topic in the classroom. At many of the conferences I went to there were sessions dedicated to the use of QR and how kids from Kindergarten to college were using them. While the conversations are not as loud, I do believe that QR can be an easy way to access information.

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The 21st Century Principal

APRIL 9, 2012

'I personally haven''t been pleased with TweetDeck since Twitter took over its development. Initially, it repeatedly crashed. Then, recently, it was taken down due to a rather large security hole. Finally, I have had serious issues with it not updating my tweets. It basically would sit idle on my desktop and not update for long periods of time. I''ve tried several alternatives.

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SpeechTechie

APRIL 17, 2012

'Developing students'' semantic abilities is one of my favorite parts of my job! I think words, and the connections between them, are just really fun! Building semantic networks provides students with a stronger vocabulary base, which in turn gives them points of reference as they learn new words. Enter Go-Togethers , an app I helped design along with Rosie Simms for Smarty Ears Apps.

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The Electric Educator

APRIL 11, 2012

'iTunes has long been the go-to source for interesting, entertaining, and informative podcasts. A recent update to iTunes included an overhaul of iTunesU, the educational division of Apple''s web store. iTunesU contains content from of the world''s leading universities as well as offerings from K-12 districts around the country. I have been heavily involved in developing content for both teachers and students which have been added to the MI Learning channel of iTunesU.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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APRIL 16, 2012

'I''ve been involved in several discussions about leading change , which started with vision and urgency. Everyone needed to be on the same page about the vision (the what), have a sense of urgency (the why), and know how we''d measure progress towards our goal. Having the vision relevant, tangible with benchmarks, and feedback reminded me of successful classroom practices.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2012

'A few months back I read some articles on Twitter describing how educators were pairing the iPad, Apple TV, and an HDMI projector to create an interactive whiteboard experience. After reading these tweets, I realized that not only was this potential setup mobile, but it was also very cost-effective. As I ran the numbers through my head, I figured that this particular set-up would run me about $1500, almost $2000 less than if I were to purchase an interactive whiteboard with installation.

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The Web20Classroom

APRIL 30, 2012

'It''s been almost 1 and half years since I last wrote about my favorite Twitter chats. Since then many have come and gone, some have changed and some new ones have emerged worth checking out. First, to participate you don''t need a Twitter account. Chats are a great way to passively learn with lots of people. I am a big believer in the power of the network.

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Connecting 2 the World

APRIL 11, 2012

I have revised my dissertation to include three major findings. This is one of the findings: there are two types of knowledge used in distributed workplace collaborative writing, transactional and negotiated. Next week I will discuss ownership of the writing. Transactional and Negotiated Knowledge There are two different types of knowledge used in distributed group processes: transactional and negotiated.

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Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions

The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.

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SpeechTechie

APRIL 3, 2012

'I previously wrote about the Painting with Time app as a great way to target temporal concepts, causal relationships and sentence structures, and descriptive language. The folks at Red Hill Studios have recently released another FREE app (iPad only), providing a context for language intervention as we approach Earth Day. Painting with Time- Climate Change "lets your fingers reveal the dramatic ways our world is changing from rising temperatures.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 28, 2012

'Join me Tuesday, May 1st, for live and interactive Future of Education conversation with Larry Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium (NMC). We''ll talk about the NMC Horizon Project the NMC Horizon Reports, their summer conference, and more. With over one million downloads in the past nine years, the NMC Horizon Report series serves the higher education, K-12, and museum communities across the globe in their desire to understand the impact of emerging technologies on thei

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The Daring Librarian

APRIL 22, 2012

'True Confession: I sometimes spend more time on the title graphics of my blog posts and preso title slides than I do writing the darn things! It''s totally probably a Photoshop Elements / Comic Life addiction - but I can quit at any time! But it''s also all part of being a Presentation Ninja and an impt. VIRAL SECRET! A hot graphically compelling title pic with a sexy font grabs your reader AND your audience!

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 25, 2012

'Back-to-school time can be stressful for teachers who may have limited funds to help stock the classroom with items to help keep kids’ classrooms healthier. [1] That is why the Clorox Company is launching the Canisters for Classrooms program to help teachers get Clorox ® Disinfecting Wipes for their classrooms and get parents involved in donating, too!

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