A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

'Over the past couple of months, the staff at New Milford High School has been diligently creating our own unique learning environments for our students. Building on the success of our Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiative and with the addition of a new, innovative staff member two noteworthy advancements have been made since September 2013. That new staff member is Laura Fleming and she has done nothing less than blaze a trail since joining the NMHS team.

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The Web20Classroom

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

'I spend a great deal of time on the go. From working with all the schools in my district to traveling to far off lands to work with teachers, I sometimes feel like I am disconnected from my learning. And that bums me out! There are a few apps (and some sites too) that I rely upon to keep me updated with whats happening and to teach a me a thing or two as well.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

'Since chatting with Tom Driscoll via Google Hangout and Brian Germaine at the EdSurge RIDE event in the Fall , meeting up with Chris Aviles at Techspo14 , viewing Mr. Lewis'' Edmodo Webinar on Gamification , and engaging with my #TeamMAITs in class, I''m intrigued by the didactic nature of games. I''ve been thinking about how to use gamification with my students to restructure the learning activities to mimic aspects of a video game that encourage student involvement in the classroom.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

'School leaders and policymakers have a serious misperception about the role and job of teaching that undermines teaching as a profession and perpetuates the view that the role of teaching is akin to being an assembly-line worker. It is no wonder American politicians, policymakers and corporate reformers have bought wholeheartedly into the idea of value-added teacher evaluations.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

'People have been using flashcards as a revision aid for decades, but now it is time for learners to step away from their papers and pens, and move towards using internet-based flashcards instead. But why step away from a tried and tested method, and put your faith in something new? The reason that you should give it a go is that there are a number of important reasons why online flashcard systems, such as that which is provided by Cardkiwi , are better than the old-fashioned pen and paper metho

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My Paperless Classroom

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

'This is a quick walk-through of how to use the Green Screen app by Do Ink. We are going to start by clicking on the app: Next we begin a new project by clicking on the "+" in the upper right hand corner. This brings you to the compose window. The layers are at the bottom of the screen. You want to make sure your Camera with the green screen is in the top layer, so when you use the chroma filter to look through the layer you see the images UNDER it.

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The Innovative Educator

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

'I was looking forward to checking out this post from my Twitter feed: Students Talk #Facebook on #Vimeo | @scoopit [link] #KSFY #SocialMedia #digcit #edchat #edbublogs — ICTPHMS (@ICTPHMS) February 19, 2014 I'm thrilled that schools like the Patrick Henry Middle School are willing to put themselves out there and share in the mainstream media that Facebook isn't something to be afraid of, but rather we can teach students to use it safely.

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SpeechTechie

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

'It''s great to find an app that is focused on a particular skill, but also very contextual. Phrasal Verbs Machine (free) is a gorgeous example dedicated to building understanding of phrasal verbs- a verb paired with a preposition. These are known to be challenging to ESL/ELL populations but also are quite figurative in nature, and so are helpful to target metalinguistics for our more literal thinkers.

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My Paperless Classroom

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

'NCCJDS Professional development day Jedcamp FAQ A great collection of folks answering some FAQ about NCCJDS Professional development day, Jedcamp Edition.

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Kathy Schrock

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

'This post originally appeared on the Discovery Educator blog network in December of 2013 in my blog "Kathy''s Katch" at this URL: [link]. Way back in 1999, I was asked to be part of a team to craft the goals for the second version of the US DOE National Technology Plan. There were about fifty people in the room, from all areas of education. We had lots of discussions, then jigsawed to share thoughts, then shared out with the whole room, then had additional discussions with our new group, and th

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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 Innovative Educator

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

'As the author of “ Teaching Generation Text: Using Cell Phones for Learning ,” it’s no surprise, that I disagree with those who "just say no" to cell phones.” I think my perspective comes out on top as it becomes evident that those who oppose the use of cell phones for learning have never really tried to strategically integrate them as powerful learning tools.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

'A few weeks ago, I posted a set of recommended readings that I originally sent to a colleague who asked me what I would recommend as essential reading for understanding technology in student affairs. I’ve updated this list adding two sets of resources. First, I included danah boyd’s new book It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens now that (a) I have read it and (b) it’s available for purchase and download (for free!).

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

'Over the next two weeks I''m in New Zealand, doing a series of keynote presentations to teachers on the future of education and technology supported learning. The mLearn tour is sponsored by a company called Telco Technology Services who specialise in supporting teachers in New Zealand schools with technology training and provision. As a part of the build up to this tour, which takes in the cities of Christchurch, Wellington, Hamilton and Auckland, I was interviewed for Interface Magazine.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

'Daybook Pro, the iPad app that allows teachers to deliver lessons and teaching content through their tablets, has just gotten better. Users can now directly add files to the app from their Dropbox account. Their website also offers a new set of video tutorials that will get users started with Daybook Pro. If you want to see how this app can meet the needs of classroom teachers, you can check out their onsite introductory video here.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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The Innovative Educator

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

'Here’s the roundup of what''s been popular on The Innovative Educator blog. Below you’ll see the top posts along with the number of page views. I hope there''s something that looks of interest to you. If it does, check it out. If you’re inspired use one of those icons below the post to share it with others and/or leave a comment. Entry Pageviews Looking to create a social media or BYOD policy?

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Saving Socrates

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

'For the past six months, I''ve been working intensely on organizing PD both at my school and at my daughter''s school. I''ve surrounded much of the year working on training teachers in many of the latest and best practices ranging from unit planning, classroom management, blended learning, PBL, to assessment for feedback, flipped education, and effective group work.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

'Schools need to plan their technology strategies very carefully. There are a lot of factors to consider, including current development of technology and its future proofing, existing systems and interoperability, access and provision of networked resources, skills and capabilities of teaching staff, market forces and socio-economic influences, to name a few.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

'We had two Firsts for our Google Rocks! Hawaii HOA last night -- an East Coast guest (who rocks the library world), and a student (who didn''t learn to read until she was 10). Guesting on tonight''s Google Rocks! Hawaii HOA to talk about #WRAD14 7pmHST [link] @litworldsays #TLChat @mauilibrarian2 — Matthew C. Winner (@MatthewWinner) February 26, 2014 Matthew Winner, aka The Busy Librarian, agreed to hang out with us, midnight Maryland time.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

'OpenEd, the world''s largest K-12 education resource catalog that, according to their web site, contains over "million Common Core aligned videos, games, and assessments," just released their student iPad app in the iTunes App Store. With OpenED, educators can create a course for free. Each course is assigned a unique code which then can be shared with students.

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Connecting 2 the World

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

'Last week I tweeted the following: Does anyone see the problem here? The janitor makes/is guaranteed more than an adjunct as a living wage? [link] … #adjunctchat In response, this morning I found the following retweets: Janitors are people too mt @Comprof1: anyone see the problem here? janitor makes/is guaranteed more than an adjunct? [link] … and Yeah I''m not signing up for class warfare that doesn''t have clean toilets or respect for people that clean them @gingerest @Comprof1 Now, there hav

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

'In this continuation of my short series on new and emerging pedagogy, I can reflect on my last two posts which focused on the potential for any time any place learning and the changing roles of teachers and students , The latter is characterised by students who take more responsibility to not only discover their own learning and determine their own pathways, but also using their personal devices to learn through knowledge creation, sharing, repurposing and organisation.

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

'Book Writer is a excellent iOS app that educators are using everywhere for digital storytelling and flipping their classroom instruction. This is a simple app to use that can be used by any subject for any curriculum that allows users to create a multimedia digital book that can then be published to iBooks or printed out as a PDF. Best of all, a student can record their own narration to help tell a story, or an educator to help teach a lesson.

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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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Comfortably 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

'A couple of weeks ago my school district hosted our annual Technology Day. We had a great day for our staff with lots of learning opportunities and some really great conversations. I have been doing a lot of thinking about a statement that was made in one of the sessions that I attended. The session was hosted by my good friend Brent Catlett aka @catlett1 called "Rocks or Sucks.

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Hansen's Link to Tech

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

'Students get excited over the most interesting things. As educators we have to do our best to make our lessons engaging as possible. If that means intertwining students interests, then why not? Social networks are typically an obvious choice when it comes to students interests. If you are an educator with a SMART Interactive Whiteboard, I''ve made a template that you can use to introduce a subject within your classroom that portrays the facade of Facebook and has already hyperlinked pages such

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

'I am often asked by my students what the best ways are to demonstrate critical thinking in their essays. The answer is quite simply to look both ways. Providing a balanced and objective argument where opposing perspectives are considered, is always a good foundation for criticality. But we can do much better than that. Critical analysis is where students can understand several ideas or theories, and can show how they are related.

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

'Biteslide is a wonderful web tool w/ educational portal that teachers are using to create beautiful looking slidebooks/presentations. This is all done through a very easy to use drag-n-drop interface and web browser plugin (a.k.a "Nibbler") for adding images, clipart, text and more. Educators are using this for Project Based Learning, creating dynamic digital stories/scrapbooks, and even "flipping their classroom.

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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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Comfortably 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

'I witnessed something the other night that I think ought to happen more often. I witnessed students and teachers from all over the United States (and two from Honduras), using Twitter to practice and learn. Yes, I said Twitter. The students and teachers were participating in #spanstuchat that was founded by our two Spanish teachers Rebecca Huls and Kara McNeese.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom , a collection published by the Digital Media + Learning Research Hub , is now available as a free downloadable PDF. This collection, unique in its focus on in-school work, explores the principles of Connected Learning exemplified in classroom practice through the curation of pieces from the National Writing Project’s Digital Is site.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

'I enjoyed my ''trialogue'' with Andrew Jacobs and the audience at this year''s Learning Technologies conference. We were asked to cover the topic of disruptive innovation and learning, and gladly accepted the challenge, with the proviso that we could try something a little different. We didn''t want to stick to the run-of-the-mill conference presentation format, so we opted for a kind of ''staged disagreement'' instead.

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

'Level it Books is the widely popular iOS app for scanning a books ISBN (bar code) and getting a Reading Level. This simple to use mobile app allows educators and parents to create a digital library of their students/kids books along w/ Reading Level. Also, a educator can use it to create a digital roster of their students w/ their Reading Level assigned which makes it easier for assessing purposes.

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