Sat.Mar 10, 2012 - Fri.Mar 16, 2012

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Why You Should Give Edmodo A Try

The Web20Classroom

'Recently I attended the North Carolina Technology In Education Society''s (NCTIES) Annual Conference. Each year it gets bigger and bigger and we try to find more and more ways to engage with the attendees to make the conference more meaningful and to carry on conversations beyond just the sessions. So this year we did something new. We partnered with Edmodo to create the NCTIES community.

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Putting What I Learned Into Practice: Getting People on the Bandwagon.

A Principal's Reflections

'One of my goals when I present on leadership, change, and transformation is to inspire other school leaders to begin to blog. I remember years ago my initial hesitation to blog until Ken Royal encouraged me to submit a guest post on his blog at the time almost three years ago. With that being said please welcome Paul Vieira , Principal of East Bridgewater High School (MA), to the blogosphere.

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iPads in Students' Hands

wwwatanabe

'This was our first year with iPads in the elementary classrooms, purchased with Title funding. Training with Tony Vincent We''ve had several trainings with Tony Vincent , starting with a three hour introduction and a two hour follow up with fabulous center ideas for literacy, fluency, and spelling. How I see them used in the classrooms After Tony Vincent helped us get started, we''ve become more comfortable with using them, and we''re at the point where we were figuring out new ways to use them

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4 Ways School Administrators Can Use Dropbox

The 21st Century Principal

'Dropbox is on my short list of must-have school administrator web tools. It offers users and easy-to-use application and any-device access. Dropbox is my virtual file cabinet that follows me around 24 hours a day. But the truth is, this web app can offer school administrators so much more beyond scrapping flash drives and DVDs. With a little thought, it can streamline quite a few things we do.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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A Brief History Of #Edchat

The Web20Classroom

'As one of the founders of #edchat I get a lot of questions about the what, where, when and why. So here is everything you need to know (or wanted to know) about #edchat. The History #edchat started out of a series of conversations between myself, Tom Whtiby and Shelly Terrell. Tom is a bit of an instigator and likes to push people''s thinking about various topics in education.

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Announcing Fun & Functional (v. 1.1)

SpeechTechie

'One of my first clinical experiences in graduate school involved planning and implementing classroom-based lessons in the school setting. It really shaped my thinking for the years to come, as I learned how important semantics was to students'' functioning in the classroom. We would do book-themed lessons and many activities in which students would describe items related to the activity.

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Web 2.0 culture

Learning with 'e's

In previous posts I argued that as teachers, we should be prepared to give our content away for free. There are two reasons for this. One is to benefit those learners worldwide who wish to learn from you and need to see your content. Secondly, it is so you can reap the exponential rewards the social web offers. In Giving it all away I showed how offering free online access to your ideas and works actually increases your audience size.

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Checking Out Class Connect

The Web20Classroom

'I am always interested in easy ways to share content and collaborate on projects with others in quick and easy ways. So when I heard about Class Connect and it''s ability to do just that, my interest was piqued. First some back ground. When the founder, Eric, was in high school, bored, a teacher asked him what would make him interested in the class.

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Animonths- Explaining + Animation = Explanimation

SpeechTechie

'When interactive whiteboards (IWBs) first arrived on the scene with their accompanying software, one of the best aspects was teachers'' easy access to recording features so that they could preserve each lesson as a video file and share it later via their webpages or other means. This assisted students who needed information repeated, and also made really good use of the visual teaching capabilities of IWBs.

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Have You Ever Been Asked to Guest Blog? Advice Desired!

EdTechSandyK

'Used With Permission Under Creative Commons License When I first started this post I thought my answer to the question of being asked to guest blog was "no," but then I remembered an opportunity I did have a couple of years ago. I was pretty new to blogging myself at the time and didn''t follow through with it. The request was from a reputable organization, so I wasn''t worried about who was asking me.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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New ideas in a digital age

Learning with 'e's

How are new ideas spread through society? Before the digital age, we had mass media to do the job - TV, radio and newspapers and prior to that, more primitive technologies were employed to spread news. But these media were used to spread ideas, news, and views that were often sanctioned by the broadcasting channel or publisher. We can go right back to the oral cultures where stories were told to preserve cultural values and tribal history from generation to generation.

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Your Google Apps Questions!

The Electric Educator

'On March 9, 2012, I presented a 60 minute workshop at the 2012 MACUL conference. The title of my workshop was " Succeeding in the Cloud: Using Google Apps with Students." Whenever I lead a workshop, I always ask the attendees to complete a short survey. The survey includes a place where they can ask questions which I try to answer during my presentation.

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Going Paperless: How to Share and Assess Assignments using Google Docs

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

'Sophomore history teacher Father Andrew and I recently assigned an Annotated Bibliography as part of a larger research project. I just finished grading the papers shared documents. Two things were new: (1) it was the first time I required students to use EasyBib (we have a paid subscription) and (2) the assignment was 100% paperless. The EasyBib part went smoothly.

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Live Monday March 12th with Mimi Ito on Education in a Digitally Connected World

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Monday, March 12th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito. We''ll talk broadly about youth and digital media, then drill down specifically on her own research, connected learning (both as an idea and the new MacArthur Foundation supported website ), entrepreneurial learning, and educational badges--and how these conversations all came together at the recent Digital Media and Learning Conference.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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Shock of the new

Learning with 'e's

Teachers in many schools will tell you they are running hard just to stand still as they attempt to adopt new technologies for learning. It is a real struggle to keep up with the rapid pace of change that defines the digital age. Often, this is a bewildering process, and one which many teachers try to avoid. And yet, with a clear framework or roadmap for adoption, many of the challenges of adopting new technology can be met, and many of the fears teachers have can be assuaged.

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Check out my Favicon!

EdTechnocation.com

'I created a personalized favicon for my blog today! A favicon is the little icon you see next to the website address in the address bar. It is a logo/representation of the website. Can you tell what it is? Let me know in the comments what you think. I used the website [link] to create it. It gives you a 16 x 16 grid and a color palette to draw out your favicon.

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Why Mobile Learning?

The Mobile Native

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The Social Learning Summit - Call for Participation

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'I''m really pleased to announce the call for participation for the worldwide 2012 Social Learning Summit, a one-day virtual conference being held as a partnership of Classroom 2.0 and the Discovery Educator Network on Saturday, April 21, 2012. This is a free event, with a focus on inclusion and participation. The conference theme is the use of social media and Web 2.0 in teaching and learning, and we are calling for proposals immediately at [link].

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Radio Waves

Learning with 'e's

I have just returned from a very enjoyable few days up in Leicester where I spoke at the NAACE Annual Conference. The event was well organised, and we were all very well looked after. I had the pleasure of meeting up again with several old friends, and was pleased to make so many more new friends during the three days of the event, which was held at the Marriot Hotel.

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The Seeds of Innovation

A Principal's Reflections

'The following is a guest blog post by Dr. Franklin Turner who recently visited my school. A few weeks ago, I made a commitment to visit schools that are using social media, smartphones, texting, and other digital technologies, as a vital part of daily classroom instruction. The only criterion that I had was the school had to be entrenched in their use of the above-mentioned technologies.

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Introductions.

EdTechnocation.com

'Open House Night. First year teaching. 2007 Here I am on September 23, 2007 getting ready for my first Open House Night during my very first year as an elementary school teacher. I was actually deemed a long term sub that year for two teachers on maternity leave. But the following year (2008), I finally had my own classroom to call my very own! As a 4th/5th grade teacher, I always tried to find ways to integrate technology into my classroom and I would always be the first to volunteer when new

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SocialEdCon and CUEunplugged Next Week in Palm Springs!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Next week is the CUE conference in Palm Springs , and we have some great fun happening this year on the "community-organized" side of the annual activities in Palm Springs. SocialEdCon --which in previous years we''ve called EduBloggerCon --is an all-day unconference that we''re holding Thursday, March 15th (if you''ve come in years past you''ll want to make note that this is not the day before CUE, but the first day of the conference this year--wahoo!).

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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The 100-Country "Love from the World" Project Needs You(th)!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Sun Ho, founder of the Singapore-based Little Lives educational network for children, is engaged in her own personal global project to sew together fabric artwork created by children in 100 countries--with each contribution showing the flag of their country. Sun is currently at 25 countries, and I KNOW WE CAN HELP HER DO MUCH BETTER THAN THAT (Classroom 2.0 alone has members from 180+ countries)!