A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 29, 2012

'The other day I had a discussion with Colleen Tambuscio, one of my teachers, where she was actively sharing some of the innovative ideas she planned to implement during the upcoming school year. Colleen is the architect of our globally recognized Holocaust Education Program. During our conversation, she shared with me her experience with Today’s Meet at a recent professional development program hosted by the Shoah Foundation in California.

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Educational Technology Guy

AUGUST 31, 2012

'Evernote , one of my favorite web apps (along with Google''s many apps), has a great product, Evernote Clearly which is a browser extension for Google Chrome (other browsers will be added soon) that allows you to read online with less distractions. You simply click the extension and it hides all the distractions from blogs and articles, allowing you to read with less distractions and more easily.

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The 21st Century Principal

AUGUST 26, 2012

'“Our students must learn not only how to use current technologies, but also how to evaluate which ones work best for particular tasks or projects,” write Howard Pitler, Elizabeth R. Hubbell, and Matt Kuhn in their latest edition of Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works , 2nd Edition. In the digital age, that is the crux of our instructional problem: how do we give students the experiences with digital technologies that make them effective consumer-users?

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SpeechTechie

AUGUST 29, 2012

'It''s exciting to have the continued opportunity to contribute to the ASHA Leader for a few of their APP-titudes columns. It''s a different kind of writing, and I have to go back to stuff I did not learn when completing my journalism degree at BU, and that Magazine Journalism class I never took (I never really liked asking people, you know, questions ), but it seems to come out ok after editorial assistance.

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AUGUST 26, 2012

'As I start my 20th year in education, a profession I still love, I want to be energized and excited and open to possibilities. The truth is, I''m anything but those things right now. Right now I''m just tired. There are several reasons for why I feel the way I feel, some of which I can identify and some of which I may be ignorant of, but regardless, it''s where I am.

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Educational Technology Guy

AUGUST 31, 2012

'TechForum NY , sponsored by Tech&Learning Magazine , is Friday, October 19th at the Westchester Marriott in Tarrytown, NY (670 White Plains Rd., Tarrytown, NY 10591). Registration and continental breakfast begin at 7 am with the opening keynote starting at 8:15. Join us for a day of learning, sharing, collaboration and more. There will be a keynote address, breakout sessions, and round table sessions where everyone contributes in a discussion on the topic at hand.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 29, 2012

'Build your network and always think in networks. They create a sonor map of intelligence, expertise, information and insight. Your allies, your connections, can help you to navigate the larger number of challenges that can ultimately derail a startup company'. - Reid Hoffman (Founder of LinkedIn) When he made this statement at Babson College in May 2012, Reid Hoffman was referring to startup companies, but he could very well have been giving advice to any undergraduate student, or indeed any te

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MSEDTechie

AUGUST 26, 2012

'As usual, I am multi-tasking. Working on my course website, watching TV, and surfing the net looking for more technology ideas. This is what I found today. Tagxedo is like Wordle on steroids. This website does allow you to take websites and create word clouds. You have more options of color and style. It also allows you to save it in a picture format, and post to social media.

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My Paperless Classroom

AUGUST 26, 2012

'"With great power comes great responsibility" -Stan Lee. That is right true believers, when it comes to keeping students enaged, we have to allow them to make important chopices about what they are learning and what they are doing with what they learn. I am using Digital Citizenship as a gateway into a discussioin of our roles and responsibility as community members, in person and f2f.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 27, 2012

'Join me Tuesday, August 28th, for another live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Tony Wagner, this time on his latest book, Creating Innovators : The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World. Tony recently accepted a position as the first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard.

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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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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 31, 2012

How can we promote successful change in education? Schools are notoriously conservative institutions, so it is often difficult to introduce new ideas. Much of the resistance to change comes from teachers who 'have always done it this way' and who have the mentality that 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. Teacher beliefs about pedagogy are central to the successful integration of new technologies into schools.

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MSEDTechie

AUGUST 27, 2012

'InstaGrok is an interactive learning tool, empowering self-directed learning and exploration on any topic in an engaging and personalized way. Put in any topic, and it creates an interactive Concept Map for you to explore.

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My Paperless Classroom

AUGUST 25, 2012

'I spent my last Saturday before my students return at Hillsdale High School attending Ed camp SF Bay. Ed Camp is an unconference. In this un conference the participants pitch sessions and then all of the participants vote on the sessions. I drafted a couple of sessions and when the voting was done they both ran. This was really exciting for me because I got to participate in a conversation with participants who had already signed on and bought into the topic.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 28, 2012

'August is coming to a close this week, and although there are a number of elements of CEM that will continue after the month is over, there will be a series of special wrap-up and next-step sessions in the next few days to close the formal festivities for now. We''ve invited some guests to help facilitate the conversations, and while there are expert panels on some relevant issues we haven’t covered yet in the month, these final sessions are not about sitting and listening to experts.

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AUGUST 31, 2012

'Discovery Education is once again hosting a fall, online, free virtual conference for educators. These are great events and a great way to get some free PD and resources. October 20th, 2012. 9am-4pm ET Register now! I’m sure at this point you’re wondering what the BIG changes are. Let me break it down for you. More LIVE: Every session will be live-streamed.

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MSEDTechie

AUGUST 28, 2012

'Google Drive is now the NEW version of Google Docs! So you might have logged into your Google Docs and received a message that it was now Google Drive, and I know you were like OHHH GOD another change. Well, you should know by now that Google never keeps things the same, they are always evolving and making things better. This is what we love about Google, but it still can sometimes be frustrating when are just getting used to doing things a certain way.

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MSEDTechie

AUGUST 26, 2012

'Document Cameras are hundreds of dollars cheaper than a SmartBoard. If you don''t have money to purchase a Smartboard, A Great Alternative would be a Document Camera. Why would I use a Classroom document camera? A document camera is one of the easiest and quickest ways to integrate technology into your classroom. There are very few special skills needed to use this piece of equipment.

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MSEDTechie

AUGUST 25, 2012

'So another brain child, well it wasn''t my idea really. My good friend Carol Kliesen and the Spoede Elementary family have been doing this for years, but I am making plans to have the 1st annual OB Family Tech Week!!!! The week will be dedicated to sharing technology projects, assignments, resources, and tools students have explored all year. We are inviting their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. to see what they have created.

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AUGUST 26, 2012

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