Sat.Apr 02, 2011 - Fri.Apr 08, 2011

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Spicing Up Spanish

A Principal's Reflections

'This past week as I was collecting information for my monthly Principal''s Report I was happy to learn about how technology was being integrated into some Spanish classes. For example, students in Ms. Schwarz’s Spanish 1 class had to write a dialogue based on the following situation. “This is your first day of school and you are introducing yourself to a bunch of classmates.

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Taking organizing and planning lessons from Ben Franklin - great tips for educators too

Educational Technology Guy

I recently saw Ben Franklin’s daily schedule and planner on Larry Ferlazzo’s website (which is an awesome resource for educators). I was a long time user of Franklin Quest (now Franklin Covey) paper planners and used their planning software and methods on my first PDA and had heard that they had gotten some of their ideas for planning from Ben Franklin, but had never seen Ben’s planner.

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Skype In The Classroom

The Web20Classroom

'Skype is a valuable tool that many teachers are discovering can break down the walls of their classroom. I have been doing several workshops lately to get teachers started with Skype and how they can connect their classroom to the outside world. Maybe you haven''t had a workshop where you are or you need more information. Here are several resources to get started using Skype in your classroom: First, what is Skype?

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Seriously Silly Speech Therapy with Silly Bandz: Guest Post By Janelle Albrecht, SLP

SpeechTechie

'I am coming to think of SpeechTechie as a blog not solely about technology, but about innovation in materials, therapy and interventions. The power of context is profound, and providing activities that are meaningful and engaging to our students obviously extends beyond websites, laptops and iPads to anything we can do as clinicians to get our students in that "Zone" where they are stretching their speech and language development.

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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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Infograph Your Life

The Electric Educator

'I like infographics, the cool artistic designs that display statistics. I''ve blogged about them both here and on the EdReach Network. Friend and fellow blogger Daniel Rezac sent me a link to Ionz , a neat little tool that will build an infographic representing your life. Answer a few simple questions and Ionz will build an infographic like this: While it''s neat, the information collected isn''t all that useful or in depth.

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ACTION ALERT: Texas HB 6 With Vital Instructional Materials Funding- House is Voting April 6th!

EdTechSandyK

'The following is a legislative action alert I received today from Jennifer Bergland and TCEA Advocacy. It is reposted here with permission. HB 6 is the companion bill to SB 6 which I testified on before the Senate Education Committee last week. Even if you are reading this late in the day Tuesday, call your rep! I called last week on a different matter at 7:30 PM thinking I''d get voice mail, and I got a live person!

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CDC Analyze My Plate and Recipe Remix

SpeechTechie

'CDC Analyze My Plate and Recipe Remix are interactive activities from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control aimed at curbing childhood obesity and promoting a healthier diet. Analyze My Plate allows you to build a meal (breakfast, lunch or dinner) and view categories such as total calories and fat. In Recipe Remix, you can take an unhealthy recipe and change quantity and type of ingredients so that it becomes more healthy.

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April 7th - Interview with Bernajean Porter on Local Communities Charting Their Education Future Together

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Thursday, April 7th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with education consultant Bernajean Porter as we discuss how local communities can hold an event, or events, to chart the future of education for their students. Specifically, we''ll talk about the "Future Search" planning methodology to do this. Date : Thursday, April 7th, 2011 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day-- international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate.

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A Message for Texans

EdTechSandyK

'This is why. Why I have been thinking and blogging about budgets and politics and legislation lately. Because the thousands of Juliannas and Matthews and Amandas and Seans in Texas schools deserve educations that are adequately funded to provide rigorous instruction in core courses, enrichment classes to broaden their experiences and tap into their talents, and support programs to fill in the gaps in areas where they struggle.

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Get Connected Why Don't Ya!

The Web20Classroom

'Last week I spent several days in San Francisco taking part in ASCD 2011. It was a great conference with lots of great sessions. I might even have a wrap up post in the works. While there I ran into my good buddy Ken Royal and he and I did a short video about what I was doing at ASCD11 and the importance of getting connected. What do you think? If you are interested you can find the resources from my Connected Administrators session here and the resources from my PLN session here.

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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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Authentic Learning through Edublogs

wwwatanabe

'As the only Technology Integration Specialist in the AJUSD district, I focus on technology that fosters student learning. I spend over half my time in the classroom with students and teachers. I always tailor it to the teacher''s readiness because I want the teacher to find it practical and beneficial to continue what we''ve started, even when I''m not physically in the class helping.

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Week of April 4, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page.

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A Day of Tech P.D. for Educational Services

wwwatanabe

'It was such a pleasure to provide professional development for our Educational Services team. Google Form -- Pretty, isn''t it? I loved using technology to start us off. In a Google Form, they completed a survey. The form had three sections. It had some questions to collect data of their prior knowledge. There was a section on norms where they checked the boxes of norms they thought were suitable for today''s training, and an option to type a norm in.

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Live from Mozambique the Next Two Days - Global Issues Service Summit Africa 2011

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Our friend Sharon Peters is helping to organize the Global Issues Service Summit (Africa) , and we''re glad to help her to broadcast the conference events live through Elluminate (now Blackboard Collaborate ). The schedule is below these notes. The official description of the event is: The AISA Global Issues Service Summit Africa 2011, hosted by the American International School of Mozambique, is the second of its kind to combine the frameworks of the Global Issues Network (GIN) and the Service

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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.