Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 26, 2012

'Professional Development for educators is something that I believe still needs to be improved. Many educators have turned online for some of their professional development. Social media provides a great resource for educators, especially Twitter, to connect, share and learn with other educators. There are new forms of in-person professional development, like Edcamps , that are also a great way for educators to learn new things.

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The Web20Classroom

JUNE 25, 2012

'I''ve spent the better part of 3 days taking part in various parts of the #ISTE12 experience. (Basically, if you don''t know, ISTE is the international conference for technology educators. This year it''s in sunny San Diego.) I have had the chance to meet with educators and friends from all over the world. I''ve sat in on sessions and had conversations in the Bloggers Cafe and in the hallways and the one theme that keeps coming up over and over is connectedness.

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The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 24, 2012

'The negative press about educators'' indescretions in Facebook posting is enough to send the 21st century school leader running in the opposite direction when someone talks about engaging in the use that media for school communication. But such thinking ignores the fact that other media has been, and will be abused in the same way. When a school staff members uses the phone line to engage in illicit activity, we don''t take our the phone lines.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JUNE 29, 2012

'I <3 Edmodo! After hearing about Edmodo for about a year now, finally joining it this past Spring has revitalized my homework and project assignments. As an English teacher who loves creating assignments using Word , I have always been inundated and swamped (redundant on purpose) with paper, often drowning under buckets and baskets of assignments I''ve created on paper.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 29, 2012

'Last year I wrote about Qwiki , which is a site that takes your internet search and creates a multimedia presentation with resources about your search term. Text, images, audio are all part of it. It''s a very cool way to quickly create a presentation about a topic. I just learned from my Edtech colleague David Kapuler on his site , that Qwiki now has Qwiki Creator available.

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SpeechTechie

JUNE 26, 2012

'In a word: everything! I was thinking of all I have learned, and still need to learn, about executive function and social behavior as I prepared to head from the conference center where this year’s Social Thinking Providers’ Conference was held. It had occurred to me recently what an enormous task it really is to get even my (probably) neurotypical self to the airplane gate on time and without major self-imposed calamities.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JUNE 28, 2012

'Inquiry for Of Mice & Men, Pearl, American Dream unit 6 hat thinking as Lens for syllabus flip Share Pygmalion Unit with Cheryl - Totally connects to upper level students & personality tests, psychology'

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 28, 2012

'Last month I wrote an article entitled " Binder Clips - lots of great uses for these little guys " with some ideas and resources for finding new uses for Binder clips. Here are some more. 1. Binding student work (kind of obvious) but use different colored ones to code your classes and assignments 2. Cable organization - clip them to your desk/table and feed the cable through the handle to keep them organized. 3.

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SpeechTechie

JUNE 23, 2012

'Hi Folks, having a great time across the country from my usual locale, here in San Francisco at the Social Thinking ® Provider''s Conference. I made a hour-long presentation yesterday on using apps in ways that align with Social Thinking concepts, and it went very well. I will be repeating this in a little bit longer form at the STPC in Minneapolis and Boston.

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The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 27, 2012

'"To skillfully change our paradigms and cultivate the ability to embrace change, we must learn to let go of our old paradigms ," write Ted McCain, Ian Jukes, and Lee Crockett in their book Lining on the Future Edge: Windows on Tomorrow. As 21st century school leaders, embracing change is no longer an option. Each year the New Media Consortium (NMC) puts out a reminder of just how important embracing change is.

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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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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JUNE 26, 2012

'So, I''m very intrigued by the flipped classroom concept, but I have a sense of deja vu. I''ve been teaching for over 13 years and I''ve seen my share of trends: curriculum mapping, student-centered learning, cooperative learning, authentic assessing, NCLB.and the beat goes on.and will go on. and on and on. and on. I remember when I first started teaching, a venerable and veteran teacher bemoaning the professional development and having to do curriculm mapping AGAIN.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 27, 2012

'Google is having a lot of announcements today at the Google I/O conference with lots of updates and new products. (Go to Android Central to get updates on all the news). But yesterday they announced something that is a great resource for educators and students alike. "Power Searching with Google" is a free, online community based course that helps participants learn how to do better searches and use some of the cool features of Google, such as using the search box as a calculator and finding da

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SpeechTechie

JUNE 25, 2012

'Wow, what a great conference! My head is honestly still spinning from the geographic and temporal confusion of being back in Boston, but also from all the new ideas I haven''t quite "learned" yet. I have to say also how proud I am of my state, not only to "represent" personally by presenting at this conference, but also to be in the amazing company of fellow Massachusetts educators Jessica Minahan (can you believe we have taught in the same district for many years, but never met?

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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 24, 2012

'Image Source On Tuesday, June 19th, 2012, I attended iPadpalooza at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas. This conference about all things iPad in education was co-sponsored by Eanes ISD and TCEA. The first session I attended at iPadpalooza was presented by Instructional Technology Coordinators Terice Schneider and Vicki Ventura of Belton Independent School District.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JUNE 23, 2012

'Ideas about flipping reading (sorry typing this on my phone before I forget my ideas) -interactive texts that point out narrative terms and have links to relevant info -audio texts -videos of e texts being read aloud I usually read aloud to my students in the beginning of the year, pointing out narrative terms along the way. My Lennie voice is infamous for Of Mice & Men.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 26, 2012

'Remind101 is a free service that allows teachers to safely send text messages to students and parents. Teachers never see the students'' or parents'' phone numbers and the students and parents never see the teachers'' phone number, helping to maintain privacy. Students and parents sign up by sending a text message or email instead of visiting a website.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JUNE 25, 2012

'The Global Education Summit session I attended yesterday was so interesting! Led by Lucy Gray , the presentations were for the most part pecha kucha (pronounced “pa-chok''-cha”) style, 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide. I had presented in this style myself, so I know the constraints of the method. It''s not easy to condense material this way. Everyone did a fantastic job!

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SpeechTechie

JUNE 24, 2012

'I wanted to follow up on yesterday''s post and share the link to a compilation of today''s notes/tweets from a variety of attendees at the conference. Dr. Peter Vermeulen gave a great talk on the key element of context in teaching people with ASD. You can read more about that in his book Context Blindness. Michelle Garcia Winner and Dr. Peter Gerhardt also conducted a discussion on the continuum of treatment involving ABA, and there was a panel discussion on the recent changes to DSM-5 affectin

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 24, 2012

The advent of the social web has given people everywhere a virtually limitless new territory to discover and explore. Many millions of people worldwide are enjoying sustained connections with their peers, family, colleagues and friends which they would never otherwise have experienced. Content too is being prodigiously generated, remixed, organised and shared on an unprecedented scale.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 27, 2012

'Microsoft 365 is an online version of Microsoft''s well known Office suite. Office 365 for Education is free for schools and is already being used by many public school districts and colleges. Office 365 is cloud based and includes Microsoft Office Web Apps, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Lync Online. This is Microsoft''s answer to Google Apps for Education.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JUNE 26, 2012

'Yes, I did learn an ISTE12 lot yesterday (more about that later), but there were two great personal threads running through Monday: meeting up with some of my Twitter buddies, and having just a little bit of fun! Came upon Colette Cassinelli @ccassinelli demonstrating the use of tech in YA reading (Great presentation!). Met Donna from Vermont @dsmacdonald and paused to reconnect with The Daring Librarian @gwynethjones !

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JUNE 23, 2012

'I''ll revise this post about Brody & Sage later and supply more info about therapy dogs in schools, but the pics will serve as a preview.

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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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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 28, 2012

What changes has technology made in schools? In 1970, sociologist Alvin Toffler predicted: ' Within thirty years, the educational systems of the United States, and several Western European countries as well, will have broken decisively with the mass production pedagogy of the past, and will have advanced into an era of educational diversity based on the liberating power of the new machines.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 28, 2012

'Google announced today that Google Docs now works offline, so you can create an edit files without a internet connection. All your work will be saved locally and then updated with Docs when you get a connection again. This is great news and makes Docs even more useful, allowing use without an internet connection. Learn more about Google''s many apps and resources for Education here.

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wwwatanabe

JUNE 26, 2012

'As we wrap up our second year of Collaboration Coaching , we celebrate the success we''ve had with collaboration, learning with colleagues, and creating 21st century, student-centered classrooms. What is a Collaboration Coach? Our Collaboration Coaching is based on the Microsoft Peer Coach Training developed the Peer-Ed Team. We''ve adapted it to fit our district''s needs.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JUNE 24, 2012

'Just downloaded the ISTE12 mobile app and I am loving it! One thing, though, that I hope the developers will consider for next year. It would be fantastic to be able to "Add Own Event" to the app. I was disappointed to find that the information I had put in my conference planner via my laptop didn''t transfer. ? ? ? ? ? I''m really looking forward to learning about new tech tools and meeting my Twitter PLN peeps!

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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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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 29, 2012

The industrial model of education that has such a strong grip on schools has been critiqued by a number of high profile commentators, from Ivan Illich (1970) and Paulo Freire (1970) through to contemporary commentators such as Stephen Heppell and Sir Ken Robinson. Indeed, Robinson's 2006 TED talk video goes as far as to say that current schooling is stifling innovation and creativity, and squandering talent.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 28, 2012

'Google''s I/O conference is this week and they have made some big announcements. Here''s a summary and some places you can find more information. 1. Google Docs offline now available - edit and create Google Docs offline and they will be synced with your Docs account once you have an internet connection. 2. Chrome Browser exits beta and is available for all Android 4.0 devices and is available for iOS.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 28, 2012

'The following is a guest post by Bedros Kharmandarian, a junior at New Milford High School. Throughout his high school career he has been exposed to many elective courses in the areas of graphics and technology that have allowed him to unleash his creative talents. In this piece he discusses his use of Adobe tools to create our recent Holocaust Study Tour book.

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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 24, 2012

'Photo Source On Tuesday, June 19th, 2012, I attended iPadpalooza at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas. This conference about all things iPad in education was co-sponsored by Eanes ISD and TCEA. Laura Wright, a third grade teacher at Eanes Elementary School , gave a wonderful presentation with many practical tips for implementing the use of 1:1 iPads in an elementary setting.

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