Sat.Jun 29, 2013 - Fri.Jul 05, 2013

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The Power of Video

A Principal's Reflections

'Students in Mrs. Tambuscio’s World History class culminated a unit on the Holocaust by applying their historical knowledge to the viewing of survivor testimonies. Students were able to utilize IWitness , which is a computer-based program created by the USC Shoah Foundation’s Institute for Visual History. This educational tool includes over 1,200 video testimonies of Holocaust and genocide survivors.

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Edcanvas: The Art of Curating

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

'One of my favorite tools for curating resources is Edcanvas. Over the summer, I''ve started creating "canvases" for each of the novels and topics I teach organizing links, documents, videos, and pictures as tiles on a grid. Edcanvas has a very versatile free version and a paid version for collaboration and audio features. In addition, users can search the gallery for canvases created by others.

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Using Google in Interesting Ways--Learned at ISTE13

wwwatanabe

'One goal at ISTE13 was to learn more about the hidden world of Google -- the scripts, extensions, and apps. I honestly wasn''t aware of them until I read Linda Yollis'' post after she went to the Google Teacher Academy. which led me to a post by Amy Mayer at friEDTechnology , with her video explanation/tutorial: After watching the above video, I decided I needed to learn more about what Google offers.

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4 Trends of Global Connectivity We As Educators Can No Longer Ignore

The 21st Century Principal

'“As global connectivity continues its unprecedented advance many old institutions and hierarchies will have to adapt or risk becoming obsolete, irrelevant to modern society.” Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations, and Business Even a decade into the 21st century, educational leaders and policymakers stubbornly hold on to an outdated, twentieth century manufacturing education model with its standardized approach to teaching and learning.

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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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Student social media use. Advice from the experts

The Innovative Educator

'Here is a compilation of advice from experts around the use of social media for students. What do you think? Would this resonate with students? What lessons might you do around this? How might you entice them to read and discuss this topic?

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Twitter for Professional Learning #ISTE13

EdTechSandyK

'Photo Courtesy of @mistergoode via Twitter On Tuesday, June 25th, I presented a poster session on Twitter for Professional Learning at the ISTE 2013 conference in San Antonio, Texas. My co-worker and usual partner-in-presentations Kim Garcia was scheduled to present with me, but was unable to due to illness. :-( I really enjoyed the format of this "come-and-go" session, where I was able to have conversations with educators who were interested in Twitter for extending their own learning as well

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Cargo cults, wooden phones and superficial learning

Learning with 'e's

'During a conference at Plymouth University recently, my colleague Oliver Quinlan told us all a fascinating story about the Cargo Cult movement, and equated it to superficial learning responses. Cargo Cults are an interesting socio-cultural phenomenon, because they derive from a collective misunderstanding or misinterpretation of the world, brought about by simplistic beliefs.

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Infographic flyer: What's your digital footprint?

The Innovative Educator

'This infographic flyer was created to put important digital footprint information in one place in a graphically pleasing format. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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The BIG MentorMob Playlist of Curation Tools

The Daring Librarian

'I think I''ve mentioned before in a previous blog post called MentorMob & the Secrets of the Remix Mash-Up YouTube Generation that I came to MentorMob about a year after hearing of it from the amazing Dr. Joyce Valenza. I mention it only again because I don''t want *anyone* to feel self-induced "tech guilt" for not trying a new tool right away!

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Best Digital Tools for Writer's Workshop

My Paperless Classroom

'This is the ISTE produced Video of the session thanks to the tech crew for recording and producing this! This is a full archive of my ISTE session in audio, slides, Wokka''s video introduction and tweets. I am so grateful to everyone who came to my session and shared in this conversation.

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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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Smart Art in Microsoft Word

Hansen's Link to Tech

'Here is a great short instructional video by Microsoft on how to use Smart Art graphics to represent your ideas and illustrations. Click here to view. Classroom Integration : planning, organizing, and illustrating classroom content is happening often within classrooms with teachers and students. Using Smart Art can offer a simple but yet visual way to convey this information.

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Missed #ISTE13? Ok, but don't miss the @AdamBellow keynote!

The Innovative Educator

'If you weren't able to make ISTE, don't worry. You can still catch Adam Bellow's rousing and inspiring closing keynote, "You're Invited to Change the World" right here. Go to the end of this post and start at 21:30. One of the things I loved about this keynote is that he hits on what has inspired so many educators to join the teaching profession.

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The hottest posts that everyone's reading

The Innovative Educator

'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. Article Page Views How connected is your school?

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Emailing More Than One Image on iOS Device

Hansen's Link to Tech

'Over time I have noticed from a vast amount of users who have iOS devices (iPhone/iPad) that they are unaware on how to email more than one image in 1 email. Here are a few steps on how to do so (this is for iOS 6). Open your Photos app. Touch Camera Roll or another album. Press the Edit button (top right). Touch the pictures you want to email. Press the Share button on the bottom left.

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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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Sharing in Google Drive

Hansen's Link to Tech

'One of the many useful aspects of Google Drive (Docs, Sheets, Presentations, etc.) is sharing. For example, when working on a Google Doc you can share it to colleagues, students, friends, or to the general public. Here are your options when it comes to sharing a Google Drive file: If you are using a Google Apps for Education account you will see two additional options Your School or District (People at your school can find and access) Your School or District with the Link (People at your school

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Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcuts

Hansen's Link to Tech

'If you''ve bought a pc in the past year you probably have Windows 8 installed on it and are a bit confused on the interface. The start menus is now in a tile format called metro interface. They added a section called Charms where you have to open up to search, share, show device, and shutdown/restart. Click here for a list of Keyboard Shortcuts available for Windows 8 and RT.

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Connect your Website to Social Networks

Hansen's Link to Tech

'If you want to connect your school''s website, personal website, or business website to your social networks here are some steps on how to do so. By following these steps, you will never have to do all that work posting to multiple websites and only need to post to 1 site and it will automatically post to the others. Here are my steps: Click here for the specific directions.