A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 15, 2011

'Right before the holiday break I was contacted by Dwight Carter , the Principal of Gahanna Lincoln High School in Ohio. He wanted to pick my brain about technology integration strategies that I have used at New Milford High School in New Jersey. Somewhere in our conversation that spanned multiple areas of educational leadership, we talked about how we regularly meet with groups of students in our respective schools.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 20, 2011

'A colleague and I were doing a workshop at a school today. I was filling in for someone who had been out and the content were we covering, I thought, would be better if we taught it together. And that also allowed one of us to teach while the other floated around the room to help teachers who got behind or need a little extra encouragement. The workshop was just like any other.

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 17, 2011

'Note: This is the first of my series "5 things to watch in 2011" Future installments will include: Five people to follow in 2011 Five trends to watch in 2011 Five technologies to watch in 2011 Five blogs to read in 2011 The folks over at Prezi continue to make their presentation product more and more compelling. When I first learned about Prezi I was impressed by the fundamental change it brought to the art of presentations.

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 18, 2011

'Noddy Fun Time is a nicely-designed and fun site from the UK that would be great for early learners. The five activities on the site can be used to target basic concepts and categories: Pop Pop Balloons- choose a balloon color and shape and hold down the mouse to blow it up. The longer you hold, the larger the balloon will be. Tessie''s Garden- Plant seeds of various kinds and create patterns in a garden.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 21, 2011

'The past two weeks at NMHS have been extremely exciting. Students and staff have engaged in many innovative activities that have showcased what the school has to offer, illustrated the potential of our learners, and made it clear that all voices matter in order to change the educational culture. Here is a quick snapshot: Elective course in Holocaust/Genocide Studies Skypes with a Holocaust survivor, who''s diary is featured in a book, entitled “Savaged Pages”.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 19, 2011

'Last week I had the pleasure of talking to Senior Technology Editor for Scholastic Ken Royal on an episode of BlogTalk Radio. It was a great conversation that covered everything from how I got started with Twitter to some of my favorite tools. If you get a chance, go down to the widget and click Episode 2-Best Classroom Web 2.0 and give it a listen.

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 16, 2011

'I may be seeming to be going off-format by sharing a movie review, but technology is a broad term, and one that certainly plays a part in The King''s Speech. There is not a lot in pop culture that is so explicitly about communication disorders, which may be just one reason why our profession is not well understood, and I think we should be very grateful for The King''s Speech.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 17, 2011

'Join me for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Karen Cator, the Director of the Office of Education Technology , on education, technology, and the 2010 National Education Technology Plan. Date : Monday, January 31st, 2011 Time : 3pm Pacific / 6pm Eastern / 11pm GMT ( international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 17, 2011

'I have been less and less on Twitter and reading blogs. Why? Negativity. The talk about education has shifted. When I first entered this space it was about connecting and sharing. People highlighted what was working in their classroom in the hopes others would follow suit. I was amazing each day to wake up and watch connections being made and classrooms sharing knowledge with each other.

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EdTechSandyK

JANUARY 17, 2011

'Credit goes to Vicki Davis, the Cool Cat Teacher , for inspiring me to write this post. She posted the video below to her own blog this morning, and although I had seen it in the past, I was encouraged to revisit it. I''m so very glad I did, too. As someone who does not work directly with students very often, I need reminders like this to keep me mindful of why I do what I do and help me "keep on keepin'' on" during tough or discouraging times.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 20, 2011

'Here in the Northeast, we do love us some Dunkin'' Donuts. I am saying this post is Part 1 of 2 about some community trips I recently made with some social skills groups to Dunkin''s, but that''s a little deceptive because I have written about Dunkin'' Donuts before. Let''s call it DD for the rest of the post so I don''t have to keep typing that, and this post is not really about that wonderful pink and orange place anyway.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 17, 2011

'Join me Wednesday, January 19th, for a live and interactive webinar with Yong Zhao on the Chinese education system, international test scores, and "Tiger Moms." Professor Zhao has been a previous guest on the show to discuss his book Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization and we revisit those themes in light of current educational discussions.

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wwwatanabe

JANUARY 19, 2011

'Tomorrow our Collaboration Coaches work on Session 6 from the Microsoft Peer Coach training. I''m excited to get our fabulous collaborators back together. Session 6 is based on what Marzano reminded us of, that there''s a dip after the initial excitement, and this is the pick-me-up session for breaking through scotomas. Here''s a video of a school who has collaboration as part of their culture.

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Nik Peachey

JANUARY 20, 2011

At the end of 2010 I published the first 5 tasks in a series to help teacher learn how to use technology with their students. Now I would like to add 3 more tasks to that collection. The first few tasks are all quite simple to lay the ground work and get teachers started. As the series progresses I hope to get on to more adventurous tasks. Please feel free to use these tasks yourself or to share or use them for teacher training.

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 20, 2011

'For this Edublogs Teacher Challenge (Kick Start Your Blogging) , I''m writing about avatars. Avatars, in case you didn''t know, are digital representations of yourself online- a cartoon or photo (of yourself or someone/thing else) makes a great avatar. It''s really up to you. I''ve actually written about avatars before because I think they are a great way to get kids talking and possibly writing about themselves.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 17, 2011

'Join me Thursday, January 20th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Barnett Berry on new book, Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools--Now and in the Future. "In the raging controversy over the purpose of public education and how to fix the nation''s underperforming schools, the voices of America''s best teachers are seldom heard.

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Connecting 2 the World

JANUARY 19, 2011

There was a new study that came out in the Journal of Psychology supporting that there might be something to ESP (Extra Sensory Perception). They found that some people have predictive powers that may be more than just pattern recognition which then helps to make a "best choice." They also found that people that have this ability also tend to be risk takers.

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wwwatanabe

JANUARY 16, 2011

'I saw a Tweet about the Edublogs Teacher Challenge. Intrigue took me to the link, to discover other educators interested in learning. There''s a challenge to support the beginners, the advanced, and you can opt for mentor support. How cool is that? I chose the beginner''s challenge because I''m new to blogging and I would love to learn more about it.

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 19, 2011

'Hi Folks, I have a couple of posts that published elsewhere on the Interwebs this past week: On the Mindwing Blog, click on over to move past character and setting and talk about something actually happening on "a ho-hum day." This post outlines some resources for working with kids about initiating events/Kick-Offs (closely aligned with problems in real life and curriculum-based stories).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 17, 2011

'Join me Tuesday, January 18th, for another live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Will Richardson on education, technology, and the impact of Web 2.0 on teaching and learning. Will is the author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms and the "Learner in Chief" at Connective Learning. Date : Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am GMT (next day-- international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate.

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The Daring Librarian

JANUARY 20, 2011

'The super cool author of some of my most favourite books The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stoopid Tales & T he True Story of the Three Little Pigs will be holding a live webcast for kids in March! It''s FREE to sign up (and yes, to my MHMS Kids, we''re so there!) and uber cool author of Trackers, Skeleton Creek, & friend of the MHMS Media Center - (See his signed posters below!

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wwwatanabe

JANUARY 15, 2011

'As I''m reading Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age , I stopped at the "Spotlight" on page 52, called "Thinking Aloud about Learning Dispositions." The focus was Guy Claxton, professor of cognitive learning, discussing how students learn. What caught my attention was a quote from an eight-year-old who was reflecting on her own learning.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

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Connecting 2 the World

JANUARY 21, 2011

Yet again the President was in our neck of the woods. And yet again, as I watched the live feed, one would think that this area is composed of just white, middle aged, male politicians. What about the number of working women? What about the rather large Asian population that works at the GE plant in Schenectady? What about the rather large Guyanese population that moved into vacant building a decade ago in Schenectady?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 17, 2011

'I''m really enjoying how well the lineup for the FutureofEducation.com interview series is shaping up this year. All of the events are live and free to attend, and recordings (both.mp3 and full Elluminate) are usually posted within a day. More details are usually posted the week of the show, and if you join the FutureofEducation.com site, you''ll start receiving a weekly email of these shows and others I''m involved in coordinating.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 17, 2011

'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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