A Principal's Reflections
MARCH 28, 2011
'As I sit here in the San Francisco airport after my flight was cancelled (I got on a later flight though) I cannot help but reflect on my first ASCD Annual Conference. What an incredible experience! The excitement began back in the late summer when I was notified that my proposal to present was accepted. The title of my session was Exploring Best Practices in Social Networking.
EdTechSandyK
MARCH 29, 2011
'Today I gave testimony in favor of the passage of Texas SB 6 , which institutes an Instructional Materials Allotment (IMA) in lieu of the textbook allotment and the former Technology Allotment. SB 6, if passed into law, would give local school districts in Texas more discretionary control over how they spend state monies designated for instructional materials.
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The 21st Century Principal
MARCH 27, 2011
'“Talent is not a thing; it’s a process,” is the argument made in David Shenk’s book The Genius in All of Us. For years, the nature versus nurture debate has simmered, with most of us coming out on the side of nature at times. Since psychologists Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray warned that our society was increasingly becoming stratified between those who have the genes for intelligence and high cognitive functioning, and those who are unfortunate in that they inherited genetically the lot
SpeechTechie
MARCH 28, 2011
'I have been meaning to write about GlogsterEDU for some time, but have put it off because, though a wonderful and easy resource to use, it requires a series of posts to really do it justice. It was hard to commit. But here we go- It''s GlogsterEDU week on SpeechTechie! GlogsterEDU is a free (with some nice paid features) site based on the concept of "poster yourself.
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The Daring Librarian
MARCH 29, 2011
'( UPDATE : This is the original post about this mobile media digital discovery lesson but I''ve also updated it recently in Part Deux ! Pls. check it out! :-) I remixed this awesome scavenger hunt originally created by Joyce Valenza and added a QR Code Twist! I re-worked some of the questions for a lesson with my adorable ESOL kids (we have 35 right now in our ESOL program & one cute be-freckled girl just came yesterday & speaks no English at all but she LOVED scanning the codes when I
The Electric Educator
APRIL 1, 2011
'Flickr Via Tomroid Are you an artist or a day-laborer? A day-laborer does the bare minimum, follows the rules, doesn''t go outside of his job description, clocks in on time and clocks out on time. An artist goes well beyond what is expected, rarely follows the rules (in a good way), extends his role, creates unexpected value, and doesn''t keep track of time because he loves what he does.
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SpeechTechie
MARCH 30, 2011
'For part 4 of Glogster EDU week (a.k.a. Thursday) here is a screencast covering some of the interactive features of Glogging: adding audio, video, and links to other web pages. The audio/video aspects are ones that are very applicable to SLPs, as they allow us to work on listening skills and/or speech and language production in a manner that will be engaging to students!
Connecting 2 the World
MARCH 28, 2011
This is a continuation of my dissertation: The last two themes dealt with how the group and members accessed, created, and used knowledge and expertise. In the one theme, knowledge and expertise of perceived value often was used as currency within the power structure, with study participants sharing, accessing resources, or withholding their knowledge and expertise based on their analysis of situational factors within the environment.
The Electric Educator
MARCH 30, 2011
'Okay folks, April Fool''s day is just around the corner. Google has become notorious for its April 1st shenanigans. Here''s a list of their pranks from the past few years: 2000: Google Mental Plex (search using mental telepathy) 2002: Pigeon Rank (the secret to Google''s search algorithm is trained pigeons) 2004: Google Copernicus Center (apply for a job at Google''s newest office-- on the moon!
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
MARCH 26, 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.
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.
SpeechTechie
MARCH 30, 2011
'Today''s post in this series on GlogsterEDU, an online "poster" creator, covers adding the "G" to your Glog- graphics and images. In this screencast I show how to save an image from a webpage and upload it to your Glog in order to add visual support. In the video, I touch on the issue of Fair Use of images, so here''s a reference if you want to learn about that further.
wwwatanabe
MARCH 26, 2011
'One of my highlights this past week was the day I spent team teaching in Mrs. Martinez''s 4th grade class. We have entered the Class Blog Student Challenge : A global blogging challenge for students of all ages. During the past few weeks, we have focused on setting up our blog (posting guidelines), Internet safety, and how to leave a comment for others.
The Electric Educator
MARCH 28, 2011
'Helping students with a lab If I''m absolutely exhausted at the end of the day I know that I have been truly teaching. Standing in front of a class and lecturing for five hours isn''t that big of a deal. Constantly walking around the room, from group to group, student to student and answering specific questions, troubleshooting problems, and mediating student conflict is exhausting.
mauilibrarian2 in Olinda
MARCH 26, 2011
'It''s difficult to choose just three! Inspired by @justintarte''s recent post Why Educators should be using Twitter (with some great people to follow listed), and JD Thomas'' post Who to Follow in Twitter -- A Great Idea That Needs Greater Tech and following Gwyneth Jones'' crowdsourcing TL Smackdown Feud lead, I''ve decided to create my own survey for and by Educators on Twitter.
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SpeechTechie
APRIL 1, 2011
'Before I get started, please check out my post over on Mindwing Concepts'' blog about Glogster and ThemeMaker, their excellent tool for teaching students to comprehend and produce expository text. An example Glog is included over there for a fun crossover post! So, this has been a fun and busy week talking about one of my favorite resources, GlogsterEDU.
wwwatanabe
MARCH 31, 2011
'Our second challenge in the Edublogs Student Challenge is about creating online identities and leaving quality comments on other blogs. Avatars and comments go together because when the avatar is uploaded to the user''s name, it shows when the making comments. Activity 1: Create our Class Avatar Slideshow Part 1: Make an Avatar Each individual will create an avatar using the options I have listed below.
The Electric Educator
MARCH 30, 2011
'My Rapportive Profile I am absolutely enthralled with Rapportive , a Gmail add-on that replaces the typical Adsense sidebar with information about the person you are emailing. The information that Rapportive pulls is from social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. If you have an account on one of these sites Rapportive will display your profile image, latest status update, and links to your blog or other web content that you have created.
The Daring Librarian
MARCH 27, 2011
'So having Library Journal use a version of this quote above in the Movers & Shakers article and having had my beloved School Library blog blocked this week has made me super sensitive to the challenges & responsibilities we have teaching our kids digital awareness and responsibility. People, teaching Digital Ed is not OPTIONAL. It''s not a frill, and it''s not about blocking & filtering it''s all about teaching kids ethics & then trusting them to be responsible.
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SpeechTechie
MARCH 28, 2011
'To continue GlogsterEDU Week, a series of posts on the interactive "poster yourself" website GlogsterEDU , today I am featuring a screencast showing you how to set up an account, obtain student accounts (get ''em while you can for free, even if you don''t use them), and start a Glog with text. If you are saying to yourself, "Glog?" a Glog is what you create with Glogster- basically a graphic blog.
EdTechSandyK
MARCH 31, 2011
'On Friday, April 1st, the Texas House will begin debate on HB 1, their budget proposal for the next biennium. Below is the text of the letter I just sent to my representative. If you are a Texan who cares about education, I hope you are also making your position known. A short and sweet email or phone call is better than nothing at all. We elect them; they represent us.
SpeechTechie
MARCH 27, 2011
'Please help out my pal and #SLPeep Barbara Fernandes of Geek SLP by taking this short survey about your use of iDevices (iPad/iPod/iPhone) if you are a school-based Speech-Language Pathologist. Barbara sends her thanks!
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