Sat.Feb 19, 2011 - Fri.Feb 25, 2011

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Simply Ridiculous

A Principal's Reflections

'I don''t know about all of you, but I am really getting tired about the relentless attacks on teachers as states grapple with their budgets. Are they kidding me? Really, educators and other state workers are to blame for out of control costs and spending? As long as I can remember anyone that went into the field of education was ridiculed for the main reason that the profession makes no money.

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New Posted Resources 02/24/2011

The Web20Classroom

'QR Codes In The Mainstream tags: qrcode favorite A Step-by-Step Guide to Global Collaborations tags: collaboration favorite iPads for Education | Victoria, Australia tags: iPad favorite What is a QR Code? tags: qrcode favorite Creating Content with iPads tags: iPad favorite Student Learning with Diigo tags: diigo favorite 5 Tips For Assessing What Students Know tags: assessment favorite Defining Professional Learning Communities (PLC) tags: plc favorite Posted from Diigo.

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Must Read for School Administrations Who Want to Be Technology Leaders: Horizon Report 2011

The 21st Century Principal

'One of the documents I would recommend as a “must-read” for administrators is the annual Horizon Report, developed ever year by the New Media Consortium. While this report is not predictive, it does provide valuable information that administrators can use to develop a vision for technology’s role in their schools or districts. It’s three main sections provide specific kinds of information useful for technology leaders.

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Keeping Up to Date: Texas Education Budget Crisis

EdTechSandyK

'Letting Your Voice Be Heard ?With so much information crossing my screen on the Texas Education Budget Crisis, I thought it would be useful to pull together a few places where folks can stay up to date. I hope you do more with this information than stay "in the know" though. I hope you take this knowledge and use it to write and phone your legislators and let them know how you feel about what they are doing to our schools if they pass their currently proposed budgets.

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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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Live Interview on Tuesday, February 22nd - John Seely Brown on A New Culture of Learning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Tuesday, February 22nd, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with John Seely Brown, co-author of A New Culture of Learning. The 21st century, he and Douglas Thomas state, is a world in constant change, and the book pursues "an understanding of how the forces of change, and emerging waves of interest associated with these forces, inspire and invite us to imagine a future of learning that is as powerful as it is optimistic.

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#Edtech Over The Pond

The Web20Classroom

'On Friday, Ken Royal had me back on his BlogTalkRadio show , this time to talk to Joe Dale , an educational technology consultant, living on the south English coast. I was thrilled to be able to exchange ideas with Joe and the conversation did not disappoint. We talked about the importance of educators getting connected, how they can do that and even had a chance to do a mini smackdown where we shared some of our favorite tools.

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It's Raining! Why Texas Should Use the Rainy Day Fund

EdTechSandyK

'I am home today with a sick pet. While she rests and we wait to go to the vet, I have been reading up on the latest information to cross my screen regarding the Texas education budget crisis. I am not glad my pet is sick, but I''m very glad I came across a Tweet from MrDW30 which linked to an article from the Center for Public Policy Priorities regarding the origin of the Texas Rainy Day Fund, examples of how it has been used in the past, and why it makes sense to use it in the financial situat

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SpeechTechie is Almost One Year Old!

SpeechTechie

'My first blog post here was on 2/25/10, about one year ago this week. I am going on vacation for about a week (get me out of this snowy place, please), but I wanted to say again that it has been a wonderful year of collaborating with you all--thanks for reading! Photo by 3liz4 I thought also that some of you might be interested in seeing where this blog came from.

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Blogging with Students: Internet Safety & Digital Citizenship

wwwatanabe

'We have entered the Edublogs Challenge , and set up a class blog. I am so excited to be part of this 4th grade team-teaching experience! Wordle Today, we are focusing on introducing the students to why we are setting up a class blog, digital citizenship, and Internet safety. Purpose of Our Blog : T he purpose of this blog is to learn the art of writing and lessons of language arts through a real world experience with a real audience.

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Before You Press Send: 3 Quick Rules for Email Responses

The 21st Century Principal

'Here’s an interesting story I stumbled upon while reading the site charlotteobserver.com entitled “Insulting Email and Vanishing Comments.” Apparently, a school board member responded to a constituent by email and violated the important rule of “reading your response from the perspective of the recipient.” Now, that school board member is having to endure a situation where the parent is sharing the email with everyone.

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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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WhyEdReach?

The Electric Educator

'Today is the official launch of EdReach.us , a collaboration by educators from all over the United States. I am proud to be a contributer to this endeavor through a bi-weekly post and the Google in Education podcast. This week my post on EdReach.us was about Schoology, a cool company I visited at the Illinois ICE conference. Why EdReach? Do we really need another Educational blog?

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Live Interview Early Wednesday, February 23rd - Steve Wheeler on "The Future of Web 2.0 Technologies in Learning"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Wednesday, February 22nd, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Steve Wheeler on "The Future of Web 2.0 Technologies in Learning." Date : Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Time : 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 8pm GMT (next day-- international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate. Log in at [link]. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early.

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Remove the Navigation Bar from Blogger

wwwatanabe

'I always thought of the "Next Blog" button more like a "Life is a Box of Chocolates" button, because if you click on it, you never know what blog you might get next! I honestly didn''t think anything of it until students started going to my blog, then it glared at me. Thanks to the help of Linda Yollis , I learned how to exorcise it. Steps From the Dashboard, edit the design.

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The politics of workplace collaboration

Connecting 2 the World

I have finished another section of my dissertation. This section deals with the politics that affect workplace collaboration, especially the development of workplace knowledge and access to workplace resources during collaborative writing processes. Knowledge Embedded within the Project Power Structure While professional, group, and departmental expertise and knowledge appears to be the result of embedded practices that group members may not be aware of, the knowledge embedded with the power str

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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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Fotopedia National Parks is FREE, limited time only

SpeechTechie

'Understanding the concept behind America''s National Parks system is part of the social studies curriculum and standards, yet I have found that many students reach middle school without being able to "get" the idea and how these parks are different than the baseball diamond behind the parking lot. Fotopedia National Parks is an iPod/iPad (gorgeous especially on the latter) that allows students to explore our national parks via an interactive map and 3,000 photographs with written descriptions.

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New Wikispaces Ad-free Program for Higher Education

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'I really like Wikispaces. Not only have they been very supportive of many of the projects and events I''ve been involved with for several years now, but as an education vendor they interact with the education audience in a very authentic way. You will often see co-founders Adam Frey or James Byers hanging out in the "bloggers'' cafe" at a conference rather than on the exhibit floor--and they do so in a helpful, non-self-promoting way.

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Touring TitanPad

wwwatanabe

'The TitanPad wiki was introduced to me back in September by Nick Sauers during our One-to-One training. What I liked was the immediate setup with no accounts needed, the way it color-coded who wrote what, the easy viewing of the revision history, the options to place passwords on it, and the built in "back channel.". TitanPad Wiki used in our Reinventing PBL book study class.

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The Digital Remix Mash-Up Culture Explained

The Daring Librarian

'A quick cool audio-visual way to explain to other educators (or kids!) the Digital Remix Mash-Up Culture today is to show clips of these music videos. " Recent technological developments have created a wave of user-generated content in which pre-existing sounds and images are appropriated, reshaped, and shared with unprecedented ease." Natalie Bennett But to better show this concept: I start with the below original music video Dynamite by British performer Taio Cruz - Not totally appropriate fo

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Positive deviance

Learning with 'e's

Image source : Nigel Mykura One of the statements I made in a recent speech has gained quite a reaction. It contains the phrase ' positive deviance.' I've had a few questions about it so let me try to explain a little more: In any community there are a few people who are not satisfied with the way things are done, and go against the grain. They often try out new and possibly unacceptable ideas that in the end, prove correct, or promote some positive change.

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Week of February 20, 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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[Trying] To Start a New Trend

The Electric Educator

'I''m single handedly trying to start a new trend: conference session trailers/commercials. The next time you present at a conference, put together a >1 minute video highlighting your session. Epic music is a must! I''ve done this twice so far: Trailer for my 2011 ICE conference session Trailer for my 2010 MACUL conference session Thanks for subscribing to my blog.

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ISTE Membership Treasure Hunt

The Daring Librarian

'Arrr Shiver Me Timbers, Matey ! It''s Capt. Red here to tell you about how you can use your ISTE membership to search for clues, treasure, & come away with some brilliant tech booty! '' X'' marks the spot: ISTE is half way through Member Appreciation Month , and you could win an iPod nano or a Kindle Wi-Fi ! ISTE still has some great scavenger hunt prizes remaining, including the iPad grand prize.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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Live Interview on Thursday, February 24th - Case Study on the North Carolina School Connectivity Initiative

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join us Thursday, February 24th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Michael Horn and Heather Staker from the Innosight Institute as they discuss their case study on the North Carolina School Connectivity Initiative, a public-private approach to bringing Internet access to K-12 public schools. Date : Thursday, February 24th, 2011 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am GMT (next day-- international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate.