Sat.Aug 21, 2010 - Fri.Aug 27, 2010

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A PLN Quick Start Guide

A Principal's Reflections

'Updated 4/17/13 The concept of a PLN has been around for a very long time. PLN''s back in the day consisted of individuals with the same professional interests engaging in mostly face to face communication. Fast forward a good amount of years and enter the internet. No one can argue that the evolution of the real-time web has dramatically altered how we communicate, gather information, and reflect.

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5 Sites To Explore This School Year

The Web20Classroom

'In my neck of the woods schools have already started or will be starting soon. As we are going back and thinking of new tools to try or sites to explore I wanted to give you a few ideas of each that you may find have a place in your classroom this year. These are quick and easy ways to do something fun and use a little technology along the way. Wallwisher Think of Wallwisher like a corkboard and push pins.

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Great Conversation Game.

SpeechTechie

'to start the year or get a social group talking. The website EFL Classroom 2.0 features rules and a supporting slideshow for the game "Pass the Paper," a kind of musical chairs for conversation. To quote the site: What is it? Basically, the students are in a group with one crumpled piece of paper among them. The music plays and they “Pass the Paper”.

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Experimenting with Picasa Web Albums

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

'Our school just started using Google Apps for Education, and Google''s Picasa integrates beautifully into the system. Here''s a slide show of a few photos taken of our Orientation Day. I discovered that it''s less complicated to send direct album links, than to send email invitations to an individual group. (??? ? ) This post was originally published at mauilibrarian2 in Olinda.

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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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Garden Spells and Gifts of Love

The Daring Librarian

'I received and gave several gifts this week to friends that has filled my heart and warmed my soul. WARNING: Stop reading this post now if you''re looking for my usual snarky comments & tech tips - though I don''t blog about books as often as most librarians - I will always be a book lover! This post is a heartfelt thanks, celebrating my relationships, and mentally positioning myself with a air of grattitude for the upcoming school year that starts.for me.on Tuesday.

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New Posted Resources 08/27/2010

The Web20Classroom

'Learning with ''e''s: Why Twitter is so powerful tags : twitter pln favorite 5 Things To Get Your Twitter Network Off The Ground | edte.ch tags : twitter pln favorite 10 Social Media Competencies for K-12 teachers. tags : socialmedia favorite Tony Vincent''s Learning in Hand - Blog - iPad, iPhone, iPod touch Issues for Schools tags : ipad ipodtouch favorite Welcome to the iPod & iPad User Group Wiki tags : ipad favorite iPads in Schools tags : ipad favorite ipads4education - Exploring iPads for

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5 Goals for the School Year

The Electric Educator

'Before the start of each new school year I sit down and identify five goals that I want to focus on for the year. These were my goals for the 2010 School year (you can read the full post here ): 1. Improve reverse-instructional model. 2. Continue to improve the Wii interactive whiteboard for class use. 3. Improve assessments to require more critical thinking and problem solving. 4.

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New Posted Resources 08/26/2010

The Web20Classroom

'Making Connections with Skype tags : skype favorite 100 Ways to Use Digital Cameras | Scholastic.com tags : digitalcamera favorite Using social media to tell stories tags : digitalstorytelling socialmedia favorite How To Effectively Manage Your Online Reputation - by Dumb Little Man tags : digitalfootprint favorite Thinkfinity.org tags : resources technology lessonplans favorite Posted from Diigo.

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New Posted Resources 08/24/2010

The Web20Classroom

'Internet Safety Videos tags : cybersafety digitalcitizenship internet_safety favorite TeachersFirst: Wiki Walk-Through tags : wiki favorite The Digital Native Project tags : digital_native favorite Tech Tools for the English Classroom by kim trefz on Prezi tags : english prezi favorite 10 Ways to Evaluate Blogs - Articles - Educational Technology - ICT in Education tags : Blogging favorite Posted from Diigo.

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Why shorten URLs?

SpeechTechie

'Often you will see that when people are sharing a link online, in a place such as Twitter for example, they will use a shortened URL (website address) such as what you see in orange below: On Twitter, people do this because of the 140-character limit of their tweet, but URL shortening can have other uses if you are going to use links with your students in therapy.

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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.