A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 12, 2011

'Hopefully the title of this post grabbed your attention. As I was walking out of an eighth period class on Monday that is what I heard one student tell her friend. As a Principal it was an amazing way to end the day. I too sat in the same class as those students engaging in that conversation and am still in awe of how a little bit of technology could dramatically transform the learning experiences for our students.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 11, 2011

'Epic. #snOMG Snowageddon Just a few of the terms I have heard on my local/national media and have seen on Twitter to describe the recent Winter Weather here in the souther United States. From Texas across the Gulf Coast and up the Eastern Seaboard, many students have not been in school since Jan 7. (Some before then.) Today is the second day in a row all of the districts in my area are out.

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 14, 2011

'Two ideas have inspired me to try something radically different in my classroom. The first is Google''s 20% time. If you''re not familiar with the idea, Google requires (they don''t suggest or encourage, they require!) every employee to spend 20% of their working time doing something other than what they were hired to do. Some employees spend their 20% time aiding charitable causes, help organize internal parties and events, or join a local club or organization.

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The 21st Century Principal

JANUARY 10, 2011

'Earlier this fall, I posted 5 Considerations for Allowing Students to Use Personal Computing Devices on School Wireless Networks , which was a quick summary of considerations for administrators contemplating providing students with Wifi access in their buildings. Recently, I’ve received some comments and emails from various school systems who want to know more about how we are providing that access.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 14, 2011

'The following is a guest post by Linda Keesing, the Media Specialist at New Milford High School. Below are her thoughts on the recent revisions to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Feel free to comment below and she will respond. Linda can be contacted directly at lkeesing@newmilfordschools.org In February, there will be a new edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , minus any appearance of the "N" word.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 12, 2011

'Last night on #edchat our conversation centered around Professional Development. Specifically, what are some of the roadblocks that prevent teachers and administrators from engaging in PD. Pretty deep huh? There are lots of ideas out there as to why teachers don''t want to engage in PD. Many times the PD, when it is required, isn''t meaningful. When I was in the classroom I was part of a team that helped to decide the direction our PD at the school level would take.

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The 21st Century Principal

JANUARY 9, 2011

'If your state is like mine, your district is facing massive budget cuts. Technology budgets are not likely to escape the knife either, but if we want to maintain being 21st century leaders in our schools, we need to find ways to get the most out of our technology dollars. Too often, administrators turn to cutting support staff and new technology purchases.

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The Daring Librarian

JANUARY 9, 2011

'a long graphic for a long post. fitting. I had a great time over break having a lovely Tweetup Lunch with some of my favourite Maryland iPad experts! As I''m still an iPad newbie I thought it only fitting to put it to them: What are Coolest iPad techniques, tips & tricks and most loved and must have APPS!?? Guest bloggers Donna Anderson the Digital Librarian21 @digilibrarian21 Joquetta Johnson, the Digital Diva @accordin2jo and Selena Ward the Tech Tiger @thetechtiger 3 educators who are am

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 11, 2011

'How to Use Flickr in Your Classroom – SimpleK12 tags: flickr favorite 6 Ways To Reduce Irrelevant Results On Google Search tags: google search favorite 20 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks tags: ebooks favorite A Twitteraholic’s Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter | The Edublogger tags: twitter favorite Ten Steps to Better Web Research tags: research information_literacy Search_Engines favorite Best Practices For Your Classroom Wiki tags: wiki favorite 100 Ways to Use Your iPo

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 13, 2011

'Singing Fingers is a FREE app from the folks at the MIT Media Lab''s Lifelong Kindergarten Program , a very creative place. The app allows kids to "fingerpaint with sound"- as you trace a design, sounds you make are recorded by the app. When you re-trace your drawing, it plays the sound. Singing Fingers is an iPhone/iPod touch native app; it also runs well on iPad.

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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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wwwatanabe

JANUARY 8, 2011

'1/3 Cup Standards-Based Task 1/4 Cup 21st Century Thinking 1/4 Cup Problem-Based or Project-Based Task 2 Tablespoons Choice 6 Tablespoons Purpose 3 Tablespoons Audience 1/3 Cup Authentic Assessment Combine Standards-Based Task with 21st Century Skills. With mixer running, add Problem-Based or Project-Based Task. Add 2 Tablespoons student choice for technology that best suits their needs in order to complete the task.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 8, 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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Connecting 2 the World

JANUARY 10, 2011

After my last post, I read an article by Charles Goodwin on professional vision. Goodwin looked at professionalism through an anthropological lens, but it fits well with the idea of discourse community (which is a term used more in language learning and communication). Goodwin looked at how professionalism is both created, developed, and maintained through coding, highlighting, and "producing and articulating material representations.

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 10, 2011

'I was never a fisherman, but Thrill of the Catch from Discovery Education is a really fun resource. The site allows you to create a fish from a chosen species, release him into the lake, then do some fishin''! It''s really easy and not frustrating to catch fish, and then you just "throw them back" after finding out their names and who created them.

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wwwatanabe

JANUARY 13, 2011

'I am still mulling over Patrick Ledesma''s article "Student Choice: An Important Step for Meaningful Technology Integration ," and applying that notion of having an authentic purpose and audience to what I''m currently reading, " Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age." This is my second time reading the book, and on page 48 stopped at their simple notion of how to spice up the traditional biography assignment: The traditional biography lo

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JANUARY 8, 2011

'"Adblock Plus: Save your time and traffic." My grandson has known about Adblock Plus for a couple of years! I definitely need to consult with him more often about these matters. :D I imagine Adblock Plus is not an add-on that advertisers want to promote, but it''s the perfect answer to our 6th grade English teacher''s question about blocking out distractions for her students, as they develop their deep reading skills on the Internet.

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 14, 2011

'I''m jumping on board here about a week late, but I am going to try as much as possible to participate in the Edublogs 30 Days to Kick Start Your Blogging Teacher Challenge. This program seems like a good way to structure some writing, spread the word about my blog and blogging in general, perhaps encouraging other SLPs to start blogging themselves.

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 14, 2011

'For Activity 2 in the Edublogs 30 Days to Kick Start Your Blogging Teacher Challenge , I am choosing to highlight an effective post from a blog that I read. One I loved recently was SpeechGadgetDeb''s post: I Can Has Cheeseburger for Language Skills. What do I think made this post effective? The post starts by providing a clear context and "big idea" before presenting the resource: humor is motivating.

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