A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 6, 2011

'This is the million dollar question! Like most educators in the blogging world I see the inherit value in educational technology. Combined with sound pedagogical practices, the effective integration of technology has the ability to engage learners in a variety of ways. The other day I came across this article where interactive whiteboards (IWB''s) were touted as the most effective piece of classroom technology followed by individual netbooks for each student (these were being used predominately

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 3, 2011

'Image From CC Search-Flickr (User Kadath) Seems like it''s the cool thing this time of year to look back at the previous year, where we have been and to look forward, to where we are going. I want to be hip. So here is my reflections on 2010 and my predictions for 2011. I wrote a post on December 28, 2009 where I talked about tools that I thought would have a break out year.

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 6, 2011

'and so far I am a little underwhelmed by what it has to offer. But let''s give it time. For those who were not waiting with bated breath like I was for this release, the Mac App Store is a new functionality of Mac laptops and desktops whereby you can access an App Store on your computer and download "Apps" (you must be running Snow Leopard 10.6 and then perform a Software Update-click on the Apple in the upper left corner- to access the App Store).

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The 21st Century Principal

JANUARY 4, 2011

'I stumbled across an article entitled “Singapore Looks at Strengthening School System Further.” The country’s prime minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong, states in the article that while his country performed reasonably well on the latest PISA assessments, they must keep up the efforts of continual educational improvement. Interestingly, he cited the reasons for this was because of stiff competition from “European countries like Finland and Asian giants such as Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, and S

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 5, 2011

'If you can edit the header.php file in a wordpress template, hunt down the path of an image in html, keep track of hundreds of logins for students and staff, know the difference between between gadgets, widgets, and apps, and are the first one to discover great new web-based tools for the classroom, you are an Edutech Geek. "With great power comes great responsibility.

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Connecting 2 the World

JANUARY 5, 2011

I have been away from my work on my dissertation for the last month in order to prepare for next semester. However, at 3:00AM this morning, an insight into the current analysis I am doing for three of the themes I've identified (1. expertise is defined by the profession, 2. expertise is defined by the department, and 3. Expertise is defined within the organizational power structure) came to mind.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2011

'Join me Tuesday, January 11th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Ira David Socol on education, reform, technology, and more. Date : Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am 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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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 4, 2011

'The scandal plagued Detroit Public School announced today that they are spending $49 million in Federal grants on a " Technology Infusion." The purchase list includes: 40,000 ASUS Netbook laptop computers 5,000 for teachers 35,000 for students 4,789 HP desktop computers – one for every classroom 4,291 multi-purpose printer/scanners 4,550 document cameras 533 HP desktop computers delivered for use in early childhood education programs 273 SMART Boards purchased for School Improvement Grant schoo

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JANUARY 5, 2011

'photo © 2007 Kasia | more info (via: Wylio ) Good morning Colleagues, Here are the 12 Days of Christmas Gifts I emailed you, all in one spot, for easy access at your convenience. I hope they bring you enjoyment and inspiration for this semester. 1st Day ? Merry Christmas, Everyone! Here''s The BEST of 2010, arranged by Topic , for the BEST GROUP of People I Know.

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 5, 2011

'I have recently done a lot of writing about the benefits of Google for SLPs, but as a counterpoint I want to point out a different (non-conflicting) resource: Wolfram Alpha. Wolfram Alpha looks like a search engine, but is actually a "computational knowledge engine" that returns easily readable results for many questions (with more answers each day as the site grows)- not webpages as Google does.

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 1, 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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The 21st Century Principal

JANUARY 6, 2011

'Let’s face the truth. There’s no reason to spend another dime on purchasing licenses and software for Microsoft’s Office Suite of programs. School systems have too many much cheaper options (like free or almost free) rather than continuing to purchase the popular office suite that most often includes MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Publisher, and MS Outlook.

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 5, 2011

'At the ASHA Convention this past November, I was very excited to have had time to accost, I mean, converse with Michelle Garcia Winner, creator of the Social Thinking® Methodology for teaching students with Asperger''s, High-Functioning Autism, and various quirky characteristics. We chatted for a few minutes at her booth in the exhibit hall about all the great web tools that are available to help students visualize and apply some of the concepts and vocabulary in her programs and books.

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