A Principal's Reflections
JULY 12, 2012
'After a semester long pilot program with the senior class during the spring of 2011, we rolled out our Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program to the entire student body in September. Throughout the entire 2011-2012 school year, we worked to refine our approach, implementation, and learning outcomes for the program. The model that we developed is customized, based on our student body and overall objectives of the program.
The Web20Classroom
JULY 11, 2012
'Watch this video. Did you really watch the video or are you just keeping reading? Come on, watch it. I promise you will like it. (This is my favorite You Tube video by the way.) Now ask yourself some questions. 1) Do you have guts? This guy is my hero. He felt something inside his soul. The music made him want to move. He didn''t care what others would think.
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Educational Technology Guy
JULY 11, 2012
'iGoogle, Google''s customizable start page , is shutting down and will not be available after November 1, 2013. Google has decided that iGoogle has outlived it''s usefulness with the new apps and technologies that are now available. All of your data in your Google product widgets will still be there in the original product, like Gmail, Google Calendar , etc.
The Mobile Native
JULY 13, 2012
'iPads : 1. iPad Apps Separated by Subject Area 2. 103 Interesting Ways to Use iPads in the Classroom 3. iPad/iPod Resources 4. Mobile Learning Integration 5. Middle School iPad Apps 6. iPad in Education Resources Worth Exploring 7. Apps for Special Needs 8. 50 Resources for iPad Use in the Classroom 9. 39 Sites for Using iPads in the Classroom 10. 32 iPad Tips and Tricks Smart Phones (Mobile Learning Devices) : 1.
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The 21st Century Principal
JULY 10, 2012
'“Innovation? We don’t want no stinking innovation,” would perhaps accurately describe many of our educational institutions, including K-12 public education organizations. We’ve all worked in those schools and districts where rules, policies, processes, and procedures mattered more than the people. These same schools literally fight to preserve “the way we do things” to the point of exterminating any thoughts of doing things differently.
Baker's B.Y.O.D.
JULY 8, 2012
'My daughter boogie-ing to the surf. While on the beach watching my 4 & almost 6 year old daughters play in the surf and not just get knocked over for once, I was knocked over by a wave of realization: I take the beach/ocean/bay/marsh for granted. I''ve lived near the ocean my entire life. It has always been there and will continue to always be there.
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The Electric Educator
JULY 13, 2012
'A friend of mine showed me an awesome website for images called " The Noun Project." Ever since learning about it I have found countless uses for the simple images posted on the site. The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world''s visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way.
The 21st Century Principal
JULY 13, 2012
'ScribeFire is a simple-to-use blog editor that you can use right within your Chrome, FoxFire or Opera Web browser. So far my testing shows that it works more smoothly than other editors I have used, even Windows Live Writer. Often, when I''ve used Windows Live Writer, I''ve lost format selections and media inserts when I posted to the web. ScribeFire has some features that make it much easier to user for administrators who want to wade into blogging.
wwwatanabe
JULY 8, 2012
'In my last post , I shared some of the big takeaways I had from #ISTE12. This is a continuation of that post, with the focus on these questions: What had the most impact on me at ISTE , and what memories will be most prominent from that week? What new goals would I set as a result of #ISTE12? JoAnn Jacobs , me, Joan Young , & Julie Hembree 6. While ISTE was filled with amazing training, there was something unique about ISTE that I''ve never experienced from any other conference, and that''s
Learning with 'e's
JULY 13, 2012
I watched this morning's PLE conference (#pleconf) unkeynote by Grainne Conole and Ricardo Torres Kompen, which was streamed live from Aveiro, in Portugal. In it, they represented a number of perspectives on personal learning environments, including a discussion on the differential between institutionally managed Virtual Learning Environments (or VLEs) and the free tools that learners are now using on the web.
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.
The Daring Librarian
JULY 9, 2012
'Hi! My name is Gwyneth and I''m NOT much of a gamer. Oh, it feels so good to admit that! I mean, as much of a geek grrl as I''ve always been I know I *should* be a gamer but alas, epic fail, not many games have held my attention. Sure, like everyone else I played & aced Angry Birds as soon it came out but I was more of a fan of the plush birdies than getting 3 stars on every level.
Connecting 2 the World
JULY 12, 2012
As I start looking for colleges/universities for my daughter in the US this year, I'm much more savvy about how US colleges/universities market themselves. My son, a 2 year student at Penn State, went through this last year. As a student/professor for 20 years at US colleges, I went into his higher ed search a bit cocky. After all, I knew what I was looking for in a student, I knew what my student profiles were in multiple departments, I understood the system for college credit transfer, financi
Comfortably 2.0
JULY 7, 2012
'Being a parent has been the most rewarding event that has happened to me in my forty years. There have been good times and then there have been times that I wish my Mom and Dad would have told me I would experience as a parent. I think it was their way of getting back at me for all of the times that I caused them anguish. And believe me, there are more than you can count on two hands!
Learning with 'e's
JULY 11, 2012
I was asked by Grainne Conole to record a short video on my views about Personal Learning Networks, VLEs vs PLEs and other related topics, as a contribution toward her unkeynote with Ricardo Torres Kompen for the PLE conference in Aviero, Portugal this week. Well, here it is, as a short 3 minute video on YouTube: My Personal Learning Network by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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EdTechnocation.com
JULY 10, 2012
'This is post #2 of a series of posts that I will be publishing involving a new support group that I''ve started at my school. I call it the " Eno Click IWB Support Group." It involves a group of teachers at my school that have recently received an interactive whiteboard (or IWB for short) as well as a "media cart" (which I will get into a little later).
Learning with 'e's
JULY 11, 2012
I recently presented at a conference with my Plymouth University colleagues Peter Yeomans and Oliver Quinlan. We were to have presented this paper at the annual EDEN Conference held in June in Portugal, but for one reason or another, none of us could make it. This is probably the first time we have presented as a team, and I hope it will be the first of many future conference appearances together.
Learning with 'e's
JULY 9, 2012
I was in a meeting with a prospective PhD candidate today and the conversation inevitably led to learning. He pointed out that in his lterature reviews he had uncovered a bewildering number of different, and often opposing learning theories. He was clearly impressed if not a little phased by the huge array of concepts and ideas that theorists had developed to try to explain what it means when we learn something.
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