A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2011

'A few months back Verizon Wireless visited New Milford High School and we had a fantastic meeting. The end result was the formation of a pilot program where students and a teacher would be given a tablet device and then be tasked with developing a plan to extend learning beyond the school day. About a week later the devices arrived at my office. Each of the ten tablets (5 iPads and 5 Samsung Galaxy tabs) came with 3G access for the duration of the pilot program.

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The Web20Classroom

JUNE 8, 2011

'Take a look at this short video. So I saw this video on Twitter yesterday (thanks to Alec Couros and Steve Ransom ). It really spoke to me. Connections are so important. Watch the video again and look at the different emotions on the faces of the folks. Some think it''s a joke. Some are just happy-go-lucky. Others genuinely needed the connection and were glad to make it.

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SpeechTechie

JUNE 6, 2011

'Apple is having its annual developers'' conference this week, and this always brings about some exciting announcements. While we wait to hear what''s really coming up in MacLand, I thought I would cover some vocabulary that will help you stay up to date (more later this week when we find out the actual announcements). WWDC -Apple Worldwide Developers'' Conference is held each year in California (this year at the Moscone Center in San Francisco), and features workshops for developers and a keyno

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The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 4, 2011

'“Change is a subtle thing. Change is sneaky. Although most of us are aware that something has changed in our lives, it is often very difficult to put our finger on exactly what has happened, how things have changed, or why things are different.” Ted McCain and Ian Jukes, Windows on the Future McCain and Jukes wrote that statement ten years ago, and the change they spoke of then is still raging today.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 6, 2011

'The following is a summary by New Milford High School teacher Colleen Tambuscio on this year''s Holocaust Study Tour. The post speaks for itself in terms of the impact this authentic learning experience has on our students as well as people all over the world. The Holocaust Study Tour always provides new and exciting learning opportunities because, although there is an itinerary, the schedule flexes as new educational experiences arise.

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The Web20Classroom

JUNE 10, 2011

'Technology Tools to Get Teachers Started | Edutopia tags: technology web2.0 favorite When Wikipedia Is the Assignment tags: wikipedia favorite What About That Twitter Thing? tags: twitter favorite Digital Storytelling with the iPad tags: ipad digital storytelling digitalstorytelling favorite Online Math Help & Learning Resources tags: math favorite Here Be Dragons: An Introduction to Critical Thinking tags: criticalthinking favorite livebinders4teachers Wiki tags: LiveBinders favorite Ten Best

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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 8, 2011

'Search Engine Roundtable Wordle used under a Creative Commons License courtesy of Flikr user toprankonlinemarketing. I am putting together a three hour staff development session for K-12 teachers entitled Google Search and Beyond. I get kind of excited about search tools and digital literacy, so I''m having fun working with this theme. I know many in my PLN have excellent ideas for teaching teachers about effective search strategies and ways to pass them on to our students.

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The Electric Educator

JUNE 7, 2011

'Image: Flickr Via Dakiny In a word, no. Here''s why. 1. Collaboration While it is nice to be able to edit iWork projects from any of iOS/OS X device, there is no collaborative editing feature. Six people on an assortment of iDevices can''t work together. 2. Browser vs. Desktop Apple continues to develop software that is dependent upon the hardware on which it runs. iLife and iWork will become increasingly more complex and require increasingly more powerful Apple hardware (desktops, laptops, and

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The Daring Librarian

JUNE 5, 2011

'Only 3 weeks until the ISTE11 conference kickoff with Mario Armstrong! OhEmGee, I am SO excited! Besides being super busy with with ISTE Board service, meetings, poster sessions, Blogger cafe hanging, and playgrounds - I''ll be presenting twice on two exciting (but very different!) panels! !! Game Show Learning! Learning Tools Family Feud: Crowdsourced Edition with Geek Tribe pals my dear mentor the amazing Joyce Valenza, super cool & smart Shannon M.

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The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 7, 2011

'This Australian Broadcast Corporation program on "The Psychology of Twitter" provides an interesting discussion on many aspects of Twitter. The discussion by this panel of users is an interesting look in where we are now with Twitter, its pitfalls, and how social media might evolve. While it is rather than lengthy, the discussion about Twitter is fascinating and worth the view.

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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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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 6, 2011

'After seeing Disqus commenting on a few blogs I read, I installed it here on the EdTechSandyK blog over the weekend. I also imported all of my previous standard Blogger comments into Disqus. If you click on the title of any blog post so that it opens on its unique page, you can clearly see a link to the Disqus comments at the bottom of the post. If, however, you are on my main or home page, [link] , you cannot see a link to the comments at the bottom of each post.

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Connecting 2 the World

JUNE 5, 2011

As mentioned last week, I am playing around with twitter for a computer mediated communication course I will be teaching next semester. Thanks to one of my blog readers, Anne Marie, I got a good jump on how to be a follower on twitter. She recommended: If you want some people to follow have a look at this list of people who I have labled as 'learning' [link] I'm not sure what you mean by 'follow twitter sites'.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2011

'Join me Tuesday, June 7th, for a live and interactive Future of Education with Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, authors of The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us. While not a book specifically about education, this fascinating look at "how our minds don''t work the way we think they do" will hopefully capture your attention as it has mine, as well as giving us a chance to think about its implications for education, both in terms of classroom practice and for larger education

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JUNE 10, 2011

'photo © 2009 Wesley Fryer | more info (via: Wylio ) From iPad to blog post -- I * love * this idea of sharing conference notes with the world via the iPad! What a great model Wesley Fryer offers us educators for sharing ideas! Wesley notes that his post is on "Maria Henderson''s presentation on using iOS devices (specifically the iPad) at the TCEA Area 7 Technology Conference on 10 June 2011".

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wwwatanabe

JUNE 5, 2011

'I''m filled with excitement as we move beyond the four walls of our classroom to build our Personal Learning Network (PLN). What is a PLN? Watch this fabulous 2 minute interview of Steven Anderson explaining the difference between a PLC and PLN, and its power. Our Growth In the past year, almost 70 AJUSD educators joined Diigo to start sharing resources.

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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 5, 2011

'Texas Capitol © 2006 Larry D. Moore Used Under a Creative Commons ShareAlike License [link] Below is the text of an email I just sent to my representative in the Texas legislature. When Senator Wendy Davis forced a special session to bring to light the major changes to education funding in our state that were being ramrodded through at the end of the regular session, she did a good thing.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 7, 2011

'Today I''m making the official announcement of the Teacher 2.0 community ( [link] ). Those of you who are aware of my other networks will know that I have a commitment to making spaces where conversations about education can take place (a full list of those projects is at [link] ). With so many places to go on the Web, and a great diversity of Ning communities for educators (which I hope I can take some small amount of credit for), I had to make sure I felt this project could add something uniq

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The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 5, 2011

'Across the United States, politicians have decided that it is permissible to mis-characterize educators and educator organizations instead of listening to them. This past Saturday, and the North Carolina GOP Convention in Wilmington, North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis took an opportunity to take a jab at the North Carolina Association of Educators, and perhaps by default educators everywhere in our state by making the following remarks as described in this Charlotte Observer article.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 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 Blackboard Collaborate (formerly 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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