Sat.Jul 30, 2011 - Fri.Aug 05, 2011

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Taking Care Of Your Digital Self

The Web20Classroom

'One of the areas of focus for me in my district this year is teaching teachers and students how to take control of their digital identity and turn it into something positive and something they can be proud of. Too often each year students find themselves in situations that could be easily avoided if they understood what a positive digital footprint is and how to manage it.

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Affirmation

A Principal's Reflections

'I routinely blog throughout the school year about my staff and the great work they are doing to create learning environments that are engaging, rigorous, and student-centered. Social media has allowed me to share my staffs'' continuous development of innovative learning activities to a diverse audience of stakeholders in my community and well beyond.

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Must-Have iPad and Smartphone Apps for Educators: Revised Edition

The 21st Century Principal

'Next week, I will be presenting to a group of educators in my district on the subject of "Must-Have iPad and Smartphone Apps." I did a blog post a short time ago, and that list hasn''t change much, but there have been a few additions and deletions, mostly due to suggestions of those in my Personal Learning Network. Below is my current list of must have iPad apps that I will be sharing next week.

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The Lion Roars! An SLP-friendly summary of Mac's New Operating System

SpeechTechie

'The big buzz in the Appleverse lately has centered around the recent release of Mac''s new operating system OSX 10.7, better known as Lion. I thought it might be a good topic to post about, to let you know why you should care about this if you are a Mac or iDevice user. Chiefly, if you have a newer Mac, you might want to consider upgrading- Lion''s features are way cool!

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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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Thoughts On Leading For #LeadershipDay11

The Web20Classroom

'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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Dear Facebook, We Need to Talk

The Daring Librarian

'We need to talk. I''m seeing other people. I know I''ve been distant lately. In fact, we never really talked about why I walked away from you for a while two years ago and I really feel bad about that. You wanna know why? You''re like that studly rockstar surfer / skatepunk boyfriend I dated in college who threw those really AWEsome parties?! He was so cool but Oh so unreliable!

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Flipped Class Workshop Resources

The Electric Educator

'This week I traveled to Wisconsin to help teachers at University School of Milwaukee flip their classrooms. In preparation for the event I built out a Google Site with tips, ideas, projects, and examples to help teachers get started in flipping their classrooms. Please feel free to browse the site and use the resources that I put together. Thanks for subscribing to my blog.

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Parrot fashion

Learning with 'e's

There is a story of a woman who wanted a talking bird so she went to the pet shop bought a parrot. After a few weeks, she returned to the pet shop and complained to the owner that the parrot wasn't talking. 'Does he have a mirror?' asked the shop owner, 'parrots love mirrors. They see themselves and start up a conversation'. So the woman bought a mirror and the next day she was back again.

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Effective Leaders Model

wwwatanabe

'Talk about it all you want, and we''ll talk about it. Use it, model it, demonstrate it, and we''ll give it a try. It won''t happen all at once, but it will happen. Effective Leaders understand Monkey See, Monkey Do Some rights reserved by Stuck in Customs Do you want the focus to shift from a teacher centered classroom to a student centered classroom?

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Symbaloo: An Interesting Way to Share Resources

The 21st Century Principal

'Recently, a colleague suggested I try a web site called Symbaloo. Symbaloo is a visual interface that allows users to create what are called "Webmixes." A "Webmix" consists of content gathered from around the web. Each web site in a Webmix is represented with a tile and an icon, either selected by the user or derived from the web site. It is basically a tool to organize web sites and web services on one page.

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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.

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Shipping

The Electric Educator

'I recently finished reading Linchpin by Seth Godin. There were a couple of ideas in the book that were very powerful. One of them is the idea of shipping. "The greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to humans in the marketplace." Flickr via zyphbear The concept of "shipping" is simple: an idea is fully realized and release for public consumption, use, or purchase.

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Seven billion teachers

Learning with 'e's

Everyone on Earth is a teacher. We all have the ability to help others to learn. This is exactly what Vygotsky had in mind when he proposed his famous Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) theory. Children (and adults too) can learn more broadly, deeply and extensively if they have a knowledgeable person by their side, than they can on their own. In our society, we often think of that knowledgeable other person as a professional educator, a tutor, lecturer or classroom teacher.

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Building Learning Communities (BLC11)- Last Day!

SpeechTechie

'I''m leaving this year''s BLC conference with a lot of gratitude towards those who helped make it happen, a head full of ideas, and apparently, a cold. Something about that many people jammed into conference rooms and contagion, I guess, plus the fatigue. In any case, it was a wonderful experience and I hope it has been helpful sharing my tweet-as-notes experiment, which I think definitely worked for me!

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Simple Note Taking App for the iPad: Simplenote

The 21st Century Principal

'Sometimes the simplest iPad app is the most powerful. That has sometimes proven to be true for the desktop as well. Recently, I stumbled upon one of those "powerful, but simple" apps when I started using the Web 2.0 App and iPad app Simplenote. Simplenote is exactly what its name implies. It offers users the ability to take notes, and apply a simple tag to those notes for organizational purposes.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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Live Thursday August 4th with James Mayfield on Institutional Versus Village Education

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Thursday, August 4th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Dr. James Mayfield, co-founder of CHOICE Humanitarian , as we talk about the contrasts he has seen between central government (institutional) education and "Village Community Education." We''ll use this distinction as a springboard for talking about self-determination in both humanitarian work and education, how it might help us as we think about broader education reform debates, and other lessons Jim ha

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Getting the bloggers to write

Learning with 'e's

One of the perennial problems teachers face, especially in early years education, is trying to get children to write. The main problem is that children are expected to write in a vacuum, for an audience of one (the teacher). There is often very little incentive in this exercise for kids, who would probably rather be doing other things with their time like playing on their Nintendo.

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Updating Your Web Page

Comfortably 2.0

'I have had several requests from teachers on how to update their web pages. Here is a short video that will walk you through the process. If you have any questions, I am more than willing to sit down with you next week and help you with any questions you may have when it comes to your website. I hope that you have had a restful and productive summer!

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Ideas for Developing Your Global Professional Learning Network

The 21st Century Principal

'My two favorite tools for engaging and connecting with others are Twitter and Blogging, which will be the main focus of a training session I will be sharing next week. With Twitter I have connected with educators as far away as Saudi Arabia, India, and Australia. In my "Life Before Twitter" these kinds of connections would have been impossible. This is quite a contrast from my first classroom where I did not have a phone.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Week of July 30, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'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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Live Tuesday August 2nd with Jane Nelsen and Mary Maguire on Adlerian Psychology and Education

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

'Join me Tuesday, August 2nd, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with author Jane Nelsen and therapist Mary Maguire to explore the value of the Positive Discipline model and Adlerian principles in thinking about the current education reform movements--and the broader scope of democratic cultural shifts facilitated by the Internet and social media.