The Web20Classroom

JUNE 1, 2011

'Google Earth Hacks - Fun stuff for Google Earth. tags: googleearth favorite Three Trademarks of Effective Leaders tags: leadership favorite Becoming an eTeacher tags: e-learning onlineteaching favorite The Ultimate Guide To Using iPads In The Classroom tags: ipad favorite Discuss: 10 Mindful Ways to Use Social Media | Tricycle tags: social media favorite 12 Healthy Habits to Grow Your Online Presence and Keep Balance in Your Life tags: digitalfootprint favorite Engaging the Parent Community tag

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 2, 2011

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The 21st Century Principal

MAY 29, 2011

'“The globalization of information, technological fusion, new strategic alliances, and personal computing power for the masses will transform learning and education in much the same way as it is transforming the way we work and play.” Ted McCain and Ian Jukes, Windows on the Future McCain and Jukes penned that statement in 2001, just before the massive influx of Web 2.0 technologies and the proliferation of smart phones and mobile computing devices.

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EdTechSandyK

MAY 30, 2011

'"Flags In" at Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day 2008 Photo by Flikr User The U.S. Army Used Under a Creative Commons License Today is Memorial Day in the United States. Traditionally, it is a day when we take time to remember the men and women who have died in military service to our country. From 1776 through today, as citizens of the USA, you bravely answered your country''s call to serve.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

'Join me Tuesday, May 31st, for a live and interactive Future of Education webinar with James Bosco, Principle Investigator at the Consortium for School Networking ( CoSN ). For the past 3 years CoSN has been involved in a project which is called " Participatory Learning in Schools: Leadership and Policy." This project is funded by the John D. and Catherine T.

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SpeechTechie

MAY 30, 2011

'Switched on Kids is a resource from the UK that is a great example of how a simple interactive website, not really designed for SLPs, can make a quick, fun, and educationally relevant lesson. Students can use the site to review sources of energy (an elementary science topic) and identify electrical dangers at home. The graphics and interface are fun and engaging as sort of a guessing game: Language Lens: In addition to aligning with science curriculum, this site would be a great one to develop

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Connecting 2 the World

JUNE 1, 2011

As many of my loyal readers know, I'd do "twitter". This, however, is about to change as I prepare to teach a course in computer mediated communication next semester. In fact, I don't think I can teach CMC without looking at the type of communication used in twitter and facebook. So for the next few weeks, I will be setting up a twitter account and blog about my journey in trying to figure out 1) how to use twitter; 2) communication strategies for twitter; and 3) how to incorporate it into my cl

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

'Join me Wednesday, June 1st, for a live and interactive Future of Education panel discussion on "unschooling." Our panelists are Clark Aldrich, Kate Fridkis, Monika Hardy, and Lisa Nielsen. We''ll use Clark''s recently-published book, Unschooling Rules , as the basis for the conversation. In particular, we''ll look at the innovative methods of education that can be found in home-schooling and unschooling, and how those principles could be applied to public school settings.

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SpeechTechie

JUNE 1, 2011

'Memorial Day is for me the official start of summer, June 21 notwithstanding. Well, we can at least wear white pants. I am sensing everyone slowing down a bit and checking out, so even though in Boston we go to school ''til the 23rd (!) I will be doing the same and posting less frequently over the summer. That said, a few recent posts to let you know about!

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The 21st Century Principal

MAY 29, 2011

'With our education budgets being cut to the bone, we have no choice but turn to cloud-based solutions. PC Magazine offers some guidance in the link to the article below as your school district begins to make some decisions regarding cloud services. Two of the biggest questions many school leaders have about turning to the cloud for applications and data storage is “Can your trust these applications to a) Keep your data secure and b) Keep your data from being lost?

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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 Daring Librarian

MAY 28, 2011

'As much of a Mac fangrrl as I am, I''ve never been a Safari fan. I dunno why, it just never *felt* right. So it was Netscape.and then Firefox & Chrome. Of course the iPad only came with Safari so when I heard that Google Diigo came out with a FREE new browser app called iChromy which offers an identical browsing experience on your iPad with a smooth user interface, free apps, and some rather nice features - I was excited!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

'Join me Thursday, June 2nd, for a live and interactive Future of Education with Cal Newport, author of How to Be a High School Superstar: A Revolutionary Plan to Get into College by Standing Out (Without Burning Out). For three years Cal interviewed what he calls "relaxed superstars:" students who live relaxed and happy high school lives and who get admitted to the colleges of their choice.

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The Electric Educator

MAY 30, 2011

'Chrome has been my primary browser for nearly three years. I love the omni box, lightening load times, and the tabbed browsing. On my iOS devices, however, I have been forced to use Safari-- until now. On May 26 the social bookmarking website Diigo announced that they were launching a Chrome-inspired browser for the iPad. Chromy looks and feels a lot like the Chrome browser including tabbed browsing and an omni box.

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The 21st Century Principal

MAY 29, 2011

'As our technology budgets get tighter, the need to look for more and more ways to save money becomes more and more necessary. Recently during one of our district technology meetings, we discussed how much we could save by not purchasing office suite licenses for new computers next year, and the amount of money to be saved was substantial, especially if we took just a fraction of that money to purchase a cloud-based office suite alternative.

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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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Connecting 2 the World

JUNE 2, 2011

I am an optimist by nature. However, just like all humans, there are times when the pressures of living, studying, working, dealing with teenagers.get to me. And then I take stock of what is going on in the rest of the world and it puts things into perspective. My cousins live in the Springfield, MA area and at least one's town got "walloped" (as she put it).

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wwwatanabe

MAY 30, 2011

'Many people confuse project-based learning with project oriented learning. I like how this High Tech High video explains the difference: Main Point Doing a project at the end of a unit is project oriented learning , and that is not project-based learning. What is PBL? Project-Based Learning is authentic learning that is focused on answering an essential question (or driving question).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 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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The 21st Century Principal

MAY 31, 2011

'In my previous post, I included an excellent video that I think captures very effectively how the iPad can transform the classroom into a 21st century learning environment. Larry Mitchell''s students are the picture of high engagement as they tackle both normal classroom tasks and authentic learning tasks. The simple truth regarding any technological device like the iPad is that it''s only as good as the applications it is using.

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The Daring Librarian

JUNE 2, 2011

'I have great friends! Even people I don''t get to see all the time or have met only once - I''m richer for having known them! My PLN is the same - richer for (virtually) knowing them. Sarah Koski, a bright, bubbly member of our ISTE staff from our Eugene OR ISTE office - even though she''s working hard on the upcoming ISTE conference sent me this from The Daily Good - a really cool site with quirky (love!

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The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 1, 2011

'The article in the Charlotte Observer entitlted, "Budget Rewrite Saves Teacher Assistant Jobs" , is a clear attempt by our political leaders in the North Carolina General Assembly to mask the truth of what their budget cuts are going to do to local school districts. What''s even worse, the Charlotte Observer uses a headline that seems to support the idea that the North Carolina Legislature has somehow magically found funds to save 15,000 or so teacher assistant jobs.

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The 21st Century Principal

MAY 28, 2011

'May 25, 2011 marked the 208th birthday of poet, essayist, lecturer, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. As a former English teacher and lover of literature, Emerson is one of my literary heroes. I still treasure my copy of his complete essays. No other author has influenced my own world view than him, yet that sounds in some ways anti-Emersonian, for he writes extensively about the importance of not relying on bards or sages in discovering truth.

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