The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

'This was a post I wrote over a year ago. I am reviving it in the hopes you will find it useful. I use this site almost once a week. It is a valuable resource to me and I hope you will feel the same. It is very challenging sometimes to provide the help that teachers and staff need. Wouldn''t it be great if you could just point them to a website that answered some of the basic questions you get everyday like what is a cookie, or how do I teach my students what Netiquette is, or how do I use Garag

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The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

'The Art of the Follow: One of the hardest things on Twitter is to master is the art of the Follow. When I started I was so thrilled when ANYone followed me - I didn''t look too closely and would immediately follow them back. Now.I follow selectively because useless chatter & only FourSquare posts does not move the conversation forward. ( Twitter Comic Tutorial At-A-Glance Part Deux that coordinates to this blog is below- thanks!

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The Electric Educator

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

'Google Apps for Education is quickly becoming a significant force in education. Google recently announced that over 10 million students have gone Google. Google is an engineering company that has created some unbelievably useful products. Computer engineering is what they do and they do a great job at it. Training, support, and marketing are not their strongest suites.

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

'It takes one a lot of time to consolidate all we learn at a conference like the ASHA Convention. Unfortunately some years we never fully do consolidate the information, because we are thrown back into the busy schedule and, well, it''s HARD to integrate new practices. I think it''s helpful to have realistic expectations of ourselves and consider a conference successful if we have a few new ideas that we implement.

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

'Bing and Donors Choose are teaming up over this holiday season to give schools all over the country $1 Million bucks. And the best part is you can help out. Simply visit The Bing Cares Homepage and click the button. It is that simple. You can take it one step further and sign up to get a free $5 code that you can use to support a Donors Choose project of your choice.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

'Join me Tuesday, November 23rd, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Matt Levinson , author of From Fear to Facebook: One Schools Journey. Date : Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT ( 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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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

'This was my fifth ASHA experience- I have been fortunate enough to make it to Miami, Chicago, Boston, New Orleans and Philly. I know that it can be overwhelming at first, and I usually get so discombobulated that I commit some kind of major faux pas. I recall back in Chicago, I saw a gentleman walking toward the escalator, spied his last name on his badge, and thought I knew him from Boston University.

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

'ISTE NETS e-Portfolio Templates tags : ePortfolio nets favorite Project-Based Learning tags : pbl favorite How To Create A RSS Feed Bundle On Google Reader tags : RSS googlereader favorite Top 10 Wordle Lessons for the Classroom tags : wordle favorite Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

'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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Nik Peachey

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

I recently spotted this very interesting site called Vyou.com which exploits video to create asynchronous conversations. I find it interesting because of the simple way it creates presence. As you can see below, it looks like the person (me in this case) is waiting ready for your question. All visitors need to do is type a question into the text line below the video and the creator will get a message with the question and post a reply.

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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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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

'I am going to be posting a bit about my great experience at ASHA (just got back and I am soooo tired, and still have laryngitis), but this is time-sensitive. SpeechTechie pal Katy Fleming, whom I work with at Bigelow Middle School, sent me this resource via email. She is right-on in noting that video can be used as a great way to engage students to discuss expected and unexpected behaviors, in this case the ones that we call "table manners.

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

'It only takes one. Earlier this week was the Blogging For Real Reform. This was an effort started by one person that grew into a movement that eventually got the Secretary of Education for the U.S. involved. One person into many. I saw this video on Twitter last night. While funny, it really lays out what I believe to be true about leadership and revolutions.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

'Selma sent me the Chinese characters for librarian (?????), which immediately sent me on yet another research adventure (so typical of us librarians!). Choose your Own Research Adventure #Umpteenty-two: How do you say the word "Librarian" in different languages? Using a regular Google search, I typed in my word, and the language I wanted it translated to.

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wwwatanabe

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

'Do you know what I love about seeing education awards, especially in innovation and technology? It raises awareness of the standards of excellence, highlights innovation, and merits those who set the bar. Although to them, it''s just a norm. Click here to see ISTE awards. Click here to see Edublog awards. Want to know what also inspires me when I see technology and innovation awards?

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

'Hope all of you (U.S. Folks) had a wonderful Thankgiving. Moms with Apps has arranged a Black Friday event with a number of apps relevant to SLPs at FREE or reduced prices today. Let''s Bead Friends allows you to make and share a beaded bracelet and provides an opportunity to develop categories such as colors and shapes, as well as skills such as description, sequencing and patterning.

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

'It is that time of year again when Edubloggers from around the globe make their pick for the Annual Edublog Awards. Last year this blog was nominated in several categories and I won Twitterer of The Year and #Edchat won for Best Series of Tweets. The awards are a great way to find new blogs to follow, twitterers to follow and resources to discover.

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Connecting 2 the World

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Next week I'll post about my new economic model for Higher Ed. That post is going to require some deep thinking, which can't be accomplished this week as it is Thanksgiving on Thursday. As I posted last ye ar, Thanksgiving is a very important holiday in the US. This week we have relatives visiting from across the country (Seattle), down south (Georgia), and nieces and nephews coming home from college.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

'This year I''ll be helping to host the Edublog Awards again. Now in its seventh year, this is one of the more enjoyable events of the year, and celebrates the achievements of edubloggers, twitterers, podcasters, video makers, online communities, wiki hosts and other web based users of educational technology. The call for nominations is now open. The nomination process is described at the Edublog Awards website.

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

'Note: I actually had written this post some time ago and kept scheduling it forward, and after attending Chris Bugaj and Beth Poss'' timely and terrific presentation at ASHA , this definitely seemed a good time to publish it! If you are here, you are already taking steps toward taking advantage of the Internet for your professional development and practice.

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

'Today is Blogging For Real Educational Reform. Spearheaded by Ira Socol, what we hope is to generate 100''s of blog posts about what real education reform looks like. There will be so many great posts, I encourage you to check out this post on the Cooperative Catalyst that you can submit your link to and see all the others. Better yet, why not blog about your ideas and post them there.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

'Large classrooms can make students feel anonymous, and as a result, many may feel less compelled to actively participate or pay attention during class. Whether it is in primary or secondary school, or in a college classroom, getting students to become engaged in the materials being presented can be a frustrating battle. This is especially true now that students can become distracted during class by a number of things, including the Internet and technology.

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

'Tech Ease "> - Annotated Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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