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Small Changes, Huge Results

A Principal's Reflections

Last week my school was fortunate to have the NJ School Boards Association (NJSBA) visit to produce a live event called Learn@Lunch: Technology as an Engagement Tool. You can view the archive of the event here. The first small change was my philosophical enlightenment as to the educational value to web 2.0

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Ideas and Tools to Give Everyone a Voice

A Principal's Reflections

Never could I have imagined giving twenty different educators a voice during a presentation let alone thousands. Mentimeter – Move over Poll Everywhere. Mentimeter is a great tool that allows you to poll your audience in a variety of ways. You can even create a presentation that has multiple polls.

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Spice It Up! 6 Tech Tools to Transform Your Staff Meeting

Fractus Learning

I am sure every educator looks forward to staff meetings, right? I create a Month at a Glance, sharing a screencast presentation with upcoming events and tasks for the month. For instance, for our administrative retreat, we opened with a superhero quiz, sparking our discussion on celebrating our schools through social media.

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5 Ways Teachers Can Encourage Deeper Learning With Personal Devices

Edsurge

To ensure educators maintain a professional demeanor while communicating with students, it's possible to use apps such as Google docs or Evernote rather than basic email/texting on mobile devices. Such blogging apps also offer simple ways to upload pictures and capture learning through student work samples, events or processes.

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Here's what you missed at the MidWest Technology Conference 2014 #METC14

MSEDTechie

Social Studies: [link] - tons of resources on creating effective flipped videos. Have current events section to follow major news stories. You can create an educators account for free. I co-presented two workshops this year. Take a piece of video and add pop ups and images that will pop up. Or pre annotate it.

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Tools Harvard Computer Science Students Use to Collaborate, Stay Organized

MindShift

And he’s spreading what he learns to the broader educator community, hoping what he’s learning from the CS50 experiment spreads beyond Harvard’s walls to K-12 educators working to fire up kids about computer science. Malan’s team also explicitly tries to make computer science fun by planning events that foster a sense of community.

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