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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. technology, including social media. Cross-posted at the Huffington Post.

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Ideas and Tools to Give Everyone a Voice

A Principal's Reflections

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. Let’s use the power of social media to crowd source even more examples. AnswerGarden – My new favorite tool!

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

Fractus Learning

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. Poll Everywhere. Today’s Meet.

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5 Ways Teachers Can Encourage Deeper Learning With Personal Devices

Edsurge

Your students may not be old enough for social media; it’s also likely banned at your school, but there are other synchronous ways to keep students engaged in real-time learning. 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. link] [link] [link] social media - @METCenews [link] Solution for a teacher Web site, assignment submission, and a dozen other things that we do in a dozen different ways, but all in one place.

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Tools Harvard Computer Science Students Use to Collaborate, Stay Organized

MindShift

Malan’s team also explicitly tries to make computer science fun by planning events that foster a sense of community. By merging the social and the academic, Malan is trying to make computer science feel approachable. “A A side effect of holding these events is drumming up new interest,” Malan said.

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