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New federal guidelines for handling allegations of sexual assault have left many school administrators either vowing to maintain current policies or scrambling to figure out what to do. MORE
If you want to know three easy guidelines to always keep in mind, a colleague of mine, shared the following with me and I'm sharing with the innovative educators who read this blog. I will go back through my recent posts and update to meet this guideline. MORE
Google Forms is an important tool teachers can use to create, edit and share surveys, forms, and quizzes. If you are using or planning to start integrating Forms in your instruction the chart.read more MORE
By Wylie Wong Districts look to follow ISTE’s 14 critical elements as guidelines to more effectively leverage technology for learning. Classroom Management Networking Security MORE
Frank Smith A 66-page document sets recommended guidelines for educational technology developers. Classroom Collaboration Digital Content Management MORE
In this webinar, Jason and one of the YouthBuild USA Teaching Fellows, Jo Forman, talk about why UDL is important when working with adult learners, and they outline several UDL guidelines and give strategies for using UDL in the classroom. MORE
I put this together about two months ago at the request of some educational technology professionals I know who were curious about boundaries when it comes to what to post and do on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. I tweaked it just this week to present to a group of elementary (K-5) teachers. MORE
February 22, 2017 For those of you using Chromebooks in their instruction, the chart below is a great resource to keep handy. The chart is based on insights collected from Chromebook Help. As is the.read more. Charts Chromebook resources MORE
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez These best practices from the Department of Education will help educators seamlessly integrate tech in the classroom. Classroom Curriculum Digital Content MORE
Academics ought to be great at public speaking, or at the very least pretty comfortable with it, but it doesn’t often seem that way. MORE
STEM Across Curriculum STEM By Design anne jolly ethics history Mobile Area Education Foundation pyramids schoolwide STEM social studies STEM guidelines subject areasSome schools are putting all subjects under the STEM umbrella. Can they be true to STEM's engineering focus? MORE
I offer four guidelines that I use when designing book projects for my junior high students: STUDENTS MUST HAVE CHOICE - not all students learn the same, and not all students create the same, so we need to give them a choice in demonstrating their learning. MORE
March 11, 2017 A few weeks ago we started a series of blog posts covering some of the main Google services for us in education. For each of these services we create a chart featuring the.read more. Charts Google Maps resources MORE
Guidelines iPad iPad apps technology leadership One of the most difficult decisions in tight budgets and deciding how to spend what little technology money we have.If your school or district is like mine, you just don''t have money to spend on iPad apps that won''t be used. MORE
Updated guidelines for Chicago Public Schools have been announced, including a statement concerning transgender and gender nonconforming students. The guidelines informed these students that they would be allowed to use the restrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their gender identities. MORE
With that happening, many administrators are rushing to make a list of policies and guidelines to ensure that teachers are using the medium wisely. Yet the more policies and guidelines we have, the more we deter people from using social media. MORE
Social media has changed how vendors do business. It is no longer one way communication. Instead with social media, like never before, there is now two-way communication allowing companies to have conversations with their customers. Those who are doing so effectively. Those who are doing so effectively, grow customer loyalty and respect. Those who are not doing it well, will be perceived as out-of-touch and will move further toward irrelevance. MORE
Articles Writing audience brevity demonstration format guidelines Regie Routman stories writingLiteracy expert Regie Routman takes teachers for a ride and demonstrates how to avoid roadblocks that make writing less than doable, effective and gratifying. The destination? MORE
In NYC schools we have social media guidelines created by students and teachers to guide this work. SoMeGuidelinesNYC digital citizenship Padlet social media guidelines social media in education Like it or not, today's students are not just citizens. MORE
July 12, 2017 YouTube is absolutely one of the best video hosting platforms teachers and students can draw on to access, curate and share educational video content. It also provides a powerful video.read more. Repost MORE
Assessment Book Reviews Erik Kreutner expectations eye on education formative assessment guidelines Jana Alig Results Routledge SCORE Process Short Cycle Assessments students teachers techniques Todd StanleyThe authors' step-by-step formative assessment approach, along with a wealth of detailed resources, gives teachers and administrators the tools to implement a system of shared assessments with the power to transform a school. Erik Kreutner has just one reservation. MORE
Guidelines NOT Rules Ok, sorta like rules. After a few weeks, I did find that we had to have some guidelines for the coloring corner -but I don't like to call them rules! There's a NEW! feature in our Library Media Center Makerspace area! It's Coloring! MORE
After controversy over the guidelines for the Advanced Placement United States History curriculum, a new, “more-balanced” take on the past was released last week that will go into effect immediately. MORE
This Winston-Salem Journal Editorial “More Education, Guidelines Needed for Officials, Students on Social Media and School Security,” makes the usual call for more rules and education about improper use of social media. It is important that guidelines focus on the threat, no matter how that threat was communicated. educational use social media effective use of social media school administrator social media school guidelines social media social media school leaders MORE
Getting Started with STEM STEM By Design anne jolly engineering design process STEM careers STEM letter to students STEM students STEM team guidelines MORE
Our campus recently adopted a policy that essentially requires all online instruction meet accessibility guidelines. CC-BY Public.Resource.Org on Flickr. Adding synchronous activities to your asynchronous online class can help to foster social presence and instructor immediacy. MORE
Visit https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php Select: Company, Organization, Institution Category: Education Email: Use the NYC DOE email (or other professional email) that you have set up for your school, institution, or program. MORE
As I shared earlier this year the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) created social media guidelines for students 13+ with students, teachers, and parents. Students said they wanted to see the guidelines as infographics. Teachers and parents wanted guides. The NYC DOE gathered together students, teachers, and parents to create what they requested. MORE
Calvez mixes text, pictures, and gifs to illustrate, not exactly rules, but certainly guidelines for using type to communicate more effectively. When I was in college, I could never finish Wuthering Heights. I knew that Emily Brontë was supposed to be (is!) MORE
Discussing CoSN’s Five Critical Guidelines for Ensuring Data Privacy in Your Use of Technology, the speakers told attendees that when it comes to data privacy, the word “done” isn’t in their vocabulary. Five Critical Guidelines . MORE
While some school districts have banned the use of social media because of fears of inappropriate use and distracting students, in an unprecedented move, the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) has reached out to students, teachers, and parents as partners to create guidelines for the appropriate use of social media for personal and academic purposes. MORE
Lessons learned from over 10 years of sustaining a school model that goes against the grain of traditional education. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! MORE
Innovative educator Samantha Stouber uses the NYCDOE student-friendly social media guidelines as part of her efforts to teach digital literacy to her students. The guidelines provide a roadmap for to use digital media effectively. For students, the guidelines are in infographic format. MORE
February 21, 2017 Here is a handy chart we have prepared for teachers using YouTube in their instruction and for anyone else interested in learning more about how to use YouTube effectively. The.read more. Charts YouTube Tips MORE
Once refreshed and centered, co-teachers can look ahead to the new school year by tapping into UDL guidelines and planning tools & templates. Elizabeth Stein offers resources to support the rejuvenation educators need to enjoy, learn, grow, and relax this summer. MORE
Earlier this week, Marcia Mardis, Chair of AASL’s Standards & Guidelines Editorial Board shared an update on their work on our Standards project. MORE
There’s a lot of ambivalence about social media these days, and not just because of Russian bots. MORE
Book Reviews Feedback Corwin feedback formative assessment guidelines James Nottingham Jill Nottingham prerequisites Rita Platt toolsChallenging Learning Through Feedback is an inspiring book that links feedback to a strong, ongoing classroom assessment process. MORE
A couple of months ago I posted ten social networking guidelines for educators that I had come up with in response to a request from colleagues in my district. Today I came across some more detailed guidelines in the making. Guidelines for Educators Using Social Networking Sites [link] Social Media Guidelines for Schools [link]. MORE
banned sites social media guidelines social media in education Last week NBC news announced that some Colorado school districts are creating tougher social media policies for staff in hopes of preventing inappropriate relationships with students. While banning staff from connecting with students is certainly the easy way out, doing so not only fails to prevent inappropriate relationships, but it also fails to prepare students for success in the 21st century. MORE
Book Reviews Parenting bullying failure growth mindset Harper helicopter parenting Jessica Lahey Mary Langer Thompson middle school parenting praise school guidelines MORE
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez The tech giant offers guidelines and support to make a safer online experience for children. Digital Citizenship Internet MORE
The result: five guidelines. Educators, what’s your take on these five guidelines? This week’s blog post distills our 30-plus years of working in K–12 classrooms trying, trying, trying to integrate computing devices into those K–12 classrooms. MORE
New guidelines urge schools to take recess seriously. It's not just play time for kids and a chance for teachers to get a break. Image credit: LA Johnson/NPR MORE
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MARCH 30, 2017
In this webinar, Jason and one of the YouthBuild USA Teaching Fellows, Jo Forman, talk about why UDL is important when working with adult learners, and they outline several UDL guidelines and give strategies for using UDL in the classroom.
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 8, 2016
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez These best practices from the Department of Education will help educators seamlessly integrate tech in the classroom. Classroom Curriculum Digital Content
ProfHacker
OCTOBER 26, 2017
There’s a lot of ambivalence about social media these days, and not just because of Russian bots.
edWeb.net
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Discussing CoSN’s Five Critical Guidelines for Ensuring Data Privacy in Your Use of Technology, the speakers told attendees that when it comes to data privacy, the word “done” isn’t in their vocabulary. Five Critical Guidelines .
MindShift
FEBRUARY 26, 2017
Lessons learned from over 10 years of sustaining a school model that goes against the grain of traditional education. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
The Innovative Educator
JULY 3, 2016
If you want to know three easy guidelines to always keep in mind, a colleague of mine, shared the following with me and I'm sharing with the innovative educators who read this blog. I will go back through my recent posts and update to meet this guideline.
ProfHacker
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
Academics ought to be great at public speaking, or at the very least pretty comfortable with it, but it doesn’t often seem that way.
The Principal of Change
JUNE 5, 2015
With that happening, many administrators are rushing to make a list of policies and guidelines to ensure that teachers are using the medium wisely. Yet the more policies and guidelines we have, the more we deter people from using social media.
The Innovative Educator
DECEMBER 21, 2014
Innovative educator Samantha Stouber uses the NYCDOE student-friendly social media guidelines as part of her efforts to teach digital literacy to her students. The guidelines provide a roadmap for to use digital media effectively. For students, the guidelines are in infographic format.
ProfHacker
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Calvez mixes text, pictures, and gifs to illustrate, not exactly rules, but certainly guidelines for using type to communicate more effectively. When I was in college, I could never finish Wuthering Heights. I knew that Emily Brontë was supposed to be (is!)
NPR Learning and Tech
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
New guidelines urge schools to take recess seriously. It's not just play time for kids and a chance for teachers to get a break. Image credit: LA Johnson/NPR
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
February 22, 2017 For those of you using Chromebooks in their instruction, the chart below is a great resource to keep handy. The chart is based on insights collected from Chromebook Help. As is the.read more. Charts Chromebook resources
The 21st Century Principal
MARCH 9, 2013
This Winston-Salem Journal Editorial “More Education, Guidelines Needed for Officials, Students on Social Media and School Security,” makes the usual call for more rules and education about improper use of social media. It is important that guidelines focus on the threat, no matter how that threat was communicated. educational use social media effective use of social media school administrator social media school guidelines social media social media school leaders
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 28, 2018
Google Forms is an important tool teachers can use to create, edit and share surveys, forms, and quizzes. If you are using or planning to start integrating Forms in your instruction the chart.read more
K-12 Schools - Education News
MAY 11, 2016
Updated guidelines for Chicago Public Schools have been announced, including a statement concerning transgender and gender nonconforming students. The guidelines informed these students that they would be allowed to use the restrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their gender identities.
The Innovative Educator
OCTOBER 22, 2016
Visit https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php Select: Company, Organization, Institution Category: Education Email: Use the NYC DOE email (or other professional email) that you have set up for your school, institution, or program.
IT Bill
MARCH 5, 2018
Our campus recently adopted a policy that essentially requires all online instruction meet accessibility guidelines. CC-BY Public.Resource.Org on Flickr. Adding synchronous activities to your asynchronous online class can help to foster social presence and instructor immediacy.
EdTechTeam
JANUARY 30, 2017
I offer four guidelines that I use when designing book projects for my junior high students: STUDENTS MUST HAVE CHOICE - not all students learn the same, and not all students create the same, so we need to give them a choice in demonstrating their learning.
NeverEndingSearch
JANUARY 28, 2016
Earlier this week, Marcia Mardis, Chair of AASL’s Standards & Guidelines Editorial Board shared an update on their work on our Standards project.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
FEBRUARY 21, 2017
February 21, 2017 Here is a handy chart we have prepared for teachers using YouTube in their instruction and for anyone else interested in learning more about how to use YouTube effectively. The.read more. Charts YouTube Tips
K-12 Schools - Education News
AUGUST 4, 2015
After controversy over the guidelines for the Advanced Placement United States History curriculum, a new, “more-balanced” take on the past was released last week that will go into effect immediately.
The Innovative Educator
JUNE 4, 2014
As I shared earlier this year the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) created social media guidelines for students 13+ with students, teachers, and parents. Students said they wanted to see the guidelines as infographics. Teachers and parents wanted guides. The NYC DOE gathered together students, teachers, and parents to create what they requested.
The Innovative Educator
DECEMBER 29, 2013
While some school districts have banned the use of social media because of fears of inappropriate use and distracting students, in an unprecedented move, the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) has reached out to students, teachers, and parents as partners to create guidelines for the appropriate use of social media for personal and academic purposes.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JULY 12, 2017
July 12, 2017 YouTube is absolutely one of the best video hosting platforms teachers and students can draw on to access, curate and share educational video content. It also provides a powerful video.read more. Repost
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MARCH 10, 2017
March 11, 2017 A few weeks ago we started a series of blog posts covering some of the main Google services for us in education. For each of these services we create a chart featuring the.read more. Charts Google Maps resources
EdTechSandyK
AUGUST 10, 2009
A couple of months ago I posted ten social networking guidelines for educators that I had come up with in response to a request from colleagues in my district. Today I came across some more detailed guidelines in the making. Guidelines for Educators Using Social Networking Sites [link] Social Media Guidelines for Schools [link].
The Innovative Educator
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Social media has changed how vendors do business. It is no longer one way communication. Instead with social media, like never before, there is now two-way communication allowing companies to have conversations with their customers. Those who are doing so effectively. Those who are doing so effectively, grow customer loyalty and respect. Those who are not doing it well, will be perceived as out-of-touch and will move further toward irrelevance.
MiddleWeb
OCTOBER 17, 2016
STEM Across Curriculum STEM By Design anne jolly ethics history Mobile Area Education Foundation pyramids schoolwide STEM social studies STEM guidelines subject areasSome schools are putting all subjects under the STEM umbrella. Can they be true to STEM's engineering focus?
MiddleWeb
MARCH 1, 2015
Getting Started with STEM STEM By Design anne jolly engineering design process STEM careers STEM letter to students STEM students STEM team guidelines
MiddleWeb
JANUARY 10, 2016
Articles Writing audience brevity demonstration format guidelines Regie Routman stories writingLiteracy expert Regie Routman takes teachers for a ride and demonstrates how to avoid roadblocks that make writing less than doable, effective and gratifying. The destination?
MiddleWeb
JUNE 26, 2016
Once refreshed and centered, co-teachers can look ahead to the new school year by tapping into UDL guidelines and planning tools & templates. Elizabeth Stein offers resources to support the rejuvenation educators need to enjoy, learn, grow, and relax this summer.
The Innovative Educator
AUGUST 20, 2014
In NYC schools we have social media guidelines created by students and teachers to guide this work. SoMeGuidelinesNYC digital citizenship Padlet social media guidelines social media in education Like it or not, today's students are not just citizens.
MiddleWeb
MARCH 23, 2016
Book Reviews Parenting bullying failure growth mindset Harper helicopter parenting Jessica Lahey Mary Langer Thompson middle school parenting praise school guidelines
MiddleWeb
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Book Reviews Feedback Corwin feedback formative assessment guidelines James Nottingham Jill Nottingham prerequisites Rita Platt toolsChallenging Learning Through Feedback is an inspiring book that links feedback to a strong, ongoing classroom assessment process.
EdTechSandyK
MAY 28, 2009
I put this together about two months ago at the request of some educational technology professionals I know who were curious about boundaries when it comes to what to post and do on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. I tweaked it just this week to present to a group of elementary (K-5) teachers.
The Daring Librarian
DECEMBER 15, 2015
Guidelines NOT Rules Ok, sorta like rules. After a few weeks, I did find that we had to have some guidelines for the coloring corner -but I don't like to call them rules! There's a NEW! feature in our Library Media Center Makerspace area! It's Coloring!
MiddleWeb
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Assessment Book Reviews Erik Kreutner expectations eye on education formative assessment guidelines Jana Alig Results Routledge SCORE Process Short Cycle Assessments students teachers techniques Todd StanleyThe authors' step-by-step formative assessment approach, along with a wealth of detailed resources, gives teachers and administrators the tools to implement a system of shared assessments with the power to transform a school. Erik Kreutner has just one reservation.
The Innovative Educator
JANUARY 22, 2014
banned sites social media guidelines social media in education Last week NBC news announced that some Colorado school districts are creating tougher social media policies for staff in hopes of preventing inappropriate relationships with students. While banning staff from connecting with students is certainly the easy way out, doing so not only fails to prevent inappropriate relationships, but it also fails to prepare students for success in the 21st century.
The 21st Century Principal
AUGUST 10, 2011
Guidelines iPad iPad apps technology leadership One of the most difficult decisions in tight budgets and deciding how to spend what little technology money we have.If your school or district is like mine, you just don''t have money to spend on iPad apps that won''t be used.
EdTech Magazine
APRIL 13, 2015
Frank Smith A 66-page document sets recommended guidelines for educational technology developers. Classroom Collaboration Digital Content Management
EdTech Magazine
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez The tech giant offers guidelines and support to make a safer online experience for children. Digital Citizenship Internet
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 9, 2015
By Wylie Wong Districts look to follow ISTE’s 14 critical elements as guidelines to more effectively leverage technology for learning. Classroom Management Networking Security
The Journal
JANUARY 30, 2017
The result: five guidelines. Educators, what’s your take on these five guidelines? This week’s blog post distills our 30-plus years of working in K–12 classrooms trying, trying, trying to integrate computing devices into those K–12 classrooms.
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