A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 28, 2019

Back in 2009, I began calling for an evolved construct of leadership that would better serve schools in meeting the diverse needs of learners and stakeholders alike. To account for this fact, I removed the majority of references to specific tools except for some of the most prolific ones such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 1, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. How about on social media? Blog [link] Twitter @shareski Instagram @dshareski. And, you know, it's again, as I said, it's not even just so much when I'm presenting, but I find in meetings like all of us were in 18 billion meetings a week.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter This podcast with Jennifer Seravallo is dedicated to helping reading teachers improve their teaching methods by providing practical tips and in-depth insights into differentiated reading strategies. How is that going to meet the needs of every kid in my class?

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The 21st Century Principal

DECEMBER 31, 2013

We live in what he also refers to as a "relationship economy" where value is derived from the quality of our relationships, and these relationships come from our sharing of ourselves with others on the web. Being a digital leader is much more than boasting that you have a Twitter account or school Facebook page.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Make it official by planning out the details such as meeting time and structure. The meeting location will be critical, as you’ll need gaming-ready workstations on which to hone your gameplay. This includes creating tools like text groups, email lists, and social media sites. Decide on the details.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vickie Morgado on episode 177 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. I think we’ve learned how to use social media in just a really positive way, and learned to communicate and build a global audience, and shared our learning, and learned with others.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 13, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Students have stories to tell. Their flexible, self-paced courses are available for graduate credit through CAEP and regionally accredited university partners or for continuing education units that meet your state requirements.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter My students are writing a collaborative writing document following the principles I share in my book Reinventing Writing. I greatly appreciate your assistance in creating a prompt that meets these requirements. But now I want to integrate AI feedback.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The catalyst for a significant portion of this growth was my embracement of social media as a powerful leadership tool. For me social media opened the door to a variety of pathways to enhance my ability to lead a comprehensive high school is a way that was more relevant, meaningful, and impactful. Leadership 2.0

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2015

Johnson (2013), a PLN is: “a self-created set of experts, colleagues, and resources…that meet one’s daily learning needs.”. You may never meet them in person, though you likely collaborate through Google Hangouts, Skypes, or pre-arranged TweetUps. The engine of a PLN is social media. What is a PLN. According to D.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 14, 2018

Kayla Delzer on episode 311 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. From student-led social media to students calling parents with score reports and student-led conferencing, these three ideas can help empower students in your classroom. They’re in charge!

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EdTechTeam

JULY 17, 2017

We had some success with a student collaboration we called “remash” - a kind of poetry meets visual thinking remix project. It’s about authenticity, and work that matters - something we refer to as “no dumpster projects”. It’s about purposeful play, and something we’ve christened “rigorous whimsy”. the “so how?” and the “so why?”,

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Dr. Sam Fecich runs a virtual co-op program for her preservice teachers. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. What a great idea!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2017

If for example, you’re a math teacher, you may refer students struggling to grasp the Pythagorean Theorem to view Khan Academy videos so that they can catch up with the rest of the class. Job searches, recruitment and candidate administration are all essentially social structures—a two-way street custom-made for social media.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 4, 2017

Associating behavior is the essence of the classic model Management by Walking Around (MBWA), which is also sometimes referred to as Management by Wandering Around. Use the Google Calendar Speedy Meetings setting to keep your connecting to short (5–10 minute), meaningful, real-time or online meetings. Go on a hunt.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2018

David Petro on episode 294 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. David Petro has been using Twitter for his math PD for more than eight years. On April 26, celebrate PowerofEcon on Twitter with Discovery Education, CME Group, and their Econ Essentials Program.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2017

There are countless stories to be shared that illustrate how schools are meeting the diverse needs of learners today while preparing them for success in their future. Want to share content like this across multiple social media platforms with one tool to save time? Check out an example HERE. If so check out IFTTT.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today, I'll share six apps fo r digital note-taking and my experiences with each. If I didn't include yours, just message me on social media and tell your story! I also put it on my meeting.

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My Island View

JULY 7, 2016

My building connections no longer served me well enough to meet my needs. It was considered a social media application for professionals. Through LinkedIn I discovered Twitter. Twitter was more in real-time. Twitter was more in real-time. I used Twitter only for educators. My building limited me.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Maybe we have experienced a cruel deja vu, once again juggling hours of Zoom meetings with the needs of our unvaccinated children as the delta variant courses through schools and day care centers. They also want their departments and units to be properly staffed to meet expectations and serve students well.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The conversation is about Artificial Intelligence. Website: www.theaieducator.io Twitter: @ danfitztweets Amanda Fox Amanda Fox, is the Chief Content Officer for Teachergoals.com and currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky. Is it helpful?

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 16, 2014

Photoshop CC Advances Efficiency for Designs Designers can now radically improve collaboration with linked Smart Objects, which update the design automatically if a reference file is changed, and the new Perspective Warp feature, which changes the viewpoint from which an object is seen. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter What do you do when award-winning teachers tell you there is a way to save time? Let me know what you think with a shout-out on social media @coolcatteacher or at vicki at coolcatteacher dot com. I'd love to hear from you! Thank you for listening.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2018

Back to School night is a time-honored ritual where teachers and parents meet, with or without children, and preview the upcoming school year. This is best done via a webtool like Google Forms or SignUp Genius that will collect answers, curate them for you, and make the information available for reference to signees.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 21, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter “In today's episode, we're thrilled to have Jay Schroder, author of “ Teach From Your Best Self, A Guide to Thriving in the Classroom. Social Media Success: Easy Strategies For Schools And. Thank you for listening.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 5, 2018

If institutions hope to evolve to meet Gen Zers’ demands, it will require more than updating the computer lab — it’ll take a keen understanding of how they think. But Gen Z students desire more than a piece of paper, and institutions are charged with engaging students in fresh, hands-on exercises to meet that demand.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

In fact, he welcomes us to share what we are learning by using the class hashtag across a variety of social media. I’m going to share my book recommendations, along with the specific needs I have found them to best meet in my own teaching.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 25, 2011

I was also adamant that social media had no place in an educational setting, but most of you who read this blog know about my radical change of mind in regards to this. technology, including social media. This small change evolved into my present philosophy on how schools can, and should, use social media.

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 20, 2015

Administrators can take notes, clip articles from the web for future use and reference, upload files to attach to notes and share notes with their staff. Use it for teacher evaluations, meeting notes, research, saving articles to read later, to do list, project management and more. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 17, 2014

OFM, a leading office and school furniture manufacturer, distributor, and wholesaler, announced the winners of the “My Desk Says” social media contest. The contest asked office workers to share photos on Twitter of their desks along with the hashtag #MyDeskSays and a brief description of what their desk said about them and their work.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In Learning Transformed , we refer to such design as the “cemetery effect” and it’s imperative that classroom design is driven by the desire to create personal and authentic learning experiences for students. Social media is like a giant search engine that we can tap any time. Around this time, I first got on Twitter.

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My Island View

JULY 7, 2016

My building connections no longer served me well enough to meet my needs. It was considered a social media application for professionals. Through LinkedIn I discovered Twitter. Twitter was more in real-time. Twitter was more in real-time. I used Twitter only for educators. My building limited me.

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My Island View

JULY 7, 2016

My building connections no longer served me well enough to meet my needs. It was considered a social media application for professionals. Through LinkedIn I discovered Twitter. Twitter was more in real-time. Twitter was more in real-time. I used Twitter only for educators. My building limited me.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 5, 2018

If institutions hope to evolve to meet Gen Zers’ demands, it will require more than updating the computer lab — it’ll take a keen understanding of how they think. But Gen Z students desire more than a piece of paper, and institutions are charged with engaging students in fresh, hands-on exercises to meet that demand.

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MindShift

MAY 5, 2017

Even if you send out a group email for people to meet at a coffee shop on a particular afternoon, you’re technically starting an unconference. As everyone meets in the main room, thank them for coming, and invite them to use sticky notes (which you provide) or markers to suggest session topics on the whiteboard.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

This is typically done by sharing documentation of learning and final reflections through social media. We will be discussing this topic in the Twitter chat (#plearnchat) on Monday, June 19 at 4 pm PT, 5 pm CT. Share Out: A goal of the design thinking process is sharing learning out to a broader public.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

So Milgram''s notion of six degrees is not so much a theory of learning, more a social contact theory, but it has significant implications for learning in the social media age. Milgram theorised that it could be established that no-one is separated from anyone else in the world by more than six social contacts.

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