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Are You a Critical Consumer?

A Principal's Reflections

In one respect everyone with a smartphone has instant access to information at any time and from anywhere. Since many of my queries when out through Twitter at the time that is how I received the majority of the information for consumption. The result has been a double-edged sword. How can it be sustained and scaled?

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To Disconnect or Not

A Principal's Reflections

We did take our smartphones and allowed our kids to each pack their iPod touches. I did check Twitter each day and tweeted a few times, especially when waiting in long lines. It is cool in my opinion to make the best use of even vacation time to learn a little. I was also able to keep my email in check during some downtime.

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Classrooms Without Walls- Connect Your Classroom With The World.

MSEDTechie

My last post on 10 Powerful Media Tools Every Educator Show Be Using Yesterday was all about how educators need to create a Personal Learning Network, but our students need authentic audiences too. more 3) Create a classroom twitter account.- Students can easily share and learn with others using twitter.

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Digitally agile research

Learning with 'e's

There are chapters on open scholarship, academic blogging, the use of smartphone and tablets, crowdsourcing data, developing a digital profile, getting started with Twitter, personal learning networks, and leveraging the power of social media, as well as my own chapter on 'Using social media for action research: the benefits and limitations'.

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10 Super Geeky Tips for the New Year

The Daring Librarian

EX: " escalators go up " turns into: esc@lator$((G0))up** = 20 characters for Twitter: esc@lator$((G0))up**TWIT = 24 characters. Your smartphone and tablet are weighed down with one-hit-wonder apps that you were obsessed with for a week and then forgot about. Twitter is a relationship - built over time with shared interests.

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Tools to Help Become a Tech Savvy Educator

A Principal's Reflections

Tools for Learning Twitter : Improve instruction through global collaboration (sharing resources, best practices, lesson ideas, acquire knowledge, networking, tracking conferences, etc.), grow professionally by establishing a Personal Learning Network (PLN) , follow specific hashtags (#).

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10 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have

Educational Technology Guy

I learn so much from Twitter and Google+ because of the people and web sites I follow there. This goes along with number 3 - self learning. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. I get more "professional development" out of a week of participating in social media than I have in 10 years of traditional professional development.