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Ideas and Tools to Give Everyone a Voice

A Principal's Reflections

Whether during a class, meeting, presentation, or workshop it can be at times extremely difficult to give everyone a voice. As I have transitioned to a major role as a presenter, I initially experienced the same struggles listed above. Mentimeter – Move over Poll Everywhere. This is a great tool to use for a backchannel.

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Small Changes, Huge Results

A Principal's Reflections

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

Fractus Learning

Many times, staff meetings become housekeeping lists, presentations on topics, and there is little interaction among teachers. I create a Month at a Glance, sharing a screencast presentation with upcoming events and tasks for the month. Poll Everywhere. I have used Poll Everywhere in many staff meetings.

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5 Ways Teachers Can Encourage Deeper Learning With Personal Devices

Edsurge

Wouldn’t it be great if that could happen in our classrooms during every content presentation we offer? 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.

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

MSEDTechie

I had the pleasure to attend and present at the Midwest Technology Conference in February. I co-presented two workshops this year. 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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Testing Giving You The Blues? Get Creative with EdTech Formative Assessments

MSEDTechie

20 years ago we never would have imagined that the position as a Social Media Manager would be an actual job, and just about every company or organization would need to have someone manage their social media accounts. Social Media is a huge way to incorporate technology that students use everyday in the classroom.

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Tools Harvard Computer Science Students Use to Collaborate, Stay Organized

MindShift

And the silly community events are shared on social media and the course website to help create the community feeling that keeps kids engaged in the academic work. At the end of the semester, all CS50 students present their final projects to the community at a fair. Slido.com : This is an interactive online question forum.

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