A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 28, 2010

'As a Principal, one of my most important responsibilities is the evaluation of instruction. In general, the observation process is quite arbitrary. The feedback a teacher receives really depends on the training a particular administrator has received, District vision, and what books or research have been read. What I have tried to do is take a little bit of everything I have learned to provide my teachers with the best feedback possible in order to promote professional growth and increase stude

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The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 30, 2010

'Digital Citizenship Wiki Bookmark tags : digitalcitizenship favorite Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff – TechLearning.com tags : facebook parents favorite 10 Ways to Promote Writing for an Authentic Audience - NYTimes.com tags : writing favorite YouTube - How Search Works tags : search google searchengine favorite Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy tags : documents favorite YouTube - jrsowash''s Channel tags : google favorite Educati

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 25, 2010

'Join me Thursday, October 28th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Clarence Fisher. Winner one of Canada’s highest teaching awards, the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching, Clarence has been called "one of the.master teachers of the twenty-first century" (by Dean Shareski, no less!). Date : Thursday, October 28th, 2010 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT ( international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate.

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SpeechTechie

OCTOBER 13, 2010

'Fall is an interesting time in the private practice. We focus on social communication groups, and though we go to great pains to match kids well to get some good dynamics, sometimes you just don''t know what is going to happen until they are all in the room together. Plus in the Fall, some kids are brand new, others had no interventions over the summer, and yet more just.change.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

'I follow with interest the stories of educators whose careers have been damaged or even lost because of an indiscreet post they make online. Or in some cases an indiscreet post someone else makes about them or shares from their profile. It remains to be seen how this Georgia teacher''s case will pan out (unless I have missed a resolution somewhere in my research).

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The Electric Educator

OCTOBER 19, 2010

'Below is a copy of the presentation that I will be giving at the fall MACUL conference in Holland, Michigan. The theme for this year''s conference is " Teaching and Learning In the Cloud." My presentation focuses on teaching collaborative skills in STEM classrooms through five collaborative projects. If you have ideas, suggestions, or resources related to my presentation I would love to receive them!

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The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 29, 2010

'iPad Guide For Administrators tags : ipad administrator favorite Parent Advice - Facebook for Parents - Common Sense Media tags : facebook parents digitalcitizenship onlinesafety favorite Google for Educators: The Best Features for Busy Teachers | Edutopia tags : google edutopia favorite Integrating Technologies | Focus on Effectiveness tags : teachnologyeffectiveness favorite Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship tags : socialnetworking research favorite FRONTLINE: digital

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 25, 2010

'Join me today, October 25th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Jim Burke , author, teacher, and the creator of English Companion Ning : "Where English teachers go to help each other." Date : Monday, October 25th, 2010 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT ( international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate.

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SpeechTechie

OCTOBER 4, 2010

'Talking Tom is a free iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad app that allows children to interact with an onscreen cat. Speak and he will repeat what you say. Pet or poke him and he reacts. You can also serve him some milk, or bore him-resulting in yawns! The free version has some annoyances (an ad, 3 tease buttons on the side) that you can get rid of by actually purchasing the ad for $2.99.

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Connecting 2 the World

OCTOBER 15, 2010

I have noticed lately that the emails I get from my students are shorter and much more direct. I have also noticed that some of the comments on my kids' facebook seem almost cruel in their brevity, communicating something that can be misunderstood. After doing some quick analysis, I realized that those messages that stood out as being "different" were sent from mobile technology.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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The Daring Librarian

OCTOBER 3, 2010

'I found out about David Lanham - the amazing & talented artist from the Iconfactory who created the Ollie the Twitter bird (now available to purchase as a collectible toy!) on Mashable: FaceTime + $50 = Awesome Personalized Avatar & Wired: Geek Artist Making $50 Caricatures Over FaceTime this summer and just had to fearfully indulge in a custom cartoon avatar!

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 9, 2010

'Facebook, the premiere social networking site, is used by hundreds of thousands of students all over the world. While the site has become somewhat of a nuance for most teachers—they distract from valuable study and class time—some schools are embracing the social media site with welcoming arms. Not only are some schools incorporating Facebook into their lesson plans, but they are also tutoring students as young as 6-years-old on how to ''properly'' use the site.

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The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 28, 2010

'Online Teaching Guide tags : onlineteachingguide onlineteaching favorite The (Very) Unofficial Facebook Privacy Guide [DOWNLOAD] tags : facebook favorite The Read Write Web in Education - Sketchup tags : Googlesketchup favorite Useful Sites - Teaching American History tags : history favorite Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 18, 2010

'Join me Wednesday, October 20th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com Webinar with Jenifer Fox as we talk about the "Strengths Movement" within education, and her book, Your Child''s Strengths. Date : Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT ( international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate.

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SpeechTechie

OCTOBER 21, 2010

'The Monster Exchange is a very cool project connecting kids through the Internet to develop reading and writing skills. The website links classrooms who are willing to participate in the project; kids then create and describe a monster in writing and are paired with a child who reads only the description and then attempts to draw the monster (scroll down a bit for example).

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Connecting 2 the World

OCTOBER 7, 2010

I'm still working on this idea, but both Michael Hanley and Karyn Romeis have blogged about knowledge recently so I decided to post what I currently am grappling with. There are still a lot of questions to answer. Three types of knowledge In analyzing the data, knowledge could be placed into three categories: tangible representation of knowledge which could be found in policies, forms, formats, curriculum, degrees or credentials, records, and other artifacts at the individual, group, departmenta

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The Electric Educator

OCTOBER 16, 2010

'Sometimes classroom technology integration is a byproduct of research, planning, and hard work; other times, it happens unexpectedly I picked up the new iPod Touch with plans on integrating multimedia lab reports into my 9th grade biology class. The still/video camera on the new Touch is great! There was another application for the touch that I had not considered, however.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 21, 2010

'This week has been extremely gratifying in terms of the instructional practices I either witnessed firsthand or heard about. Coincidentally they are all coming out of my History Department. Here is a quick rundown: On Thursday, October 21, I observed Nicolette Perna’s American History 1 class where the lesson focused on the major patriots during the Revolutionary War.

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The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 26, 2010

'Today I got to thinking. We encourage our kids to be life-long learners. And when they ask why we tell them all kinds of things like it is important to stay relevant in our careers and it is important for humanity to have people who enjoy learning, etc. (You probably have something much more creative and fun than mine.) But that lead me to educators and life-long learners.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 12, 2010

'Join me Wednesday, October 13th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview with Roger Schank , one of the world''s leading visionaries in artificial intelligence, learning theory, cognitive science, and the building of virtual learning environments. He is CEO of Socratic Arts , a company whose goal is to design and implement learning-by-doing, story-centered curricula in schools, universities, and corporations.

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SpeechTechie

OCTOBER 8, 2010

'Thanks to Moms with Apps for today''s specials, including the free and totally language-based app, PictoFun ! PictoFun is a fun app featuring two games, Pictojibe, in which you match objects by association, and Pictomatch, a memory game. Pictojibe is the perfect context for teaching the descriptive and word retrieval strategy of association (with a handy context for causals, "Yes, bacon and pig go together because bacon comes from pigs.").

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Connecting 2 the World

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Three issues have made national headlines in the US this month: the bullying problem that has resulted in adolescent suicides, the question of free speech currently being decided by the US Supreme Court, and, today, the case of the University of Notre Dame student videographer who was killed while taping the ND football team's practice in 60 mph (90kph)winds.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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The Daring Librarian

OCTOBER 13, 2010

'Being asked to be the keynote at MASL was a huge compliment, and I''m honored to speak to my fellow Maryland teacher-librarians. My tough-love message is one that is a little hard to hear, one that doesn''t accept the "yeah, buts" and excuses of county filters, the locked net monster, and draconian IT departments but hopefully one that will offer a lot of easy ways to make the digital shift that will solidify our position as invaluable and undeniably the EdTech and literacy leaders in our build

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 17, 2010

'Check out this video for some great learning applications associated with Facebook. Do you know of other learning applications? If so list them here!

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The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 27, 2010

'Free Technology for Teachers: My Seven Edublogging Secrets tags : blogging favorite Google Livebinder tags : google livebinders favorite Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2010

'Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page.

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Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions

The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.

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SpeechTechie

OCTOBER 5, 2010

'BBC Pinball is a new and interesting way to do some semantic mapping with your students. It literally has a lot of bells and whistles. Pinball allows you to choose from four different ways to "bounce ideas around" and might just be a good hook for some hard-to-engage students. Dot Dash is basically a semantic web, used for "firing out ideas." You can use Drop Zone to categorize ideas, and Snap Shot is basically for describing images.

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wwwatanabe

OCTOBER 27, 2010

'I had the privilege of visiting two schools that infused technology in the classroom seamlessly. What I expected from the visit and what I got out of it were two different things. You see, all week long I indulged in PBL lessons such as STEM with GPS and students doing amazing projects, projects that I aspired to do when I was still in the classroom but hadn''t quite gotten there.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

OCTOBER 23, 2010

'Project Vote Smart = Democracy in Action! This week, our US History students will be creating websites that summarize and analyze local, state, and national elections (more about this in another post). I will definitely be recommending they consult Project Vote Smart. Here''s what you''ll find at Vote Smart (among other things): Biographical Information on Officials and Candidates Voting Records Issue Positions - Political Courage Test Campaign Finance Data Be sure to check out Project Vote Sma

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 3, 2010

'On a crisp, sunny Saturday morning in October, approximately 400 passionate educators congregated at New Milford High School for the Tri-State Educational Technology Conference (TSETC). The brainchild of Schoology and myself, we set out in mid-August to plan an unprecedented free conference that would provide educators of varying experience with practical strategies to successfully integrate technology in the classroom.

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