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Educational Leadership:Teachers as Leaders:Ten Roles for Teacher Leaders
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How Do We Teach Digital Literacy to Digital Natives? - Edudemic
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SAMR as a Framework for Moving Towards Education 3.0 | User Generated Education
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How Behavioral Issues Affect Academic Performance Infographic | e-Learning Infographics
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What Game Based Learning Can Do for Student Achievement | EdSurge News
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3 Ways of Getting Student Feedback to Improve Your Teaching | Edutopia
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Assessment in the Classroom: Informing Teaching and Learning | ASCD Inservice
- We believe that assessment is an inherent element of the teaching and learning process; therefore, in our work with teachers and education leaders, we define formative assessment as the assessment of student learning integrated into the act of teaching (
- here are also more formal (and often more reliable) means, such as using performance-based assessments and accompanying scoring rubrics, or administering pre- and post-tests of key knowledge and skills.
- Using assessment effectively in the classroom is inherent to good teaching, but, for a variety of reasons, classroom-based assessment practices are diminished and even misused in our current accountability era.
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Saturday, May 31, 2014
#EdTech Resources 05/31/2014
Friday, May 30, 2014
#EdTech Resources 05/30/2014
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3 new ed-tech startups you should know about it | eSchool News | eSchool News
- From learning science and social studies through public radio to animated ed-tech video games and big data, these three startups will improve learning
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Official Google Blog: Getting to work on diversity at Google
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Google Keep For Chrome: Your In-Browser Solution To Quick Note-Taking
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Bloom’s Taxonomy | Center for Teaching | Vanderbilt University
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- Infographic: Mobile Technology Moves to the Classroom
- looks at levels of mobile tech adoption and access across the country, as well as policies, challenges, and benefits.
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Thursday, May 29, 2014
#EdTech Resources 05/29/2014
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Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: TechInsight Series Feedback - Engaged and Motivated
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A Model of Learning Objectives
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http://www.in2edu.com/resources/thinking_resources/blooms_taxonomy_chart.pdf
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- New Math Challenge App Aims to Keep Kids Learning Through Summer
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Avoiding the Summer Slide in Reading and Writing | Edutopia
- activities to help students continue to interact with words and reading throughout the summer.
- #1. Introduce students to what's out there in the media.
- #2. Have students develop a way to recommend books before summer begins.
- #3. Develop a way for students to contribute the titles of what they are reading all summer long.
- #4. Model reading and discussing all summer long by sending out a newsletter or email blast with every book read or literature-based movie that you enjoyed.
- #5. Work with your local library to develop student-run volunteer programs.
- #6. Inform parents about their local Youth Writing Project.
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4 easy solutions for a successful blended learning transition | eSchool News | eSchool News
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Can I Get My Documents to Go Please!
The first method often used and not really the best method, but it works, is to share your documents with another Google account. You will need to go in and change ownership of the documents and this could be time consuming if you have a lot of documents.
Luckily Google has provided a much easier method for you to save your data. The preferred method is to use Google Takeout. If you go to Google Takeout while you are logged in you will automatically be taken to where you need to be to archive your data. Select the products you want to archive. In the image below I selected Drive.
After you have selected your Google product to archive, click on the Create Archive button and the archive process will start. Once you start the process you do not need to remain on the page.
It will archive in the background and you will receive an email when complete.
You can now download your data to an external drive. In my situation all of the files were downloaded as Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. Note that the archive needs to be saved or it will automatically be deleted and you will need to run the archive process again.
If you do not receive your email in a timely fashion you can go back to Google Takeout and select My Archives to access your file for download.
Remember to never save your files to a public computer. You should save these files to an external storage so you can take it with you.
#EdTech Resources 05/28/2014
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Twitter is the World’s Best Free Professional Development Tool | Brilliant or Insane
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- Digital Citizenship is the quality of habits, actions, and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.
- here are three key areas of digital citizenship. They are:
- Digital Literacy
- Security: K
- Community and Ethics:
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Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Formative Assessments Are Easier Than You Think!
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33 Digital Tools for Advancing Formative Assessment in the Classroom
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The Electric Educator: 5 Formative Assessment Tools for Teachers
- Research indicates that student learn more effectively when they are engaged. Incorporating regular checks for understanding, polling questions, exit tickets, and interactive mini-assignments is a great way to make sure that students don't check out during a lesson. This type of assessment is called formative assessment.
- Formative assessment is non-graded activities that are used to inform and plan future instruction. Formative assessment can take the form of a quiz, an exit ticket, a simple project or task, or a thumbs up/down response.
- provides teachers with timely feedback to determine if a lesson was effective, identifies students who may need additional help, and suggests content that may need to be reviewed.
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10 Inspiring TED Talks That Will Completely Refresh Your Perspective On Life
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How can teachers inspire learning? By empowering students | eSchool News | eSchool News
- How can today’s teachers inspire their students? Where does true engagement in learning come from—and how can technology play a role?
- “A noisy classroom is a classroom where learning is happening,” he said. “Learning should be noisy, it should be messy, because that’s what exploration is.”
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
#EdTech Resources 05/27/2014
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10 Things That Will Surprise You If You Put Kids In Charge | EdSurge News
- Surprise #10: Teaching and learning may be inversely correlated.
- Surprise #9: While there are real and serious learning disabilities, ADD and ADHD are mostly nonsense.
- Surprise #8: Most of our fears as parents and educators say more about us than our young heroes.
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Surprise #7: Video and computer simulations can be far more powerful than the written word.
- urprise #6: Most young people care more about belonging than learning.
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Surprise #5: Freely chosen covenants, contracts, consequences and celebrations are far more powerful than rules, grades and standardized tests.
- Surprise #4: The power of apprenticeships
- Surprise #3: In the 21st Century, 'Learning to Do' and 'Learning to Be' are ten times more important than 'Learning to Know.'
- Surprise #2: If you are a traditional educator, no matter how much you love children, your days are numbered and will be more stressful and less fun tomorrow than today.
- Surprise #1: The hero’s journey is powerful.
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» Mentoring Instead of Teaching: A Paradigm Shift
- Mentoring isn’t about instilling in students the 3R’s; it’s about instilling in students the 3Ps: passion, persistence, and power.
- As we redesign schools, we have a unique opportunity to find practices that work and use them. Mentoring is one of those practices.
- eachers give tests and assign homework. I want to be a mentor. I want to support students as they create the masterpieces that will be their lives. I can only do this if we make school less about the test and more about the mission–treating students like the unique individuals they are with gifts that will change the world.
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How a Classroom Game Becomes an Embedded Assessment | Edutopia
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Google Chrome Cheat Sheet - Shake Up Learning
- quick Google Chrome Cheat Sheet for those of you new to the browser, or looking to learn more about this powerful tool.
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Competency-based Teacher Infographic | e-Learning Infographics
Monday, May 26, 2014
#EdTech Resources 05/26/2014
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Love, Teach: The Top Ten Things I Wish I'd Known as a First-Year Teacher
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Behind the Scenes: Building a Common Formative Assessment -- Elementary Math - YouTube
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One Teacher's View of Formative Assessment ExitTicket Student Response System
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Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Problem-Based Learning (#PBL) - Introduction
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Google Removes Search Box from Search Results in Chrome Browser!
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6 Simple Reasons Why Paper Can Still Be Your Killer Productivity App
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Simulations Can Change the Course of History . . . Classes | Edutopia
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Google Takeout - Exporting Data - YouTube
- Video tutorial showing how to export data using the Google Takeout tool. Good for staff leaving the district or students graduating that want to take their digital stuff with them
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Sunday, May 25, 2014
#EdTech Resources 05/25/2014
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The biggest problem in professional development is… | Dennis Sparks on Leading and Learning
- The biggest problem in professional development is that administrators and teachers significantly underestimate the amount of effort and time required to create the new habits of mind and behavior that are necessary to provide high-quality teaching and learning for all students.
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Infographic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers Who Use Technology | Infographics Creator
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- Integrating Technology Using the SAMR Model to Meet Common Core in the Classroom
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Five-Minute Film Festival: The Basics of Blended Learning | Edutopia
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A Google Chromebook Should Be Your Next Laptop And Here's Why
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10 authentic ways to hold students accountable for home reading | The Cornerstone
- Here are some more authentic ways to hold students accountable for their reading time and foster a love of books.
- 1) Replace reading logs with book journals.
- 2) Show kids your own book journal and talk about why it’s useful to keep a reading record.
- 3) Allow students to keep digital book journals.
- 4) Encourage kids to record more than just titles and authors.
- 5) Ask questions about what students are reading.
- 6) Provide access to a digital program that automatically tracks and creates reports on what kids have read.
- 7) If students read eBooks, have them take and annotate screenshots to reflect on their reading.
- 8) Provide time for students to share their reading journals with their friends.
- 9) Teach kids that it’s okay not to finish a book they don’t like and how they should record that information.
- 10) Have kids revisit their reading journals later in the year and reflect on their growth.
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- Video lectures designed for students studying for the NY State Global History Regents, may be applicable to other courses which cover World History at the high school level.
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Saturday, May 24, 2014
#EdTech Resources 05/24/2014
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What has changed in classrooms in the last 200 yrs? Mostly the colors of the board- black to green to white. @Braddo #iwest — Michelle Baldwin (@michellek107) May 24, 2014
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Minecraft Short and Sweet Redux (1.4.2) - An orientation film by mmillss - YouTube
Great introduction video.
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Younger Turn for a Graying Nation - NYTimes.com
Age data for the US
- From 1947 to 2010, the most-represented age in the United States population was always a member of the baby boom generation. But that has now ended. Last year, there were more 22-year-olds than any other age.
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U.S. History Explained (AP United States History) - YouTube
- United States History lectures brought to you by Mr. Hughes. These lectures are designed for broad based conceptual review for studying for eager middle school students, worried high school students and lost college Freshmen.
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What Does It Take To Be A Teacher? Infographic | e-Learning Infographics
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How to Plan for Coaching Conversations - The Art of Coaching Teachers - Education Week Teacher
Friday, May 23, 2014
My Top 10 Chrome Extensions.
Grammarly Lite will help you prevent spelling, grammar and punctuation mistakes when you write emails and post to social media sites. I need all the help I can get. I usually never take the time to check my writing so this tool has been very helpful.
Goo.gl URL Shortener is an extension which allows you to shorten the current website URL. It is also nice for creating a QR code.
Diigo Web Collector I love using Diigo. I've been using Diigo for years now and with this extension it has made it easy for me to save from the web to my Diigo account. I can use this tool to bookmark links for later; attach highlights and stickies to a webpage.
Goo.gl URL Shortener is an extension which allows you to shorten the current website URL. It is also nice for creating a QR code.
Diigo Web Collector I love using Diigo. I've been using Diigo for years now and with this extension it has made it easy for me to save from the web to my Diigo account. I can use this tool to bookmark links for later; attach highlights and stickies to a webpage.
Stay Focused Everyone needs a tool to help you stay focused. This extension helps my productivity by limiting the amount of time I can spend on time-wasting websites. Once you have used up your allotted time on a site you will be blocked from that site for the rest of the day. This is most useful on the weekends when I am easily distracted.
Google Calander I can check my Google calendar without having to leave my current page.
Save as PDF Lets you save web pages to pdf with just one click. This is useful for students or when you want to look at websites when you know you are not going to have access to the internet.
One Tab I always work with a lot of tabs open on my device. On the Chromebook this can cause performance issues due to memory usage. One Tab helps save memory and reduce tab clutter. You also can share the URL of all tabs as one URL link.
Docs Quickly This tool saves time. You can create a Google Doc, Spreadsheet, Presentation, or Drawing directly from your Chrome bar. No need to launch doc.google.com; just a single click.
Spreed - Speed read the web. This new extension is nice. It helps you read through online articles in half the time it normally would take. Not only does it help with speed, for me it helps with focus by eliminating the distractions.
Simple To-Do List Because everyone needs a to-do list.
If you have any other favorite extensions share them in the comments.
#EdTech Resources 05/23/2014
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10 Blended Learning Trends - Edudemic
- From 1:1 classrooms and schools with plenty of iPads to BYOD classes filled with different types (and amounts) of technology, blended learning can help nearly every teacher make learning more personalized and more interesting for their students.
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Blended learning revolution: Tech meets tradition in the classroom - CSMonitor.com
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Schools adding computer coding to curriculum | Boston Herald
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8 Essentials for Project-Based Learning (by BIE) | Project Based Learning | BIE
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Tackle Any Problem With These 3 Questions | Co.Design | business + design
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Math, Science, History: Games Break Boundaries Between Subjects | MindShift
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Why Project Based Learning? My Elevator Speech
The 20th century model of passively learning facts and then regurgitating them back to teachers is no longer an effective learning model for the 21st century.
Students still need to learn the basic fundamental skills of reading writing and arithmetic. Now but now they need to also learn the skills necessary to be successful in the digital world that is the 21st century. Project Based Learning offers students the opportunity to learn about and develop the 21st century skills of collaboration, communication, creativity and critical thinking.
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#EdTech Resources 05/22/2014
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3 Resources to Build Your Personal Learning NetworkTechSmith Blogs
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12 Creative Ways to Give Formative Assessments | eSchool News | eSchool News
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4 Tips for Getting to Know the Blended Instructional Model | Edutopia
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10 Simple Ways To Build Your Personal Learning Network - Edudemic
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Kylene Beers - The right book is the one a kid wants to... | Facebook
The right book is the one a kid wants to read. That's it. Period. If the book isn't important to the child,... http://t.co/ByqWsTKeBq — Kylene Beers (@KyleneBeers) May 22, 2014
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“I can’t tell you the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.” -Ed Sheeran #tbcoach #21stedchat #caedchat #sced — Malachi Pancoast (@MalachiPancoast) May 18, 2014
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5 Ways To Influence Change | The Principal of Change
- elow are some things that I have seen effective leaders to have not people only accept change, but embrace it as an opportunity to do something better for kids.
- Model the change that they want to see.
- Show that you understand the value that already exists.
- Tell stories.
- Bring it back to the kids.
- Get people excited and then get out of the way.
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Personalizing Assessments with Time In Mind | ASCD Inservice
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Students Matter: 3 Steps for Effective Differentiated Instruction | Edutopia
- Differentiated instruction (DI) is a vast system in which it is difficult for many teachers to find a foothold for supporting students in a meaningful way.
- How can we ensure that planned learning experiences have a significant and positive impact on student learning?
- Evaluation, Buy-In, and Strategic Diversity
- Know Your Students' Strengths
- Involve Students in the Planning Process
- Leave Ego Outside of the Classroom
- Understanding Works Both Ways
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