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Shadow Puppet Edu on the App Store on iTunes
- The simplest way to capture and share student work. Designed with kids in mind, students as young as five can make videos to tell stories, explain concepts, or record their progress. Common Core aligned lesson ideas make it easy to get started!
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Over 400,000 Lesson Plan Resources for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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Create - Technology in the Elementary Classroom – Chicago, Beth Holland
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Listen To Articles And Be Highly Productive With Text-To-Speech Software In Chrome
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How To Use Bloom’s Taxonomy To Write Learning Outcomes - Edudemic
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10 Word Cloud Generators You Have Probably Never Tried - Edudemic
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Personal Learning Networks, CoPs Connectivism: Creatively Explained | User Generated Education
Monday, June 30, 2014
#EdTech Resources 06/30/2014
Sunday, June 29, 2014
#EdTech Resources 06/29/2014
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Google Tricks and Tips: Image Search Tricks Every Teacher Must Know! - Shake Up Learning
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5 Characteristics of an Innovative Organization | The Principal of Change
- 1. Promotion and modelling of risk-taking.
- 2. Competitive but collaborative.
- 3. Proud of where we are, but know we have a way to go.
- 4. The focus on sharing.
- 5. Relationships, relationships, relationships.
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Deeper Project Based Learning - Vander Ark on Innovation - Education Week
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Online Math Games Balance Challenge with Mastery Learning | Edutopia
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Mix It Up! Authentic Activities for the World Language Classroom | Edutopia
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81DASH | A revolutionary communication Platform for educators.
Day One of #ISTE2014 is in the Books.
I picked up my registration information early to beat the crowd and get a lay of the land. I had forgotten how much walking I'm going to have to do for this conference. Things are really spread out. I came back for the ignite session only to see extremely long lines to get into a space not large enough to handle a 1/3 of the people that wanted to get in. Ended up watching some of the sessions at the Bloggers' Cafe.
The line to get into the keynote with Ashley Judd went from one end of the building to another. The building has to be at least 2-3 blocks long. We opted to watch the keynote in the Bloggers' Cafe. Why fight the crowds.
The keynote was interesting. I thought the story told by Ashley Judd was a powerful story. Not sure, In my mind at least, how appropriate the talk was for the intended audience. The longer the keynote went on the emptier the Bloggers' Cafe became. I just think people were looking for something different.
I did enjoy talking to people I haven't seen in awhile. The game on the ISTE app sure helped in meeting new people. Looking forward to what I can learn today at ISTE. I'll share later.
Saturday, June 28, 2014
#EdTech Resources 06/28/2014
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Day 1: Summit Public Schools Consultancy
We spent the day learning about Summit Public Schools "Next Generation School Model" where students are empowered to drive their learning, ensuring they are prepared for success in college, career and life.
Diane Tavenner CEO for Summit Public School's started the day off with a big overview of SPS.
Key takeaways:
- Everything they do at SPS goes back to their core values. Their mission statement sums up what they believe.
- Prepare a heterogeneous student population for success in college career and life and leverage our work to have a broader impact on public education in America.
- 100% of their students are accepted to a college
- Teachers receive over 40 days a year of professional development.
- Four Quadrants of College Readiness
- Cognitive Skills
- Content Knowlege
- habits of success
- Experiences
Content knowledge: competency based in content. Playlist
Cognitive Skills: Assessed through projects. Common rubric across all content areas.
Habits of Success: Looking at non-cognitive skills continuum. Self awareness and self management interpersonal skills decision making.
Experiences: Expeditionary learning to include published and publically presentable performances in five areas. The goal is to have each student have one perspective changing experience.
- leadership and active citizenship
- college and career
- health and wellbeing
- enrichment and passions
- cultural awareness and the arts
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
#EdTech Resources 06/25/2014
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- Here is another wonderful rubric from University of Wisconsin on the different criteria to use to evaluate websites . Students and parents can use it to assess web content in terms of its relevance to what is being taught in class. It can also be used as a tool for self-asessment and peer feedback.
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5 Time Management Tips That Can Make You A Leader At Life & Work
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8 New Educational Web Tools for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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Moving at the Speed of Creativity | Google Hangouts 101 and Sharing Lessons with Google Tools
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Google or Evernote: Which Tool Do You Prefer for Capturing Student Learning? | Reading By Example
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5 Time-saving Gmail Tips for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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How will you give yourself permission to educate differently? | Big Ideas in Education
- What if I said: IF you can identify your values about education, and justify why they are important and how they make a difference, THEN you will be granted full permission to teach to those values?
- When we become stuck in tradition, and resistance and our own fears about allowing for change in education, we do not ask ourselves thee questions we need to effect change.
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Computational Thinking: A Digital Age Skill for Everyone - YouTube
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
#EdTech Resources 06/24/2014
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Blended Confusion: Personalized vs. Differentiated | My Blended Learning
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Free Screen Sharing and Online Meeting Software | Screenleap
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- It’s older, more experienced teachers – not younger, so-called digital natives – who are experimenting more with new technology in the classroom, a new report suggests.
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3 Awesome Grammar Visuals to Use in Class ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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Mix It Up! Authentic Activities for the World Language Classroom | Edutopia
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New Wonderful Twitter Guide for Teachers and Educators ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
Time For Some Professional Learning
Looking forward to this week. It's time to do some learning and a whole lot of networking.
I'm getting ready to leave to go out to the San Francisco area for a workshop at Summit Public Schools. We will be working with 9 other districts from across the country as we dive into Next Generation learning models. I'm looking forward to learning from Summit Public Schools and the other districts.
Then back to Atlanta for ISTE. I always look forward to ISTE. I enjoy the sessions, but mostly I enjoy the networking. One of the things I always try to do while at ISTE is to branch out, meet and interact with some people I have not yet made contact with. It's always great expanding your PLN. And of course it's great to see some people you haven't seen since the last big conference. It's always a perk getting to meet in person the people you follow and interact with on Twitter. I will also be doing a poster session Tuesday morning at 8am. The poster session is "Creating A Blended Learning Enviornment in the K-12 Classroom." If you're awake, stop by.
I will be sharing what I learn here all week. I have found bloging about my sessions is the best way for me digest what I have learned.
I will be sharing what I learn here all week. I have found bloging about my sessions is the best way for me digest what I have learned.
Monday, June 23, 2014
#EdTech Resources 06/23/2014
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45 Powerful Tools To Create Polls And Quizzes In The Classroom - Edudemic
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Craig Kemp's Professional Reflection Blog: Twitter Vs Paid Professional Development
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The Science of Procrastination and How to Manage It, Animated | Brain Pickings
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3 Keys To Supporting College Readiness In The U.S. - Edudemic
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Project Based Learning: Don’t Start with a Question | The Construction Zone
Sunday, June 22, 2014
#EdTech Resources 06/22/2014
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Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing - From MindTools.com
- Psychologist Bruce Tuckman first came up with the memorable phrase "forming, storming, norming, and performing" in his 1965 article, "Developmental Sequence in Small Groups." He used it to describe the path that most teams follow on their way to high performance. Later, he added a fifth stage, "adjourning" (which is sometimes known as "mourning").
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11 Free Online Courses For Teachers (PD Opportunity) - Edudemic
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Blended Learning: Does Your LMS Make The Grade? | Learning In The Cloud
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Blended Learning - Business Insider
- Blended Learning uses a combination of classroom redesign, schedule redesign, online learning, peer learning, and tutoring to delivery a personalized learning experience to each and every student.
- I like to think of Blended Learning as a restructuring of the teacher’s role from being the broadcaster at the front of the room to the person who creates the “aha moments” for the student, often in one on one or small group settings.
- Blended Learning would not be scalable without technology but it is not a technology centric approach to education.
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Rick Wormeli: Formative and Summative Assessment - SchoolTube
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How To Guide Instruction Through Common Formative Assessments
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15 Effective Ways to Use Google Docs in Class ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
Saturday, June 21, 2014
I'll Ask the Audience
I saw this tweet and it made me think of a training session I helped with the day before.
We were working with some teachers in our district who are starting the process to become Google Educators. The boot camp for the teachers was led by Donna Teuber. The one day boot camp was designed to go over the basics of the exam and to talk about testing strategies. Some of the strategies mentioned were having multiple devices so you could see the exam and then search for the answer in the study guide or just Google the answers.
The most interesting moment in the day was when the teachers took the level 1 basic exam. They started working on the assessment and immediately began to collaborate as they worked through the test. I thought it was interesting to see that the teachers didn't even pretend to work on their own. They asked each other questions, talked through the questions and explained why they got the answers they did. All a good form of learning in my opinion. Yet, these are the same teachers who ask how to keep kids from cheating when they work on the Chromebooks, and would not hesitate to write up their students for cheating on a test.
If people Google or look through the study guide to find the answers does this mean they cheated? Or does this mean they have learned one of the most important 21st century skills, research. We can not be expected to remember everything. But we should be expected to have the skills to find the answers when we need them. These are skills are students need as well. Maybe it's time we let them develop those skills.
#EdTech Resources 06/21/2014
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Download 78 Free Online History Courses: From Ancient Greece to The Modern World - | Open Culture
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8 Unique Free Resources Students Can Use to Improve Their Writing Skills
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Gamifying the iClassroom - iPadpalooza 2014 Presentation - Shake Up Learning
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15 innovative Twitter accounts you should follow | eSchool News | eSchool News
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What real learning actually looks like in class - The Washington Post
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Educators Can Learn a Few Things From Google - Learning Forward's PD Watch - Education Week Teacher
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Before the Digital Gap Splits Further, Now is the Time for Computer Literacy | MindShift
Friday, June 20, 2014
#EdTech Resources 06/20/2014
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Going All In: How to Make Competency-Based Learning Work | MindShift
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Shift to online testing drives California schools to close tech gap | Hechinger Report
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UnGoogleable Questions in the classroom. A first step. | Mister Foale is learning
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Craig Kemp's Professional Reflection Blog: PBL in Mathematics - Creating a Board Game
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21 charts that explain how the US is changing | vox.com
- US is a big, complicated place that has undergone some big changes over its 238 years, and even in the last few decades. Here are 21 charts that explain what life is like today in the US — who we are, where we live, how we work, how we have fun, and how we relate to each other
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OPINION: Why We Are Misunderstanding the Chromebook iPad Debate | EdSurge News
The Chromebook-iPad debate continues.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
#EdTech Resources 06/19/2014
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Four ways to extend the ‘fast’ blended learning student | eSchool News | eSchool News
- Self-paced blended learning (and any type of blended learning that provides access for students to “future” learning materials) produces a wonderful “problem” – what should be done with those students who successfully complete the assigned learning quickly?
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- Digital Learners Need (and Deserve) Digital Leaders #DigiLead
- "Essentially, the 21st century leader has to develop a renewed understanding of how children are learning now. It isn't about using technology because it exists. It is about how the technologies of the world have already influenced how children are learning.
- he number one responsibility and challenge for digital leaders is to create a relevant, meaningful, and authentic learning culture that allows students to create learning artifacts to demonstrate conceptual mastery.
- equires an open mind, vision, and strategic plan to allow students access to real-world tools to do real-world work.
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What's Our Best Taxonomy? Bloom's or SOLO? - Finding Common Ground - Education Week
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Real PBL teachers don’t do the work for their students | Edutopia
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9 Characteristics Of 21st Century Learning
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10 Characteristics Of A Highly Effective Learning Environment
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10 Characteristics Of A Highly Effective Learning Environment
1. The students ask the questions—good questions
- 2. Questions are valued over answers
- 3. Ideas come from a divergent sources
- 4. A variety of learning models are used
- 5. Classroom learning “empties” into a connected community
- 6. Learning is personalized by a variety of criteria
- 7. Assessment is persistent, authentic, transparent, and never punitive
- 8. Criteria for success is balanced and transparent.
- 9. Learning habits are constantly modeled
- 10. There are constant opportunities for practice
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3 Good Resources for History Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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26 Tips to Help Students Become Better Learners ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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The Future of Learning | Edutopia
- Key Tenet #1: Flexible, Customized Learning
- Key Tenet #2: Ubiquitous, Embedded, Invisible Technology
- Key Tenet #3: Ongoing Diagnostics and Feedback
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The Value of Unstructured Play Time for Kids - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society
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Life of an Educator: What does 'real-world' education look like?
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Engage Your Students With Interactive Videos
When I work with teachers on blended learning I always like to encourage them to make their own videos. One of the problems with using premade videos done by someone else is they never cover/do things exactly the way you would. In the past few months there have been some nice programs released that allow teachers to take their videos and make them more interactive. My two favorites right now are EDPuzzle and Zaption.EDpuzzle allows you to:
- easily crop videos
- add your voice to a premade video
- embed quizzes
- choose videos from a variety of sources (YouTube, Kahn Academy, Learn Zillion, etc)
Zaption allows you to:
- crop videos
- add questions to the video
- add images to the video
- add text and drawings to your video
- choose videos from a variety of sources (YouTube, Vimeo, PBS, etc)
Right now EDpuzzle is free. Zaption has adopted a freemium model. Much of their advanced features come with a price. They have a single license ($79/year) which adds greater interactivity, advanced data tools, group management and more.
I think both of these tools are pretty awesome. They both provide data to help you see where students are in a lesson. And they both take watching videos to the next level of engagement. If you are looking to add interactivity to your videos in a flipped/blended environment you need to try these tools.
I think both of these tools are pretty awesome. They both provide data to help you see where students are in a lesson. And they both take watching videos to the next level of engagement. If you are looking to add interactivity to your videos in a flipped/blended environment you need to try these tools.
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