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Parent Tips For Student Success « Virtual School Meanderings - 0 views

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    Parent tip. Other resources. 
Bradford Saron

http://www.jeffbullas.com/2010/12/02/90-tips-to-make-your-blog-rock/?utm_source=twitter... - 0 views

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    Some tips are, yes, obvious, but the article as a whole is thought provoking.
Vince Breunig

Twitter guide for Twits and Tweachers that want to tweet ! - Google Drive - 2 views

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    Tips for Twitter
Bradford Saron

eSchool News » How to practice safe social networking » Print - 0 views

  • tips for safe social networking:• Learn about and use the privacy and security settings on social networks. Consider restricting access to your page to a select group of people—for example, your friends from school, your club, your team, your community groups, or your family.• Think twice before posting pictures you wouldn’t want your parents or future employers to see.• Be cautious about how much personal information you provide on social networking sites. The more information you post, the easier it might be for a hacker, thief, or stalker to commit a crime.• Install a security suite (antivirus, antispyware, and firewall) that is set to update automatically.• Use tools to manage the information you share with friends in different groups. If you’re trying to create a public persona as a blogger or expert, create an open profile or a “fan” page that encourages broad participation and limits personal information. Use your personal profile for trusted friends.• Let a friend know if he or she posts information about you that makes you uncomfortable.• If someone is harassing or threatening you, remove the person from your friends list, block the person, and report the incident to the site administrator.• Make sure that your password is long, complex, and combines, letters, numerals, and symbols. Ideally, you should use a different password for every online account you have.• Be cautious about messages you receive on social networking sites that contain links. Even links that look they come from friends can sometimes contain malware or be part of a phishing attack.• Be aware that people you meet online might be nothing like they describe themselves, and they might not even be the gender they claim.• Flirting with strangers online could have serious consequences. Because some people lie about who they really are, you never really know who you’re dealing with.
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    From Ian Jukes, this includes good dialogue and a collection of tips for individuals. This could be used as an educational tool for high school students. 
Bradford Saron

School-by-School vs. System Reform: Why Business Leaders Need to Go Back to the Future ... - 0 views

  • Do you remember those days?  Well, they are gone. Over the last 30 years, the dominant American firms have gone global.  Thirty years ago, they weighed in on American education policy because they were scared to death that they would be unable to compete because they would not be able to hire a competitive work force.  Now, they care as much as ever about getting a competitive work force, but they have learned that they can find the people they need at whatever skill level they require all over the globe, and often in greater quantity and at less cost than they can get them in the United States.  If they can't get what they need for their research and development labs or their distribution centers or their factories here in the United States, they can get them in Singapore or India or China or Hungary.
  • They tend to be deep believers in "disruptive change."  They typically distrust government and the "system," and adopt a rather libertarian outlook.  Rather than work within the education system, they tend to support people and entities that work outside the system or work hard to challenge it.  They distrust education professionals and prefer instead to trust young, bright, well-educated people who are willing to take the system on.  In short, they identify with and give their support to people like themselves.  They are big backers of individual charter management organizations and of policies that would strengthen charter schools, which they see as taking on the system.  It is very doubtful whether the charter school movement would have gotten away from the starting gate without these deep pocketed, very committed supporters.
  • I very much hope that, as the new generation of business leaders that has provided so much support to charters and other entrepreneurial efforts in education take pride in their successes, they also recognize the limitations of those efforts, and turn their talents and their influence to another, much more difficult challenge:  How to greatly improve the system that educates all the children in this country.
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    Hat tip: @mcleod
Curt Rees

Five Productivity Tips To Help Principals Ring In The New Year | EdReach - 0 views

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    One can never be too productive.  
Bradford Saron

Educational Technology and Life » Blog Archive » Personal Learning Networks f... - 2 views

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    Great resource for beginners. 
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    I love the Richardson's quote at the end of this piece about change, it makes a lot of sense.
Bradford Saron

QR Code Generator? The Best QR Code Generators - 0 views

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    Here are the best QR Code generators. Hat tip to Jeff Utecht. 
Bradford Saron

PolicyTool for Social Media - 1 views

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    Hat tip to Scott McLeod for tweeting this tool out. Looks interesting. 
Bradford Saron

Co-designing communication solutions - 0 views

  • How about school-home texting? We’re asking parents if they’d want it. Could we video the next workshop and put it online? Or maybe literacy tips are best shared face-to-face: a teacher, another parent, and I brainstormed together about turning a typical parent breakfast into a Literacy Breakfast that would get the reading tips directly to parents who could ask immediate questions of teacher and literacy coach.
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    Really neat communication ideas for literacy!
Guy Leavitt

Siphoning the Fumes of Teen Culture: How to Co-opt Students' Favorite Social Media Tool... - 0 views

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    Social Media Tips
Bradford Saron

Helicopters can improve minority college attendance & other misguided policy ... - 3 views

  • Well, the use of a “voucher” system to alter the educational setting for a group of kids is most certainly not the treatment. Voucher is merely the mechanism used here to achieve the treatment.  It may be a policy mechanism that is useful under limited circumstances to achieve changes in educational setting. But the “voucher” is NOT the treatment.
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      This paragraph in particular is a good discussion point. 
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    Great resource for discussion with our group!
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    Very Useful!
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    This uses an interesting analogy
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    This was an interesting statement
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    wow. hat tip brad saron
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    Good point on "voucher"
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    Interesting discussion point.
Bradford Saron

Top 10 Tips for Effective Strategic Planning « Excellence in Governance and S... - 2 views

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    There are not many blogs on school boards, much less governance. 
Bradford Saron

The Wisconsin Vision - 4 views

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    This is the report published by the Wisconsin School Administrators' Alliance in the summer of 2010 (I think). Check out the part on A Visionary Tale on page 9. Hat-tip to Mary Bowen-Eggebraaten for forwarding this piece on to me.
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    Very nice. AND, as the report indicates, leadership and community need to be included. This means you need the school board to play a role. They are the conduit to the community. Public education has been down the transformation road before. In some ways we are not inventing anything new here. John Dewey championed experiential learning as the public education system developed a century ago. Progressive educators tried in the 1930s and 1960s to introduce experiential learning into the system. The grammar of schooling, the deep structure, the notion of "real school" all pull the system back into the status quo. We need to remain cognizant of these dynamics and consider how to address them if we want to see the promise of the ideas contained in this report become a reality. You have to connect the ideas outlined in this report to the notion of collective impact. I think this idea is key to seeing a different outcome: http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/2197/
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    I want to be clear: I am a supporter of the ideas contained in the Wisconsin Vision report. I also want to be sure we take a realists view of how to make it happen. I do not want to see this effort and the ideas of CESAs 1 and 6, wind up in the history books like past transformation efforts.
Bradford Saron

Google Tutor: Tutorials and Tips for Google Users - 2 views

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    Great website for forums, questions, and tutorials. Try it out!
Bradford Saron

The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness: 10 Tips/Ways Blog Posts Recap - 1 views

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    What a great list of ways to engage and integrate. 
Bradford Saron

Back to School: 10 Privacy Tips for the Connected Student - 2 views

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    You don't often see this type of article, with students as the audience. Works for everyone!
Bradford Saron

Google+ Tips and Tricks - Google Docs - 0 views

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    Guide for Google+
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