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Nancy Miller

7 Skills students need for their future - YouTube - 1 views

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    This is an excellent video about the 7 skills innovators need today.  I recently read a book by Tony Wagner called Creating Innovators which was excellent!
Nancy Miller

Best content in Edmodo Teachers | Diigo - Groups - 2 views

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    This looks like a great group in Edmodo
Torrey Trust

About Connected Educator Month | Connected Educators - 0 views

  • Online communities and learning networks are helping hundreds of thousands of educators learn, reducing isolation and providing “just in time” access to knowledge and opportunities for collaboration. However, many educators are not yet participating and others aren’t realizing the full benefits. In many cases, schools, districts, and states also are not recognizing and rewarding this essential professional learning. For these reasons, the U.S. Department of Education’s Connected Educators initiative is launching Connected Educator Month in August 2012. Throughout August, there will be coordinated opportunities to participate in events and activities in dozens of online locations to develop skills and enhance one’s personal learning network.
  • An intensive, two-day online conference on transforming teaching and learning—featuring senior Department of Education officials and education thought leaders—will kick off the month. Plans are under way for opportunities such as: Month-long forums on key topics, such as personalizing learning and the future of the teaching profession, which will be moderated by noted education leaders and consist of online discussions, interviews, webinars, chats, and more. Guided tours and real-time community open houses, which will connect educators with communities, answering questions such as: Who can help me solve challenges I’m facing in my classroom and how do I best connect with them? How can I help change my profession for the better? Contests for addressing community challenges, developing innovative ideas, and creating compelling video demonstrations. Inauguration of a new series of open badges for connected educators as well as online communities. All events and activities will be archived and synthesized into multimedia “proceedings” that will serve as a permanent resource to educators and community sponsors.
Torrey Trust

For 'Connected Educator Month,' Tips From 33 Educators We Admire - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • The U.S. Department of Education has declared August Connected Educator Month, and since we’d be nothing without the teachers we’ve connected with over the years, we’re enthusiastically on board.To celebrate, we asked every educator who has written a guest post for us, been featured in a Reader Idea, or collaborated on one of our features to answer two simple questions:What is one important thing you’ve learned from someone in your Personal Learning Network (P.L.N.), however you define that network?What one person, group or organization would you recommend every educator add to his or her P.L.N.?Reading their responses, below, is a crash course in how to be a “connected educator.” By our count, together they’ve recommended more than 100 people, organizations, sites and other resources you can learn from right now, as well as shared insights on how to learn from them.
Tabitha Barry

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter? | Teachinghistory.org - 0 views

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    While your students likely won't see Timur Bekmambetov's film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in theatres (it's rated R), there's a chance they might read the book it's based on. In his mashup of historical details and fictional supernatural conspiracy, author Seth Grahame-Smith imagines Abraham Lincoln's life as a secret quest to rid the U.S.
Kenneth Westgate

Technology without Literacy - A Missed Teaching Opportunity - iKeepSafe - 2 views

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    This past June, I attended the ISTE (International Society of Technology Education) conference in San Diego. The annual conference brings over 20,000 folks including educators, administrators, and academics. My purpose for attending, besides catching up on the newest technologies, was to also make a presentation on connecting media literacy education to digital technologies.
Gary Johnston

Seven-Practices-for-Effective-Learning.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 1 views

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    Very Good article.
tanya alvarez

Free Technology for Teachers: Say Goodbye to iGoogle and Hello to Symbaloo - 3 views

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      I love that you can search for and add webmixes published by other users in the gallery.  I found some great ebooks for my kindergartens.
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      Symbaloo is great for children. They don't have to type the website address they can simply click on the tile and get there quickly.
    • Tabitha Barry
       
      Now that's simplicity that I like.
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    Looks great - Unfortunately the FREE version will probably not have that many benefits. Signed up and seeing what it looks like. Also downloaded the phone APP - will have to play around with it to see if I like it or can use it.
Tabitha Barry

Teachinghistory.org - 0 views

shared by Tabitha Barry on 28 Jul 12 - Cached
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    Website Reviews Ansel Adams's photographs preserve life at the Manzanar War Relocation Center [...] " Website Reviews Digitized versions of 20 volumes of Public Papers of the Presidents of the [...] "
Kenneth Westgate

New mashup tool for eReaders - 1 views

Looks like a good mashup tool for mobile platform and eReaders

mashup materials mobile platform

started by Kenneth Westgate on 27 Jul 12 no follow-up yet
Kenneth Westgate

CyberEnglish: Not falling through the cracks - 1 views

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    While speaking to a friend, he asked, "What if a student doesn't buy into the idea of his own workspace and working on a project?" Good question. Getting the students to buy in is crucial. It has always amazed me that school works at all.
Kenneth Westgate

Kahn Academy Controversy - 2 views

Should look at what is being said about the use of Kahn Academy in the classroom.

Kahn Academy Controversy

started by Kenneth Westgate on 27 Jul 12 no follow-up yet
Gary Johnston

Merit pay and 'loss aversion:' Nonsense studies - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 0 views

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    What motivates kids to do well? Is it really the promise of monetary reward?
Gary Johnston

Siemens Foundation - Home - 0 views

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    International Competition on Science Education
Gary Johnston

Online financial literacy software: Banzai - 0 views

shared by Gary Johnston on 23 Jul 12 - Cached
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    A great website for teaching students about financial literacy.
Torrey Trust

Gooru - 0 views

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    Gooru is a search engine for learning. Gooru is developed by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission to honor the human right to education. Harness the power of the web by organising free, online education resources into collections. Education search engine (type in photosynthesis and you get videos, websites, quizzes, activities, and more links).
Torrey Trust

PLN - 0 views

  • I’m sure you are coming to realize the awesome power of Twitter and your PLN. But you may be finding it a bit hard to keep up. Given the global nature of your PLN, you have information coming at you 24 hours a day. Not only that, but from several different programs. I have profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. I save myself time by streemlining all my inboxes to one nifty Social Media Dashboard. A Social Media Dashboard allows you to view all your incoming messages in one place, but also allows you to filter incoming messages and send messages to multiple social networks simultaneously. I personally selected TweetDeck (see the screencast below) for its ease of use, but there are other programs out there. HootSuite is another popular option. Select one that suites your needs and use it.
  • Remember, it’s all about baby steps. All this new information can be overwhelming. It may seem as impossible to conquer as climbing Mt. Everest at this point. DON’T give up! DO pick 5 tools to use consistently through the year.
  • Regardless if you choose to blog with your students as suggested above, reflection is a critical process in learning. Blogging is, in essence, a reflection: your inner thoughts about your experiences (and a great way to demonstrate your own digital literacy skills and expectations to your students).
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  • Between my Twitter, online PLN (i.e., The Educator’s PLN) and GoogleReader, I could spend hours absorbed in reading the content on my computer. But in reality, where does reading get me if I don’t have time to reflect and apply, other than twisted in a mayhem of endless links, without any direct focus. Schedule time to read, but don’t feel like you have to read everything or follow every link. The last time I looked, I had 520 unread messages waiting in my GoogleReader. I have a timer by my computer. I set it for 25 minutes. When the timer goes off, I move on to something else. I need to allow time for my brain to absorb everything and reflect.
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    These tips will help you manage your PLN without feeling overwhelmed.
Torrey Trust

Twitter for Newbies - 0 views

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    Great resource - a list of things to do when you are new to Twitter
tanya alvarez

Creativity 2.0: 7 Online Polling Tools to Help You Collect Student Feedback - 0 views

  • 7 Online Polling Tools to Help You Collect Student Feedback
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    I've used poll everywhereI with my kindergartens and they loved it.
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