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Gretchen Smith

EdTech Solutions - Teaching Every Student - 0 views

teachingeverystudent.blogspot.com

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  • Gretchen Smith on 04 Aug 13
     
    Blog for adaptive and assistive technologies.
Jennifer Frisk

20 Best PowerPoint Presentation Design Posts for 2013 - 0 views

www.presentationadvisors.com/-powerpoint-presentation-posts

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  • Jennifer Frisk on 23 Sep 13
     
    In order to create an amazing PowerPoint presentation, you have to learn the process of effective presentation design. After four years of blogging, I've written a number of posts designed to help you create better, visually engaging and effective PowerPoint presentations. As all blogs posts do, some resonated better than others and often provided great discussion in the comments.
Erica Fuhry

Edutopia blog: 6 Great Sites for Primary Sources - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...-source-documents-monica-burns

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shared by Erica Fuhry on 13 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Erica Fuhry on 13 Apr 14
     
    Visit this list of primary source options to enhance any social studies lesson
Ryan McDonough

A Simple Comprehensive Guide on the use of Personal Learning Networks in Education - 6 views

I bookmarked this site as well. Something I forgot to mention in the previous comments were I saw value in how she provides the platforms, describes how she implements the web tools on a daily basi...

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started by John Potosnak on 21 Jun 14 2 follow-ups, last by Ryan McDonough on 22 Jun 14
kimsmith876

Using Personal Learning Networks to Leverage Communities of Practice in Public Affairs ... - 1 views

www.jstor.org.libproxy.boisestate.edu/...27919545

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  • kimsmith876 on 21 Jun 14
     
    The primary focus of this article is on the way blogs, wikis, and RSS can be used to create personal learning networks and communities of practice in the field of public affairs education. There are useful definitions of both PLNs and CoPs and an overview of how connectivism is contributing to collaboration within the classroom environment.
Ryan McDonough

5 Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) for Educators - 2 views

blogs.kqed.org/...ng-networks-plns-for-educators

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shared by Ryan McDonough on 22 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Ryan McDonough on 22 Jun 14
     
    This website talked about 5 key resources needed for educators to being and grow their own personal PLNs. http://ning.com offers podcast downloads, discussion forums, videos, relevant blogs, videos and more resources. Powerful Learning Practice is a professional development opportunity that teacher can attend. It offers hands-on applications and the know-how to build and use technology within the classroom. Webinars are conferences people can attend online to join discussions and offer insight to like educators. EdChat is something we can join now on twitter using the hashtag #EdChat every Tuesday. Game based-learning tutorials and talk can be found on http://edweb.net where mentors and people who've successful implemented these practices in their classrooms can offer advice and help.
  • Cody Peacock on 22 Jun 14
     
    Those are 5 really good resources. Thanks for sharing.
Emmett Wemp

Building and maintaining an online professional learning community - 5 views

www.learnnc.org/7012

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shared by Emmett Wemp on 22 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Emmett Wemp on 22 Jun 14
     
    This is a good set of tools and instructions for creating and maintaining a PLN.
  • Tsisana Palmer on 22 Jun 14
     
    I found these piece both extremely interesting and valuable. So true the way the author discusses the outcomes of a one-shot workshop vs. a "job-embedded, ongoing" (love the terms!) framework such as PLCs. The main benefits of the PLCs are 1) their are embedded into each school day and are facilitated by teacher support staff and 2) they are not collaboration for collaboration's sake! Instead, they engage teachers into an ongoing dialogue that is of their concern or interest right here, right now! Thus, meaningful collaboration results in meaningful outcomes. Great read!
  • kooloberlander on 24 Jun 14
     
    There's two tools I'm seeing less and less that were included in this blog post. I'm seeing less people using wikis and also Ning seems to have been replaced maybe by Google+? I see this blog as good discussion of using your time wisely and wonder how it might be updated say in 2 or 3 years with new technologies.
Katy Cooper

From Twitter to Edmodo: Schools Collaborate With Social Media -- THE Journal - 0 views

thejournal.com/...social-studies.aspx

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shared by Katy Cooper on 20 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • An AP biology teacher created a shared hashtag on Twitter for students to use when completing an assignment about the stages of meiosis. The creative challenge was to be succinct enough to describe each stage in 140 characters or fewer.
  • group of New Milford students who recently went on a 10-day trip to Europe to study the Holocaust blogged about their experience every day.
  • Google Docs, and it is now a Google Apps school. Students can work on the same documents from various locations and at different times.
Katy Cooper

School-Wide Twitter Chats | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...de-twitter-chats-stephen-baker

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shared by Katy Cooper on 20 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Kidsedchatnz is a weekly Twitter chat between New Zealand classes and students, every Thursday at 2:00-3:00PM. It is organised by seven New Zealand teachers via Twitter, each taking a turn to run the chats.
  • All topics and questions are posted on the Kidsedchatnz blog prior to the chat so that students can prepare beforehand.
  • This is where the questions are based on material that the students have to read or watch prior to the chat.
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  • After each Kidsedchatnz session, a "Tweet of the Week" is announced for the best tweet during that session. This encourages the students to produce quality tweets.
  • "Kidsedchatnz is my favourite hour of the week! I love putting my ideas out there for everyone to see."
cholthaus

Using Micro-Bloggers in the Classroom - 1 views

http://www.slideshare.net/egermann/using-edmodo-in-the-classroom Eldon Germann has provided an outstanding Slideshare on Using Micro-bloggers in the Classroom. The tenth slide contains a comprehen...

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started by cholthaus on 19 Jul 14 no follow-up yet
Casey Capece

5 Personal Learning Networks for Educators - 5 views

Hi Ashley, I hadn't stumbled across any sites that gave specific examples of PLNs with thorough descriptions. That is why I like this blog! I liked the Classroom 2.0 site but sad to see that ther...

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started by Ashley Eivins on 19 Jun 13 1 follow-up, last by Casey Capece on 19 Jun 13
Cassie Davenport

Online Communities of Practice in Practice | Connected Educators - 5 views

connectededucators.org/online-communities-in-practice

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shared by Cassie Davenport on 19 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Cate Tolnai on 19 Jun 13
     
    SUMMARY: I especially appreciate this resource as it points you in several exciting directions to online CoPs to help you as a consumer of informatioin understand what constitutes a CoPs. I was pleased to see that I already belong to a few of these CoPs and I am excited to look into the others.
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  • Ilene Reed on 20 Jun 13
     
    Cate, This one makes you think. I am sure it will not be long before being hired as a teacher or administrator will include advanced skills with the computer and being connected. It probably happens now. CoPs will make it so much easier for teachers and administrators to glean the most popular trends and technological information.
  • Stacie Barker on 10 Sep 13
     
    A list of different communities of educators for professional learning.
  • toddsvecusa on 06 Sep 14
     
    This was a great find. This site connects educators with communities that suit their needs. Educators can pick their interests and connect with folks on the spot.
  • toddsvecusa on 08 Sep 14
     
    This was a great find. This site connects educators with communities that suit their needs. Educators can pick their interests and connect with folks on the spot. I really enjoyed viewing this resource!
  • Cassie Davenport on 02 Jul 15
     
    First of all of course I love the name of this listing of CoP, "Online Communities of Practice in Practice". This listing is so interesting to me, I have for a long time collected from individuals blogs through feeds, but I haven't come across such a good listing of online communities. It was amazing to me as I begin to research these groups the number of educators in these networks. Of course each person is at their own level of involvement, but they are each harnessing the power of connecting in their own right, exactly how it works for them!
Cassie Davenport

Which teacher training colleges take the CoP approach seriously? | Wenger-Trayner - 1 views

wenger-trayner.com/...ake-the-cop-approach-seriously

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  • Cassie Davenport on 03 Jul 15
     
    In my research surrounding the topics of communities of practice, PLNs, and connectivism I kept coming back to the Wenger-Trayner website. There were many helpful writings and diagrams produced by Bev and Etienne (Team BE), however this blog post stuck with me. When I attended undergrad at Michigan State University these practices were newer and not taught. Does anyone know of programs that use these topics in their curriculum authentically? Are their teacher prep programs or universities that have really embraced these concepts?
Innovative Educator

Teacher Tech - 1 views

www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech

shared by Innovative Educator on 27 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Alissa Blackburn on 27 Aug 14
     
    Another Blog I follow, Alice has tons of resources. Her specialty is spreadsheets and she dabbles with badges and gamified learning.
  • Innovative Educator on 28 Aug 15
     
    This is my personal website. I post a lot on using Google products, but also on educational pedagogy. I am currently getting around 11,000 to 16,000 hits a day on my blog. I think this will be a good resource for many of you who are using technology in the classroom.
courtneykaul

Half an Hour - 0 views

halfanhour.blogspot.com/...what-connectivism-is.html

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shared by courtneykaul on 09 Sep 12 - Cached
  • Hence, in connectivism, there is no real concept of transferring knowledge, making knowledge, or building knowledge. Rather, the activities we undertake when we conduct practices in order to learn are more like growing or developing ourselves and our society in certain (connected) ways.
  • This implies a pedagogy that (a) seeks to describe 'successful' networks (as identified by their properties, which I have characterized as diversity, autonomy, openness, and connectivity) and (b) seeks to describe the practices that lead to such networks, both in the individual and in society (which I have characterized as modeling and demonstration (on the part of a teacher) and practice and reflection (on the part of a learner)).
  • "Knowledge is not learning or education, and I am not sure that Constructivism applies only to propositional learning nor that all the symbol systems that we think with have linguistic or propositional characteristics. "
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  • Connectivism is not a representational theory.
  • it denies that there are bits of knowledge or understanding, much less that they can be created, represented or transferred.
  • Well, it's kind of like making friends.George talks about deciding what people make useful friends, how to make connections with those friends, building a network of those friends.
  • Jon Freer on 09 Sep 12
     
    A brief overview of Connectivism by Stephen Downes.
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  • Darla Grant on 10 Sep 12
     
    This is Stephen Downes blog post explaining connectivisim. He asserts that knowledge is actually those connections created by actions and experience; the connections are not intentional. He discusses connectivism as the activities of connection rather than transferring, making, or building knowledge.
  • Ilene Reed on 20 Jun 13
     
    Stephen Downes must be an interesting fellow. I admit this article had me lost more than once, but, it was useful and kept my interest. I am starting to recognize the Downes from this assignment. I like his take on knowledge is grown rather than acquired. This is more a conversation than an article but offers good argument.
  • courtneykaul on 04 Sep 15
     
    This is Stephen Downes' blog and gives a brief description of connectivism. It also includes Downes' responses to various comments related directly at connetivism.
loganwillits

Personal Learning Networks for Educators - YouTube - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

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  • loganwillits on 04 Jul 15
     
    This video blog lays out the importance of why we as educators should create a PLN. The benefits are vast and near endless, and we are at a time when collaboration across curricular and country is very simple. We should be utilizing these tools to create PLN.
cbjohnsrud

Education World: Build Your Personal Learning Network - 2 views

www.educationworld.com/...guhlin004.shtml

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shared by cbjohnsrud on 07 Sep 14 - Cached
  • onsider that our understanding of learning is changing. We need to think of learning as an experience that happens when we connect with others.
  • Whenever there is contact with other educators, there is hope. That's the power of communications. I
  • Blog what you learn, what you do. Soon, you'll realize you know -- and as importantly, discover more -- about what is in your head than you think
  • Kim Hefty on 07 Sep 14
     
    The author, a chief technology officer (CTO), does an excellent job outlining how to develop your own PLN. He challenges the reader to use Twitter, Diigo, Google+, and blog. The is an excellent beginners resource!
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  • bluejayteacher on 08 Sep 14
     
    I agree with the beginner's resource comment, as everything on the site is simply reinforcing concepts and tools that are used in nearly all MET courses. In regards to Diigo, I'm still not completely convinced, but I assume I will come around by the end of this course.
  • jody lazarski on 09 Sep 14
     
    I love that we are doing what he references in this class. And I have to admit, I have my share of resources, but connecting with others was never my thing. I like to research, save websites, share my curriculum with others, but never really thought to surround myself online with "co-workers." Why? Because I see them all day, and we barely even talk at work. We have meetings and still barely get to talk, and then if you see a co-worker in the lounge, the last thing you want to talk about is work! So, creating the online community and the PLN, really benefits you because it's work, but it's outside of the workplace. I am so thankful this class is forcing me to work on developing my PLN. Thanks for sharing the resources that article speaks to!
  • karencameron on 09 Sep 14
     
    I like this a lot. As Jody stated above, I never really thought of connecting with others and considering them colleagues. I was more focused on just listening to their ideas and making them my own, rather than sharing collectively.
  • cbjohnsrud on 04 Jul 15
     
    This article, while simple, points out some profound "a-ha's" about power of online personal learning networks. Online PLNs allow educators to engage in the flow of conversations without necessarily being to tied to a time and/or place. As the author points out, some of the biggest changes occur in educators when they begin to share what they know on a PLN. By sharing one's thoughts, an individual can reach a deeper understanding of his or her own understanding.
Sarah Putnam

Virtual Educators: Integrating Spreadsheets into Science Curriculum - 1 views

virtualeducators.blogspot.com/...rating-excel-into-science.html

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shared by Sarah Putnam on 07 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Sarah Putnam on 07 Oct 12
     
    I love how this blog give specific examples of how to integrate spreadsheets into the classroom. Links are included for lesson plan outlines as well.
David Mato

Free Technology for Teachers - 5 views

I blog that I visit everyday is Free Technology for Teachers written by Richard Byrne. It is a great source of free resources for educators! http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

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started by David Mato on 30 Aug 15 no follow-up yet
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