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LeaderTalk: Changing Rules of the Literacy Club - 0 views

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Angela Maiers blog post on LeaderTalk about "Literacy 2.0" -- what does it mean, what does it look like, and how do we get there?

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Habits of Mind - The Art Costa Centre For Thinking - 0 views

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16 Habits of Mind for performance under challenging conditions, when confronted with problems, the answers to which are not immediately known.

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CK-12 - Next Generation Textbooks - 0 views

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ebooks digital_texts textbooks

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Customize and create your own text book. Share with creative commons license.

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Moodle Tip - Embedding Video Playlists - 0 views

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Nice tip from Miguel Guhlin about embedding video playlist into Moodle block.

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Innovate: Rhizomatic Education: Community as Curriculum - 0 views

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Article by Dave Cormier

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Didn't you know? Facebook is forever - The Red Tape Chronicles - MSNBC.com - 0 views

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Facebook is forever

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10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know - 0 views

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Detailed description of Facebook privacy settings

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WebAssign - 0 views

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onlinehomework etext digitaltextbooks

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assign math and science problems over the web

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That's Not Cool - 0 views

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sexting cellphone cyberbullying safety

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Great site geared towards teens that addresses issues of cell phone misuse, such as "sexting" -- the sending of inappropriate photos.

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Schoohoo - Free School Notifications, Alerts and Low Cost Communications and Technology... - 0 views

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alert notification

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free text or email alert system

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Texas administrators share vision to change schools - 0 views

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The school administrators want to return control to principals, teachers, parents, school board members and others at the local level —
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School can be a very boring place for a student sitting at a desk all day
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emphasizes sanctions rather than rewards
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Demetri Orlando on 29 Jan 09

I'm interested that they seem to be recommending moving towards more school-based decision making- one of the defining traits of independent schools

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Parent 2.0 » home - 0 views

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wiki parent portal

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a wikispace to support parent portals

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Meetings Are a Matter of Precious Time - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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the leader has not set clear objectives or an agenda, and didn’t assign pre-meeting preparation tasks.
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it is certain that every organization has too many meetings, and far too many poorly designed ones
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Whoever calls a meeting should be explicit about its objectives.
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After productive or unproductive meetings, assign credit or blame to the person in charge.
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many meetings serve a cultural function, allowing participants to renew social connections, establish relationships, verify the social order and deepen a sense of belonging
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50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do | Marc and Angel Hack Life - 1 views

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Great list of necessary life skills, runs the gamut from how to hold a baby to understanding basic computer security. Check out the video on starting a fire without matches starting a fire without matches!

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Planning to Share versus Just Sharing at EdTechPost - 0 views

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sharing collaboration

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grow your network by sharing, not planning to share or deciding who to share with

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Weblogg-ed - 0 views

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WillRichardson

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The web offers a whole new way of restoring this way of learning directly from an expert rather than from an institution.
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my continued frustration with my kids’ education which is the system’s inability to help them find and nurture the areas they truly have passion for.
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would be nice if the institution were the place that connected my kids to the experts they desired and needed to support their learning
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to really change what we do in schools we have to first change our understanding of what it means to teach in this moment
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Demetri Orlando on 03 Jan 09

Will's reflections on the Microsoft Schools of the Future Summit has some interesting points.

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Robert Paterson's Weblog: The Rise of the Old Academy from the ashes of the University? - 1 views

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the only thing schools really need to do these days is help kids find their brilliance and nurture them to act on it. Anything else is just mucking things up

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One year in 40 seconds on Vimeo - 0 views

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timelapse

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nice scene of trees -- time lapsed over the seasons.

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Mogulus Live Broadcast - Watch Free Live Video and Chat - Live Stream On Your Website - 0 views

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tv video

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broadcast your own video channel.

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Zoetrope Web Browser - 0 views

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historical web browser

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slated for release in summer 2009, this web browser proposes to let you search "the historical web" and let users analyze data and info that has changed over time

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