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Hannah Hacker

Using a classroom webpage to communicate with parents - 0 views

  • The positive response from families was immediate. Working parents tell Kathleen that they check the site each day before going home or picking up their child from school.
  • Other emails come from teachers and students from across the country who find information about Kathleen’s site through the George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF), which posted an article and video highlighting the use of technology to create community with parents and students at Scroggs Elementary.
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    This article provides constructive feedback from parents and students about their thoughts on classroom websites.
Megan Brady

Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator - 1 views

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    Blog to share ideas and resources with teachers, parents, and young people.
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    Blog to share ideas and resources with teachers, parents, and young people.
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    Megan, I love reading and checking out blogs. Especially when they relate to education! Lisa Nielsen's blog seems to be a great resource for not only teachers, but parents and students too. I think that it can help impact and benefit aspiring teachers because it has so many resources and ideas related to education!
Amber Goemaat

Remind101 - 0 views

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    A way for teachers to send text messages to students/parents without revealing personal cell phone number. This is a great way to send out mass texts!
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    A way for teachers to send text messages to students/parents without revealing personal cell phone number. This is a great way to send out mass texts!
Sarah Ebener

5 Authentic Roles For Twitter In Your School - 3 views

  • We’ve theorized before that learning through social networks is the future. 
  • Use twitter’s search bar–search for your what you’re interested in learning more about. This isn’t as staright-forward as a Google search, for example, but you’ll get a better sense of the kinds of information people are sharing.
  • Know your hashtags. They’re a valuable tool to use to follow and participate in conversations on certain topics and themed twitter chats.
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    article discussing different ways in which twitter can be used in the classroom
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    I use Twitter for my own personal and professional use, but I need to do a better job of using it with my students. The article suggested having students tweet their thesis statement in writing class, which gave me some ideas to use in my classroom. I also liked the idea of having students participate in tweetchats with experts and professionals in the field.
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    Sarah, I've been trying to use Twitter more for professional use. I think it's a great way to share resources. My biggest concern is that my students may be too young to use Twitter, but I do have parents that follow me. I once did a field experience with the Technology Teacher of the Year in 2012, and he tweeted out multiple times a day! He would take pictures of students "in action" and tweet it out to let the parents know what was going on in class. He also tweets out many resources to parents so that they can get more involved in their child's education. The student's even took pictures on the iPad and tweeted them out (and have I mentioned that these are 3rd GRADERS?!) I have never seen Twitter used in such a wonderful way! These students had technology in their hands every single day and were completely engaged. It was fascinating and inspiring. Amanda
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    Sarah, Thank you for sharing this article. Twitter exploded last year in my district, especially at the high school, as a form of communication for everyone. The middle school, where I am primilary at, is slowly catching on. However, I LOVE Twitter as a professional resource. I think it is like a social bookmarker. I can share the websites, and then go back when I have time to explore them more. I agree this can be used in my library to be an effective communication tool for both students and staff. I believe this resource can be used for both students and staff, but they have different purposes. As a professional, using hashtags can be very benefical to find information. It can also be a great way to network, using the Twitter Chats that go on all around the United States and the world. Students can use this to communicate. For example, the students wanted to have a blue out in honor of a student who has cancer at the football game last night. They asked the opposing team to join them in wearing blue to honor a young man who is fighting for his life. They did, and they donated an additional $425 because they found that information on Twitter! I am not aware of other resources that do that same thing. I believe Twitter is unique with their limit of 140 characters and the strong hashtag movement they begun all throughout the internet world.
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    Emma, are you in Clinton? I heard about the "blue out"! I like to use Twitter for mainly professional use, but that varies from anywhere between retweeting professional articles to reminding the study body to buy their yearbooks. I try to throw in some personal stuff every now and again just to show that their teacher is an actual human, too. :)
Tyler Schaben

A Guidebook for Social Media in the Classroom | Edutopia - 4 views

  • 12 Ways Teachers are Using Social Media in the Classroom Right Now Tweet or post status updates as a class. Teacher Karen Lirenman lets students propose nuggets of learning that are posted for parents to read. Write blog posts about what students are learning. Teacher Kevin Jarrett blogs reflections about his Elementary STEM lab for parents to read each week. Let your students write for the world. Linda Yollis' students reflect about learning and classroom happenings. Connect to other classrooms through social media. Joli Barker is fearlessly connecting her classroom through a variety of media. Use Facebook to get feedback for your students' online science fair projects. Teacher Jamie Ewing is doing this now, as he shared recently. Use YouTube for your students to host a show or a podcast. Don Wettrick's students hosted the Focus Show online and now share their work on a podcast. Create Twitter accounts for a special interest projects. My student Morgan spent two years testing and researching the best apps for kids with autism (with the help of three "recruits"), and her work just won her an NCWIT Award for the State of Georgia.
  • Ask questions to engage your students in authentic learning. Tom Barrett did this when his class studied probability by asking about the weather in various locations. Communicate with other classrooms. The Global Read Aloud, Global Classroom Project and Physics of the Future are three examples of how teachers use social media to connect their students as they collaborate and communicate. Create projects with other teachers. (Full disclosure: I co-created Physics of the Future with Aaron Maurer, a fellow educator I first met on Twitter.) Share your learning with the world. My students are creating an Encyclopedia of Learning Games with Dr. Lee Graham's grad students at the University of Alaska Southeast. The educators are testing the games, and the students are testing them, too. Further a cause that you care about. Mrs. Stadler's classes are working to save the rhinos in South Africa, and Angela Maiers has thousands of kids choosing to matter.
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  • The myth about social media in the classroom is that if you use it, kids will be Tweeting, Facebooking and Snapchat
  • If you're going to ignore social media in the classroom, then throw out the ISTE Standards for Students and stop pretending that you're 21st century.
  • Tweet or post status updates as a class. Teacher Karen Lirenman lets students propose nuggets of learning that are posted for parents to read.
  • Use YouTube for your students to host a show or a podcast. Don Wettrick's students hosted the Focus Show online and now share their work on a podcast.
  • Communicate with other classrooms. The Global Read Aloud, Global Classroom Project and Physics of the Future are three examples of how teachers use social media to connect their students as they collaborate and communicate.
  • Create projects with other teachers. (Full disclosure: I co-created Physics of the Future with Aaron Maurer, a fellow educator I first met on Twitter.)
  • Further a cause that you care about. Mrs. Stadler's classes are working to save the rhinos in South Africa, and Angela Maiers has thousands of kids choosing to matter.
  • Surely students will post thousands of status updates, pictures, and blogs in their lifetime.
  • If you're going to ignore social media in the classroom, then throw out the ISTE Standards for Students and stop pretending that you're 21st century. Stop pretending that you're helping low-income children overcome the digital divide if you aren't going to teach them how to communicate online.
  • Don't mistake social media for socializing. They're different -- just as kids talking as they work in groups or talking while hanging out are different.
  • Fictional twitter accounts! I just wanted to share something that I have really gotten a kick out of recently. I started a Twitter account for Holden Caulfield @_therealholden_ and "Holden" tweets updates that center on our reading of The Catcher in the Rye. Students can interact and the whole thing has been a lot of fun.
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    This is a great article about integrating social media into the classroom. It offers a short quiz at the beginning of the article.
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    A teachers how to incorporate social media in their classroom.
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    A teachers how to incorporate social media in their classroom.
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    This site offers 12 ways teachers are using social media in their classrooms.  It provides links to classroom examples and other teachers.  
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    This article talks about the use of social media in the classroom.  This resource is helpful for wanting to know pointers for using social media in the classroom.
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    Defense of social media in the classroom and ideas for how to use it.
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    This article asserts why it is important for teachers to address social media in the classroom and 12 ways teachers are using it.
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    This is a great article that explains different ways to use social media in the classroom. One idea that I wanted to share, but it was not on there, was this idea about having a Twitter Debate. I heard about it in a webcast that I watched last week. I think this could also be a very effective tool for students who are trying to get their point across. They would have to find an article to support their point, and by using Twitter and limiting them to 140 characters, it would force them to make their point consice. I think this article could be helpful with teachers. Teachers can have a lot of different ideas to help students use social media in their classroom. I think that I could use different ideas for the library, specifically tweeting different things that are going on in the library.
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    I really like the idea of connecting with other classrooms through social media. I think this could work for my writing classes as a very authentic way of getting an audience. Maybe "Share your journal entry on social media and see if you get responses from people other than me and the rest of the kids in this class"? Kids and teachers can take control over this and use it in so many ways: sharing their work, reaching out to other people and classes, connecting with each other outside of class, etc. Plus there are so many different platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest) that allow us to do a variety of things so that you don't have to stick with just one. Thanks for sharing!
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    This was a great article that gave a lot of diverse ideas for using social media in the classroom. One that I found I could use in my class would be a discussion forum for students who are in different periods, but taking the same/similar class, to communicate with each other on a variety of discussion topics. It could also be applied to allow my engineering students to communicate with the physics classroom. I believe this resource would most benefit teachers, administration, and technology integrationalist. It would be a great way to introduce the idea of incorporation social media into the classroom at a PD meeting.
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    This was very informative on how to use social media in the classroom in a fun and appropriate way. There are so many platforms for students to seek or gain information, and I find that some teachers are afraid of allowing their students into the social media world in a classroom setting. Also, I would state that those teachers have not themselves explored social media in an educational format. This could be a great resource for many teachers.
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    This whole website in general is really good. What I decided to focus on specifically was this article about good practices for social media in the classroom. If you have the time I would also check out the comments. There are educators that posted their own uses for social media in the classroom that were not mentioned in the article. This is a good read!
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    I think this is an awesome resource to give teachers ideas of how to integrate social media in the classroom more effectively. Edutopia always has lots of great, reliable information and resources. One of the things that I think is the most effective is how this article has links to other sites where specific real life teachers have used social media in the classroom effectively.
msswanson_c9

Parents: Understand Your Kids and Social Media | HuffPost - 1 views

  • And how can adults most effectively talk to young people about these crucial issues?
  • There’s no difference between the decisions they make in “real life” and what, how and who gets to see certain information they post on their Facebook timeline or other social networking platforms.
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      Very important to remember. They are not operating on a "tell all" basis.
  • Third, encourage their critical thinking
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    This article gives great advice for non-tech fluent adults for dealing with students and Social Media.
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    I really agree some of the things they say in the article. No difference between real life and what they post. I think many people forget about the impact of their actions on social media. Digital Footprint... it can be a big deal. I don't think students are fully aware of how their actions can impact them.
ehrenhardr

Smithsonian Education - 0 views

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    Smithsonian Education offers a wide variety of free resources for teachers, students and parents.
davidstanfield

Social Media in Education: Resource Roundup | Edutopia - 2 views

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    A collection of blogs, articles, and videos from Edutopia around the topic of social media tools in the classroom.
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    A collection of blogs, articles, and videos from Edutopia around the topic of social media tools in the classroom.
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    I thought this was a very in depth article, with a lot of information about using social media in education. If I were really wanting to get a foundation of understanding about using it in my classroom effectively, I think this would be a great place to start. I think I would use this effectively, because I would be able to start educating myself on the topic and hopefully find some blogs to follow to keep updating me on the topic. I believe this is mostly an educational tool for teachers. They could also find good articles and share them with their parents, so the parents can understand the strategy of using social media in the classroom. I have seen other resources that explain social media, but I feel as though this a very through compilation.
Cassidy Winslow

Give Your Kids a Most Excellent Coding Adventure | EdSurge Guides - 2 views

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    I am saving this article to my Diigo library as soon as I am done typing this comment. I can use this article as a teacher and as a parent. There are suggestions in this article for things that parents can do to get their children involved in coding during the summer. There are also resources on the page for starting coding clubs and other articles on coding that I plan to read. The article had an important quote that I want use as I encourage teachers at my school to give coding a try in their classrooms: "Coding is the new literacy. It will not replace foreign languages, but it will be the global vernacular for understanding how technologies work". I then clicked on a link below the article that took me to another article called Teaching Coding: Where Do You Start? Within the article I found another great article on the site about importance of computer science education. This resource will be very helpful to me as I continue on embark on my coding journey. Thank you for sharing it!
Austin Jacobson

Text message (SMS) polls and voting, audience response system | Poll Everywhere | Diigo - 1 views

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    I just used Poll Everywhere in a presentation on campus with pre-service teachers! It was a hit!! I've never seen a class so quiet and so focused with that many cellphones out!
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    Austin, I love classes that use Poll Everywhere! I think this is a great resource for my future classroom and would love to use it but I think I would need to adapt it depending on the grade level I teach. I believe Poll Everywhere is beneficial for student and teacher use because it promotes a safe classroom environment and student engagement. Teachers can use this resource as a formative assessment and feedback tool. On the flip side students will be able to use Poll Everywhere as a way to speak up in class when they may be too shy to do so in other ways.
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    I also love using Poll Everywhere in classes. I agree 100% with everything Nichol said in her comment. I think that it is a great resource to use in any class setting and is a safe, fun way to boost student engagement. It keeps learners participating and provides the instructor with feedback.
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    Austin - This is a great app for teachers to use in their classroom to get everyone involved. It could also be used by students in upper elementary and above to gather information from classmates or involve them in presentations. This is such an easy tool to utilize in the classroom setting. Thanks for highlighting this resource!
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    I loved using Poll Everywhere! I think this a great interactive tool for teachers to get students involved into the classroom activity! It's very easy and is very fun for students to use in the classroom!
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    I used Poll Everywhere for the first time last semester and it was a great idea. It was a really fun time interacting with the teacher in that way. It was very easy to set up and even if you don't have a smart phone you can still text in your response. We answered questions ranging from single answers all the way to little short sentences. I would definitely use this tool if I ever became a teacher because it allows students to be on their phone and contribute at the same time, instead of just being on their phones.
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    I feel like this would be a great tool if it's used in the right context. I don't necessarily think elementary would be the right place for it. For the students that actually have phones you don't know if the students have texting included in their plans. You might get them in trouble with their parents, hence you get in trouble for telling them to send a text. In older grades I could see this going over very well and I've seen it used in a college class before. It's a nice change of pace in that context.
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    I actually used Poll Everywhere in my Level 1 Teaching Experience and loved it! The students got to see some results of our lessons, I got a quick formative assessment, and the data was nicely organized for graphing or applying to spreadsheets!
ryanandcala

Math in Daily Life - 5 views

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    Makes math seem relevant to students.
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    Wow, this is great! I've never seen a website like this! I can absolutely see how I would refer to this site when my students pose that ever-popular question, "When am I ever gonna use this?" I think this sight could be used by teacher, students, and parents to help deepen the understanding and application of math concepts! I wish I had a similar site to share with you, but, like I said, this is the first I've seen of this type! Thanks for sharing!
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    Great site for both teachers and students to show how math relates to everyday life! Thanks for sharing this is something I can see myself using in the future.
Haylee Hanson

Burlington Public Schools Educational Technology Blog - 1 views

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    Check out this blog created by Burlington Public Schools. Dennis Villano posts regularly about educational technology!
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    I think it´s great how regularly he posts and stays current on the most up to date technology uses in the classroom. This blog would be really useful for not only teachers, but students and parents too because he has a lot of great tips and ideas. Thanks for sharing.
Megan Stewart

Digital-ID - home - 2 views

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    This wiki is for teachers, students, and administrators to help teach about Digital Citizenship and how to maintain a healthy Digital Identity. I think this can be used to teach students how to have a healthy and effective relationship with others on the internet.
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    Megan - Thanks for sharing this website I think it could be a very valuable site for parents, teachers and students to teach good digital citizenship. Here is link to a blog post from The Innovative Educator with many different links pertaining to Cyber Safety and Digital Citizenship information http://goo.gl/dxI85y
Jeremy Cooper

Schoology - Free Classroom LMS - 3 views

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    Schoology is a relatively new free learning management system for educators. Similar in nature to Edmodo, it currently allows the educator a few more abilities, resources, and customization that isn't offered in Edmodo.
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    o Do agree or disagree that the resource can be used efficiently in your own future classroom? Explain why or why not. Yes, this feature CAN and HAS been used in my classroom to much success. Students really seem to prefer it over other LMS websites like Edmodo or Moodle because of the ease of use, different resources, mobile app, and the App Store. I use it for distributing and collecting assignments, taking polls and surveys, and for taking assessments such as quizzes and tests. o Do you believe the resource is mostly for teacher use, student use, or both? Explain your perceptions constructively. This resource is used by both the teacher and the students in order to be effective. The teacher is the one who sets up the page, creates the assignments, links, quizzes, polls, etc and the students use the site to effectively manage their learning process. It has really helped to take away the complaints and excuses that I typically get from students not knowing what they are supposed to do and where everything is located. I think one of the major advantages to Schoology is the ease of being able to find Files/Links and Assignments. o Are you aware of any similar resources that should be considered? If so, what are those resources. This task is similar to our threaded discussions. You want your comments to be constructive. Repeat this step for the remaining three bookmarks you are required to comment on. Other possible LMS websites that I have used are: Moodle, Edmodo, and Blackboard. There are many, many others as this is a highly innovative arena right now and out of all of them, Schoology seems to really impress most educators who have tried using it.
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    I really like the looks of schoolology, Jeremy! I can see how this would be very useful in a junior high or high school classroom. Especially in a school that has gone 1:1! If fifth grade students had their own computers, I would definitely use this as a classroom management tool! I think this is a great way for educators, students, and parents to all be on the same page regarding assignments and class expectations. I really like the Text/SMS feature! As you had stated in your description. This is very similar to Edmodo, which I'm familiar with. Thank you for sharing!
Anna Kron

Engaging Your School Community Through Social Media - 0 views

  • Schools are busy places, and parents need a trusted place to find the right information.
  • It must be mobile friendly.
  • It must be easy to update, preferably automatically.
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  • Link your other social media initiatives on your website.
  • The hardest but most important part is that your site must provide a sense of your school's culture.
  • Be sure to monitor your posts.
  • Our teachers use Twitter to celebrate what they are doing in their classrooms, ask questions, share resources, and document their learning.
  • At this point, we use LinkedIn to recruit potential teachers and reach the working members of our TIS families.
  • Since you may not be able to police the other videos, you should have an official YouTube channel.
  • Now our news is a blog, constantly updated -- we post articles and announcements as they are written.
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    This blog post is about creating home-to-school connections through the use of various social media platforms. I hope my school utilizes the different types of technology discussed in this article so that I have an efficient means through which I can reach my students' families.
Anna Kron

A Starting Point for Ensuring Student Online Privacy - 0 views

  • real impact that student privacy concerns have on the education sector
  • 90 percent of respondents are either very or somewhat concerned with how private companies with non-educational interests are able to access and use students' personal information
  • a majority know not very much (32 percent) or nothing at all (30 percent) about how schools currently collect, use, store and destroy student data, including information such as social security numbers, grades and behavior and attendance records
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  • the government -- at the state, federal and local levels -- is turning its eye to student privacy, and so laws and regulations in the area might be changing soon
  • Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which has undergone regulatory changes in recent years that some claimed have weakened it
  • Consistently, clearly and regularly communicating with students, parents and the community about privacy rights and district policies and practices with regards to student data privacy
  • districts that have adopted strong privacy policies should also have procedures in place to allow teachers to suggest apps or other online educational service that they would like to use (or have students use). While the process may slow down the introduction of the app into the learning environment, it will hopefully provide peace of mind to teachers, who will know the app has been properly vetted with regards to student privacy.
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    This article gives a brief overview of the issues surrounding student privacy when it comes to information that has been posted somewhere online. Then, it gives a few tips for classroom teachers!
Megan Kannenberg

Websites for Kids - 2 views

  • http://www.funbrain.com/ Funbrain offers games on composers, instruments, reading and vocabulary.
  • www.creatingmusic.com Elementary-age students can enjoy exploring, creating and manipulating music.
  • pbskids.org/chuck/index.html#/jazz Elementary students can enjoy playing with an interactive Improvisation Station.
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  • www.music.indiana.edu/muslib.html An extremely comprehensive resource with great references to composer's pages and information.
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    Compilation of online resources for the elementary general music classroom I can use these as activities in my music classroom.
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    Compilation of online resources for the elementary general music classroom I can use these as activities in my music classroom.
Jared Kannenberg

How to Design a Classroom Built on Inquiry, Openness and Trust | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views

  • Teachers who are interested in shifting their classrooms often don’t know where to start.
  • Sometimes you may not understand why certain things aren’t working. Ask your students. I’m often surprised by how much they know and how adept they are at articulating what they need.
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    Designing a classroom for 21st century learning
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    This is a great resource to help teachers in the initiative of creating a leaner-centered classroom. The first week back to work, teachers and administrators in the district watched a video about the power of belief - mindset and success. This resource is mostly for teachers but it can positively affect students and their learning success. A similar resource that should be considered is the mindset works website: http://www.mindsetworks.com/. This site explains the science behind the concept of the growth mindset and explains the role of teachers, administrators, students and parents.
Ms. Rebecca Carton

Math, PBL and 21st Century Learning for All Students - 0 views

shared by Ms. Rebecca Carton on 12 Oct 15 - No Cached
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    Jason Ravitz Independent Research and Evaluation Professional Considering project-based learning as a way to teach 21st century competencies? Or perhaps you have already used PBL in your schools and want support for your discussions with administrators, parents or board members?
James Reinhard

The Why and How of Using Facebook For Educators - No Need to be Friends At All! - The E... - 5 views

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    How to use the social media Facebook, generally perceived as a distraction, as tool for education
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    Really great step by step information on how to safely use FB in the classroom. Bold statement by the author of the article: We have an obligation as educators to model appropriate online behavior and learn right along our students.
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    I think this is a great resource for using Facebook safely in the classroom. The article is definitely directed towards teachers. It provides nice step-by-step instructions for locking down the privacy of what you post to maintain that professional relationship with students and their parents.
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