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Tracey Kracht

25 Ways To Use Twitter To Improve Your Professional Development | Edudemic - 0 views

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      An interesting note, I found once I changed my profile to my actual picture, it became more of a social environment for me and I felt more connected ... wanting to share more information and definitely better at asking questions.
  • Experts believe that 90% of what you share on Twitter should be helpful
  • 10% is then free for you to ask for help, sharing your latest blog post or anything else that might benefit you directly
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  • keep your list to a manageable size and only follow people you genuinely want to connect with
  • check out nearly 700 different Twitter chats available on the Twitter Chat Schedule.
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  • f you’re tweeting professionally, you should really stay unprotected
  • establish a great Twitter brand by regularly sharing interesting news, articles, and tools for your industry.
  • Share some personality and voice in your tweets, and avoid copying and pasting headlines.
  • remember that anything you say on Twitter can be retweeted and shared with the world.
  • creating networks, inviting others, and fostering communication between participants in your community
  • Twitter is a force that can’t be ignored by up-and-coming young professionals.
  • accomplishments and professional interests might help you land a job.
  • try using your real name instead.
  • An important part of your Twitter profile is your photo.
Carolyn Gray

Your Perfect Solution For Sharing Student iPad Projects | teachingwithipad.org - 0 views

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    Another option besides Dropbox to share files from iPads with parents. great idea!
Tracey Kracht

Education World: Using Twitter for Professional Development - 0 views

  • Making professional connections via social networking can not only result in a lot of great sharing of ideas and resources, but also combat the sense of isolation that many teachers experience.
  • highlighting best practices and innovative thinking about instruction.
    • Tracey Kracht
       
      Keep in mind, with Twitter you can share information with your audience, or you can dialogue with hashtags # to connect with conversations.
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    • Tracey Kracht
       
      Reading Twitter posts isn't like reading a book.  You don't start at the top and read everything that was ever posted, you need to just set aside a few minutes and 'dip' in and read what is going on and then exit.  Do not get bogged down in making sure you read everything from everyone or you will immediately become overwhelmed and not want to come back!
  • managing the constant flow of information on Twitter.
  • Twitter’s search feature to find people in your field
  • follow educator-related "hash tags."
  • a hash tag is used to organize a live "chat" event, where participants sound off by tweeting about a given topic.
  • attend one of the many education-related Twitter chats that happen each week, such as #edchat on Tuesdays at 12 p.m. EST.
    • Tracey Kracht
       
      Your challenge - get out there and join #edchat on one Tuesday and see what types of connections you can make!
  • Tweet like your mama and principal are watching.
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    "Twitter, it's a social networking platform where users share everything from what they had for breakfast to professional dilemmas - all in 140 characters or less. It attracts a wide spectrum of users, including a vast and growing contingent of educators."
Tracey Kracht

Twitter Connects and Expands by @PrincipalArc - TeacherCast Blog - 0 views

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    An interesting share-out post from an administrator who started becoming networked last year.  It talks about how he got started and how important it is to develop these social networks.
Tracey Kracht

Leadership Tools - Symbaloo - 1 views

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    We will use Symbaloo to organize all of the technology tools you are going to see during our PD time together.  Hopefully this helps when you are going back to your buildings to share with teachers!
Tracey Kracht

3 Easy Ways to Turn your Class Blog Into A Beautiful e-Book ~ Educational Technology an... - 0 views

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    Turn your blog posts into a beautiful ebook and  share it with your students and their parents.
Tracey Kracht

WebSlides - Turning bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows… - 0 views

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    Share your diigo bookmarks with students - as a web slideshow.  You can annotate, highlight, etc!  VERY interesting!
Tracey Kracht

Video: RSS in Plain English - YouTube - 0 views

shared by Tracey Kracht on 27 Jan 13 - Cached
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    The Common Craft takes RSS feeds and shares how to use them in easy to understand language.  It is under 4 minutes and if you are looking for a way to speed up your online reading, you should definitely check it out.
Tracey Kracht

Google Reader in Plain English - YouTube - 1 views

shared by Tracey Kracht on 27 Jan 13 - Cached
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    No matter what browser you choose to use, you can sign-up for a Google Reader account with your student account.  Keep in mind, if you use Chrome, you can add the Google Reader app to your homepage making it easier to find your new blog feeds.  This video is right at a minute and shares basic information about Google Reader.  Keep in mind, there are many RSS choices out there - Google Reader is just one such option.
Tracey Kracht

clc-voc | Diigo - 1 views

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    I'm reading a book called The Connected Educator, and this is the diigo page that shares what others are tagging as they read through the book.  There are some really great finds out here!
micheleharding

Using Diigo in the Classroom - Student Learning with Diigo - 1 views

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      Love this! If my students are working on something online, they constantly email links back and forth to themselves. This is such an easy way for students to share links and work together without trying to figure out group emails- it can be a lot for a 10 year old!
  • Classes could supplement their textbook with information from the web. Diigo could facilitate student discussions about the bookmarks. Annotations could be used to gauge student thinking.
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      So much more fun and engaging than the post-it method I usually use! 
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  • Students can use virtual sticky notes to summarize the important points of information from the website. This activity will mimic the time-tested procedure of using note cards to summarize and organize research projects.
  • One common problem of student computer use in schools is access to student work from home. Not every school provides a way for students to access their school data. In such cases, if students create bookmarks at school, they will not have access fro
  • m other computers. Using Diigo, students can bookmark important websites and access them from school, home, the library or any internet-connected computer. Students will always have access to this data
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    how to use Diigo in the classroom. The article discusses student bookmarks, bookmark lists, extended learning, and PD>
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    Creative Commons Photo courtesy of Michael Surran Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License Introduction Diigo is a powerful information capturing, storing, recalling and sharing tool. Here are just a few of the possibilities with Diigo: Save important websites and access them on any computer. Categorize websites by titles, notes, keyword tags, lists and groups.
Wendy Danner

EduClipper Launches Its "Pinterest For Education" To Bring Better Crowdsourced Curation... - 1 views

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      Curious if students can install this or would it have to go through tech workorder?
  • ontent can easily be organized and annotated for each class or subject by way of these learning collections
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    Back in 2007, Adam Bellow launched a site called eduTecher to aggregate and surface the best educational resources and content on the Web. A high school teacher himself, Bellow set out to highlight new technologies and educational tools that could be used in the classroom to improve the learning e..
Ali Neibling

Convince Your School That Diigo Rocks In Just 7 Slides - 1 views

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    Here is a presentation you can use with your school staff, students and friends to bring them into the world of Diigo and Social Bookmarking. You can click to full-screen and present yourself or just share via your own network or email. Regardless of how you decide to share, these 7 slides will quickly persuade your peers that Diigo truly rocks.
susanlynn26

Learn It In 5 - Diigo Groups - 0 views

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      Great 5 minute video on how to make and use diigo for your classroom
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      This sounds really cool!  Students often need to share websites with eachother, and if they could annotate the shared sites so others could see it, that would be amazing.
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      There are a lot of things we need to sign up whole classes of students for.  What is the best tech solution for this.  Ex:  Google sites.
Tracey Kracht

Five Tips for New Teachers to Become Connected Educators | Edutopia - 1 views

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      Add my thoughts
  • While the idea of being or becoming a connected educator is important, as a new teacher, this may seem completely overwhelming.
Tracey Kracht

The 2012 A-Z List Of Educational Twitter Hashtags | Edudemic - 0 views

    • Tracey Kracht
       
      Here is a great resource on Google that shares ways to use Twitter in the Classroom.  Be sure to join and add your thoughts!
  • if you want to avoid overwhelming your followers, start any tweet you want to “hide” with @HideChat
  • The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keyword or topic in a Tweet.
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  • The Most Popular Hashtags
Wendy Danner

The Teacher's Guide To Using Badges In Your Classroom - Edudemic - 5 views

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      wondering if you could use badges for specific objectives?  Like a tracking chart on the wall from elementary?  Thinking out loud...
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    Way to incoproate badges into the classrom. What another great tool to decreased the kid's focus on the grade they got and focus on the objective.
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    This was a great article! Really got my mind thinking what else I could do to get the kids to focus more on understanding and acheiving a goal rather than being 'ok" with a B....
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    This is a great idea to keep students focused on learning objectives and specific goal prioritization in this new era of student independence.
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    OK--I know I am a little late to this rodeo...but I LOVE BADGES! I think it is the overachieving Girl Scout that is coming out in me (I had to have 2 sashes because I earned so many GS badges when I was a little girl!). Just set up badges for math and science for the first quarter to coordinate with the main learning objectives. Hopefully this will be a new encourager for the kids.
anonymous

Diigo Tutorials - List | Diigo - 0 views

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      LPS Connected Educators - a bit about using Lists in diigo
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      help...trying to figure this diigo thing out - anyone know if I can delete a shared content like this one?
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      Scroll to find pink highlight about using lists in diigo
Jean Kruse

teachingwithipad.org - 0 views

shared by Jean Kruse on 09 Jul 13 - No Cached
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    So I really wanted to share this blog with #lpsconnects. The blog is interesting and has quite a few different ideas on how to incorporate iPads into the classroom. Very interesting... French teacher by day, father and blogger by night. I love to blog and read tech blogs. I write an iPad blog as it relates to education. I teach young kids the French language and love my job. I play the guitar and piano. I have a beautiful wife and two awesome daughters and maltese-poodle mix.
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