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Week 2 - Expert Panel 3

Week 2 - Expert Panel 2

Week 2 - DLT Expert Panel 1 - Mooresville

Google Doc with additional Participant suggested resources.

Week 2 Additional Reading: "Jenifer O. Corn, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, March 2013 provides a brief summary of the relevant research" from MOOC-Ed

Week 2 Additional Reading: "This infographic and the following text from the Alliance for Excellent Education provides an overview of the challenges and the elements that leaders must address in responding to the challenges" from MOOC-Ed

Week 2 Additional reading: "Alliance for Excellent Education, May 2012. Pp. 1-16 on learner centered education and teaching in a learner-centered environment." from MOOC-Ed This is a very good document.

Week 1 Additional suggested video: ["Edutopia provides profiles of technologically sophisticated students, with both a video and a written interview for each. The 10 students range in age from nine to 18. They are engaged in a of variety productive, creative uses of technology, including: producing videos; forming groups engaged in social activism; creating animations; writing blogs; and creating educational and other types of web sites. The link takes you to a menu where you can choose the profile of one or more students" from MOOC Ed]

Cybraryman Twitter Chat Hashtag - I bookmarked this as a part of a conversation about educational chats via Twitter during the Essex County April workshop.

The outline for the EdTech Challenge. It is a way for teachers to think about collaboration tools, content management systems, personal learning networks, formative response tools, open educational tools, and electronic portfolios.

The movie geek and tech nerd squealed with joy with this info.

I'm bookmarking a NY Times article about it too. Geeky fun!

You can sign up for a tour inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and meet the scientists and engineers working on some of our nation's space programs.

Sign up to be chosen as one of 1000 schools across the globe to participate in the Oracle Raspberry Pi Weather Station for schools with topics covering comping and weather - for ages 11 and up. Free!

A blog post about the Shadow Puppet Edu iTunes app. It is free and you can create videos with up to 100 images and up to 30 minutes long.

This article follows up on the link John gave us. I like the video on his site.

A site with lessons to support student understanding of algebra.

This is a great article on how educators can use the Internet to access free professional development in online spaces.

On the origin of the moon. A little complicated for elementary maybe, but my 5th grade students found it fascinating. We read it together and I explained the complicated bits (they were even interested in centrifugal and centripetal forces!) Great fun.

Great website for 4th to 8th graders to design their own games. Teachers can create logins for a list of students and monitor their progress. Approved on Common Sense Media with 5/5 stars. I usually introduce this to my grade 5 students.

The Pope will be visiting the United States in September. Many schools are sharing photographs of themselves with Flat Francis. This is the website with the printable. Take a look at the #FlatFrancis hashtag on Twitter.