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" Sign In 20 Qualities of an Innovator I wonder how many match each of us. I suppose the real trick is to have these qualities on the team and not just for solo contributors!"

This open, online global community for 21st-century education leaders exists to foster Global Education Transformation-the "GET" in GETideas.org-via virtual collaboration and international dialogue, including the sharing of best practices and resources.

"Copying the "scribe post blog" idea from Darren Kuroptawa, we've used a Blogger site this semester as a shared learning blog / scribe blog. Students were randomly assigned a partner at the start of term and a week to summarize, and worked together to post a thorough recap of their week's topic and learning points. In week 13 we discussed Pecha Kutcha presentations as well as phonecasting, and the student summary for the week was excellent. This summary was good, in part, because it included multiple hyperlinks to relevant resources."

student-created digital textbook

student generated blog centered on exploring how the world works

"Today I wanted to share our experimentation with different types of note taking as part of creating "Official Scribes" for the classroom while taking into account the students' different learning styles. Students were starting a unit about the American Revolution by watching an introductory video clip. We discussed different ways to take notes and came up with: individual note taking by paper and pencil individual note taking on a word processor collaborative backchanneling visual note taking (on SmartBoard and paper)"