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Principal shares how he uses technology in his school. Blogs, Wiki's etc. have become regular parts of his daily work.

How can you engage your students and be sure they are learning the conceptual foundations of a lecture course? In From Questions to Concepts, Harvard University Professor Eric Mazur introduces Peer Instruction and Just-in-Time teaching -- two innovative techniques for lectures that use in-class discussion and immediate feedback to improve student learning. Using these techniques in his innovative undergraduate physics course, Mazur demonstrates how lectures and active learning can be successfully combined. This video is also available as part of another DVD, Interactive Teaching, which contains advice on using peer instruction and just-in-time teaching to promote better learning. For more videos on teaching, visit http://bokcenter.harvard.edu

Pages on the iPad works with iCloud but what if you want to collaborate using another Cloud service like Dropbox, Google Docs or Box.net where your documents are already stored? 

I really like using Dropbox. I am a relatively new user but I am happy with it so far

The Flipped Classroom is gaining steam in schools across the world. Flipped classes focus on student interaction and engagement in class and a major component is the technology that can be used to create, deliver, and collaborate. Richard has posted on many of these tools, so I'll be sharing how I use a combination of tools in a typical unit.

The philosophy Everyone has different reading abilities. Some people searching the web are university professors and others are 5 year old children. Twurdy has been created to provide people with access to search results that suit their own readability level. What does it do? Twurdy uses text analysis software to "read" each page before it is displayed in the results. Then Twurdy gives each page a readability level. Twurdy then shows the readability level of the page along with a color coded system to help users determine how easy the page will be to understand. The Goal Twurdy's goal is to provide web searchers with information that is most appropriate for them. This will mean that 10 year olds doing school assignments don't have to click through difficult material to find something they can use. It will also mean that phd students do not have to click through websites designed for kids in order to find what they are looking for.

Working as sound designers and story tellers, HTHMA 12th grade students created 1-2 minute abstract audio fictions. They were asked to design a vivid sound narrative without the use of any dialogue. They could only use sounds that they recorded in the field with a portable audio device and/or custom sounds they designed in the music creation program, Reason

see how students are using PDAs in classrooms.

Great you added 4 posts so far. Remember you need to tag them setonhall and/or setonhall15 so they are searchable by the group.

site about with news on young people's use of social media

The A-Z of using Twitter in the Classroom

Article explains the necessity for an administrator to become proficient in using a variety of technologies.

For all of you with ipads for kids, here are some great suggestions for how to maximize learning.

This shares how technology can be used to enhance students' writing.

This is for educators like me---who are new to using technology and seeking help!

Dylan 13 years old, and an eighth grader. Through his green your lives initiative and a thinkquestweb sitecollaboration, this 13 year old shows us how he uses tech to improvehis community and the world

Common Core in the Cloud, with Vicki Davis, will show teachers how to "use technology to produce writing and to collaborate with others.

Podcasts are another way students can use their personal technology equipment for educational purposes. They can be used for class lectures, test reviews, or even to create portions of "read aloud" text for students to follow. Here you will find review podcasts for many of your school subjects! Click on the Subjects tab and explore the full list of topics!

Not sure if any of you have used this before. I first saw it being used by my son's 5th grade teacher. I am pretty good at powerpoint but haven't gotten the hang of this one yet. Let me know if you have any pointers!

Research Research Summary:  Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she has launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network. She has also served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program. She is a former president of the American Educational Research Association and member of the National Academy of Education. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality and educational equity. From 1994-2001, she served as executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, a blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report, What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future, led to sweeping policy changes affecting teaching and teacher education. In 2006, this report was named one of the most influential affecting U.S. education and Darling-Hammond was named one of the nation's ten most influential people affecting educational policy over the last decade. Among Darling-Hammond's more than 300 publications are Preparing Teachers for a Changing World: What Teachers Should Learn and be Able to Do (with John Bransford, for the National Academy of Education, winner of the Pomeroy Award from AACTE), Teaching as the Learning Profession: A Handbook of Policy and Practice (Jossey-Bass: 1999) (co-edited with Gary Sykes), which received the National Staff Development Council's Outstanding Book Award for 2000; and The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Schools that Work, recipient of the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Book Award for 1998. Current Research:  Teacher education; school leadership development; school redesign; educational equity; instruction of diverse learners; education policy. Research Interests:  Professional / Staff Development Academic Restructuring Research Design Adolescent Development High-stakes Testing Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)