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California Department of Education (CDE) commissioned the Santa Cruz County Office of Education to develop a centralized repository of technology related resources and professional development opportunities for California's administrators. The Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL) and portical.org were born!

Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print - anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging. And because it works internationally with texting, web, or Twitter, its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews.

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

The trend toward "active learning" may overthrow the style of teaching that has ruled universities for 600 years.

Thoughts and reflections from the Vice Principal's office

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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.

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We are rescuing EtherPad for your use. Don't forget the limit is 16 chat postings. Great group post opp for students

Collaborative writing

Creating attractive diagrams, such as wire frames, mind maps, network charts, and site maps, are very easy for anyone as you can simply pick and "drag and drop" elements from a large library of stencils. Cacoo covers all the basic drawing functionalities.

Diagrams online; real time collaboration

Wallwisher is an online notice board maker. Discussing a new idea? Taking notes? Giving feedback? Voicing opinion? Wishing a happy birthday? Now do all that easily with Wallwisher wall and some stickies.

Wallwisher is an online notice board maker. Discussing a new idea? Taking notes? Giving feedback? Voicing opinion? Wishing a happy birthday? Now do all that easily with Wallwisher wall and some stickies.

Great that you add value by adding comments on what the resources are about. You are missing the "setonhall" or setonhall15 tags for this assignment so folks can't search for and find your contributions. See assignment 2 instructions for details.

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.

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A space separates words and makes them into individual tags. You might have a look at how your resources are tagged and edit them by clicking on "bookmark" and revising your tags. See also Diigo help for how to tag. You are missing the "setonhall" or setonhall15 tags for this assignment on this post but have it on others so folks can't search for and find your contributions. You might want to make the tags consistent for your own use too as when you do a search for setonhall it won't necessarily find your items tagged setonhallteaching or setonhall15. Consistent tagging will make life easier. See assignment 2 instructions.