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Jennie Bales

Julian Treasure: How to speak so that people want to listen | Talk Video | TED.com - 4 views

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    Have you ever felt like you're talking, but nobody is listening? Here's Julian Treasure to help. In this useful talk, the sound expert demonstrates the how-to's of powerful speaking - from some handy vocal exercises to tips on how to speak with empathy. A talk that might help the world sound more beautiful.
janett4352

The Unquiet Librarian - 3 views

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    Buffy Hamilton is one of my favourite people to visit. She has a great wealth of knowledge and information concerning libraries and connecting to the public.
Jennie Bales

How the Maker Movement Is Moving into Classrooms | Edutopia - 8 views

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    The Maker movement is a unique combination of artistry, circuitry, and old-fashioned craftsmanship. Certainly, learning by doing or "making" has been happening since our ancestors refined the wheel.
Jennie Bales

Lucacept - intercepting the Web | A teacher learning about the web and sharing it with ... - 9 views

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    Jenny Luca is Director of ICT and eLearning at Toorak College in Mt.Eliza. Her blog aims to share what she discovers about the potential of Web 2.0 application in educational settings.
Jessica Raeside

How to Infuse Digital Literacy Throughout the Curriculum - 6 views

  • Digital literacy is defined as “the ability to effectively and critically navigate, evaluate, and create information using a range of digital technologies.”
  • and this is especially true in schools subject to state and federal testing. Content becomes king. However, there are ways that schools can adapt these skills into existing structures – integrating them into their current pedagogical framework
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  • to deal with the glut of content that confronts them when they google a research topic.
  • only “traditional” methods and materials, but digital ones as well. We need to ensure that they know how to evaluate a website, a blog post, a tweet, a Facebook entry. These evaluative skills transfer cross curricularly and prepare students for the broader world of online communication.
  • Effectively engaging online requires a myriad of skills that we strive to foster in school – effective written communication, brevity and civility
  • These components are often highlighted in Digital Citizenship programs, but in tradition-bound K12 education, we often deride social media as trite or ineffective.
Jessica Raeside

Learning to Connect the Dots | Leading From the Library - 12 views

  • demonstrate some significant accumulated knowledge or expertise that will help move the organization towards the greater good.
  • Much of what leaders know comes from learning through experience, and much of that experience is the result of mistakes.
  • how these phenomena could combine to lead to a new service or product that delivers value.
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  • These connectors are typically ahead of their time,
  • their ability to connect the dots helped them to form visions for radical change before the rest of the world was ready. That enabled them to gain followers and emerge as a powerful leaders.
  • leadership that is often associated with innovation
  • visionary leadership requires more than just being a storehouse of knowledge. What separates those with vision from the rest is the ability to connect the dots
hypatiashouse

Curriculum & Leadership Journal | School libraries and teacher-librarians: evidence of ... - 4 views

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    International research provides compelling evidence that school libraries and teacher-librarians make a significant contribution to student literacy and learning outcomes. After summarising previous research, this article presents recent research focused on Gold Coast schools . These new Australian findings present an evidenced based snapshot of school libraries and teacher-librarians, from the principals' perspective.
Barbara Combes

The toughest interview question - 2 views

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    Most of us have been in the situation where we sit in a job interview and we feel things are going well until the interviewer pulls out the ultimate question: Tell me about your greatest weakness? Unless you are prepared, this is the question that can trip up even the most experienced interviewee.
Barbara Combes

The difference between succesful people and unsuccessful people - 2 views

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    Andy Bailey - CEO of Petra Coach, the creator of Align Software and a fellow member of Entrepreneurs Organization. 16 things you should aspire to.
Barbara Combes

Google under fire for data-mining student emails - 1 views

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    As part of a potentially explosive lawsuit making its way through federal court, giant online-services provider Google has acknowledged scanning the contents of millions of email messages sent and received by student users of the company's Apps for Education tool suite for schools.
Jessica Raeside

Innovation Takes Practice More Than Talent - 0 views

  • Innovation is
  • requires an inquisitive mind intent on solving an existing problem. Persistence to find an answer is part of the practice
  • Innovation is a skill set that can be improved with practice.
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  • Innovation is hard-wired in humans, perhaps because we always seek to improve
  • advances in technology
Jessica Raeside

What Does Leadership on a Professional Learning Team Look Like? | CTQ - 0 views

  • by suggesting that successfully structuring learning teams means making sure that every collaborative group has a nice balance of Discovery and Delivery Skills.
  • that successfully structuring learning teams means making sure that every collaborative group has a nice balance of Relationship Builders, Systems Thinkers, Innovators and Problem Solvers.
Jessica Raeside

Effective Teams: The Key to Transforming Schools? | Edutopia - 6 views

  • felt frustrated working in teams
  • so slow and cumbersome.
  • the process felt
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  • how to grow powerful teams that can transform schools.
  • Strong teams within a school are essential to retaining and sustaining teachers.
  • schools with low staff turnover
  • teachers report feeling connected to colleagues and supported
  • eeling that they belong to a team and fulfilling a mission together.
  • If a team is effective, then people learn from each other.
  • hey inspire and challenge each other.
  • "We come together as a team to support each other, learn from each other, and identify ways we can better meet the needs of our sixth grade students." Call it a purpose or a mission -- doesn't really matter.
  • another meeting." The purpose is relevant, meaningful,
  • constructive dialogue and dissent,
  • when there's the inevitable conflict, it's managed. People know each other. W
  • listen to
  • each other.
  • a good team has a facilitator, leader, or shared leaders. There's someone -- or a rotation of people -- who steer the ship.
  • common project
  • All projects, though, must be aligned with each member's personal agenda and school's agenda.
  • Finally, consistent communication is the glue that holds everything together. You can have the greatest of intentions, but if you do not communicate consistently,
Barbara Combes

Content curation primer - 1 views

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    Learn about content curation tools such as Diigo and how you might use them.
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