Here are my weekly additions to my Diigo account. Enjoy the long weekend everybody!
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Learning In Burlington: Parenting In The Digital Age Presentation
Plans for next years parent technology night
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7 Mid-School Year Reminders on Finishing Strong | Connected Principals
Some ideas to help motivate you at the mid-point of the year
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1. Remember to use both sides of your brain: instruction and management.
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4. Always be professionals in conversations, emails, social media, and personal appearance.
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6. Be a goal-setter personally, professionally and collaboratively.
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7. Remember to celebrate.
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Top 10 Essential Web Tools For Project-Based Learning – Edudemic
Here are some great ways tools to help you implement PBL and blended learning in your classroom
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1. TutorsClass
TutorsClass is an online tutoring platform that can complement classroom activities or completely substitute offline classes for students who opted for home-based education. -
3. Capzles
Digital storytelling becomes much more interesting with Capzles. You and your students can choose from different templates and use them to create visual stories and narratives. -
4. Audioboo
If you have ever used FotoBabble, the concept of Audioboo will be already familiar to you. By using the voiceover tool, you will be able to tell a real story through a photograph and other types of visual content. -
5. FotoBabble
This is probably the most popular tool used to record voiceovers for images and putting them in the format of slideshows. -
7. Animoto
Creating slideshows is already fun for most students, but Animoto brings their interest for learning new concepts on a higher level. This fun tool enables its users to illustrate their projects with text, photos, and videos. -
9. Glogster
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You can use Glogster to create different multimedia projects, such as digital posters that present a major project.
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They can use this tool to map out their ideas and find a way to start their projects more easily by capturing its essence upfront.
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Mindmeister is the best tool for collaborative brainstorming available on the web.
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4 Tips To Help Students Start Blogging – Edudemic
Here are some tips on combining writing and blogging to get kids attention.
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Start with Paper Blogging
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Once they have completed their writing, they hang their posts around the perimeter of the room. The students then use post-it notes to comment on two different blogs. This is where she begins the process of helping students learn to comment effectively.
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importance of having students write their first blog post on paper.
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Focus on Titles
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Painful because students were giving their blog posts the absolute worst titles ever.
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Don’t Always Give The Prompts – Think About Re-Framing the Prompt
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For example (and in my words not David’s), if you want kids to write something about Hamlet’s characteristics – change how you think about the prompt. Instead of assigning the prompt about Hamlet coupled with something directly in the play, consider allowing students to find something they are passionate about, like surfing, and have them explain why Hamlet might have been a good surfer.
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Put Down the Red Pen
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25 Brilliant Teacher Blogs Worth Following – Edudemic
Here are some of the best blogs around for teachers. Easy, quick PD when you want about what you want.
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11 Note-Taking Tips For The Digital Classroom – Edudemic
Interesting facts and tips on note taking
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10 next-generation science apps for education | eSchool News | eSchool News
Some free and cheap apps for science teachers
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The Seattle Times | Martin Luther King Jr.
Resources for Social Studies teachers on MLK and the Civil Rights Movement.
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What should a networked educational leader tweet about? | The Principal of Change
Getting started with Twitter? Here some guidelines
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What you should tweet about:
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Sharing innovative strategies and news from your schools.
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Educational articles that influence your thinking.
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Thoughts and quotes
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Questions that will help you or your organization.
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Support others educators.
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Some personal information
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6 Tips to Make Yourself a Chromebook Master
Here are some tips to get you started on the road to mastering your Chromebook.
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Every Chromebook comes bundled with 100 GB of cloud storage space; just head over to https://drive.google.com/redeem to activate the expansion.
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Take a Shortcut, Make a Shortcut
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You can find a comprehensive list of available shortcuts here—just be sure to bookmark the page (Ctrl+D) until you have them memorized. Or, if you prefer to make your own shortcuts, the Shortcut Manager extension allows you to assign custom keyboard shortcuts to virtually any Chromebook process.
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Pick a Bigger Board
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The 5 Best Free Cartoon Making Tools for Teachers
Some great tools for some blended learning in your classroom
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What you should know about self-paced blended learning | eSchool News | eSchool News
Some great thought son blended learning
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suggests that Motivation 3.0 requires workers (and students) to have more autonomy as motivation in our complex world is more intrinsic than extrinsic.
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Integrating Technology in a Special Education Classroom – EdTechReview™ (ETR)
Some ideas for special education teachers
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Some great math on line resources for teachers
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Collections – Google Cultural Institute
Some great resources for Social Studies and Art teachers.
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How to Find Your Co-Teaching State of Mind | MiddleWeb
For our Collab teachers. Some great ideas on maximizing your partnership
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What will 2014 hold for edtech? Here are some thoughts
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Blended Learning & Personalization
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“The shift to using technology to personalize learning for each student so that they can master deeper skills and knowledge.”
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Student Motivation/Agency & Personalization
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“The gift of time and self management– teaching kids how to do life.”
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Innovation, New Models & Competency-Based Learning
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“I’m excited about empowering both teachers and students with the tools and the freedom they need to build engaging, collaborative, and rigorous learning experiences.
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Professional Development
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“Personalized and contextualized learning for teachers too.”
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“The shift from passive to interactive learning, not just for kids for teachers and leaders.”
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Great Teaching at Scale
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“Getting students the instruction and support they need, when they need it.”
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“The shift from teaching content to thinking and analyzing.”
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More Quality Options
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“Providing access to quality education to low income students and families.”
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Here are some apps for students to use on the Chromebooks.
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