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Facebook Timeline: The 21st Century Resume – Available Now!
5 Ideas for Getting Your Students Started with Facebook Timeline. Important when discussing digital footprint with students.
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Smoke from my keyboard: Cut the excuses and lead!
An interesting read regarding school leadership. It’s great when people speak their mind!
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Online Textbooks Aim to Make Science Leap From the Page – NYTimes.com
Advances in the realm of online textbooks.
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Amazon officially launches Kindle Singles | Crave – CNET
“The Kindle Single is a new category in the Kindle Store that features written works longer than a typical magazine article or “as much as a few chapters of a typical book.”"
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Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments.
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Create Tutorials in One Click on Tildee !
Tildee is a free tool to help you create and share instantly and easily tutorials on any subject
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Morton Subotnick’s Creating Music
“Creatingmusic.com is a children’s online creative music environment for children of all ages. It’s a
place for kids to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles.
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Interactive Biology’s Channel – YouTube
“Many People struggle with Biology. We try to make it EASIER and FUN. Subscribe to our channel and be updated whenever we post new, interactive videos.”
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Student Voices: Game Development and Gamestar Mechanic
If you use Gamestar Mechanic you may be interested to read about how one teaching is using it and what students think.
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Educational iPad and Android Apps for Kindergarteners
Looking for apps good for kindergartners? Here are a few
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A Principal’s Reflections: Social Media is Not Just For Students
Suggestions on how school leaders might use social media tools for education related purposes.
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10 new workplace survival skills
“A recent report for the University of Phoenix in the US lists 10 skills that will be necessary for success in the workplace by 2020. A quick look around tells you the way we work today requires we work on them much faster than that.”
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In the collection you will find rubrics for assessing student blogging, student wikis, podcasts, and video projects. Beyond the rubrics for digital projects there are rubrics for activities that aren’t necessarily digital in nature. For example, you can find rubrics for writing, research, and oral presentations.
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The Virtual Keyboard is an online keyboard where students can virtually play the piano, organ, saxophone, flute, pan pipes, guitar, bass and steel drums! They can play individual notes or they can create their own chords. This tool is a great way for students to practice their music and sound skills. It also could be a great introductory tool for students who are interested in learning how to play an instrument and want to practice.
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Educators – Google Plus Is For You
Suggestions on how educators can use Google+. Good to use if you want to get started and focus on using Google+ for learning, teaching and communicating with your students.
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Apple – Education – Special Education
All about the accessibility features built into Mac OS X Lion. Appropriate for special education.
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“May I download and use music? Is it okay to copy and use a poem from a textbook? May I use video clips from a television show? What is “Fair Use”? What is ethical behavior in the digital age? How is plagiarism defined? How can it be detected? The links below provide answers and insights to these questions.”
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100+ Google Tricks for Teachers | TeachHUB
“From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time.”
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The Fundamentals of Blended Learning
An excellent video that provides a definition of blended learning. Looking to understand how education can be reimagined? This video provides some examples to begin developing a vision.
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Lots of Google apps resources and information, especially for education.
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How to Create a Culture of Greatness – LeaderLab
Post on the importance of culture within an organization. “A culture of greatness creates an expectation that everyone in the organization be committed to excellence. It requires leaders and managers to put the right people in the right positions where they are humble and hungry and willing to work harder than everyone else. A culture of greatness dictates that each person use his or her gifts and strengths to serve the purpose and mission of the organization. And it means that you don’t just bring in the best people, but you also bring out the best in your people.”
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Containing 75 full-length documentaries. You can view these videos online or use the iPad, Android tablet, and Kindle Fire apps to watch Snag Films.
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YouTube for Schools – A Leadership Embarrassment
This is an interesting post in response to the YouTube for Schools launch. It is not an indictment of Google for creating the resource, but rather school leadership for “Marlin-like” fear of YouTube.
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A radical approach to teaching Canadian students in the digital age – The Globe and Mail
An article (Canadian) that puts forth the benefits of the “flipped classroom.” This article may be useful as more emphasis gets put on the importance of changing pedagogy while increasing access to hardware.
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#1 Reason You Want This As Part Of A Leadership Tool Box | Leadership Success Now
“Are you wondering why reading people is key to successful leadership and your personal success in life generally? That is a legitimate question after all like all skills it takes time and effort to learn, so you naturally want to know if it is time well spent. “
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Blended Learning: What Research Says | Getting Smart
This blog post reviews finding and further relevant thinking from a Kaplan document titled: Online and Blended Learning: What the Research Says. This is a useful reference in the online/blended learning research process.
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“The Google Educast, hosted by the Google Certified Teachers, features a weekly roundup of the newest Ed tools from Google, highlighting best practices using Google tools, and further highlighting the impact that these tools have on the classroom, schools, and school districts.”
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Empowering the 21st Century Superintendent Home
“Now more than ever, superintendents recognize that technology is important in meeting their district goals towards positive student outcomes. The new electronic version of the Superintendent Self-Assessment along with the existing District Leadership Team Assessment will assist in determining your readiness to be an effective technology leader. After completing the Superintendent Electronic Self-Assessment you will see your progress along the technology leadership continuum.”
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CBC News – Interactive: Truth and Lies: The last days of Osama bin Laden
“An insider’s look at the operation that killed bin Laden”
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“Will 2012 see the end of the internet as we know it? The House Judiciary committee tried to finalize the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) before Christmas for a vote early next year. But fierce opposition – much of it online – seems to have given pause to the bill’s main author, Lamar Smith. He is now expected to hear from expert witnesses early next year before the bill goes to Congress. Watch this video for a guide to the fight that will likely become one of the big stories of the coming year”
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Life in a 21st-Century English Class | MindShift
This is a great story of learning in the classroom. When people ask, “But what does it look like,” point them in this direction. Highly recommended read.
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To Make Algebra Fun, Rethink The Problem : NPR
“For most people, the word “algebra” conjures classroom memories of Xs and Ys. Weekend Edition’s math guy, Keith Devlin, says that’s because most schools do a terrible job of teaching it. He talks with host Scott Simon about what algebra really is. Plus, Devlin explains how algebra took off in Baghdad, the Silicon Valley of the ninth century.”
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