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"I haven’t had a lot of time in the last few weeks to spend searching for great mobile apps. But with a hat tip to Jaime H. and through a conversation with a couple of great teachers in Illinois, I did run across three that I really like. I think you will too".
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Google Docs is one of my favorite resources for myself, other teachers, and students. I use it constantly and when I share it with other teachers, friends, or my students, they are usually impressed and start using it too.
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Sure, Instagram is a great camera app. It's fun, addictive, and something like 15 billion of you have downloaded it to be your primary shooter on the iPhone.
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The social media platform makes it easy to get instant ideas, links, and resources from a global community of educators.
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Karen Hume is an award-winning educator, author, and speaker. She is a renowned expert in in 21st century teaching and learning, differentiated instruction, literacy, and leadership.
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What if there was a place for the teachers to play, learn new skills, and network with others?
The Twitter Dictionary aka Twittonary provides explanations of various Twitter related words. You can search the entire Twitter Dictionary or by single word using their letter of the alphabet in the list below: - Read more...
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If you’re a PowerPoint user, whatever level, and have thought about using Prezi but have been unsure of making the switch, then those lovely folks at Prezi have made it easier for you to get started – why not import your existing PowerPoint slides into Prezi and spice them up?
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Check out these must have apps that I have vetted and use on a routine basis as an educational leader.
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Learning tools over the years. What we used, how we are changing.
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There’s a positive fury going on about a relatively recent online education phenomenon.
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Did you know that India has 1.2 billion people; therefore, it has more honor students than America has students?
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There was a time when the phonetic alphabet (Cfr. Wikipedia) was used to spell out letters. Remember the “T for Tango” or “C for Charlie”.
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How can the culture of a school be changed? I was recently asked this question by Tyler Rice, a teacher whose ideas, beliefs and practice I admire and with whom I have collaborated from the other...
I felt it was worthwhile to update the Top Post (over 25,000 views) on Langwitches: Bloom’s Taxonomy for iPads I have added links to each app represented on the visual.
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On April 19th, 1995, Free The Children was born. To celebrate our 17th anniversary, from April 16th to 20th we will go back to our roots to put the focus on some of the issues that fueled Free The Children in the beginning. Free from poverty and exploitation, free from disease and thirst, these four freedoms are the inspiration for our Adopt a Village model, a model which we feel creates the basis for change in the international communities we work in.
We all have the capacity to be creative, it's in our very nature. The iPad is a wonderful tool for creation is almost every sphere you can imagine, from expressing poetry to capturing artistic ideas, from exploring musical invention to manipulating captured light. ...
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At New Canaan High School students have the freedom to learn using tools they love and the websites they need to be most successful. One of the two freedoms were taken away from them in honor of “Banned Websites Awareness Day.” On that day students were blocked from using the sites they commonly use for learning and collaborating such as YouTube and Facebook. Not having the ability to use the tools necessary for success in the real world for learning at school deeply interfered with their ability to get the education they deserved.
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Imagine if we created a sense of Disruptive Wonder in our talk of 21st century learning?
Gmail users with iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads have to make compromises.
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Principal Eric Sheninger reviews the new social media bulletin board to discover some exciting educational opportunities.
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A program aimed at teaching children to appreciate books gives them a chance to make paint with insects and work with 22-carat gold.
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Very cool info graphic on social media spheres of influence.
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21st century education – Time to create learning organisations!
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