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http://t.co/8FVZJLbWxK While the business mindset will often romanticize about “helping the world” and “pleasing consumers”, the onl…
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A Handful of Google Calendar Tutorials for Teachers
Good stuff from Richard Byrne!
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From BAM Radio – Classroom Q and A on 1:1 Computing
What Are the Real Benefits of a 1:1 Program? What Are the Biggest Challenges?
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A Handful of Helpful Google Forms Tutorials for Teachers
From Richard Byrne
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A Principal’s Reflections: A Glimpse Into What’s Possible
he following post was written by Bill Brennan and originally appeared on Peter DeWitt’s Finding Common Ground blog found at Education Week. The post was titled Schools…the New Digital Age Learning Organization?
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From Richard Byrne – Gooru is a service designed to help teachers create and share collections of educational videos, texts, and images. This week Gooru released a few new features that you could find helpful in building your collections.
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Copyright and Fair Use for Teachers
Nice short cheat sheet for teachers to review the ins and outs of Copyright and Fair Use
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Google Docs: Which Workflow Works for You?
Great stuff from Honors English Teacher Catlin Tucker
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New school tests don’t make the grade
from Al Jazeera America – Is technology-based standardized test really accomplishing what we want in regards to ed reform?
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Replacing Snow Days with E-Learning Days | Alliance For Excellent Education
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Massive Open Online Courses Offer Free Way to Explore Digital Literacies
Overview of the MOOC offered to staff from the San Diego County Office of Education
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How Does PISA Put the World at Risk (Part 1): Romanticizing Misery
Yong Zhao explains the problems with PISA
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Content Curation Through the SAMR Lens
From Susan Onevad on Getting Smart
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It Takes Bravery to Let Go of Homework
From ASCD Inservice
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College President: SAT Is Part Hoax, Part Fraud
From Time Magazine
Month: March 2014
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (March 23, 2014)
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Connected District’s Journey: Making informal learning formal – Together, Achieving Excellence
Great ideas on differentiated Professional Development from a district in Missouri.
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New learning tool from Google
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Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) | U.S. Department of Education
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Appy Hour Rewind: How Subtext Supports Common Core Standards
Subtext is a collaborative digital reader students can use to access, annotate, and engage with any kind of text. The iPad app lets teachers access, purchase, or import any text, and annotate, highlight, comment, and add instruction to texts. And best of all, it supports ELA Common Core Standards.
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (March 16, 2014)
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VocabGrabber analyzes any text you’re interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the “Grab Vocabulary!” button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.
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A search engine for apps
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Using Projeqt you can mix content from the web with your own content to create visual stories about your favorite things. Using Projeqt you can create a visual story by linking together images, videos, and text.
A Can’t Miss Presentation for Parents – Behind Closed Doors
From the Burlington High School Principal Sullivan’s Blog
Burlington High School is happy to announce a special presentation for parents and community members: Behind Closed Doors“Hidden in Plain Sight” Household items that transcend into every day drug use by teens.
During the Behind Closed Doors presentation, adult attendees are encouraged to explore and interact with the display designed to resemble a teenager’s bedroom. Throughout the exhibit are items that may indicate a teen is involved in some high-risk behaviors such as substance abuse, underage drinking, eating disorders, sexual activity and more.
There will be a 60 minute presentation by Traci Wojciechoski of the Caron Treatment Centers reviewing the latest drug and alcohol trends with an overview of slang terms, highlighting the ‘synthetic highs’ that are readily available to youth. Participants will be enlightened, educated and possibly astonished.
Behind Closed Doors“Hidden in Plain Sight”
Household items that transcend into every day drug use by teens
At Burlington High School’s Fogelberg Auditorium April 15, 2014 6:30pm
(display open at 5:30)
During the Behind Closed Doors presentation, adult attendees are encouraged to explore and interact with the display designed to resemble a teenager’s bedroom. Throughout the exhibit are items that may indicate a teen is involved in some high-risk behaviors such as substance abuse, underage drinking, eating disorders, sexual activity and more.
Tricycle Races At Francis Wyman – Which Picture Is Your Favorite?
Thanks to Francis Wyman Assistant Principal Nicole McDonald for forwarding me some of the pictures from the CARES Assembly at Francis Wyman this morning! It was great to see the staff getting in the spirit during the Tricycle Race. I can’t decide which picture I like more, the first one with FWS Secretary Julie Conley showing her “game face” or the last with Tech Integration Specialist Ben Schersten, who had to curl his long legs over the handlebars to get his tricycle moving.
In any event, it looks like a good time was had by all!
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (March 2, 2014)
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You Can Build Your Own Search Engine from Richard Byrne
There’s not much to it other than following a few steps at Google.com/cse. As you can see in the directions embedded below, you don’t need any coding skills in order to build your own search engine.
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Create Public Courses on OpenEd from Richard Byrne
As a registered OpenEd user (registration is free and takes less than thirty seconds to complete) you can create courses and playlists of videos and other materials that you find in the OpenEd directory. You can align your courses and playlists to Common Core standards. If you choose to align your course to a standard, OpenEd will suggest materials to you. OpenEd supports inclusion of assessments within your course.
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John Green is back with a new Crash Course on literature. The first installment in the new course is A Long and Difficult Journey, or The Odyssey.
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Students, say goodbye to snow days — and say hello to school at home – CNN.com
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How to Create Contact Groups to Make Sharing Google Documents Easier
My Un-Learning Journey 