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Teach100 ranks and scores hundreds of education blogs. Check out the top 100 and beyond to stay up to date on what people are talking about in the education space.
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Translate Words and Sentences in over 80 Languages with Google Translate
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A shocking statistic about the quality of education research – The Washington Post
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Videos to Help You Get Started Sending Text Message Reminders Through Remind (101)
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Share Lesson Outlines in Google Calendar
Great overview on how to organize classes with Google Calendar from Richard Byrne
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Step by Step directions for getting teachers started with Twitter.
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Newspaper Remix Generator
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In response to Ferguson, these kids built an app to rate the police – Vox
In response to Ferguson, these kids built an app to rate the police: http://t.co/b3LtB0XciJ
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Another journo threatened, this time it was livestreamed, on http://t.co/G3YR2fBglF #ferguson http://t.co/994DvwkiAm
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Getting Smart On Blending Middle Grade Math
A new bundle of blog posts, sponsored by The Nellie Mae Education Foundation in partnership with Getting Smart, titled “Getting Smart on Blending Middle Grade Math,” was released today. The collections outlines student-centered approaches to learning in blended math. The Nellie Mae Education Foundation’s vision offers four tenets to describe student-centered learning.
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ProProfs Quiz Maker – Create Online Quizzes, Online Testing, Exams
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How to Embed Your Remind (101) Text Messages Into Your Blogger Blog
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via Bo Adams – “n thinking about what we’ll need from our future leaders, executives have come to realize that the ability to innovate will be one of the foremost qualities–that is, the ability to quickly identify solutions for problems, many of which don’t even exist yet.”
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The Brainwaves YouTube Channel
Inspirational Videos Help You Frame Focus + Follow Up Professional Development
Category: Uncategorized
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (August 17, 2014)
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How to Import Blogger and Other Blog Feeds Into Google Sites
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A Collection of Examples of Classroom Blogs
From Richard Byrne – As the new school year starts many teachers will be trying to develop classroom blogs for the first time or revamping old blogs for the new year. The slides below contain examples of classroom blogs.
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Free 3-D Geometry iPad Activities
Great idea from Kristen Wideen
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Daniel Learned that He Had Power Yesterday
from Bill Ferriter – “Gimmie a keyboard and an internet connection and I’ll show kids how they can change the world. You can too.”
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Learning In Burlington: It’s Time to End the Device Debate
RT @gcouros: Great stuff from @patrickmlarkin: It’s Time to End the Device Debate http://t.co/vucHqLuH7h #psd70 #edchat #cpchat #fb
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Robin Williams Standup – Golf (full version) – YouTube
Robin Williams has provided me with hours of laughter spanning decades. This’ll forever be one of my favorite bits: https://t.co/k1XFl4pCxt
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Robin Williams on Letterman 2011 – YouTube
Robin Williams on Letterman 2011 http://t.co/jIhm1B58bw
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Changing Face of Early Literacy – Why Digital?
From Kathy Cassidy
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Four Ways to Think About Using Thinglink
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What Adele Diamond is learning about the brain challenges basic assumptions in modern education. Her work is scientifically illustrating the educational power of things like play, sports, music, memorization, and reflection. What nourishes the human spirit, the whole person, it turns out, also hones our minds.
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3 Minute Teaching With Tech Tutorial
A quick tutorial on how to insert quizzes in educanon
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Technology in Place of Textbooks in the El Paso Independent School District – YouTube
A discussion of the 2014 El Paso Independent School District project to supply students with Chromebooks or iPads in place of paper textbooks. Drs. Richard A. Smith and Caroline M. Crawford conduct the discussion.
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I Had Shamed Students Without Realizing It –
Good list of practices to avoid in the classroom from John Spencer
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The Nerdy Teacher: My Back To School Advice For New and Veteran Teachers
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (August 10, 2014)
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from Edutopia
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from Edutopia
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From Richard Byrne – Newseum Digital Classroom is Newseum’s effort to bring some of the elements of the Newseum museum into your classroom. The Newseum Digital Classroom offers video lessons, primary source document collections, and three complete lesson modules for teachers.
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Considerations for districts choosing PARCC computer-based testing for Spring 2015
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An interesting look at Stanford’s ideas for changing undergraduate ed.
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (July 27, 2014)
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From Kim Cofino
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From the Thinglink blog
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FluencyTutor for Google – Students Listen and Practice Reading Aloud
From Richard Byrne – FluencyTutor for Google is a Chrome web app (works on Chromebook, PC, Mac) that allows teachers to share selected reading passages with their students. Students can hear the passages read aloud. The text being read aloud is highlighted to help students follow along with the reading.
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10 Things Every Teacher Should Know How To Do With Google Docs
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A Couple of Good Guides to Getting Acquainted With the Features of Google Chrome
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Why college remediation needs to be overhauled
From Carol Burris in the Washington Post
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Making Curation Easier With @IFTTT
From Steven Anderson
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Social Media: Follow the Best Massachusetts Twitter Accounts | My Town Tutors
Top ##Massachusetts Accounts! @patrickmlarkin @peterhreynolds @CMEaston @pragmaticmom @GladlyDo @BurkheadBill http://t.co/zOWep9vvG7
Sad News For Our BPS Community
The following letter was posted on Principal Dressler’s blog following the news of the sudden passing of Memorial School second grade teacher Suzanne Siegel during the past weekend.Please keep Suzanne and her family in your thoughts and prayers:
Dear Memorial Family and Burlington School Community,
It is with a heavy heart and great sadness that I share the news of the passing of our beloved second grade teacher, Suzanne Siegel. Mrs. Siegel has been a valued member of not only our Memorial learning community but also to the Burlington School community as well. She taught second grade for the past eight years and positively impacted the lives of many young students, parents and colleagues. Her commitment to students and love for learning has touched us all. When we know the details of her funeral arrangements I will pass that along.
We encourage you to talk with your child. How we, as adults, manage ourselves serves as an important model for helping kids handle tragedies like this. It is important that they know they are loved and supported as they talk about their feelings.
You may want to consider the following when talking with your child:
- Tell the truth. Talk about death vs. “going to sleep.” Explain the situation.
- Allow for your child to talk about feelings. If this is the first loss your child has experienced, your child may not know how to respond and will be looking for your guidance.
- Affirm all expressions. It’s okay to express feelings honestly. Tolerate the expressions rather than dismissing them or discouraging the expression of feelings.
- Encourage written expressions such notes, letters, pictures to the family etc.
- Reaffirm that your child is safe and that your child is loved.
- Affirm that your child’s reaction is normal and you understand the way the child’s feels.
- Watch for changes in behavior such as aggression, withdrawal etc.
- Help the children return to as normal routine as possible.
If you want anymore information on how to talk to your child, please refer to www.dougy.org. We have connected with community mental health resources for the Memorial staff and will continue to work with the Riverside Trauma Center on an ongoing basis.
We will have counselors at school on Tuesday July 22, 2014 from 4-6 pm to provide emotional support for our students and parents. If you have special counseling concerns or would like additional support for your child, please call us at 781-270-1721. Danielle Flaccavento, our guidance counselor, and Madeline Sedovic, our school psychologist, will be available to meet with her child/children at the beginning of the school year. Our deepest sympathies go to the Siegel family as we mourn the loss of a talented and cherished member of our school family.
With peace and love,
Deb Dressler
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (July 20, 2014)
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The Twitteraholic’s Ultimate Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter – The Edublogger
“@courosa: Ultimate guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things twitter http://t.co/3rlXTQjEcW via @suewaters #blc14” #aoptech
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
One of the most important but underutilized resources for educators – http://t.co/E0smhoHT19 #blc14
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Where Good Ideas Come From Quotes by Steven Johnson
Quotes from “Where Good Ideas Come From” http://t.co/8XlClcPrkN #blc14
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10 top tips on how schools can use social media
From the Guardian
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From the Guardian
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From Boston Public Schools
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Good stuff from weird al re grammar
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3 ways internet filtering inhibits learning
From eSchool News
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Textbook case of what NOT to do in teen sexting cases – NetFamilyNews.org | NetFamilyNews.org
Just posted: “Textbook case of what NOT to do in teen #sexting cases” (about police victimiz. of teen in Va.) http://t.co/Ha9m1OK6li
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“30 Second Take” Podcast Episode 1 – YouTube
Would love your feedback on this! @patrickmlarkin @MESPAexec @barrykid1 @mmiller7571 @VictoriaL_Day #30SecondTake http://t.co/bMsZPwg0xd
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Ewan McinTosh’s course on designing learning spaces
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Dropbox – slavin 1989 faddism in education.pdf
Faddism defined – http://t.co/HHEJRh8WNb – and how to avoid it (or how to do what Burlington, MA is doing) @patrickmlarkin @carriefort1
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (July 13, 2014)
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Seven Ways to Keep Informational Text Engaging
From John Spencer – “I believe that informational texts can be inherently engaging, because we are naturally inclined to seek out information…So, with that in mind, here are seven ways to keep informational texts engaging for students
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A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop – Scientific American
Not sure I agree with this. How about learners deciding which works best for them?
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BHS Help Desk mention
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Why do we question 1:1 effectiveness?
From Larry Cuban
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Skunk Works: A Place for Innovation
skunkworks
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Developing Leadership #BYOD #1to1
From Alan November
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Social and Emotional Benefits of Video Games: Metacognition and Relationships | graphite Blog
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A look at the education that we need to provide for our students in a world dominated by technology.
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The 4 Levels Of Learning Analytics –
The handy infographic below takes a look at the four levels of learning analytics
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haha. dumbass: “Two words are wrong in ‘MOOC’: Massive and open”. Maybe the first. Not the second. http://t.co/7HD4FmZVSY
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Survey Reveals Worries About Schools’ Readiness for Online Testing – Digital Education
While schools’ access to technology continues to increase, roughly 60 percent of K-12 officials surveyed by an industry group do not feel their schools have the bandwidth or devices to make them ready for summative, online testing.
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I Was So Right About Distraction in Now You See it: Darn it all! | HASTAC
The technology isn’t distracting. It’s that your former patterns and reflexes don’t serve you invisibly, efficiently, automatically. You have to build in new patterns and reflexes even as you still have to get the same amount of work done. Of course it is difficult. Of course it is distracting. And of course it is multitasking.
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Got Chromebooks? Now what? Enlist the help of your learning network
Good list of Chromebook resources from Lisa Nielsen
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From Greg Kulowiec – We quickly described the images as iPad Hieroglyphics, easily deciphered by the initiated and difficult to interpret by those new to the platform.
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Eight Big Ideas Behind the Constructionist Learning Lab
via Gary Stager – Papert’s big ideas about constructionism
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Why so many kids can’t sit still in school today
From Valerie Strauss – Children are going to class with bodies that are less prepared to learn than ever before. With sensory systems not quite working right, they are asked to sit and pay attention.
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Create a Flickr & Google Maps Location History Timeline
From Richard Byrne – Visits is a new online tool for creating a location history timeline by using your Flickr images and Google Maps. The service allows you to select a set of your public Flickr images and match them to your Google Maps history. Visits uses the date information in your Flickr images and Google Maps history to create a timeline. The timeline events are represented as sets of circles. Watch the video below to see the process in action.
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How Working on Multiple Screens Can Actually Help You Focus
From Clive Thompson – interesting look at the use of different devices for different purposes
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Data on the shifting demographics in our nation’s public schools
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Learner Interest-Driven Curriculum
From Howard Rheingold
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Lessons Learned Publishing to Lulu, Amazon and the Apple iBookStore (July 2014)
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (July 6, 2014)
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By Jeff Medrick
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Afraid to Implement Technology, Just Jump Video http://t.co/pcp0ve3KeS #MACUL14 #gcouros
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From Richard Byrne – How to register students via GMail for third-party accounts without an e-mail account.
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Good list of Summer Learning Resources via Graphite
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New Geography-based game from Google
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From TeachThought
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Good overview by Holly Clark of building a network in your school community
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Good overview of a Flipped Classroom in action
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From Richard Byrne – ThingLink is a popular tool for collaboratively creating interactive images. Now, you can use ThingLink to create interactive videos too.
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Must-read essay from Thomas Newkirk
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From Peter Greene – “Speaking Back to the Common Core,” and it’s a great addition to the family of essays laying out clearly why the Common Core onslaught is bad news for education.
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From the Hechinger Report
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Teachers love their job but feel undervalued, unsupported and unrecognised, says OECD
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Statistics on why VAM does not work
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Great overview of tools from Kathy Schrock
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A good overview of IFTT by Richard Byrne
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From Richard Byrne – Through Story Builder you can create a short story that appears to be written by multiple editors but is really written by just one person
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From fastcodesign – The country’s strongest innovators embrace creativity, play, and collaboration — values that also inform their physical spaces.
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Good stuff from Wes Fryer – I share both the copyright chapter of “Playing with Media” (2011) and the EFF’s website “Guide to YouTube Removals” as valuable resources which shed “balanced light” on copyright issues as they relate to the classroom and student-created media. We also watch Chapter 4 of the wonderful (and LEGAL) Disney movie remix, “A Fair(y) Use Tale” and use it to discuss fair use.
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From Mary Beth Hertz – How do we teach students to integrate technology into their schoolwork and their learning while also making sure that they’re staying focused on the task at hand?
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From Harvard Business Review – There’s a lot of conflicting advice out there on giving corrective feedback. If you really need to criticize someone’s work, how should you do it? I dug into our archives for our best, research- and experience-based advice on what to do, and what to avoid.
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Was interested until I saw Prezi. Still worth checking out.
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from Adam Webster on Edudemic
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From NPR – Ever wonder why children can so easily figure out how to work the TV remote? Or why they “totally get” apps on your smartphone faster than you? It turns out that young children may be more open-minded than adults when it comes to solving problems.
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (June 29, 2014)
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5 announcements from Google I/O that Google Apps customers need to know | Google Gooru
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I Dare You To Watch This Entire Video – YouTube
An attention exercise and a message about our ability to focus in an era of distractions.
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Even Our Youngest Students Need Digital Citizenship Skills
From Kathy Cassidy – As the Internet becomes an increasingly important part of all of our lives, children are spending more time online as well. And they are doing this largely without any guidance about what is responsible or appropriate online.
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Use Google Voice or Speak Pipe to Hear Students Proofreading Their Papers
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More on OpenEd’s Free Online Assessment Tools: How-to Videos
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From Chris Betcher – But if you’re still telling students not to write plain language queries because that the advice you’ve you’ve always given them, maybe it’s time to update your advice?
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Why Educators should have these Apps on Their iPADS
Great list of foundational apps for educators
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Why Book Trailers Are Great Alternatives to Traditional Book Reports
From Richard Byrne – Great ways to make book trailers
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9 Best Apps and Sites to Improve Executive Function
from Graphite
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Terms of Service Cheat Sheet for Parents & Teachers
From Jen Carey on Edudemic
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Great ecourse cerated by Joe Mazza
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50 Questions To Promote Metacognition In Students
A good list of questions for students
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Story Buddy 2 is a Kid-Friendly Presentation App for Creating Digital Books
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Is this really how we should test reading development in kids?
Opinion – The downside of DIBELS
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OPINION: Why We Are Misunderstanding the Chromebook iPad Debate | EdSurge News
Good stuff from Tim Holt – iPad vs. Chromebook
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From Jane Hart
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Good quick 15-minute workouts
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Find Primary Sources from All Over the World on the World Digital Library
From Richard Byrne
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The Beginner’s Guide To Google In The Classroom
From Edudemic
My Un-Learning Journey 