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Kurt Vonnegut Urges Young People to Make Art and “Make Your Soul Grow” – Open Culture
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Great video on the power of words
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Teacher to Learner: The Power of Words
Great post from Johnny Bevacqua – A teacher’s disposition as learner first, is the greatest factor in our ability to re-image school.
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Beyond the Maker Movement: How the ChangeMakers Are the Future of Education | Singularity Hub
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Laura H. Chapman: The Desperate Search for a Science of Teacher Evaluation | Diane Ravitch’s blog
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Daily Red Sox Links: Sam Kennedy, Joel Hanrahan… | SportSpyder
BOS [SB Nation: Over the Monster] – Daily Red Sox Links: Sam Kennedy, Joel Hanrahan, Xander Bogaerts http://t.co/VjBZxKr2gc
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» Xander Bogaerts Had An Interesting Post-Game Tweet Last Night Barstool Sports: Boston
Xander Bogaerts had an interesting post-game tweet last night http://t.co/mseu0PZuYU http://t.co/zCq9swBiGY
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Three Useful Posts On Student Engagement
From Larry Ferlazzo’s Website
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4 Step SAMR Model Explained by Richard Wells
Great explanation of SAMR by Richard Wells via Vicki Davis
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My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (April 13, 2014)
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Kahoot! | Game-based blended learning & classroom response system
Cool tool for assessing students. Gamification-based
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Blendspace – Create lessons with digital content in 5 minutes
Good tool available on any web-based device.
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EverySlide | Interactive Presentations | Audience Response System
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Allows teachers to chop down YouTube videos and voice over the sound on a video if they wish. Also able to add questions at any point in the video and track student progress.
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Reading from paper versus screens: a critical review of the empirical literature.
The present review considers the differences between the media in terms of outcomes and processes of reading and concludes that single variable explanations are insufficient to capture the range of issues involved in reading from screens.
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Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say – The Washington Post
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From Scholastic Administrator – What happens when administrators throw out the rulebook and try fundamentally different models of education?
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Master Chrome Apps and Extensions: Differences and Recommendations
A great list of chrome apps and extensions
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Copy of 1:1 Learning Nipmuc – Google Drive
Parent Presentation about the move to 1:1 from Nipmuc Regional High School in Upton, MA
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A great response to negative and intolerant comments made online. Also a great look at how the positive outweigh the negative
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Ten Tips for Writing Common Formative Assessments
Great questions to get you focused for creating quality formative assessments from Bill Ferriter.
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What Does Learning Look Like? A Look At Physical And Digital Spaces
Good discussion of learning spaces from Tom Daccord
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10 Principles of Sustainable EdTech Implementation –
by Dave Guymon on Getting Smart
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3 Professional Development Tips For Schools Going 1:1 – Edudemic
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (April 6, 2014)
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A Video Guide to Using the Google Drive iPad App
from Richard Byrne
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Study Shows Online PD Affects Student Scores | Tech Learning
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10 questions to start the ‘grading’ conversation at your school
from Justin Tarte
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Mike Lawrence & Mike Muir: Closing Keynotes – YouTube
Closing Keynotes from the School Leadership Summit – “Reclaim Your School’s Teacher’s Lounge – Develop Educational Entrepreneurs!”
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A great resource for finding everything about e-books by Vicki Davis
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The other side of the story regarding the teen who created a plan to save the government millions.
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Changing font on printed documents would save government $400 million: teen – NY Daily News
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Can Online Learning Measure Up to a College Degree? | BostInno
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Professional Learning for Everyone (No, Really)
A good model of PD for staff via Zac Chase
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LET’S MAKE SOME GOOD ART – YouTube
Student presentation from Eric Sheninger’s student – Using graphics tablet and the software Bamboo Pad both by Wacom, Quicktime to record computer screen as a drew, and iMovie for editing!
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The Stereotypes That Distort How Americans Teach and Learn Math – Jo Boaler – The Atlantic
An article from The Atlantic on how we teach math in the U.S.
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How to change your Facebook administrator from a personal to professional account
From Lisa Nielsen
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Some great resources from Dave Truss on getting people comfortable with Twitter.
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Haiku Deck to PowerPoint & PowerPoint to Haiku Deck
From Richard Byrne
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Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions – CNN.com
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Creating An iPad Workflow For Teachers, Students, And Parents
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New Hampshire HS Basketball Player of the Year Loses Award After Obscene Tweet | Bleacher Report
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (March 30, 2014)
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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
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.
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 Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (February 23, 2014)
Image via CrunchBase
In an attempt to reflect back upon the numerous blogs and articles that I peruse online each week, I have decided to autopost the items that I bookmark on Diigo each week. Below are all of the links that I compiled last week in my Diigo account.
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The first paragraph of this story shows some of the savings that schools can see when they switch to digital textbooks
My Un-Learning Journey 