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By  Andreas Johansson  Tuesday, 3rd of January 2012 at 10:11:49 AM Best practice for today’s teachers is to have a web presence that is always accessible to students, but it can be a daunting prospect to set up your own website. WordPress is an easy tool to create a flexible and dynamic digital repository using a full featured content management system.
You will learn how to customize your own website, how to use WordPress to blog; communicate with parents and students; post resources, videos, projects, homework, and copies of handouts; host student discussions; and more!
This workshop is part of our “Make It, Take It” series, and aims to have you setup and ready to go once you leave here, knowing full well how to use your new tool!
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By CoolCatTeacher Friday, 27th of January 2012 at 02:31:08 PM 5 Ways Teachers Can Raise Standardized Test Scores | Education Is My Life This teacher reflects on the practices he feels have raised test scores in his classroom. Test scores are a fact and until it is changed at…
Click to continue reading Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 01/27/2012
By MindShift Friday, 27th of January 2012 at 02:02:44 PM In the information age, data will follow us from the time we first walk into kindergarten to well past retirement. As data is used to guide us in making all kinds of decisions, from what we consume to what health plan we follow, it’s also becoming a powerful tool in education. As more schools and … Continue reading →
Click to continue reading What Does Your School Know About You?
By CoolCatTeacher Friday, 27th of January 2012 at 05:32:04 AM The Press Association: Brown wants global education fund Move to global education fund but funding is hard to come by. This article implies it is easier to raise money for diseases than to educate people. That is …
Click to continue reading Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 01/27/2012
By Seth Godin Friday, 27th of January 2012 at 05:22:00 AM One theory of technology marketing and acceptance goes like this: A technology causes a media hypestorm and rising expectations. Then it crashes to Earth as the popular press and the public discovers that it’s not all the hypesters said it…
Click to continue reading Reconsidering Gartner’s Cycle of Hype
By GTD Thursday, 26th of January 2012 at 10:52:22 PM GTD seems to me a very intuitive way of managing your psychology so that it does not disrupt workflow.
Click to continue reading A Writer’s GTD Journey
By MindShift Thursday, 26th of January 2012 at 07:00:12 PM Your Tumblr blog and Twitter account are more important to some employers. Source: Wsj Union Square Ventures recently posted an opening for an investment analyst. Instead of asking for résumés, the New York venture-capital firm-which has invested in Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga and other technology companies-asked applicants to send links representing their “Web presence,” such as … Continue reading →
Click to continue reading Quick Look: No More Résumés, Say Some Firms
By MindShift Thursday, 26th of January 2012 at 05:19:02 PM School of One The folks behind The School of One, famous for creating daily playlists as lesson plans for students, have launched a non-profit that will allow any school to use its high-tech, personalized learning model. New Classrooms, a non-profit launched by Joel Rose and Chris Rush who launched the School of One, will design … Continue reading →
Click to continue reading New Startup Launches High-Tech Math Program
By MindShift Thursday, 26th of January 2012 at 01:02:59 PM Flickr: Andronicusmax By Kyle Palmer There are more than a trillion Web pages on the Internet. This incredible abundance of information and the ease with which it can be searched sometimes fails to counteract the confusing chorus of anonymous sources. In his new book Too Big to Know, Harvard researcher David Weinberger articulates this ambivalence … Continue reading →
Click to continue reading How to Embrace the Wild, Wild Web
By Seth Godin Thursday, 26th of January 2012 at 05:09:00 AM Unless someone does, things start to fray around the edges. Often it’s the CEO or the manager who sets a standard of caring about the details. Even better is a culture where everyone cares, and where each person reinforces that…
Click to continue reading Who cares?
By MindShift Wednesday, 25th of January 2012 at 07:02:49 PM Next year, high schools students in California schools will have the opportunity to design and build projects thanks to the Makerspace program developed by O’Reilly’s MAKE division, the folks who brought us Maker Faire. One of the goals of Makerspace, which was just granted an award from the federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), … Continue reading →
Click to continue reading Quick Look: Motivating the Next Generation to Design and Build
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