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Learning about Learning: Research and Edreform News and Views 02/22/2012

5 Tips to Better Connect with Your Students You can connect with your students. Here are five ways I strive to do this in my own classroom. (In a piece I wrote for the Atlantic.com)95% of what you accomplish is b…

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/22/2012

Be Better at Twitter: The Definitive, Data-Driven Guide – Megan Garber – Technology – The Atlantic Excellent article about the research from several researchers about Tweets that are compelling and those that are …

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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/22/2012

Earth Hour 2012 Official Video – YouTube Earth hour is 8:30 pm, Saturday March 31st. They are asking everyone to turn their lights off for an hour in celebration of this day.  tags: …

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/21/2012

The Wise & Witty Teacher: Pinterest Inspired Presidents and DIY Lesson Plan Book Although President’s day is past, this Pinterest Inspired President’s and DIY Lesson pLan book is a very cool idea.  I love post it…

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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Basics for Beginners: What is Web 2.0? this is an older post but I reviewed it tonight and it is still current. If you want to learn what Web 2 is and get comfortable with the terminology, t…

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My ISTE 2012 Schedule (so far), heading to Canada, and New Jersey

If you are coming to one of these events, please say “hi.” I’d love to meet you. ISTE 2012 Schedule  Saturday, June 23 – Event that Steve Hargadon is running (the remix of Edublogger, not sure of new name) Sunday, June 24 – We’ll have a booth i…

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/21/2012

Prepared Statement for the Dec. 14 Congressional Privacy Caucus | Common Sense Media While SOPA was going on, many of us missed that COPPA is under review. Here is an overview of the congressional testimony given …

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/18/2012

Hazeldale Elementary School kids use iPad app to learn pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary | OregonLive.com Using ipads to teach vocabulary. In this mainstream media article, students are using Toontastic to cre…

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/18/2012

Google Tracked iPhones, Bypassing Apple Browser Privacy Settings – WSJ.com Lots of commotion over Friday’s wall street journal report that Google and other advertisers were circumventing Safari’s privacy settings …

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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/18/2012

Microsoft Tag–Example Resource on E-Safety | Ray Chambers Ray Chambers is a UK teacher doing some fascinating things with Microsoft products like Kinect and Microsoft Tag. I love this lesson plan that links with…

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