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Submit writing to be analyzed
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"Six awesome courses in one awesome channel: John Green teaches you US History and Hank Green teaches you Chemistry. Check out the playlists for past courses in World History, Biology, Literature, and Ecology."
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Google Guides for Teachers | A Listly List
and edublogger
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The Daily Create - Daily assignments to fuel your creativity
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Free Technology for Teachers: Find Science Lesson Plans, Videos, and Animations on BioInteractive
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Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online | Video on TED.com
"By the end of this talk, there will be 864 more hours of video on YouTube and 2.5 million more photos on Facebook and Instagram. So how do we sort through the deluge? At the TEDSalon in London, Markham Nolan shares the investigative techniques he and his team use to verify information in real-time, to let you know if that Statue of Liberty image has been doctored or if that video leaked from Syria is legitimate. The managing editor of Storyful.com, Markham Nolan has watched journalism evolve from the pursuit of finding facts to the act of verifying those floating in the ether"
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How to get the most out of Google’s apps and services when using an iPad — Tech News and Analysis
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Are We Taking Our Students’ Work Seriously Enough? | MindShift
"Are We Wringing the Creativity Out of Kids?"
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Official willUstand website : Download FREE posters
Anti-Bullying posters
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Digital Citizenship: Resource Roundup | Edutopia
"Resources by Topic: Internet Safety Cyberbullying Digital Responsibility Media and Digital Literacy Other Resources from Edutopia Additional Resources on the Web"
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Check Out That Selfie: How to Use Social Media in the Classroom - US News
"Check Out That Selfie: How to Use Social Media in the Classroom Fewer than 20 percent of teachers use social media in the classroom, although most do personally."
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Guest Post | Primary Sources Meet Free Web 2.0 Tools for Common Core Learning - NYTimes.com
"LiveBinders allow students to curate online resources and organize them into a digital binder. Users can upload and embed links, images, text and videos. This tool makes it easy for students to link to other sites and documents as they collect information, then helps them synthesize learning from primary and secondary sources, contextualize and interpret sources, and share their learning in a fun and interactive way."
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Turning Students into Good Digital Citizens -- THE Journal
"Schools have always been charged with the task of producing good citizens. But how has our definition of a "good citizen" changed over the ages?"
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10 Ways Teacher Planning Should Adjust To The Google Generation
"For the Google Generation, information isn’t scarce, and knowing has the illusion of only being a search away. I’ve written before about how Google impacts the way students think. This post is less about students, and more about how planning resources like standards and curriculum maps might respond accordingly."
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Castilleja - an independent school for girls grades 6-12 in Palo Alto, California: Bourn Idea Lab
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13 Digital Citizenship Terms Teachers Need to Know ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
"a set of important terms you need to know as a teacher using technology with his/her students."
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Beyond Angry Birds, Five Apps That Test Your Physics Skills | MindShift
"Here are five other games for the Angry Birds fan that do an even better job of integrating physics and problem solving into addictive, just-one-more-try experiences."
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Official Gmail Blog: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
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Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline - NYTimes.com
"Once considered the product of genius or divine inspiration, creativity — the ability to spot problems and devise smart solutions — is being recast as a prized and teachable skill. Pin it on pushback against standardized tests and standardized thinking, or on the need for ingenuity in a fluid landscape."
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digitalwritingworkshop - Crafting_Digital_Writing
"A companion site to Troy's Heinemann books The Digital Writing Workshop and Crafting Digital Writing, this wiki empowers teachers as they learn how to teach digital writing."
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Stop Stealing Dreams (What is School for?)
School was invented to create a constant stream of compliant factory workers to the growing businesses of the 1900s. It continues to do an excellent job at achieving this goal, but it's not a goal we need to achieve any longer. In this 30,000 word manifesto, I imagine a different set of goals and start (I hope) a discussion about how we can reach them. One thing is certain: if we keep doing what we've been doing, we're going to keep getting what we've been getting. Our kids are too important to sacrifice to the status quo.
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Student-Centered Ways to Teach Anti-Bullying: A Conversation Starter - Right Question Institute
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Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Embedding Twitter Searches on a Web Site
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How to showcase #TeacherEffectiveness using digital portfolios
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Weekly Links (weekly)
Saturday, February 08, 2014
Weekly Links (weekly)
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Easy Recipes for Building Android Apps using MIT App Inventor
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Student Portfolios: Collect (drive), reflect (forms), and publish (sites).
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woo hoo - snow day in Maine! Seedlings @ Bit By Bit Podcast: Show #135 http://t.co/hMBDRH4mH5 w @bobsprankle @alicebarr @cheryloakes50
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Check out the completely revampled "Google for Education" website! http://t.co/f5XXSTaSwL vi @alicebarr #seedlings #gct
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"As of January 2014, some 76% of American adults ages 18 and older said that they read at least one book in the past year. Almost seven in ten adults (69%) read a book in print in the past 12 months, while 28% read an e-book, and 14% listened to an audiobook."
Wednesday, February 05, 2014
Saturday, February 01, 2014
Weekly Links (weekly)
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World map
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"t's a gaggle of Google products. Google's kicking off 2014 with a slew of announcements this week. And it's a diverse slew, touching on online resources, new tablet partners, and professional development."
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"If you have a task you want your entire class to do, here is a spreadsheet tip that can make the process easier."
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"Who controls your online identity? Google or you? If your answer is Google, it's time to take control with this three step plan."
- Who controls your online identity? Google or you?
If your answer is Google, it's time to take control with this three step plan.
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"Web Apps are online programs that run right inside your browser, rather than needing to be installed to your hard drive like traditional programs. With web apps you can run your programs from any computer and from any place that you have Internet access. Many web apps also have off-line abilities for those times you do not have connectivity."
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Charlene Chausis presentation on Apps and Extensions
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Charlene Chausis presentation on Apps and Extensions
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"The latest update adds features to the iOS version of Amazon’s Kindle e-reader that makes it more useful than Apple’s own iBooks for reading eBooks and PDFs. "
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"How to Use Google Drive to Teach Coding in the Classroom"
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"27 ways to test the prior knowledge of students. This is a useful chart for any classroom teacher or student who wants to quickly test and think about a particular topic that is about to be discussed."
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Cheat Sheets - many tools
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Beaver became the first school in the United States to implement computer coding into each of its classes."
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"To meet the growing need for computer science literate individuals, Beaver Day Country School, an independent college prep middle and high school just outside Boston, now requires students to have coding experience in order to graduate. Rather than requiring students take a standalone coding course to graduate, Beaver’s educators are incorporating coding practices into classes like math, science and even English."
Monday, January 27, 2014
Reading for January 27, 2014: Brennan by Design
You can hear Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” blaring inside Askwith Lecture Hall even before you get to the beige double doors. It’s the third meeting of the fall semester for T-550, and inside, the room is buzzing.
via @andycinek http://ift.tt/1n93cVv
via @andycinek http://ift.tt/1n93cVv
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Reading for January 26, 2014: How the Heck Do You Implement “Student Empowerment”?
The following is an excerpt from Marsha Ratzel’s new book In High Gear: My Shift Toward a Student-Driven, Inquiry Based Science Classroom.
Most classrooms follow a prescribed formula. Teachers plan and lay out what is going to be learned. Students come into class and have the responsibility of switching themselves into “ready” mode, waiting for the teacher to instruct and guide them in the day’s tasks. There is very little student ownership in this process.
Surely there were parts of the learning process where the control could be shifted to the students – where I could hand them responsibility and freedom and give them a voice in what they would learn. Although it would be impractical for me to think they could run a classroom as well as a veteran teacher, I hoped I could guide them as they took control of the questions they would pursue.
Knowing that handing students most of the responsibility for learning without preparation was not a realistic first step, I designed “skill-builders” to transition the classroom. I used layers of traditional teaching/learning experiences and experiences where the process was open-ended but had a clearly defined endpoint. This built skills in both my own teaching practice and in my students’ learning practice. I tested things for effectiveness and they developed the new personal skills to stay on course as their control of their own learning increased. Notably, experiencing small obstacles helped to develop students’ coping ability—an important skill for open-ended, open-process activities.
EdCamp Organizer Meeting : Hangout on Air
February 20 at 8PM EST
An experienced panel of Edcamp Organizers will share tips, tricks, and guidance about creating an environment centered on teaching & learning, not tools. We will be answering YOUR questions via interactive backchannel at #edcamp
For more information
An experienced panel of Edcamp Organizers will share tips, tricks, and guidance about creating an environment centered on teaching & learning, not tools. We will be answering YOUR questions via interactive backchannel at #edcamp
For more information
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Weekly Links (weekly)
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"Wikipedia provides Internet users with millions of articles on a broad range of topics, and commonly ranks first in search engines. But its reliability and credibility fall well short of the standards for a school paper. According to Wikipedia itself, “[W]hile some articles are of the highest quality of scholarship, others are admittedly complete rubbish. … use [Wikipedia] with an informed understanding of what it is and what it isn't.” To help you develop such an understanding, we present 10 reasons you can't rely on information in Wikipedia."
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"Social networking sites give us portals into another person's (user's) mind, so far as that person (user) makes public their thoughts, ideas, feelings and desires. At times, we are perhaps more honest online, and especially on social networks, than we are in real life. Recent studies suggest that we are exactly the same on Facebook as we are in real life, but that might not be true. We might actually be even more of who we are online than in real life."
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What makes for a strong Common Core English language arts curriculum? Students are more likely to meet Common Core expectations for reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language if they are working with texts on a regular basis. Organizing a curriculum around a series of text sets can provide those opportunities for students.
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Read or download PDFs of over 390 Met publications with full text online
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"Dipity is a free, web-based, interactive digital timeline creation tool"
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Doctopus + Goobric
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"This script allows you to limit the number of responses, set a time limit, or evaluate a cell value to automatically stop accepting responses on a Google form. "
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Design for Google Sites
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Track Changes
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How to embed a Pinterest board on a Google SIte
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"Doctopus is a Google Spreadsheet script developed by Andrew Stillman that can help teachers manage the flow of shared work in in their Google Drive accounts. The basic concept behind the script is to enable teachers to quickly share documents with all of the students on a roster, monitor usage of shared documents, and give students feedback within that roster spreadsheet.
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Weekly Links (weekly)
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terminology and definitions for building blogs via Free Technology for Teachers
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"TED recently introduced a new initiative called TED-Ed Clubs. TED-Ed Clubs provide a framework for getting students together on a regular basis to talk about their big ideas. "
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The Artful Thinking program is designed to be used by the regular classroom teacher. While it originally targeted grades K-12, the Artful Thinking approach is also currently used in post-secondary education and in museums. The program focuses on experiencing and appreciating art, rather than making art. It has two broad goals: (1) To help teachers create rich connections between works of art and curricular topics; and (2) to help teachers use art as a force for developing students’ thinking dispositions.
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Using the new Google Sheets? Here's how to set up notification rules Google Docs Top Contributor, Adam, shares how to set up notification rules in the new Sheets using a script. Step by step instructions can be found below as well as a handy, easy-to-follow video tutorial.1. In the menubar at the top of Sheets, go to Tools > Script editor2. Close the dialog that pops us (if you see one)3. Copy / paste the following code and change any relevant parts:function myFunction() {MailApp.sendEmail("youremail@google.com","Your title - someone submitted a form","Your message in the email");}4. File > Save. Give the script a name5. Next select Resources > Current projects triggers6. Click the "No triggers. Click here to add one now" link7. Change the rule to read: myFunction, From Spreadsheets, On form submit (Note that this will send you an email when someone responds to a form associated with this spreadsheet. If you want to set up a different rule, instead of selecting "on form submit", choose something like "on edit", which will send you an email when someone makes an edit to the spreadsheet.)8. Click the "Notifications" link to customize whether or not you want emails weekly, daily, hourly or immediately.9. Press OK. Then Save in the dialog. Then Continue when it asks about authorization. Then Accept the request for permissions.10. Test the script: Click the Run menu > select myFunction11. Check your inbox; if you see an email, you're all set. You'll start getting notifications when an event happens in your spreadsheet. If you don't see the email in a couple of minutes then something might not be set up right. Double-check the steps if this occurs!
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@alicebarr http://t.co/kME5IXTtc4 You can find our handbook here. Please let me know if I can help!! #seniorproject
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Reading for January 14, 2014 at 09:39PM: Watch Out TED Talks: Here Comes A New Generation
TED’s educational arm is launching TED-Ed Clubs, an effort to support students who research, write and present and record their own ideas in a TED talk format. “The goal is to stimulate and celebrate the best ideas of students around the world,” said TED-Ed Director Logan Smalley.
via Pocket http://ift.tt/1dMYViW
via Pocket http://ift.tt/1dMYViW
Trying Pearltrees
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Weekly Links (weekly)
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Today's Tip: Making Meaningful Connections http://t.co/LtjCjKIdLj #edtech #edtechchat #pln #connectededu via @alicebarr
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Digital Literacy Sites
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Digital footprint websites
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the following Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy was was especially interesting in how it mashes digital tasks–podcasting, blogging, networking, hacking, bookmarking, social media sharing, and so on,
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Evaluations for apps
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"Create iOS and Android projects using the buzztouch API. You can, create and download iOS and Android projects without visiting buzztouch.com - wow."
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Couldn't be MORE excited about the work of the Edcamp Foundation Partner Committee this year! #edcamp
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"You can now grade numerical ranges with Flubaroo (version 3.1)! A BIG THANKS goes out to Andrew Roberts (andrewroberts.net) for coding up this latest feature for Flubaroo! "
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Rubrics for assessing student created content
Wednesday, January 08, 2014
Reading for January 08, 2014 at 11:58AM: There's a Cheaper, More Effective Way to Train Teachers
We don’t know exactly how much money was spent training Will in his first year of Teach for America, but we know it was a lot.
via Pocket http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/01/theres-a-cheaper-more-effective-way-to-train-teachers/282778/
via Pocket http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/01/theres-a-cheaper-more-effective-way-to-train-teachers/282778/
Monday, January 06, 2014
Reading for January 06, 2014 at 04:59PM: Making It
In January of 1903, the small Boston magazine Handicraft ran an essay by the Harvard professor Denman W. Ross, who argued that the American Arts and Crafts movement was in deep crisis.
via The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2014/01/13/140113crat_atlarge_morozov?currentPage=1
via The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2014/01/13/140113crat_atlarge_morozov?currentPage=1
Saturday, January 04, 2014
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