What I learned this week 12/27/2011

• http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7079.pdf

• Zootool – Visual Bookmarking

• mySimpleSurface.com

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Top 10 Sites for Brainstorming/Mind Mapping

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What I learned this week 12/25/2011

• Is REAL Formative Assessment Even Possible? - The Tempered Radical

• Top Five Radical Reads of 2011 - The Tempered Radical

• eduTecher

• eduTecher

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What I learned this week 12/24/2011

• IGIF Presents: The Best Albums of 2011

• Favorite albums of 2011 – dysonsound

• Using Juno for Assessment - Crazy Teaching

• Home

  tags: scratch programming

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What I learned this week 12/23/2011

• TES iBoard: a massive, free collection of high quality interactive K to 6 learning activities - Welcome to NCS-Tech!

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What I learned this week 12/21/2011

• Using Tech To Meet Parents Where They Are | Connected Principals

• ASCD Inservice: Marzano: It's How You Use a Strategy

• littleBits

• LessonCast

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What I learned this week 12/20/2011

• WESLab: Grade 4 Lessons 1112 (—ROUND 2: Safe Talking in Cyberspace)

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What I learned this week 12/19/2011

• Free VPN Software: Virtual Networking with LogMeIn Hamachi | LogMeIn Hamachi

• 31 Steps to a Financial Tuneup - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

• The Overjustification Effect « You Are Not So Smart

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What I learned this week 12/18/2011

• Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: The Technology Integration Answer (Well Almost...)

• 62 things you can do with Dropbox | Macworld

• Transforming Assessment

• TPACK | SlideRocket, Online Presentation Tools

• activitytypes - home

• Technology in 2014 : Blogg-Ed Indetermination

• Should Computer Science Be Required in K-12? | MindShift

  Program or be programmed,” as author Douglas Rushkoff says,

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What I learned this week 12/17/2011

• How to Make, Print, and Bind Your Own Books

• The Incredible New Soluto Painlessly Fixes Your Friends' Computers from Afar (and We've Got Invites)

• The Trick to Accomplishing More by Doing Less: Take Breaks

• Announcing the 2011 Winners – Congrats to All! | The Edublog Awards

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What I learned this week 12/16/2011

• Star Wars Snowflakes

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What I learned this week 12/14/2011

• Prefix's Top 50 Albums Of 2011: 10-1: | Prefix

• The 75 Best Albums of 2011 < PopMatters

• MSN Offers for Schools Introduction on Vimeo

• Create iOS and Flash Games with Stencyl

• Learn to code | Codecademy

• Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse

• Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Free Tools for Quickly Hosting Online Brainstorming Sessions

• Free Technology for Teachers: Forget Box - Simple Sharing of Large Files

• Free Technology for Teachers: 15 Things Teachers & Students Can Do With Edmodo

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What I learned this week 12/12/2011

• The Best Photography Tips, Tricks, and Hacks of 2011

• Google Form as Choose Your Own Adventure Tool « Bionic Teaching

• Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can’t Search | Magazine

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What I learned this week 12/08/2011

• When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

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What I learned this week 12/03/2011

• Albums Of The Year 2011 | Have Your Say! | NME.COM

• Best Music Videos of 2011! | Acuvi

• American Songwriter’s Top 50 Albums Of 2011 | American Songwriter

• Top Songs of 2011 | Best Songs of 2011 at Pretty Much Amazing | PMA

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What I learned this week 12/02/2011

• Editor’s Best of 2011: 50 Albums / 125 Songs — LMB NOLA

• Top 10 album list for 2011 - East Peoria, IL - East Peoria Times-Courier

• Music Critic Top 10 Lists - Best Albums of 2011 - Metacritic

• The 50 Best Songs of 2011 :: Blogs :: List of the Day :: Paste

• The Best Indie Rock of 2011 < PopMatters

• Coursekit

• Coursekit, a Student-Created LMS, Officially Launches | Hack Education

• Knewton - Adaptive Learning Platform™

• Amazon.com: Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World (9781118007235): Tom Vander Ark, Bob Wise: Books

• Home | Getting Smart

• Educators « Creative People Must Be Stopped!

• Wibbitz | Automated Interactive Videos

• Google SketchUp

• Free Classroom Guides and Educational Downloads for 2011 | Edutopia

• Secrets of Innovation – The Atlantic

• America's Next Killer Ideas From Google, Under Armour, and More - Derek Thompson - Business - The Atlantic

• Ultimate List Twitter Tools

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What I learned this week 12/01/2011

• Listologies: Best of 2011: Music Videos

• The 50 Best Albums of 2011 :: Blogs :: List of the Day :: Paste

• musicforants.com’s Best Music Videos of 2011 | Music For Kids Who Can't Read Good: Take me there!

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What I learned this week 11/30/2011

• The Hila Trebuchet

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What I learned this week 11/28/2011

• High School Teachers Make Gaming Academic - US News and World Report

• How About Better Parents? - NYTimes.com

• Maxwell Render :: The next generation in rendering technology capable of simulating light exactly as it behaves in the real world.

• Maxwell Render :: The next generation in rendering technology capable of simulating light exactly as it behaves in the real world.

• Presenting mind maps with interactive animations | Mindomo Blog

• Learning Suite -- The Microsoft Learning Suite combines familiar applications with software

• Microsoft's Free Tools

• Maxwell Render :: The next generation in rendering technology capable of simulating light exactly as it behaves in the real world.

• You Should Read… (November 20, 2011)

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What I learned this week 11/27/2011

• 5 Tools to Introduce Programming to Kids | MindShift

• Math Game Time - Free Math Games, Videos & Worksheets for Kids, Parents & Teachers

• Books and Glitter: I Symbaloo--do you?

• Free Technology for Teachers: Ten Search Tools and Tactics Teachers and Students Need to Know

• DIY Food Item Magnets Help Keep Track of What's in Your Freezer

• Free Technology for Teachers: Create Choose Your Own Adventure Videos

• Things that AREN’T on the bubble tests | Dangerously Irrelevant

• Nitro Type Garage | View Your Racing Records and Typing Scores

• Keyboard Ninja | Free Typing Game | Fun to Type

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What I learned this week 11/26/2011

• 18 Tips for Becoming Better Educational Innovation Leaders: Advice from Christensen’s Innovator’s DNA « 21k12

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What I learned this week 11/25/2011

• Best Songs of 2011, Vol. I – Bright Eyes, Cage The Elephant, The Radio Dept., Cold War Kids, The Decemberists, Delorean - Indie Rock Cafe

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What I learned this week 11/22/2011

• Figuring It Out: My Calendar

• Are we REALLY Okay With Selling Ad Space on Student Report Cards? - The Tempered Radical

• Google Image Result for http://flagwallpapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/minecraft-is-about-building.jpg

• Google Image Result for https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihyphenhyphenyNKhDCvVkwLanlvY8vE_1pWdgIS30l2DUQnbxupWKnox1aSghhUPtfQ1RephZrpGesnk5y2HkzrXGZgW08FGbPs9v9cQAKmBkVETWE6zCfQKpuPPqonqtfPFaFtgD3QHPF1_DxZXXKi/s1600/minecraft_your_world_by_thesupersoup-d330rzb.jpg

• Russ Parsons' Dry-Brined Turkey (a.k.a. The Judy Bird) - Blog - food52 - food community, recipe search and cookbook contests

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What I learned this week 11/21/2011

• TeachPaperless: 1:1 in your pocket

• Free Technology for Teachers: Vizlingo - A Fun Little Vocabulary Exercise

• Cognitive Scores Vary As Much Within Test Takers As Between Age Groups Making Testing Less Valid

• Cheap and easy home theater soundproofing tips | The Audiophiliac - CNET News

• Learn to Take "Real Breaks" to Stay Motivated and Creative Through the Day

• Tennessee’s Rules on Teacher Evaluations Bring Frustration - NYTimes.com

• Don’t believe the education “reformers” - Salon.com

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What I learned this week 11/19/2011

• New teacher evaluations coming in 2014 | The Newark Advocate | NewarkAdvocate.com

• The National Center on Time & Learning

• What We’re Watching: A Day in the Life of the National Online Teacher of the Year : Education Next

• 70 Tools 70 Minutes

• Content & Curriculum | Free Resources from the Net for EVERY Learner

• http://www.edexcellencemedia.net/publications/2011/2011_CreatingSoundPolicyforDigitalLearning/20111116_TeachersintheAgeofDigitalInstruction.pdf

• Time Twister - LEGO Mindstorms digital clock - Boing Boing

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What I learned this week 11/17/2011

• Explore | Now I Know | A Web Series by Sprinkle Lab

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What I learned this week 11/16/2011

• Screen printing with vinyl

• Enterprise Learning from eFront

• How Google makes improvements to its search algorithm - YouTube

• Screen capture software, E-learning authoring software, Learning management system| Adobe Captivate 5.5

• Mentoring and Coaching for Effective Tech Integration | Edutopia

• Free Technology for Teachers: Free Webinar on Assessment - What Do They Know?

• ASCD Express 7.03 - Launching Standards-Based Grading in a Points-Based World

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What I learned this week 11/15/2011

• Sentiments On Common Sense » Facing Brutal Facts, Putting Students First and Moving from Good to Great

• APPitic: a learning app directory « NeverEndingSearch

• DIY U Sungard

• Google Reader (77)

  Jobs also said "people don't know what they want until you show it to them"

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What I learned this week 11/14/2011

• Edmodo: Quizzes - Crazy Teaching

• MAKE | A Curriculum of Toys

• A Cleaner Internet - Browser Extensions and Add-ons for Amazon, YouTube and more

• Educational Leadership:Expecting Excellence:Seven Reasons for Standards-Based Grading

• xkcd-grading.png (1428×1027)

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What I learned this week 11/13/2011

• 80+ Google Forms for the Classroom | edte.ch

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What I learned this week 11/12/2011

• TES - Log in or Register

• Will · Easier vs. Better

• Twitter in K-8 Classroom- Globally Connected Learning

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What I learned this week 11/10/2011

• DIY: Turn Photos into a 3-D Tunnel Book! | Photojojo

• fat girl trapped in a skinny body: Salads

• How Do I Switch from My Bank to a Credit Union?

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What I learned this week 11/09/2011

• Teacher Vodcasting and Flipped Classroom Network - A professional learning community for teachers using vodcasting in the classroom

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What I learned this week 11/08/2011

• Reimagining the School Day: More Time for Learning | Education Sector

• MasteryConnect - Home

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What I learned this week 11/07/2011

• Annie Murphy Paul on How Tinkering Makes You Smarter | TIME Ideas | TIME.com

• Pinterest / Home

• Easily Publish Gorgeous Magazines | Scoop.it

• projeqt \ how great stories are told

• internet-60-seconds-infographic.jpg (1191×842)

• Free Technology for Teachers: 3 Interesting Services to Help Students Study Together

• Word Dynamo - Free Study Guides, Quizzes, Games and Flashcards | Word Dynamo

• justbeamit.com

• Free Technology for Teachers: A Visualization of Punctuation's Importance

• http://www.vste.org/documents/vj_2001_all.pdf

• Technology Experts in Schools: Teacher Leaders or Technicians? - Leading From the Classroom - Education Week Teacher

• Studying Teacher Moves : Education Next

• Asana Is a Free Project Management and Collaboration Tool for People with Multiple Projects

• Students & Teachers - Google Docs Templates

• Google+ rollout tips - Google Apps Help

• Where will the next Steve Jobs come from?

• Why a standard is really three standards in one « Granted, but…

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What I learned this week 11/06/2011

• kinagrannis's Channel - YouTube

• In Your Arms - Kina Grannis (Official Music Video) - YouTube

  stop motion animation

• 2011 CASTLE Brief 001 - 1to1 Laptop Programs

• Alice.org

• MakeUseOf Guides, Free Downloadable Tech Guides

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What I learned this week 11/04/2011

• Amazon Lights the Fire With Free Books - NYTimes.com

  Wow....quite a disruptive model

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What I learned this week 11/03/2011

• Jeb Bush's Cyber Attack on Public Schools | Mother Jones

• The Case Against Grades

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What I learned this week 11/02/2011

• ExamGeneral.com

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What I learned this week 10/30/2011

• New Video: Plagiarism Explained by Common Craft | Common Craft

• Ahead.com – Zooming Presentations | Mark Brumley

• Create a Video from your Presentation « PresenterMedia Blog

• Classroom Presentations

• Google+ Is Available for Google Apps Users

• Take a More Realistic Approach to Your To-Do List with the 3 + 2 Rule

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What I learned this week 10/28/2011

• BYOD as the Catalyst to Transform Classroom | District Administration Magazine

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What I learned this week 10/25/2011

• http://ravensblight.com/1pocketmonsters.pdf

• Flattery Papercraft Tools

• Most Popular SketchUp Plugins – by [as]

• Intel® Education: Technology Literacy

• Intel Learn Program

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What I learned this week 10/24/2011

• HOW TO: Make Your Edu-Prezi Shine | Fractus Learning

• If No Bullet Points in My PowerPoint, Then What? | Presentation Advisors

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What I learned this week 10/22/2011

• Google Reader (282)

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What I learned this week 10/21/2011

• Hooked on Learning - Death by worksheet

• SoapBox - Transform your lecture in real-time

• 20 Ways to Create a Healthy Faculty Environment | Edutopia

• How to Energize Your Career to Continue Growing, Learning, and Improving

• Official Google Blog: A fresh start for Google presentations

• Free Technology for Teachers: New Presentation Options in Google Docs

• Free Technology for Teachers: Slide Rocket EDU Launches in Google Apps

• Free Technology for Teachers: Three Alternatives to Clicker Response Systems

• MasteryConnect - Core App

• Poor Results for High Achievers : Education Next

• teachers's Channel - YouTube

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What I learned this week 10/20/2011

• Free Technology for Teachers: Slide Rocket EDU Launches in Google Apps

• More powerful pencils: 1:1 Laptop Programs and 21st century learning « 21k12

• ABCya.com: terrific, free interactives for grades K-5 - Welcome to NCS-Tech!

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What I learned this week 10/19/2011

• Amazon.com: The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators (9781422134818): Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clayton M. Christensen: Books

• Does BYOD Solve or Worsen K-12 Tech Woes? | e-Literate

• OpenClass | T1

• Pearson’s “Free” LMS | Hack Education

• Accountability’s End? : Education Next

• Get Your Game On: How to Build Curriculum Units Using the Video Game Model | Edutopia

• FileLab Web Applications - edit your multimedia files online for free!

• for the love of learning: Two tales of personalization and technology

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What I learned this week 10/18/2011

• The law of disruption - Mind Dump

  tags: quotes

• EdTech from the Valley: Text Messaging: The Lost Tool In The Educators Tool Kit

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What I learned this week 10/17/2011

• Avoiding the Revolution? | Connected Principals

• Challenge Me. | Connected Principals

• Article Makes Case for the Academic Value of Extracurriculars - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

• How to Quickly Figure Out the Day of the Week Any Date Falls On

• WeVideo - Collaborative Online Video Editor in the Cloud

• LiveMinutes

• STUDYBLUE | Make online flashcards & notes. Study anywhere, anytime.

• Study flashcards online - Ediscio

• Testmoz - The Test Generator

• BYOD – Worst Idea of the 21st Century? : Stager-to-Go

• Tech Transformation: 10 of the best: 21st Century Learners need 21st Century Teachers

• Lowe's Toolbox for Education

• Google Apps Education Training Center

• Become A Google Apps Ninja

• Teaching Digital Citizenship in the Elementary Classroom | Edutopia

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What I learned this week 10/16/2011

• edcampCincy Schedule - Google Docs

• Blog « The "Alice Project"

• Wright'sRoom | Pondering education, technology, and making a difference

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What I learned this week 10/14/2011

• When Homework is Not Being Done at Home | AllThingsPLC

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What I learned this week 10/12/2011

• Three Brain-based Teaching Strategies to Build Executive Function in Students | Edutopia

• 538bbe Color Palettes

• YouTube Lets Schools Opt for Educational Videos | MindShift

• Just doing what makes sense. - Crazy Teaching

• 620565_orig.png (779×746)

• 9608578_orig.png (1012×742)

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What I learned this week 10/10/2011

• DIY Gel Air Freshener: {Smelly Jelly Recipes} : TipNut.com

• ClassParrot - Safe Texting for the Classroom -- ClassParrot

  tags: summer2012

• Massively Minecraft - Because thumping trees can teach you math!

• Only2Clicks

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What I learned this week 10/06/2011

• Gnowledge. Create. Share. Learn. Where everyone can create, publish, share and take tests, exercises and assignments.

• Memorize.com - Learn and Remember

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What I learned this week 10/05/2011

• Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? Performance Trends of Top Students

• Education Week: Questioning Our Mania for Education Technology

  "Funding projects to improve teacher training, development, and retention is less sexy than cutting the ribbon on a lab full of lightning-fast computers. But it's also more likely to help kids learn."

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What I learned this week 10/04/2011

• Curriculum - Education - VEX Robotics

• Build Your Own Blocks (BYOB)

• the playing with media classroom challenge | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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What I learned this week 10/03/2011

• Minus: Extremely Simple File Sharing With 10GB of Free Online Storage

• Home

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What I learned this week 10/01/2011

• New York Times Schools For Tomorrow

• Pacific NW | What's the matter with teachers today? | Seattle Times Newspaper

• Whales Meet After 10,000 Years | Youngzine

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What I learned this week 09/30/2011

• Twitter / @joe_bower: Simply raising the bar to ...

  tags: quotes

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What I learned this week 09/29/2011

• Do Rich People Know What’s Going On in Their Local Schools? : Education Next

• Teachers as Technology Trailblazers: Google Geo Institute: Using Sketch Up and Google Earth

• Education Research Report: Insufficient sleep among high school students associated with a variety of health-risk behaviors

• Realtime Behavior Management Software - ClassDojo

• Study: Few affluent U.S. districts are world class — Joanne Jacobs

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What I learned this week 09/28/2011

• 45 Horrifying Photoshop Tutorials for Halloween Season

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What I learned this week 09/27/2011

• Standardized tests for everyone? In the Internet age, that’s the wrong answer. - The Washington Post

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What I learned this week 09/26/2011

• The New York Times - Schools For Tomorrow - Mission

• Free Technology for Teachers: Vocabulary Widgets for Your Blog or Website

• ThingyLab

• How to Make an Old-Time Radio Into an Mp3 Player Speaker | The Art of Manliness

• Education Research Report: Rethinking gifted education policy

• Creating an Engaging Presentation for the Online Classroom | Online Universities

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What I learned this week 09/24/2011

• Moving beyond 'blame the teacher' - latimes.com

• How to Stop the Drop in Verbal Scores - NYTimes.com

  The most credible analyses have shown that the chief causes were not demographics or TV watching, but vast curricular changes, especially in the critical early grades. In the decades before the Great Verbal Decline, a content-rich elementary school experience evolved into a content-light, skills-based, test-centered approach.

• Hating Blackboard, Let Me Count The Ways » assortedstuff

  I certainly have my good days and bad days with Blackboard.  I have to admit I love this post because of the image.  

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What I learned this week 09/21/2011

• iDoneThis

• GetawayMoments: How to Make a Cheap and Easy Ikea Time Lapse Panning Unit Part 3

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What I learned this week 09/20/2011

• The Shame of College Sports - Magazine - The Atlantic

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What I learned this week 09/19/2011

• Paper Toys - Paper Cut-Outs - PaperToys.com

• How To Help Your Child's Brain Grow Up Strong : NPR

• What2Learn

• Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Resources for Teaching and Learning Vocabulary

• Free Technology for Teachers: 77 Educational Games and Game Builders

• Free Technology for Teachers: 12 Useful YouTube Accessories for Teachers and Students

• Cool Cat Teacher Blog: A Roundup of Reading Research

• So Much Homework | Connected Principals

• Introduction to Arduino | Jody Culkin

• How to Reclaim Your Time in Seven Days for a More Productive and Stress-Free Workday

• Organize anything, together. | Trello

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What I learned this week 09/18/2011

• Vidgod - Free Youtube Download

• How To: Use your Android Phone as a PowerPoint Remote - YouTube

  tags: android

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Top 10 Sites for Creating Quizzes

• Online FLV Converter - Directly convert online FLV/YouTube to AVI/WMV/MP4/MOV/3GP/MP3/iPod/PSP

• Bookend Your Day: The Power of Morning and Evening Routines | The Art of Manliness

• What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.com

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What I learned this week 09/16/2011

• Gamestar Mechanic

• Scott McLeod: Schools, Technology, Test Scores, and the New York Times

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What I learned this week 09/15/2011

• Think Tank Claims Middle-Class Schools Falling Short - District Dossier - Education Week

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What I learned this week 09/14/2011

• Quality Homework - A Smart Idea - NYTimes.com

  Do American students have too much homework or too little? Neither, I’d say. We ought to be asking a different question altogether. What should matter to parents and educators is this: How effectively do children’s after-school assignments advance learning?

• Education Week: International Test Scores, Irrelevant Policies

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What I learned this week 09/13/2011

• Poll Friends and Others in Real Time and On-the-Go | PollBob

• 3 Photo Editing Tools To Make Fun Of Your Face

• Fifty Ways to Leave Your Term Paper/Book Report & Tell Your Story « NeverEndingSearch

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What I learned this week 09/12/2011

• Why We Reject Creative Ideas

• Online Free Flash Pageflipper

• What People Don't Get About My Job: From A(rmy Soldier) to Z(ookeeper) - Derek Thompson - Business - The Atlantic

• Tucoola

• Stagnant Future, Stagnant Tests: Pointed Response to NY Times "Grading the Digital School" | HASTAC

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What I learned this week 09/08/2011

• Creating Infographics with Students | Langwitches Blog

• Dweeber

• Interview: Steve Denning offers Radical Ideas for Reframing Education Reform - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

• Evidence Based Intervention Network

• Will · "We Prepare Children to Learn How to Learn"

• Will · The Question

• Seth's Blog: Back to (the wrong) school

  tags: quotes

• Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Ways to Avoid Inbox Overload When Collecting Assignments

• How to Erase Old Marks off a Dry Erase Board - wikiHow

• Free offline browser | Fresh Websuction

• Camping Wind Turbine

• Bluetooth Headset Hack

• Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com

• 12 Ways to Use The Learning Network This School Year - NYTimes.com

• Students Find Ways to Thwart Facebook Bans - NYTimes.com

  schools version of teaching problem solving ;)

• The HELPS Program | Helping Early Literacy with Practice Strategies

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Top 20 Social Networks for Education

• 9 Online Communities To Enhance Your Minecraft Game Experience

• Teaching Innovation with the Curiosity Box - The Tempered Radical

• Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Learning Should Be Messy....Right?

• The Role of Mistakes in the Classroom | Edutopia

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