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

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• 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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What I learned this week 09/07/2011

• Indiana Orchards Directory - our listing of orchards in Indiana

• Engineering is Elementary® | The Engineering Design Process

  tags: design

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What I learned this week 09/06/2011

• StudyShuffle - Improve Students' Test Scores!

• Kids learn computer programming at Hack the Future

• Create House Floor Plans Online with Autodesk Homestyler Free Floor Plan Software

• How to Set Up a VPN on Windows 7

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

• The Single Best Idea for Reforming K-12 Education - Forbes

• ClassConnect | Home

• iSpaces™ Your Cloud Computer™

• GLADINET - Cloud Storage Access Platform & Solutions

  tags: sms

• Gladinet Products & Services « Gladinet Content Platform

• Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office available to all - Docs Blog

• Online STEM learning curriculum for elementary schools

• Lesson 1: Home Row, Left Hand - Peter's Online Typing Course

• Famous Quotes about Practice

• Practice quotes

• Practice Quotes - BrainyQuote

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What I learned this week 09/05/2011

• The National Center for STEM Elementary Education :: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics :: St. Catherine University

• STEM Lessons

• ISTEM: Search Results

• Children's Books Forever

• Teaching Library | Discover teaching ideas and lesson resources linked to children's books and literature.

• The KYVL for Kids Research Portal - How to do research Home Base

• Pegby: Peg it up, Move it Around, Get it Done.

• Think You're An Auditory Or Visual Learner? Scientists Say It's Unlikely : Shots - Health Blog : NPR

• The Seven Steps to Becoming a 21st Century School or District | Edutopia

• Let's play | ScratchEd

• Step-by-step guide : FrontlineSMS

  tags: sms

• Directory: SMS Channels

  tags: sms

• Geek to Live: Create your own virtual private network with Hamachi

• textPlus

  tags: SMS

• remind101 | Text Messaging For Teachers

  tags: SMS

• International No Office Day | Connected Principals

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What I learned this week 09/04/2011

• AI vs. AI. Two chatbots talking to each other - YouTube

  Awesome conversation!

• Synthesia, Piano for Everyone

• QuizStar - Create Online Quizzes

• 12 Ways To Be More Search Savvy | MindShift

• "they" is the operative word - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog

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What I learned this week 09/03/2011

• Education Week: A Teacher Finds Good in Testing

  Read of the Week!

• Download YouTube Videos & Songs! Convert YouTube to MP3. Get video in mp3, mp4, 3gp, flv in just 1 click!

• Get to Know the New Google Docs Shortcuts

• Tips for teachers from Sir Ken Robinson - Report Card

• How Do I Get the Best Price When Shopping Online?

• CaptureIt Plus Takes Screen Captures Complete with Menus and UI Elements

• How to Make Your To-Do List Doable

• http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3448760/Learn%20How%20To%20Code.pdf

• "Talent Is Nothing Without Focus and Endurance"

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