Notes from One Note workshop at #msftpil

These are my rough notes on the Microsoft one note session today.One note is usable on any Platform. iPhone app here, higher Rez ipad app coming. Android One note Mac is only available from skydive.Top tips on one note.In 2010 One Note became part of the office suite.FYI. Office 2007 one note won't sync to SkydriveRobyn Hrivnatz and Sarah ? the facilitatorsPages on the right. Subpages, subsections.Any file from anywhere can be...

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Ghost in the Wires: Kevin Mitnick's memoir

It is kind of like the time my husband and I drove up on a horrible motor cycle accident that must have happened milliseconds before. The man had flipped over his bike and slid several feet on his face. I didn't want to look but I did and will never forget it. That is how I feel about the book Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's...

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Innovative Educators arrive for the Microsoft U.S. Innovative Education Forum to Share Best Practices

This week I am at the Microsoft Partners in Learning serving as a US judge for the International Competition and am blown away from the amazing innovations. What is most impressive is that although many incredible uses of Microsoft products are included that anything and everything is here. Oddly enough, I have seen Google, Apple, and just about anything as part of a classroom with many learning experiences. The purpose as judges...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 07/28/2011

Thank you to the judges for the 2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum - TeachTec - Site Home - MSDN Blogs It is exciting to be at the 2011 US Innovation Education Forum as a judge this week. To see who the judges are, what we're doing, and more about the process Rob (@TeachTec) has given an overview of what and who. tags: education learning...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 07/24/2011

We should love our students and see the best in... Ideas for encouraging writing. tags: education writing composition_teacher composition language Bloom's Digital Taxonomy An excellent document from Andrew Churches explaining the evolution of Bloom's Taxonomy...

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Great Teachers are Gardeners

Image via Wikipedia"It is so exciting that you are publishing a book! I already signed up for the e-mail list. I can not wait to buy it.By the way, does Westwood teach a film class? I think I remember you telling me that you have a class based around video production, but it is only a semester long. If such a class exists, I would love...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 07/23/2011

Dictionary Squared - Improve your Vocabulary A website to help students with vocabulary.tags: sat education dictionary edu_newapp Think Like a Teacher » #eduwin, a MiracleGrowing EduBloggerConcept Eduwin is a hashtag for telling great teacher stories. Here is the history behind this hashtag. Hey! #eduwintags: education eduwin...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 07/22/2011

Apple Declares the Optical Disc Obsolete With New Mac Minis - John Paczkowski - News - AllThingsD Optical Disk drives are obsolete? the mac Mini has no optical disc drive because Apple says the modern machine doesn't need one. tags: education apple technology edu_news More Than...

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Validate someone today!

Take the time to watch this video and remember the importance of your words and facial expressions.This video often comes through my Twitter feed and Google alerts because the young lady in the film's name is "Vicki Davis" (just like mine.)Think of the nobility of encouragement and smiling and the tragedy when someone takes it away.My friends,...

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The greatest teacher incentive: The freedom to teach

The Washington Post oped is live The greatest teacher incentive: The freedom to teach  and full of thoughts and words that echoed through my head as a result of the surveys you completed on Monday.How it was written Over 130 of you took the time and energy to share your thoughts. Your passion to teach and do what is right took my breath...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 07/20/2011

‪Interview with DonTae‬‏ - YouTube This amazing student in Evansville Indiana was transformed by his senior project and a netbook. This is why we need MORE than standardized tests: senior projects and high school portfolios belong in the mix. tags: education portfolio inspiration student all_teachers ...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 07/19/2011

PickChow! Food Game for Kids - Food for Kids | ZisBoomBah A game to teach students how to pick foods that they like to have a healthy plate. tags: health games education Going Global: One Classroom’s Journey – Learn. Teach. Engage. I've "met" the engaging educators. I'm enjoying...

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Urgent: How do we create the best environment for US teachers to teach?

My goal is to encourage and inspire teachers and part of that goal is to speak out for the nobility of our profession. I've been posed a question by a major media outlet and after a bit of back and forth (during which I disclosed that I'm a private school teacher NOT a public school teacher), I was reminded that beyond my own classroom I am a writer and encourager of teachers of all kinds.Because of this, I need to URGENTLY hear...

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Tweets of Note in the last 24 hours 07/17/2011

Extreme Classroom Makeover! « blanchetBlog @coolcatteacher here's a post abt organizing my classrm yrs ago.--will update on current ideas when school starts! http://t.co/q9JN8lx tags: twitter Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are he...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 07/17/2011

Vicki Davis Interview | Q3-the flat classroom book (part 2) on Vimeo Tinashe edited and posted each question separately to make it easier for her readers to dive into the appropriate question of interest.This is one of my favorites about the Flat Classroom book, why we created it and how we hope it will be an experience to help connect and engage teachers. - just pardon the lovely look on...

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Tweets of Note in the last 24 hourss 07/16/2011

Introducing appointment slots in Google Calendar - Official Gmail Blog Introducing appointment slots in Google Calendar http://bit.ly/ncH4ua #productivity tags: productivity twitter TileSpeak: Play Mahjong, Learn Chinese! Play MahJong and learn to speak chinese with this cool app #ipadchat...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 07/16/2011

Spelling mistakes 'cost millions' Spelling costs businesses money! Listen #teachers RT @shareski: Spelling counts and costs millions too. http://bit.ly/qdNNGU #education tags: teachers education twitter Facebook Awakening — bit by bit Understand what Facebook means to teens RT...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 07/15/2011

Jibe and Unity3d | Google Groups Google group for those using Jibe and Unity 3d. Not just reactiongrid. tags: education virtual_world virtualworlds jibe unity3d technology edu_newapp UNITY: Game Development Tool Unity 3D editor is used...

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Why Fast Food Thinking Harms Learning (and Life)

David Warlick tweeted about this amazing video from Martin Warlick's video a day blog. It is an incredible on-building animations of the Astronomical Clock for the 600th anniversary of Prague.Listen at the very beginning, you here someone quickly snipping at the beginning:"How anticlimactic."They were wrong. What emerges is a phenomenal on-building...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 07/14/2011

kibin Students are already peer reviewing each other's work using kibin. tags: education grammar peerreview p2p language literature bestpractices techintegrator Flat Classroom brings world closer - Pelican Press Another great...

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