Our Freshman Software Exploration Project (6 Days of Wonder)

Software should be viewed holistically, in my opinion. I know that in 4 years most of my students will not be using the same version of any software I teach. I do want them to have deep knowledge of many different programs, however, I want them to know that no matter what software or "apps" come their way that they are able to take the app,...

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Join us for "Meet the Flat Classroom" on Monday #flatclass

Join us Monday for "Meet the Flat Classroom." I'm so happy to say that after our struggles with a potential hacker on our blogs/ google docs, etc. of the past few days (as I blogged yesterday), we've worked through the issues and our application forms are back up and running. THANK YOU to all of our friends who let us know about the problem...

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Google has taken down our Flat Classroom forms and Julie's blog

Update: We are not sure why or how this happened, but we are back up. Tons of passwords changed. Thank goodness for Backupify - the service we use to back up our Google docs.   I will share about this later. Thank you to the Google Certified Teachers, Google employees and others who helped us with this problem and thank you especially...

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My Google+ Lesson Today Turned into a Bigger Lesson than I planned

Today I demonstrated Google plus to my students as we compared and contrasted Google Hangouts with Skype and Oovoo. As I went into Google plus, I just happened to be there as Stephen Downes pointed out a grammatical mistake I made on my Leadership post yesterday.My students said:"Hey, Mrs. Vicki, is that guy talking about you?"Oops. He was....

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On Leadership

Great leaders  hire people smarter, more innovative, and better than themselves.Poor leaders want to be the smartest one in the room. They always make sure they are.Great leaders care about those who work for and with them... their life stories, their hobbies, their interests. They know that personal lives can effect professional careers...

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The Routine of Being AMAZING

There is good teaching and there is great teaching. Teaching is more than just "in front" of the class. It is proper planning, preparation, timely assessment, classroom organization. In fact, I've often found that the "little things" become the big things more often than not. It is about your habits.2011 has been the "year of the habit" for...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 08/23/2011

Little Lily Polka Dot www.littlelillypolkadot.com has a narrated picture book that teaches kids that going to the doctor is not so scary. Interactive site to use with kids tags: education health health_teacher elementary_teacher Home | Teacher Leaders Network There...

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CNN to Acquire Zite?

Zite and Flipboard are two must-have new apps for the iPad. Each is different and an important part of my media diet. The rumor mill is churning up that CNN and Zite are chummy on a deal to sell Zite for $20million+.Mainstream media hasn't really gotten social media or apps- until now? They gotta buy it. Not sure I am happy about this one.Is it Nite Nite Zite?Related posts:15 Fantastic Ways to Use FlipboardIPad Productivity:Pareto...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 08/21/2011

Kidblog.org - Blogs for Teachers and Students I found that quite a few teachers in the technology forum in Edmodo are using this site for blogging with kids. tags: Education blogging writing literacy Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are he...

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Daily Education & Technology News for Schools 08/20/2011

Adobe Forms Central You can use this online service to create forms and then collect responses online. It is from adobe so the forms look professional. tags: education adobe productivity forms Adobe Send Now A free service from Adobe that lets you send large files....

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Create an Online Folder for students to turn in work for free

This is a great service for those of you who want to sort of go paperless and need a virtual place to turn in files.Although the teacher should have dropbox you DO NOT have to have dropbox installed.You can then have them upload files with your secret password that are delivered right to your dropbox inbox in a folder called "Dropittome"Here's...

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Tweets of Note in the last 24 hours 08/19/2011

Cybraryman Internet Catalogue My Moodle page: http://tinyurl.com/y6454wb #mootnz11 tags: mootnz11 twitter Leadership Lessons from Heroes, the Bravest of Men | C-Level Strategies - Visionary Leadership Leadership Lessons from Heroes, the Bravest of Men http://twrt.me/v2g01 via @LisaPetrilli...

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Today is YOURS

I love my students. Today I will show it.I want my class to be interesting. Today I will be interested in my students.I want my students to learn a lot. Today I will explain where we are going with all this and why.I want to be excellent in what I do. Today I will find one thing each student in my class does excellently well.I want the support...

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