With Personal Kanban you CAN!

Good morning my friends. This morning I'm tired. Are you?We've got the Flat Classroom projects - the 3 we are currently running, kicking off right now and it takes a lot of energy and effort to get things going, even though we have fantastic project managers and jam up teachers. It is easy to put names and numbers on  a web page but...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/30/2011

The Global Classroom Project Some of our certified teachers are helping on the organization team for this new project. It is exciting to see global collaboration take off. tags: Education globalcollaboration Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are he...

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Lifetime Channel Deal; Please Vote for Spring of Hope

Today, I would like to announce that I've signed a contract with the Lifetime Channel and will become one of the bloggers for their morning show, the Balancing Act. Cool Cat Teacher is still here and I'm writing about educational topics and you'll keep getting what you've been getting here. As soon as my blog goes "live" over there, I'll write for a slightly different audience - primarily women - about balancing your life and...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/29/2011

Education Week Teacher: How Jay-Z Can Help Us Remix Education Article in edweek about innovation (using rap music and Jay-z as the interesting backdrop) and wrapping up with a well needed discussion about teacherpreneurship. tags: Education teacherpreneur innovation ...

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Epic

My son has been looking for epic music on youtube and listens to these amazing one hour mixes of music while he is writing papers for his honors English class. I've embedded the video below and played it while writing this post.(Equally breathtaking are the graphics which the YouTube creator says he made with "alphacoders." )Do we have epic...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/28/2011

Sendoid - Instant, Private, P2P File Transfers A new private way to share files. (Hat tip Julie Lindsay.) tags: education p2p filesharing web2 edu_newapp AppleInsider | NFL's Buccaneers equip every player...

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How Micromanagement can take a Leader's Eye off the Ball

I couldn't believe my eyes. As I drove up to the stadium for the second time Saturday night, there was our 18-0 state winning football coach grilling hamburgers before the game! SHOCK!Why would the coach be anywhere but in the locker room? There are tons of us "unimportant" people out here who will grill hamburgers so he can do his important...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/27/2011

Cinch - Create and share micro podcasts, images and text updates on cinch.fm A website for creating podcasts from your iphone, phone, or computer. It has a lot of features odeo used to have which was my old podcast channel. I'm working to set up a new one here. tags: education podcasting ...

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The New Authentic Research Frontier: Google Books nGram Viewer

Google's nGram viewer lets you search over 5 million books for the instances of words. Imagine it as a search engine into the uses of words since 1800.To better understand it, view the Tedx Boston talk "A Picture is Worth 500 Billion Words" by Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel. It is quite interesting and still a big imperfect...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/24/2011

Welcome to FolderBoy Interesting website that organizes tasks by folders. I will try this out. tags: Education productivity lists Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are he...

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Rock, Paper, Ebook: The Next Evolution of Reading is Here

School Library Journal had an article yesterday on how Overdrive now is compatible with the Kindle. Overdrive is a popular ebook "check out" service used by many public and some progressive school libraries. As I checked the prices, I found that a license for a US school of up to a certain size is around $4,000 and it includes $2,000 towards...

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Little Things Mean a Lot

This is the view from where I sit right now. I am taking up money at the softball gate in 90 something degree weather in the hot blazing sun. Or I was a minute a go.A Little Umbrella Another teacher came by and she gave me her umbrella.  It means a lot because now I can read, grade papers on my iPad, and blog! You can see...

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Thanks for Teaching Us: Share and Join In

Take time to thank a teacher...publicly. Now you can.The website www.thanksforteaching.us lets us thank our teachers publicly. I just love this website and wept as I perused the first page.Even if your students don't write on this page, just a glimpse lets you be inspired that there are GREAT teachers out there... tons of them."Thank you...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/20/2011

Successful Online Presentation Skills for Students With more than 30% of high school students now taking at least one class online and almost 20% of middle schoolers, it is time to understand the nuances of engaging in online classrooms and presenting online. As part of the Flat Classroom project, co-founder, Vicki Davis, has helped thousands of students learn how to present online. Learn...

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This Page is Mine

I had to smile as I saw this on a wiki page tonight as I am entering final grades for progress reports tomorrow:Students want to have their own place on the Net. A place that is theirs. Every time I bring these digital natives into a place where they can create a full-blown page of their own making I'm overwhelmed by their desire to own and...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/19/2011

Snap Links Plus :: Add-ons for Firefox This handy firefox add on lets you hold down the right mouse button and draw a square over a set of links. Then, it will open each of those links into its own tab. This is useful if you have students placing links on a page and need to open each link to assess them. This is the only firefox extension that I found compatible with the newest version of...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/18/2011

Valve offering original Portal for free until September 20 | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog The physics game "portal" is free until sept 20. Download now. tags: Physics education Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are he...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/17/2011

Parents’ behavior linked to kids’ videogame playing | MSU News | Michigan State University Parents who have negative relationships with their children are more likely to have kids who play video games. I don't know. What causes the negative relationship? Aren't teenage boys attracted to video games. ARen't they more likely to have tension with parents anyway. Here is a classic case of causation...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 09/16/2011

Adobe Photoshop Touch apps for iPad now available in Apple App Store « Adobe Nordic Blog iPad PhotoShop Touch apps. tags: education adobe Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are he...

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A Roundup of Reading Research

Get the facts when you're teaching a child how to read.I have a child with dyslexia and one of my biggest ambitions is to help my children love reading. Mrs. Grace Adkins in our learning lab is an invaluable help in this way and sent me some links to current research on the topic. I may not be an official "reading" teacher but I am my child's...

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Death, Taxes, and the Poison Pen

Don't write when you're tired. Don't write when you're upset. Don't write when you'll regret what you said later.I'm all of those things. September 11th makes us all sad.Business taxes are due Thursday and the headache is unbelievable this year w/ Flat Classroom, Cool Cat Teacher and my old hosting business. The Flat Classroom book is so...

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Picking the Perfect Font for Beautiful Designs Every Time

If it doesn't look good it isn't going to get a good grade. No longer in the age of the typewriter, we are now able to choose from many different fonts and sizes. In the case of fonts, less is more sometimes but picking the perfect size and type can be tricky.A font is a"set of type." When writing my graphic design curriculum, I turned to...

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Failure to Communicate: When it is time to abandon the Betas.

"What we have is a failure to communicate,"says the warden to Cool Hand Luke in the movie by the same name.Exactly.Between Firefox 7 Beta, the add ons for the browser, my free antivirus software Avast, and the upgrade to Blogger, something is wrong.I have several computers that I work on: my Vista PC at home, my large Win 7 Lenovo Think Center m90z at home, and my HP Win 7 64 bit laptop at school. All nice, well tended machines.But...

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The One Habit that Will Immediately Reduce Your Stress

One of the most unbelievably annoying things in my house is to run out of cat food. We have two cats and they just go crazy."Good morning, Boots.""Meow.""Morning, Crispy.""Reow" (Yes, he has an "r" sound instead of the "m")Then all I hear is"Meow. Reow. Meow. Reow."It escalates until it is is unbelievable.You can't get anything done. Don't pass Go. Don't collect $200. Don't even breathe.GET CAT FOOD, STAT.This Saturday I jumped...

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