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15 Dec 09

Physical Education Resources

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01 Dec 09

The News-Gazette.com: Champaign schools pilot new teacher-evaluation system

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This year, before her principal ever visited her classroom, they talked about her goals for the year, how she evaluates if her students are learning, and her classroom management plan, among other things.
The focus of the evaluations is more on the students – how effectively the teacher is helping his or her students learn, rather than how the teacher presents the lessons.
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- new evaluation plan
- required Shargo to set a goal for herself and her class for the year.
- The new evaluation plan takes into account not just what a teacher is doing in the classroom, but how he or she is contributing to the school, including working with colleagues to help students who are struggling or who have serious attendance problems.
- Teamwork is the expectation in the new evaluation,

09 Nov 09

Eight habits of highly effective 21st century teachers

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be able to adapt to a dynamic teaching experience. When it all goes wrong in the middle of a class, when the technologies fail, the show must go on.
able to adapt the curriculum and the requirements to teach to the curriculum in imaginative ways.
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- able to adapt software and hardware designed for a business model into tools to be used by a variety of age groups and abilities
- they must see the potential in the emerging tools and Web technologies, grasp these and manipulate them to serve their needs.
- The visionary teacher can look at others’ ideas and envisage how they would use these in their class.
- we must be able to leverage
- collaborative tools to enhance and captivate our learners. We, too, must be collaborators; sharing, contributing, adapting and inventing.
- There’s so much to learn. How can you as an educator know all these things? You must take risks and sometimes surrender yourself to the students’ knowledge.
- We expect our students to be life-long learners. Teachers, must continue to absorb experiences and knowledge, as well
- The 21st century teacher is fluent in tools and technologies that enable communication and collaboration. They go beyond learning just how to do it; they also know how to facilitate it, stimulate and control it, moderate and manage it.
- we must model the behaviors that we expect from our students
- tolerance, global awareness, and reflective practice, whether it’s the quiet, personal inspection of their teaching and learning, or through blogs, twitter and other media, effective educators look both inwards and outwards.
- the 21st century educator is a leader

04 Nov 09

15 Oct 09

The Shifted Librarian » October 14th Stream

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This site has been created by NEFLIN to provide Florida library staff with
one location for information about webinars.

Webinars are online courses that are self-paced or instructor-led. They are
provided by a variety of organizations, but to include them on this list they
should be free of charge and on topics of interest to library staff.

Send suggestions for webinars to add to this site by e-mailing
office@neflin.org."

11 Oct 09

Turbo-Charged Wikis: Technology Embraces Cooperative Learning | Academic Commons

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First, a teacher must establish a collaborative environment from the
beginning of class. A wiki-based project should not be the first time students
work together. Collaborative projects work well, but only if an environment of
cooperation already exists.
The assignment of the project must possess two qualities. First, it must be
an authentic problem or situation which must be solved collaboratively. Second,
the final product must be utilized by another audience, preferably classmates
to advance the learning of the entire class. In other words, the wiki cannot
result in an assignment that is merely "turned in." Also teachers
need to remember that the wiki is only the tool to enhance learning; the
problem solving is what drives the project.

08 Oct 09

Google Reader

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a spelling game from Scholastic in the United Kingdom. You’re shown two words and have to pick the one that is spelled correctly.

06 Oct 09

WordSift - About

classroom uses

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Creative teachers will find an endless variety of uses for WordSift, but here are some ways:
use WordSift to review assigned text to identify challenging words or concepts prior to a lesson, and identify images and videos to use in class.
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- students can preview text.
- previewing text is a useful strategy for improving comprehension. Using WordSift to identify the key vocabulary, and playing with the images and to use the example source sentence feature to “skim” the text can help students who might otherwise struggle with the complexity of the text.
- take the Visual Thesaurus® display of a word web and have students identify and discuss related words.
- write or draw a page using the words in the cloud.
- students can use WordSift as they read text, or as they write a response or summary.
- to review their own writing drafts
- Whole-class vocabulary assessment can be done on-the-fly by showing the images from selected words, having them identify unfamiliar words, and having students talk about which picture is the best representation of a given word
- So, think of a word much like a soccer ball or hackeysack. Think of a classroom as a kind of playground in which words can be kicked around for fun and for learning - not drill and kill, nor list and define. WordSift enables teachers to create an environment where language is "talked about" as richly as possible.

Mini Workshop on Video- How to use PowerPoint in the classroom

"For a quick video overview of how to use PowerPoint effectively in the classroom, watch the five short (1-2 minutes) video clips below. You'll need the Flash 6 plug-in to view the workshop."

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24 Jul 09

Nine great reasons why teachers should use Twitter | Laura Walker

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1. Together we’re better
Teaching can be a lonely business.
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- not enough conversations between teachers
- about learning. We simply don’t have time. Twitter can be like a virtual staffroom
- 2. Global or local: you choose
- 3. Self-awareness and reflective practice
- Excellent teachers reflect on what they are doing
- Teachers on Twitter share these reflections and both support and challenge each other.
- 4. Ideas workshop and sounding board
- you can gather a range of opinions and constructive criticism within minutes; which can help enormously whether you are planning a learning experience, writing a policy or putting a job application together.
- 5. Newsroom and innovation showcase
- Twitter helps me stay up to date on news and current affairs, as well as on the latest developments in my areas of interest:
- 6. Professional development and critical friends
- One of the best things about training days is the break out time between sessions,
- Twitter enables me to have that kind of powerful networking capacity with me all the time.
- 7. Quality-assured searching
- Once your Twitter network grows past a critical mass, you can ask them detailed questions and get higher quality information back than a bog-standard Google search would generally provide, with the inbuilt assurance that it is a respected member of your network providing the information.
- 8. Communicate, communicate, communicate
- 140 characters
- become better at saying what needs to be said in my professional communications with less waffle and padding
- 9. Getting with the times has never been so easy!
- Twitter is anything but complicated!

14 Jul 09

Chattanooga Times Free Press | Area schools eye technology to stop cell phones

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steering the Dade system toward electronic detection.

15 Jun 09

Kathy Schrock's Kaffeeklatsch: Google Apps for Education overview

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We used a separate domain for the staff and students since staff mail had to be archived (as per the eDiscovery regulations) and student email does not.
We received explicit permission from our parents in grades 6-8 to give their students email accounts
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- f I were to set this up again, I might simply create three domains-- one for staff, one for the middle and high school students with email turned on, and one for the younger students with email turned off, but with log-in access to Docs and Sites, to allow collaborative work to take place in a closed environment.
- We used the last two digits of YOG-last name-first initial for the student accounts. In addition, so their real name did not show up in the header of mail they sent,
- The use of these Google Apps has moved technology ahead rapidly in our district.