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Here is my pick of 10 articles about social learning since my last posting just before Christmas. I have listed them below in chronological order, and also added a short quote from each of them to give you a flavour of what each is about. If you want to read further articles you will find many more that I have saved in my 2012 Reading List. 1 - Through the 70-20-10 looking glass, Charles Jennings, ITA, 29 December 2012 “In this article I want to turn to the ‘how’ of change and transformation in  show all text

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I'm a huge fan and user of Evernote for, well, everything. I use it for my lesson plans, lesson resources, lesson schedule, meeting notes, class notes, student notes, research, web clippings, recipes, to do lists, project management, and so much more. I share notes with colleagues and students. I can access my notes anywhere on any web enabled device. I created an Evernote for Education resource page to collect great resources and to use when I do training on using Evernote in education. I just  show all text

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Wolfram Alpha isn't the "Google killer" that many hyped it up to be prior to its 2009 launch. Instead, the self-described computational knowledge engine takes a completely different approach to letting users find and analyze information. Rather than scouring the Web and ranking everybody's pages in the order it thinks we'd find them useful, it uses its own data sets and computational power to return detailed reports and analysis about whatever topics users query it for. Tomorrow, the service wi...  show all text

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Homework may be of value -particularly to older learners. Hattie provides reasonable effect sizes for secondary and older students. Homework needs to be engaging, with clear success criteira and should generate feedback to the learner.

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Hello Slide is a site I just found out about from the excellent blog, Life Feast.  This is a wonderful site for creating a presentation/slideshow w/ an audio narration.  This is done by uploading a PDF and then typing the text you want to hear.  HS then records the audio for you.  Best of all a finished product can then be embedded into a site or blog. I highly recommend checking out Hello Slide by clicking here!! For my top 10 sites for creating a slideshow/presentation click here.

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Over the last couple of weeks I presented to a group of aspiring leaders and our own administrators about what governs education. The first part of the presentation is fairly straightforward. In education, we are primarily governed by legislation, collective agreements, board policy, administrative procedures and, for Catholic school divisions, Canon Law or diocesan rules. It is important for all educators (especially aspiring or current leaders) to have an understanding of these “governors,” as  show all text

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The Republican education commissioner of Texas, Robert Scott, might not be the first person you’d think would find common ground with California’s Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, but Scott has spoken against high-stakes testing in a way that would make Brown smile.

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Comic Book is a iPad/iPhone app ($1.99) that is great for making digital comics.  This is done by selecting your layout, uploading pics, adjusting the theme/styling, adding stickers/text and then sharing/exporting w/ others.  While not as detailed as some other similar apps such as Comic Life, this is still a fun tool to use for teaching digital storytelling. I recommend checking out Comic Book by clicking here.

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Flickr: Loren Kahle Imagine you’re a senior manager at a leading videogame company. Your job is to devise the company’s competitive strategy in a rapidly growing and dynamic industry. What prices will you set for the consoles? How many games will be available for your platform? This is the premise of Platform Wars, an epistemic game, or management simulator, developed by MIT’s Sloan School of Management. The game’s learning objectives are to allow students to interactively experience the challe...  show all text

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Feb. 7 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens's birth. Here are teaching ideas, and resources that range from 19th-century Times articles to 21st-century multimedia.

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Today, we released an update to Evernote for iOS (4.1.8) that comes full of great additions and improvements. We enhanced our note editing capabilities, added smart note titles, made sharing easier, and much more. Let’s take a look. Get Evernote for iOS Predictive Note Titles Gone are the days of Untitled Notes. Now, when you create a new note and save it without giving the note a title, the app will assign a contextual title using calendar events, your location, note contents, and other inform...  show all text

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For the past year, my Tuesday nights have been filled with insights and  inspiration from the worlds top leaders who faithfully gather on Twitter for one of the most powerful and productive chat streams on Twitter:  #leadershipchat The chat is co-hosted by author and CEO of C-Level Strategies, Inc, Lisa Petrilli (@LisaPetrilli) and The Connection Agent,  Steve Woodruff (@swoodruff) , and each week  they challenge and guide us through the questions that challenge us to be the best leaders in our...  show all text

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Flickr: Nazareth College By Erica Perez, California Watch California State University and University of California campuses are taking new steps to limit what students can do with their class notes: At least one CSU Chico student recently was reported to judicial affairs for selling notes to a website, while a newly updated UC Berkeley policy restricts how students share their notes with others. The policies raise questions about whether instructors or students have copyrights to the notes stu...  show all text

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Over the past year I have begun to transform my class into a project-based classroom.  This constructivist approach to learning has allowed me to really incorporate technology into the classroom. ...

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I've featured some resources from the Encyclopedia of Life in the past (here and here) and today I'd like to point out a couple of new things from EOL that I learned about through the Google Earth Blog. The Encyclopedia of Life has offered Google Earth files for a while. Two new (to me anyway) files that could be useful for science teachers are tours of Bluefin Tuna and Arctic Tern migration patterns. The video below is of the Bluefin Tuna tour. Applications for Education The Encyclopedia of...  show all text

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Inspired by recent hashtag fatigue, we've decided to help out our readers with this helpful guide on the proper use of hashtags...

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Sponge Lab Biology recently won a National Science Foundation award for its interactive Build a Body activity. Spend a few minutes using Build a Body and it is easy to understand why it was recognized by the NSF. In Sponge Lab Biology's Build a Body students construct a human body system-by-system. To build a body students drag and drop into place the organs and bones of a human body. Each organ and bone is accompanied by a description of the purpose of that bone or organ. The systems that stu...  show all text

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Any teacher who has assigned group projects to students has at some point had to help those students organize and equitably distribute work. (Or has had to listen to students complaints about other group members not pulling their weight). Here are some tools that you can have students use to manage their responsibilities when working on group projects. Pegby is a good website for organizing the tasks that you and or your team need to get done. Pegby is set up like a corkboard with index cards...  show all text

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More schools are turning to tablets to teach but are they just playthings and a sophisticated dictionary?

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Goal 4 of The 30 Goals Challenge 2012! Click the link to find out more about the new changes to this year’s 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think” ~ Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne), shared by Chuck Sandy Goal Short-term-  Think about a student or colleague you wish was more motivated. Share with them the traits and things you admire about them. Talk to them about...  show all text

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Edudemic often features posts providing a list of top resources for a particular category. Recently, the site gettingsmart.com posted the names of the LAUNCHedu finalists chosen by the SXSWedu® Conference, offering even more resources for the Edudemic staff to consider! On March 7, 2012, they will choose winners after a full day of presentations by the finalists. There are so many sites and programs on the Internet already, but this competition just goes to show that the need for educational re...  show all text

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