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Use this tool to create a lesson plan in a creative manner than can be easily understood by other teachers.
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This article offers up suggestions on how to use Evernote, Three Ring, Google Sites, and Kidblog to create digital portfolios.
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- Did I refer to the class as our class or my class?
- 8. If our class were a company, would it be out-of-business now?
- 9. Did students create and experience a great class or simply take a class and get credit?
- 15. Did I take advantage of spontaneous learning opportunities when students’ interests had obviously shifted, or did I maintain an inflexible mindset and vow to never deviate from an archaic lesson plan?
- 17. Was our class set up to promote creativity and collaboration or memorization and silence?
- 19. Were 21st Century skills embedded within daily assignments?
- 22. Did I gain professional wisdom by speaking to my collegial mentor?
- 24. Was the technology in my classroom used in an authentic manner? (Shannon Reed)
- 25. Did I avoid professional negativity by declining to gossip at work?
- 26. Did I manage my stress level by enjoying time with my family and friends, by exercising several times a week, by zoning out while engaged in a hobby, and by simply chilling out every once in a while?
- 28. Did I laugh often with students and colleagues?
- 31. Did I allow students to co-write their own project-based, learning contracts?
- 34. How many colleagues did I observe in-action in their classrooms this past school year?
- did I remember the names of all co-workers?
- 39. How balanced were the assignments this year in terms of requiring creativity, practical thinking, and analysis? (Adam Johnson)
- 40. Did I participate in a professional learning community outside of my school via Twitter?
- 46. Did I consistently blog as a form of professional self-reflection?
- 47. Am I a stronger teacher today than when I first stepped into the classroom at the beginning of the school year?
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This article provides three good tech tools for teachers who want to try a back channel chat and nearly a half dozen ideas for incorporating this type of technology into the curriculum. There are even suggestions for how to use it with students as young as 6 years old.
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- Diigo provides a free, efficient, effective and reliable way to save and organize your favorite websites, online articles, blog posts, images and other media found online.
- Diigo provides a lists feature that allows you to share carefully selected bookmarked websites with your students.
- Adding bookmarks to lists is easy. When you save the bookmark, you are able to allocate it to any list you have already created, or create a new list as you go.
- Diigo has tools that encourage students to collaborate with others to analyze, critique, and evaluate websites.
- Diigo provides opportunities for students to apply higher level thinking skills while researching and gathering information.
- Diigo allows you to gain access to the ‘collective intelligence’ of the internet.
- Use Diigo to provide visual access to websites you have collected using the built-in program ‘webslides’.
- Use Diigo’s advanced tools to link its power to blogs and RSS. Lists of similar websites that you have created can easily be posted onto a blog by using the ‘post to blog’ button.
- Use Diigo tools to enhance professional reading and save time creating summaries of online posts.
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- Access your information from any computer, or even your iPhone or iPad!
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/28/2014
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