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Creating great video lessons is just like creating a great lesson. Here are five simple ways to increase engagement and make better video lessons.
January 9, 2019
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Resolving for Technology Integration What were your New Year’s resolutions? Did you make any for your professional career? Maybe some for your students? With a new semester starting, this is a good time to start something new. Finding new lesson structure, activities, or assessment types. With all this new resolving, integrating more technology into your…
March 4, 2018
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Find Your Own Professional Learning Teachers are professionals. We have studied, passed numerous certification tests, and are expected to be constantly gaining new continuing professional learning. As a professional, it can be expected that this continuation of learning be supported by their employers, but also self-driven by the educator themselves. How does a working educator…
January 16, 2018
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The landscape of education has changed. The days of limited personalized technology is quickly going away, even to the point of being encouraged. Personalized technology could include smartphones, tablets, laptops and the continual improvements on wearable technologies like watches and glasses.
November 12, 2017
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Digital Learning and Leading Journey Change, transformation, innovation are all task that requires effort and tenacity. Many times this transformation occurs when you don’t think that a transformation needs to or can occur. Where the change happens in such gradual instances, that only by looking back at the journey can one see the transformation. That…
November 4, 2017
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Innovation Plan Shift Innovation is adapting an idea or process to make it more useful or purposeful. It is not always something new or original (that is more an invention), but more a disruption. With that definition of innovation, I don’t know if my project is innovative, but could it be? Is using iPads…
October 2, 2017
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Cyber Stage of BullyingAn important component of Riddle’s nine elements of digital citizenship (2015), is digital ethics. Have empathy for the other person on the screen, can help people keep their actions ethical and moral. As the internet and digital communication are many times anonymous, there can be the disconnect between the communicators. This…
September 25, 2017
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Public Domain Photo “School children doing exam in classroom” Copyright EntanglementBeing a good digital citizen can be tricky when looking at content that is published online and in analog form. There are several rules that are governing the use of copyright materials. These laws are there to support the production of creativity and innovation. As many…
July 9, 2017
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I am now in my 6th year of Twitter, and it has been one the main ways I have grown as an educator over these years. My PLN has been an invaluable place for ideas, resources and support. I know I am better because of the people I follow and the conversations I have…
July 5, 2017
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Sackcloth textured by freephotocc from pixabay.comSupporting Daily iPad Use – Action ResearchAs Dr. Mertler writes in his book Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators, “master teachers” are teachers that “constantly and systematically reflect” (2017, p. 20) These teachers see that there are constant grounds for improvement and strive to become better professionals. These teachers and…