Learning is Change

Thanks to Jessica Raleigh for finding this one. I think it presents a compelling case for Google Docs are so…

Thanks to Jessica Raleigh for finding this one. I think it presents a compelling case for Google Docs are so important both to the writing classroom and to all classrooms.

Originally shared by John Thomas

Why 21st Century Teachers Prefer Google Docs

Keith Hamon does a great job of explaining why Google Docs provides a superior 21st Century teaching and learning environment to MS Word docx files, especially when it comes to easy sharing, spotting plagiarism, enabling peer editing, facilitating research, and enabling access from anywhere, anytime on any device. Other benefits like automatic saving and simultaneous editing by multiple users, neither of which are part of the Microsoft cloud alternative Office 365, are great features too.

Thanks to John Pearce for spotting this.

http://www.fractuslearning.com/2013/10/21/teaching-writing-google-docs/

Just a good example of a new content type to put in your communities: Visual Quotations

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Just a good example of a new content type to put in your communities: Visual Quotations

Originally shared by Edutopia

Have you ever felt pressure to be “the perfect teacher?” Hear how one educator learned to embrace the messy side of teaching: http://edut.to/10v0h1f.

#teaching   #teacher   #ntchat   #education  

Just a good example of a new content type to put in your communities: Visual Quotations

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Just a good example of a new content type to put in your communities: Visual Quotations

Originally shared by Edutopia

Have you ever felt pressure to be “the perfect teacher?” Hear how one educator learned to embrace the messy side of teaching: http://edut.to/10v0h1f.

#teaching   #teacher   #ntchat   #education  

I wonder if this might be helpful in how we are continuing conversations about CLO’s. Could/should this be adapted…

I wonder if this might be helpful in how we are continuing conversations about CLO’s. Could/should this be adapted for uses in DPS?

Danielle Ongart, Kirk Anderson, Justin Darnell, or Theress Pidick What do you think?

Originally shared by Eric Curts

Using Google Spreadsheets for Student Learning Objectives (SLO’s)

http://www.appsusergroup.org/news/google-spreadsheets-for-slos

I wonder if this might be helpful in how we are continuing conversations about CLO’s.

 

I wonder if this might be helpful in how we are continuing conversations about CLO’s. Could/should this be adapted for uses in DPS?

Danielle Ongart, Kirk Anderson, Justin Darnell, or Theress Pidick What do you think?

Originally shared by Eric Curts

Using Google Spreadsheets for Student Learning Objectives (SLO’s)

http://www.appsusergroup.org/news/google-spreadsheets-for-slos//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

Using Technology to Personalize Learning (EdWeek Webinar)

I wanted to share the EdWeek webinar I was a part of last week, as I found that it provided an opportunity to lay out a vision for Blended and Personalized Learning that I rarely have.

It is 15 minutes long, but feel free to jump around if things don’t get going quick enough for you!

My New iPhone Case

I don’t normally review physical objects on this blog. In fact, I don’t normally review much of anything. However, I do talk a lot about the things that I am using and the things that I like.

I find it valuable to hear from others when they believe something is worth speaking or writing about, or just something that they have found which other people might find useful. Is in that spirit that I would like to talk about my most recent iPhone case.

In full disclosure, I was given this iPhone case. I did not buy it, so I did not have any “sense of loss” from the money it required to obtain the item. That said, it is by far the best iPhone 5/5s case that I have used. Given that I have tried out a good many, I am relieved to have found something I actually want to have hugging my phone.

Here’s the case:

I love it for the smooth bamboo back and for the easy access to all of the controls. But the one thing that I love most about it, is the open access at the bottom to the lightning port. Most iPhone cases only give you the small sliver of space around the lightning port so that you can only use the official Apple lightning cord. When Apple switched to the lightning cord, however, I was left with all of these iPod cables that I needed to use an adapter for in order to charge my phone.

I diligently bought two adapters so that I wouldn’t have to purchase new chords and lose the ability to charge my other devices from those cords. Every other case that I have purchased, I have had to remove the case in order to charge it with the adapter. That is because this adapter is still the same size as the original original 30 pin connector for the iPod. And it makes it impossible to try and connect my iPhone with the other cases on it. That is why this single feature is the killer app of iPhone 5 and iPhone 5S cases. I don’t know that I will ever go back to one that has that tiny sliver at the bottom.

That’s it. I just wanted to talk about the case I have been using for the last two weeks, and encourage anyone else out there to share what their favorite cases are.