PLC's

As a district, we are pushing PLC's, for a purpose. It builds peer relationships that thrive on each other's knowledge and helps us direct our instruction to best serve our students. For me, my best learning is not in a textbook but how many people and resources I can turn to for support and sponging up their brain. Don't you think our students approach it the same way? I watch my teenage girls study and yes, they have the textbook, but there's the IPad, lap top, and the most valuable tool, their cell phone, where they group text discussions on a problem (well, that's what happens about 10% of the time between gossips and the fabulous concerts they go to these days). My learning during the same age was straight out of a textbook but now as an adult and in a different generation, I have the world at my fingertips, by the touch of technology I can instantly reach my professional learning network. So reach out and touch learning. Happy "1st six weeks completed" week! http://nesloneyflipped.blogspot.com/2013/09/my-pln-saved-my-career.html?utm_content=buffera218d&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer

What's in a name?

As the first day of school nears, most of us are scrambling and the idea of learning 160 new faces and names. For a fun tool to get to know you students, and see if they can follow directions, follow the Force to get your Star Wars name.

I am baaaaccckkk!!!

Been busy with updating other sites and completely neglected this one. So I am going to make more of an effort to post helpful links for you and resources that will help with instructional technology. Welcome to the new year!

Ten Tools for Digital Image Editing

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/04/ten-tools-for-cropping-resizing-and.html#.UYB9QrWKKSo

Digital Timer Tools

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/04/5-free-timers-to-help-you-time.html

Ways to Observe Teachers without Demoralizing Them

http://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?DISPATCHED=true&cid=25983841&item=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.edweek.org%2Fteachers%2Fclassroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo%2F2013%2F04%2Fresponse_ways_to_observe_teachers_without_demoralizing_them.html

A Radical But Practical View of Education

https://www.edsurge.com/n/2013-04-02-a-radically-practical-vision-of-education

Teacher Share Tool

http://www.edutecher.net/

ASK3

A new tool for digital collaboration. Pretty nifty to be able to video, text and get immediate feedback. http://www.techsmith.com/ask3.html

Create Digital Flyers

https://www.smore.com/

Four Good Alternatives to Clicker Systems

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/03/four-good-alternatives-to-clicker.html#.UTayHzCKKSo

Presentation.IO Sync Media with Audience

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/02/presentationio-sync-your-presentations.html?m=1

Web Resources for Schoolwork

http://learningtechno.weebly.com/

Instructional Technology Resources

http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-tools-for-educators

5 Apps that Drive Student Centered Learning

http://www.teachthought.com/apps-2/5-apps-to-promote-student-centered-learning/

FWISDTeacherAcademy.Blogspot.com

This is the placeholder for our teacher professional development Feb 6-7, 2013. All lessons, resources and our presentation can be found here.

7 Things Schools of the Future Will Do Well

http://www.teachthought.com/trends/7-things-schools-of-the-future-will-do-well/

IPad Math and Science Apps

http://www.olecommunity.com/ipad-ideas-across-the-curriculum-science-and-math/

New Way to Present Information to Visual Learners

What is ThingLink?

ThingLink helps you create and discover rich images.

Be creative! Make your images come alive with music, video, text, images, shops and more!

Every image contains a story and ThingLink helps you tell your stories. Follow image channels from your favorite bands, bloggers and friends. Your ThingLink interactive images form a channel that other users can follow.

Share your channel with friends on Facebook and Twitter, and follow your friends. Touch and discover.

http://www.thinglink.com/scene/351460502641049601?buttonSource=searchPage

Weapons of Mass Instruction PPT FWISD Tech Conference

http://portal.sliderocket.com/AVSAM/EC57D582-AE0D-4DF2-A706-C0BBFCF9EA51

7 Places to Watch Documentaries On-Line

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/09/7-places-to-find-watch-documentaries.html#.UOnicm-WAXs

Harvard Article on Challenges of 21st Century Learner

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news_events/features/2011/Pathways_to_Prosperity_Feb2011.pdf

Pinterest Cheat Sheet

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/12/a-must-have-pinterest-cheat-sheet-for.html?m=1

Observing Common Core Classroom, a Principal's View

http://esheninger.blogspot.com/2012/12/observing-common-core-classroom.html?m=1

Rubric for Evaluating Educational Apps

http://learninginhand.com/blog/ways-to-evaluate-educational-apps.html

Open Educational Resources

http://www.oercommons.org/