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| A Conversation with Al Bodzin |
| Written by Sheila Riley | |
| Monday, 05 January 2009 05:38 | |
Al Bodzin, is an Associate Professor in the Teaching, Learning, & Technology program in the Department of Education & Human Services at Lehigh University. He is also a core faculty member of the Lehigh Environmental Initiative (EI), and a graduate faculty member of the Lehigh Learning Sciences and Technology doctoral program.
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| A Conversation with Ahmes Askia |
| Written by Sheila Riley | |
| Wednesday, 17 December 2008 05:04 | |
Ahmes Askia is Professional Development Director of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education® in Syosset, NY. The NUA places mentors -- teachers and university professors -- in school districts to provide
professional development activities for educators.
The NUA's mission is "to substantiate in the public schools of urban America an irrefutable belief in the capacity of all children to reach the highest levels of learning & thinking demanded by our ever-changing global community." |
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| A Conversation With Chris Gabrieli, Chairman and Co-Founder, Massachusetts 2020 and Co-Chairman, National Center on Time & Learning |
| Written by Sheila Riley | |
| Monday, 24 November 2008 05:52 | |
It’s a straightforward but revolutionary idea: Just a few more hours in the school day lead to increased learning and more opportunities for kids. It’s called "expanded learning time," and Chris Gabrieli is dedicated to the concept.
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| Keeping Kids out of the Justice System |
| Written by Sheila Riley | |
| Thursday, 20 November 2008 17:21 | |
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who work with youth in the juvenile justice system have suggestions for
classroom teachers who want to keep their students from going down that
difficult road.
One possibility? Engaging families of at-risk youth. That could be done with a “recognition activity” for student achievement of short-term goals – passing certain tests or completing a number of assignments, said Teresa Egan, who works with Cleveland-area youth who are or have been incarcerated. Egan is a program officer at Employment Opportunities for Youth, part of the Cuyahoga County Department of Justice Affairs in Cleveland. |
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| A Conversation with Cary Goodman: Executive Director, Directions for Our Youth, New York City |
| Written by Sheila Riley | |
| Wednesday, 12 November 2008 06:36 | |
Cary Goodman is executive director of Directions for Our Youth, a nonprofit organization working in New York City’s most distressed schools and neighborhoods. These include one of the poorest and most troubled neighborhoods in the country: the South Bronx.
The organization’s mission is to provide “exposure, inspiration and direction” for New York City students most in need, and to help them develop the skills to become community leaders. |
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| A Conversation with Jim Whaley |
| Written by Sheila Riley | |
| Sunday, 26 October 2008 14:06 | |
The Siemens Foundation’s Jim Whaley works to bring together the
private, public, and academic sectors to improve U.S. education. The
Foundation is a subsidiary of electronics and electrical engineering
giant Siemens (AG), a German-based corporation with 400,000 employees
worldwide. It provides over $7 million annually to U.S. science, math,
technology, and engineering education at all levels, including college
and graduate school. |
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| Virtual High School: Multiple Perspectives, Part 2 |
| Written by Sheila Riley | |
| Wednesday, 19 November 2008 05:50 | |
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Whether high schoolers should take classes online is a difficult consumer decision. |
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| Virtual High School: Multiple Perspectives, Part 1 |
| Written by Sheila Riley | |
| Wednesday, 12 November 2008 07:18 | |
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The concept of virtual high school sits at the intersection of three major trends: Online learning awareness and increasing knowledge about how to deliver it; the national high school reform dialogue; and the school choice movement. |
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| Grouping For Success |
| Written by Harry Grover Tuttle | |
| Wednesday, 01 October 2008 05:00 | |
Situational groupings help support and focus students in key areasSituational grouping is exactly what it sounds like: Students are
grouped based on the frequent formative assessments that occur in the
classroom, so the students in each group and the purpose of each small
group differ and these groupings change frequently. |
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| Podcast Rubrics |
| Written by Harry Grover Tuttle | |
| Monday, 22 September 2008 05:00 | |
Can educators use a podcast rubric to evaluate student standards-based learning?The actual student learning of the academic standard often counted for 1/6 or less of the rubric grade. Therefore, educators cannot use such a podcast rubric to evaluate student standards-based learning. A non-weighted or non-refocused podcast grade means very little (or nothing) in terms of content learning. |
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| Helping Students Analyze Media |
| Written by Harry Grover Tuttle | |
| Monday, 15 September 2008 18:56 | |
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Media literacy has become critical as students spend more time reading print, watching online news, TVs and movies. Teachers can help students develop their media analysis skills. |
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| Book Review of A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule The Future |
| Written by Lane Mills | |
| Thursday, 29 May 2008 18:40 | |
A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule The FutureBy Daniel PinkRiverhead Books, New York, 2005. 260 pages $10.00 for softcover 2006 updated edition As a die-hard left brainer, I found the title of Daniel Pink’s text, A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule The Future, some cause for concern. Questions arose for me, such as: “Am I now an endangered species?” and “Will no one want to hire me?” Pink’s premise is not one of extinction for hard-core left-brain analytical types such as myself, but, rather, a guide to the transformation of our culture and senses needed to thrive in his explanation of our right-brain needy society. |
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| Second Life: Interactive Professional Development |
| Written by Kathy Shrock | |
| Thursday, 29 May 2008 16:45 | |
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| Backboard |
| Written by Bob Sprankle | |
| Monday, 05 January 2009 05:44 | |
Wikis are amazing tools. Having one document online that others can work on, change, edit, add, and improve is truly a marvel of Web 2.0. In the spirit of The Wisdom of the Crowds, great things can happen when people write together. However, even in one of the early attempts at an entire book being written through the power of the many --- We are Smarter Than Me -- the final workings of the book were taken away from the wiki and completed by the book's primary authors. There is after all, a time for people to do their own writing, without the many others also moving things around. Wikis are great for many things, but perhaps not for students' own, independent writing. We don't want other students changing, deleting, or adding to the original work, but how great it would be if they could show up and leave comments, ideas, suggestions and kudos?
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| Watch and Learn |
| Written by Bob Sprankle | |
| Monday, 29 December 2008 05:31 | |
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I can't remember the last time I've actually sat and watched TV on a television. I watch most everything on the Web now --- the news, the few sitcoms I follow on Hulu, movies from Netflix streaming to my computer, favorite vodcasts in iTunes... and the great content just keeps coming. This week, I'll focus on some great free video resources on the Internet for classroom and student use, that are ready at the waiting. |
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| Shoot Your Computer |
| Written by Bob Sprankle | |
| Friday, 26 December 2008 04:00 | |
![]() It's time to get your computer all groomed or dolled up for its very own photo/movie shoot. This week I'll show you 3 great tools for taking pictures or video of what's on your screen. There's a bunch of reasons why you'd want to capture the happenings on your screen: everything from grabbing a shot of a web page for your blog to creating your very own video tutorials showing others how to run a program or even to send a play-by-play video capture of a problem to tech support. |
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| Stocking Stuffers |
| Written by Bob Sprankle | |
| Monday, 22 December 2008 05:51 | |
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| Ask and You Shall (Safely) Receive |
| Written by Bob Sprankle | |
| Wednesday, 17 December 2008 05:35 | |
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| Your Choices DO Make A Difference |
| Written by Douglas Brooks | |
| Wednesday, 15 October 2008 05:58 | |
My experience is that novice grant writers, who improve their grant writing skills the most, move from “story telling in their own words” to technical writing in the words of the RFP.”
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| Building A Grant Writing Guide: Part 2 |
| Written by Douglas Brooks | |
| Monday, 22 September 2008 05:00 | |
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Part 1 of the Grant Writing Guide for the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation took you through Section #5: “Objectives and Plan of Action.” This column picks up with Section #6: “Assessment and takes you through “Endorsements.” |
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| Building A Grant Writing Guide: Part 1 |
| Written by Douglas Brooks | |
| Monday, 08 September 2008 05:00 | |
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The heart of the process is the “Grant Writing Guide.” My GrantSuccess process evolved from writing many technology integration grants on very short timelines. Over the course of a decade, I was asked to guide many teams of teachers as they applied for state funded computers. In these applications, many questions needed to answered. Are we eligible? What do we have to do? How will the writing get done? How will we find the time? It was out of this tension that GrantSuccess evolved. The heart of the process is the construction of the “Grant Writing Guide.” This column uses the Martha Holden Jennings’ Grant-to-Educators to show what a “Grant Writing Guide” looks like. |
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| Funding 101: Building the Key Vocabulary Pre-Writing Document |
| Written by Douglas Brooks | |
| Monday, 01 September 2008 05:00 | |
I am fresh from an invited presentation at a regional technology professional development conference organized for classroom teachers. Someone else was also on the program doing a session on grant writing, in a session scheduled well before mine. How could I pass up the opportunity to see what someone else was sharing with classroom teachers about grant writing?
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| Funding 101: Novices |
| Written by Douglas Brooks | |
| Monday, 11 August 2008 05:00 | |
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Wikis are amazing tools. Having one document online that others can work on, change, edit, add, and improve is truly a marvel of Web 2.0. In the spirit of 
It’s a straightforward but revolutionary idea: Just a few more hours in the school day lead to increased learning and more opportunities for kids. It’s called "expanded learning time," and Chris Gabrieli is dedicated to the concept.

My experience is that novice grant writers, who improve their grant writing skills the most, move from “story telling in their own words” to technical writing in the words of the RFP.”



