iPad
Learning with iPadSee how the iPad is transforming teaching and learning at all levels!
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BCPS 1:1 iPad InitiativeA brief introduction to why Boyne City Public Schools is pursuing a 1:1 iPad initiative on a K-12 level for the 2012-13 school year.
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Getting Started with iOS Apple Devices
Detailed instructions on how to implement and use iPads in the curriculum.
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iOS 5 Education Deployment Guide
This guide addresses Preparing for Deployment, WI-FI Network Design, Configuration and Management, Purchasing Content, and Deployment Strategies.
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Apple in Education Profiles
From elementary schools to universities, Apple products are transforming the learning experience, making it more interactive, immersive, and engaging.
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Children's Internet Protection Act-CIPA
FCC Website
The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a federal law enacted by Congress to address concerns about access to offensive content over the Internet on school and library computers. CIPA imposes certain types of requirements on any school or library that receives funding for Internet access or internal connections from the E-rate program – a program that makes certain communications technology more affordable for eligible schools and libraries. In early 2001, the FCC issued rules implementing CIPA.
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When Schools' Internet Filters Follow You Home
Schools and libraries that receive federal E-rate funding (a program that helps underwrite their telecommunications and Internet costs) are required by CIPA, the Children’s Internet Protection Act, to create an Internet safety policy and filter or block certain kinds of websites. The law only demands these filters address obscenity, child pornography and sites that are “harmful to minors,” but schools interpret this mandate in a variety of ways. Some ban all sorts of websites: video streaming sites (including YouTube and by extension Khan Academy), peer-to-peer networks (including Skype and Dropbox), and social media networks (Twitter, Facebook,Ning, Blogger, Tumblr). They ban these sites for students, which often means they’re unavailable to teachers as well.
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Developing Your PLN
Twitter for EducatorsTwitter for educators provides good logic on why educators should use Twitter and how it can help them form a community, share resources, and meet people worldwide.
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What is a PLN? Why is it Important?What is a PLN? Why is it important? In module 1, I go over how to build a PLN and where to find teachers and people to connect with. PLNs can be built with people you meet at networking events, online, blogs, social networks, and microblogs like Twitter. This is the first module of a ten module series.
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Twitter PLN TutorialGreat example on how one educator uses Twitter to gain information to build his PLN.
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Twitter PLN Tutorial #2Now that you want to use Twitter to build your PLN, here's how to get started.
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ZiteA brief intro on what Zite has to offer!
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Wow - this is definitely one of best apps for iPad to get the latest information!
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InstapaperInstapaper is a free cloud service to help save Web articles and links for later reading. The companion apps for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch make for easy reading on the go.
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Pocket allows users to save articles, videos, or any content to view later. Pocket is integrated into over 300 apps (flipboard, zite, twitter, etc). Basically, Pocket is a bookmarking service which you can use on Web, iPhone, Android, Kindle and iPad.
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Pedagogical Change
Ted-Ed Website TourGreat explanation of what TEDED is and the benefits of using it in the classroom.
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Similes and Metaphors in SongProject created by a 9th grade English student. Its purpose was to teach students the definition of similes and metaphors. Showing examples in songs that we hear everyday on the radio is a great way to explain similes. FYI: I may have a different view on the interpretations of the similes and metaphors. :D
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Learn to Change, Change to Learn
Distinguished individuals in education discuss the need for change in the classroom.
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Khan Academy Founder Salman Khan on Liberating the Classroom for CreativityThe founder of Khan Academy (http://www.youtube.com/khanacademy), a free educational video library that features over two thousand titles and an interactive dashboard for formative assessment, discusses how his videos can help create a "flipped classroom" that allows lectures to happen at home and project-based learning to happen during school.
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David Thornburg on the Evolving Classroom (Big Thinkers Series)The noted educational futurist describes his "holodeck" classroom -- an environment that supports project-based learning -- and makes the case for why the role of the teacher must change from lecturer to exploration guide.
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Henry Jenkins on New Media and Implications for Learning and TeachingUSC media professor Henry Jenkins describes the role of digital media in cultural transformation.
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EVSC Introduction to the Flipped ClassroomBrian Bennett and Brett Clark emailed this video to participants to view before they came to their PD session. Great example of Flipping the PD.
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Just for Fun...
First FollowerIf you've learned a lot about leadership and making a movement, then let's watch a movement happen, start to finish, in under 3 minutes, and dissect some lessons.
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Think Different"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify and vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as crazy, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
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Michael Jordan "Failure" Nike Commercial"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan
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