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Originally posted on smartboard . Today was the first of what I hope will be an annual event: Digital Learning Day . The Alliance for Excellent Education suggested that teachers try one new thing, ...

Kathee Godfrey - 2012-02-02 05:58 - 2 comments

A couple of years ago, I participated in the " One Book One Twitter " experiment in which people all over the world read Neil Gaiman's American Gods and then chatted with one another ...

Paul Oh - 2011-12-05 18:07

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Undeniably, social networking has become an integral part of students' lives. As a school district technology director, I am often asked for social media guidance from school leaders. Like other school ...

Melissa Shields - 2011-08-23 13:27

• This page is part of Cultivating 21st Century School Leaders

As a school district technology director, I know that for my teachers to successfully utilize 21 st Century tools and instructional methods, it is paramount that their building administrators have a ...

Melissa Shields - 2012-03-02 21:12

This screenshot is from Dale Dougherty's twitter stream from April 22, 2011. Dale is the founder of Make Magazine and Maker Faire. At this year’s Maker Faire in the Bay Area, 500 teachers were ...

Kate Leuschke Blinn - 2011-05-20 11:48

I couldn’t just stand on the shore waiting for the waves of social media to meet me, nor could I wade in only enough to get my feet wet. In order to create my digital profile as both a teacher and writer, I ...

Nancy Devine - 2011-08-08 12:17

Our lives are awash in short form compositions. What is the impact of these brief bursts of words and characters on teens, on teaching, ...

Paul Oh - 2012-11-03 20:30

The once lowly # has enjoyed a renaissance as the symbol of choice - and meaning - on Twitter . In the New Yorker article, Hash , author Susan Orlean discusses the history of the hashtag ...

Paul Oh - 2011-12-05 17:21

Despite the seeming limitation of 140 characters to express oneself, it turns out that you reveal regional dialects when tweeting. This piece from NPR, based on research from Carnegie Mellon ...

Paul Oh - 2011-03-17 04:46

Across the country, in 200+ sites, National Writing Project Summer Institutes transform teachers through similar experiences—demos, reading and research, writing and responding. Connections are formed ...

Keri Franklin - 2011-03-15 09:00