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If You Need it, Get it! Do-It-Yourself Professional Development in the 21st Century

If You Need it, Get it! Do-It-Yourself Professional Development in the 21st Century

By Rita Platt In my work as a teacher-leader, I often hear teachers lament that they need more training on various methods, strategies, ideas, and […]

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Real or Fiction? On the Internet it’s Not Always Easy to Tell!

Real or Fiction? On the Internet it’s Not Always Easy to Tell!

Education 2.0, Featured Articles, The Toolbox July 4, 2015 at 12:04 pm Comments are Disabled

By Todd Fitzpatrick and Rita Platt We all know that the internet is a mix of the best and worst information on any given topic. […]

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Is the research paper dead?

Is the research paper dead?

The Edge of Education March 14, 2013 at 10:37 am Comments are Disabled

“Students today depend on paper too much. They don’t know how to write on a slate without getting chalk dust all over themselves. They can’t […]

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“Slant” it: An Alternative to the Flipped Classroom for Practical Teachers

“Slant” it: An Alternative to the Flipped Classroom for Practical Teachers

Featured Articles, The Toolbox January 26, 2013 at 7:07 pm Comments are Disabled

By: Rita Platt The “Flipped Classroom” is all the rage these days. Educational journals, blogs, and chat rooms, are flooded with the concept of “flipping.” […]

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Cain’s Arcade: A Modern Day Non-Fiction Fable

Cain’s Arcade: A Modern Day Non-Fiction Fable

Video of the Day April 16, 2012 at 6:34 pm Comments are Disabled

How many lessons, how many morals, how much inspiration, and how many ways can you use this amazing story to teach the things that you […]

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Building a new university

videos January 27, 2011 at 6:51 pm Comments are Disabled
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Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms.

Annotations July 2, 2010 at 2:18 pm Comments are Disabled

An Annotation by Jeff Ayer Will Richardson does a phenomenal job of laying out everything needed to both initiate and defend the use of blogs […]

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Welcome to the blogosphere: the educational use of blogs.

Annotations June 30, 2010 at 2:00 pm Comments are Disabled

An Annotation by Jeff Ayer Ray covers the basics of using a weblog (blog) in the classroom at literally any educational level, K-12. Dubbing them […]

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Blog on: building communication and collaboration among staff and students.

Annotations June 26, 2010 at 1:39 pm Comments are Disabled

An Annotation by Jeff Ayer Poling, who is an administrator in Maryland, looks at the span of uses that blogs can have in a school […]

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Learning with wikis

Annotations June 23, 2010 at 3:44 pm Comments are Disabled

An Annotation by Jeff Ayer Orech goes all out in clearly defining a wiki, providing how a teacher can make and use one, and how […]

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