50 Ways Google Docs Helps Educators and Schools

The Google Docs collaboration features are a boon to 21st Century students and educators, and to anyone who needs to work with others to complete a task. The process of brainstorming, sharing, and eventually developing stronger and more examined ideas is a primary focus of teaching and learning. Google Docs makes these collaboration tasks easy [...]

10 Educational Blogs Worth Following

Check out a few of the ten educational blogs reviewed at E-School News. These blogs, and others like them provide teachers with professional development as surely as any workshop of conference. You may discover that at least a few are worth reading on a regular basis. Most of these ten blogs are written by  seasoned writers who [...]

GDS Summer 21st Century Skills–Professional Development

GDS 2012 Summer Professional Development Summer Teacher Centered Workshop Take Time to Develop a 21st Century Pedagogy Collaborate! Connect! Inquire! Innovate! Two Sessions — You can participate in one or both. June 18-21st (Monday – Thursday)    9:00 am-3:00pm (lunch provided) August 13-16 th (Monday – Thursday)    9:00 am-3:00pm  (lunch provided) Join with colleagues in inquiry-based, [...]

Attention All Tweeters! Twitter Hoax Watch!

If you use Twitter, watch out for a spam tweet — usually a direct message that tells you about a “crazy personal message circulating about you…” DO NOT click on the link that accompanies this message. My first hoax direct message — I’ve received several — came from someone I know well and trust (but relationships don’t [...]

Teachers on Twitter: It’s About Professional Development

The Web 2.0 Classroom Blog, TeacherHub.com, features a good introductory post about Twitter and its professional development potential. Teachers on Twitter: It’s All About the Hashtag introduces the social networking tool to educators and explains a bit about how to identify professional education resources. The post explains hashtags, how to use them to search for Twitter [...]

21 Signs You’re A 21st Century Teacher

Check out 21 Signs You’re a 21st Century Teacher over at the  SimpleK-12 Tech blog. Some of my favorites: You give weekly class updates to parents…via your blog. You realize the importance of professional development…and you read blogs, join online communities, and tweet for self-development. You take your students on a field trip to the Great [...]

Article for Schools: Thinking About iPad One-to-One Programs

The Journal has just published an article, Launching an iPad 1-to-1 Program: A Primer  (and republished at the 21st Century Fluency Project). The article, by Mitchell A. Salerno and Michael Vonhof, is a primer for schools that are considering adopting iPads in a one-to-one setting. Both authors have set up and run successful iPad programs. Educational technology [...]

Google Launching YouTube for Schools

According to an article on the Mashable blog, Google is launching a new YouTube arm that will include convenient educational bells and whistles designed for the world of schools, students, and teachers. YouTube.edu contains features that make the service easier to use for schools that normally restrict YouTube, however the new site will be useful to [...]

Making PDF Documents: Some Tips

In MS Word for Mac Go to file/save as. Click on the arrow to the right of format. Choose PDF. Save. In MS Word on a PC