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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

The information aggregation tools are used to collect and organize information from various resources (websites, podcasts, blogs). RSS readers allow educators to rapidly skim through hundreds of blog posts and articles to find the most relevant information to their practice. Edmodo and Ning are gaining popularity with educators.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

The information aggregation tools are used to collect and organize information from various resources (websites, podcasts, blogs). RSS readers allow educators to rapidly skim through hundreds of blog posts and articles to find the most relevant information to their practice. Edmodo and Ning are gaining popularity with educators.

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Daily Bookmarks 05/14/2008

Experiencing eLearning

Observations from the beginning of a high school project with Ning, Animoto, and Flickr. Most of the insight is around how Ning facilitates conversations between students and lets the teacher join the discussion. Students are engaged with Ning; they are personalizing their spaces and giving each other constructive feedback.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Currently Working On.

Learning Visions

Heres a taste of whats on my plate right now: Lots of Software Trai ning Finishing up a big project update for a large financial institution. Were creating an orientation program for a national sorority. Game-like program. Sidebar: This, Tony Karrer , is why schools still need to teach good writing. Likewise with writing.

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ASTD Follow-Up

Tony Karrer

For example, we still teach Cursive Writing instead of Touch Typing to kids. Review the post - Information Radar - and use the information there to set up your radar and start a new blog. After you've started your blog then make sure readers can find you. New Hire Blog - I love the idea of a new hire blog.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: 31 Days: Days 26, 27, 28

Learning Visions

Monday, September 17, 2007 31 Days: Days 26, 27, 28 Im cleaning house and trying to to finish up with the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Challenge. Join us at the Building a Better Blog Ning Group. For those of you who are new to my blog, the 31 Days Challenge was started by Darren Rowse of ProBlogger. Task complete.

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ISTE2013 Presenter Profiles: Kristin Daniels

TechSmith Camtasia

She penned a guest post on our blog about flipped professional development earlier this year. In 2003, Kristin participated in a national pilot program for Earth Science teachers in collaboration with NASA and the JASON Project. This is a great way for teachers to provide authentic and meaningful feedback for student writing.