What drives us?

Hello all,

It has been awhile. I saw the following video on incentives and drive, I just wanted to share. I definitely fits into the discussion on how to get meaningful work out of our students-

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013

This is a surveyed list. I will try to talk about some of it

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013 from Jane Hart

Some up coming posts

I hope to talk about the following sites in the future. If any of you have a question ahead of time please nudge me.

Remind101.com
Schoology.com
Edmodo.com
Weebly.com
Wordpress.com
Mybigcampus.com
engrade.com (some of you use this, I'm curious)
Gradecam.com
Symbaloo.com
Evernote.com

Some of these I have already used while others have been updated or just beginning to understand their uses. Updates soon!

New Year and 50 ideas for your class web page-

I wanted to start the new school year in a number of ways on this blog. Funny how time has flown, assignments need to be graded and other wonderful life moments need to be taken care of. So here I am. I am starting with just a quick hit that I came across this morning. The article is from Tech and learning magazine with 50 Ideas For Your Class Webpage.

http://www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&entryid=6483

Maybe you would suggest something on the list in the comments section?

ED Camp Connecticut

The new year is about to start. Slightly amazing to me. For me I am attending EDCampCT in Simsbury this morning. This the second time in three years I have signed up. It would be more but they have only been around 3 years.  I need to run off to choose a first session!

Games in Education visual

I would like to thank Dawn Leeds for the following visual for "Gamification in Education". This brings in some good questions about what we are doing. Thoughts??

Source: anethicalisland.wordpress.com via Cusi on Pinterest

Board of Education and Social Media - This Tuesday night 6/4

I just read an article about how the Board wants to redefine the relationship teachers have with their students online with, specifically, Social Media sites. There is a discussion  about this tonight and I think we as a school staff need to have our own communication about this. On the other hand this is a bad time time to get any meeting organized. I will try to post what the Board has ruled or when any more meetings about this will be scheduled. Please keep me informed if you hear anything. We need to wrap our minds around what we see as reasonable.