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By Sue Waters

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New Statistics On How Visitors Find This Blog
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Each year, I publish year-end statistics of how visitors find my blog (you can find last year’s post here). About 16,000 readers subscribe to this …
My Students Show How Punctuation Can Save Lives
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In my IB Theory of Knowledge classes, we’re studying how language can help – and hinder – our search for knowledge. Here are a few examples students …
Cats Being Funny (& How To Use It In Class)
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Videos of animals doing funny things are always a winner with English Language Learners (and their teachers!). Show them and then have students write …
GIF Animations
Twitter Makes Some Changes, But Not Two Of The Most Important Ones
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Twitter announced some changes today – basically, photos and videos won’t count against its 140 character count (see Twitter’s new, ‘simpler’ rules …
Web Tools
Goal: How has blogging transformed your teaching?
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Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful!“The first thing you need to decide when you build your blog is what you want to …
Excellent Ideas On Using Photos In Lessons
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As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of using images in teaching both English Language Learners and more English-proficient students (see The Best …
Web Tools
Web Tools for Video and Audio Feedback on Essays and Projects
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“I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.” …
Goal: Be Someone’s Champion
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Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful!“Every child deserves a champion; an adult who will never give up on them, who …
Innovation
Kevin's Meandering Mind | #IMMOOC: Quotes and Notes at the Start
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I’ve started reading George Couros’s The Innovator’s Mindset for the IMMOOC, and I am reading it on the Kindle app. I prefer to read books offline, on …
TED Talks
New TED-Talks PBS Education Show Exceeds My Expectations & Ten Minutes Is A “Must-Watch”
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Apart from a forgettable part with Sal Kahn (see Because Khan Academy Doesn’t Receive Enough Attention, Sal Khan Featured In TED Talk PBS Special …
Mobile Devices
Bring Your Textbook to Life! 18 Ideas
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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” – John Locke Your textbook is just …
7 Important Questions Before Implementing Digital Portfolios
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Image from Bill Ferriter (@plugusin)Digital portfolios are something that are really starting to take off in schools. There are different software …
“Zooniverse” Is One Of The Coolest Ed Sites On The Web – I Can’t Believe I’m Just Hearing About It!
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Zooniverse is an amazing site where scholars put up projects that require “people-powered research” – for example, attempting to decode formerly …
Demonstration
Teaching, learning and “Presenting on the fly!”
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Live Skype during a presentation #risky but it worked really well! Thanks for sharing your ideas @murcha #EduTechAU pic.twitter.com/xhQsjcnEpW— Phil …
Learning
Thinking is awesome – eportfolios
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Current online information environments and associated transactions are considered an important ‘information ecosystem’ (Haythornthwaite & Andrews, …
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali, R.I.P. – Useful Resources To Teach About His Life
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Who doesn’t have significant memories about Muhammad Ali, the amazing boxer and man who died last night? Long statement from President and Mrs. Obama …
Online Privacy
A Podcast And Professional Development On Blogging With Students
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I recently sat down with Terry Heick from TeachThought.com to chat about a whole host of topics, including global warming, data privacy, ePortfolios, …
Widgets
Activity 2 – All About me! | Tenambit Public School Year 4 Blogs
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• Login to your blog, go to the dashboard>pages>add new • Change the title to About Me or something similar. • If you only have one row of icons above the …
TEDx
New Video: Jo Boaler On Learning, Mistakes & The Brain
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I’ve previously posted about Jo Boaler’s work (see Great New Video: “When People Make Mistakes Their Brains Grow, More Than When They Got Work …
Updated: Here Are The Sites I’m Using For My Summer School “Virtual Classroom”
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NOTE: I have added ReadWorks to both Work History and U.S. History – see “ReadWorks Digital” Came Online Today & It Looks Great! I’ve written a lot …
DOGObooks Summer Reading Program is Live
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Edublogs is happy to help spread the word each year about the DOGObooks Summer Reading Program!The program is a wonderful way to encourage your …
Margaret Atwood
Kevin's Meandering Mind | Margaret Atwood: How Technology Impacts Storytelling
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I found this video and find it quite interesting. Writer Margaret Atwood’s thoughts on how technology shapes our writing process and our conceptions …
Periodic Table
School has changed, have expectations?
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At an information session for parents, we highlight the ways that school has changed and share a range of examples of learning that is real, …
Makerspaces should not be specialspaces, they should be in classroomplaces
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This year I am teaching at an alternative high school. We have a population that despises traditional school work and for the most part, simply will …
The Gamification of Education: No Badges Here
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The ‘gamification’ and badges movement in education has been growing for years. In fact, here at Edublogs, adding tools to manage or award badges to …
15,000 views! | Year 5 2016-17
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A huge thank you to every single person who has viewed or commented on our class blog, we have hit 15,000 views in only 8 months! We’re also very …
Hung Up
The Writing Wall | The online writing community for people learning English
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Spring flowers Copyright: Denise Mullen This week’s writing theme is getting outdoors. The days are getting longer and the sun is getting warmer….time …
Inventions
“The 50 Most Influential Gadgets of All Time”
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The 50 Most Influential Gadgets of All Time is a fascinating report/slideshow just published by TIME. I’m adding it to The Best Sites Where Students …