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 * Wednesday 6/22/2011 -** I have been prepping ISTE iPads for everybody and hope to get them distributed to our team today and tomorrow. We will spend the most of Saturday learning how to use them as we prepare for a week's worth of work at the ISTE conference. On our down time we will be working on Double Dream Hands:

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**Saturday - Early a.m. (4:52a)** Checking out the latest tweets about [|#ISTE11] and taking care of details at home, like finishing packing, before cleaning up and heading to the airport. Already found this presentation about the Flipped Classroom. Interesting thoughts. It's gonna be a great week of learning! media type="custom" key="9870863" align="center"

[|EduBloggerCon] is about to start in Philly. Wish I were there already... **Sunday 6/26/2011** - We are meeting at the Embassy Suites.

**Saturday notes **

 * Flight to Philly was uneventful - which is GREAT! no delays, no hi-jackers, no turbulance
 * Check-in/Registration went well and everybody got their stuff including an iPad bag or laptop bag
 * We ate at [|__Jakes Pizza__]

Our whole team attended the Keynote Session with John Medina, author of Brain Rules. Here are the 12 Brain Rules as in his book. I got them from his [|__Brain Rules website.__] [|__EXERCISE | Rule #1: Exercise boosts brain power.__]  [|SURVIVAL | Rule #2: The human brain evolved, too.]  [|WIRING | Rule #3: Every brain is wired differently.]  [|ATTENTION | Rule #4: We don't pay attention to boring things.]  [|SHORT-TERM MEMORY | Rule #5: Repeat to remember.]  [|LONG-TERM MEMORY | Rule #6: Remember to repeat.]  [|SLEEP | Rule #7: Sleep well, think well.]  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #939f1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|STRESS | Rule #8: Stressed brains don't learn the same way.]  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #939f1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|SENSORY INTEGRATION | Rule #9: Stimulate more of the senses]  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #939f1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|.] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #939f1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|VISION | Rule #10: Vision trumps all other senses.]  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #939f1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|GENDER | Rule #11: Male and female brains are different.]  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #939f1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|EXPLORATION | Rule #12: We are powerful and natural explorers.]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sunday **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We ate dinner at <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Good Dog__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, a restaurant featured on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. The veggie burger was delicious! Everybody else’s food looked great too!

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I speak on a panel for Discovery Education @ 7 a.m. at Maggiano’s Restaurant, 1201 Filbert Street, Philadelphia. Calling the front desk for a 5:15a wake-up call. Isn’t that 4:15a our time?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Monday** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Served as panelist on Discovery Education panel with Dr. Scott Smith and Hall Davidson. After that I did volunteer work at the Advocacy cafe for 2 hours.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">National Education Technology Plan - Karen Cator, Dept. Of Education **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Teaching, learning, assessment, infrastructure, productivity - a review of the national tech plan. 2. Research and development, the grand plan. How we gonna make this work?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where are we now?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Obama talked about innovation, education, and infrastructure in his state of the union.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MOBILE - many iterations of tablets, we are seeing better apps and better content. Focus in on what we are doing with devices: access, activities. Mobility 24/7. Social interaction for learning, digital content, big data. How do people learn? Which access is best for each student at a particular point in time?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We are moving from print to digital. It allows us to provide models, sims, accessibility, creating guiding interfaces (reading text, including maps, etc.)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Three themes in Ms. Cator’s talk:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Equity
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Innovation
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Collaboration

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Equity:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Access - Very important, we have many underserved students. Comcast promised home broadband access for $10/month and $150 device to the areas they serve. DOE is hoping other large digital delivers will follow.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Technology must be Life wide, spanning from home to community.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Utilization - allow everybody to fully participate
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Move Locus of control to student - how to learn, where to learn, when to learn
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Informal and formal learning programs
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Universal design for learning as a model of adoption
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Build out broadband to 98% of the country - digital.literacy.gov, resources for literacy
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BYOD program, access4ed.net is a good resource
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Funding - how can we make title programs more friendly?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Innovation:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It is more prevalent than ever. Student find the innovative apps and bring them to teachers.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It must be for personalized learning that adjusts to each student users.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Scalability - it must be able to be duplicated.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Evidence - our process is broken. DOE is working a new framework that not only uses randomized control trials and also differentiated for students (new). Need context and implementation as well. We want to use the practice of design thinking.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learning technologies ecosystem - basic research as base, next level research and development, marketplace, implementation. Must build as we transition to print and digital. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Marketplace- there is currently a disconnect on supply side. There are new products out there, but not connected. Need to support product clearinghouses for new/better products. On demand side, smart demand - helping the end users work together in partnerships. People will build what schools and districts will consume. Can build a leagues of schools. Digital Promise - 501c3, will serve as glue between R & D and government like department of defense. Share the innovation!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Implementation
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They want to help build out implementation strategies, communities of practice and provide support.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Evaluation and use
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Policy and practice
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Move from seat time to competency based learning (credits). Spotlight innovation and share the practices.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Collaboration <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Connected Online Communities of Practice - offer tech support, emo support, find role models, stories of examples, reuse and remix. How do we move from viewing to sharing to collaborating, to co-constructing. EDCOCP.org. Keep personal profile and build community. Look for a community of practice and nominate it.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ACTION
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Solve for equity
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Develop smart demand, articulate what we need
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Develop your personal learning network
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nominate community sites that tie people together in PLNs
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fully participate
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Share stories and strategies

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"By 2020 the us will have highest # of graduates in world." - Barack Obama

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Disconnect-Teacher evaluation vs. Building of supports and capacity in teachers. DOE is acknowledging that the tests are not testing what we need to test. We are building new assessments based on full range of standards. Completion by 2014. They will also include technology and allow for growth. We need to leverage technology in prep for assessment. Expectations will be that it is fully technology enabled.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Q&A **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is the support structure for tech PD? Need flexible structures, online just in time, be efficient a d time saving. Three buckets for teachers in their tech use: personally, professionally, critical next one - how do we create better assignments for kids?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ms. Cator and the Department of Education are at booth 3212


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What does it mean to be a tech savvy administrator? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Scott McLeod, CASTLE, Iowa State University **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> George Couros, Lyn Hilt, Patrick Larking, Brian Nichols, Eric Sheninger **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">STANDING ROOM ONLY until fire marshall kicked people out who were sitting on the floor.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Scott McLeod - Dangerously Irrelevant website and also Shift Happens videos. Part of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Connected Principals Blog.__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Patrick Larkin, Burlington High <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Brian Nichols, NewPort <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> George Couros, Alberta Canada <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lyn Hilt, Lancaster, PA <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Eric Sheninger, New Milford, VA

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Difference between reg admin and tech savvy: More efficient, get more done, have a strong answer as to WHY we are using tech.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we make sure tech is matched with learning?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Admin does not need to be expert at everything, support teachers and give access.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Modeling technology is important and show how it is used to meet purpose and need.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Needs to be measure of consistency - model it and then establish goals on how you can use various pieces of technology.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are some strategies you use for resistant teachers?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They are not resistant, they are apprehensive. They will model its use with students.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Build capacity within school so that other teachers can serve as the models.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Differentiation along wih modeling is the key.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free one period per week so teachers can try stuff with their cadre of teachers. Failure is OK.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Change PD model to EdCamp so teachers set the agenda. Learner led school buildings. (Intriguing...) Empowerment:)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Keep focus on students and their needs.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tech needs to be in the hands of students.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why are there so many NON tech savvy admins
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Managing the present takes them away from tech. It must be priority.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Central office is not that supportive of technology. Safety is an issue, but so is learning technology.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The time is a good investment, it makes them more efficient.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fear drives a lot of apprehension of some admins.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We need to share what we’re doing by being transparent.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Our kids are moving along without us.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Need social media presence online. If you don’t do it, someone else will do it and not in a positive way. People will start asking why aren’t we doing it. (sidenote: Doersch #1 priority is revamping our NJSD site. Anybody wanna help?)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If we are looking at data: Best help is when teachers share best practices. Share through synchronous and asynchronous learning.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do you deal with policies?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Go out of the box and develop policies as you go


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tuesday **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">David Thornburg - STEM Solutions **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Stephen Covey Keynote - Mindsets to the 21st century **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Moving from Needs Improvement to High Performing **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Chris Moersch, LoTi, Inc. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which curriculum element receives highest priority in district?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">21 century skills
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Best Practices
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Math/Reading programs

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video -
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Design classroom so that chairs could be arranged so they could watch a movie.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Set goal
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Share prior knowledge
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Instructional strategies: Teacher centered - teacher designs question essential question, Did it have H.E.A.T. Higher order thinking, engaged learning, authentic, technology
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LoTi - at 0.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we get students to generate essential questions
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Collaboration
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Accelerating growth
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Anchoring student learning with digital age
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Clarify student understanding with formative assessment
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How emotionally connected are our students to the standards?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Atlantic City School at Richmond Avenue School stats

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Turning up the H.E.A.T.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Higher-Order Thinking <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Engaged Learning <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Authentic Connection <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Technology Use

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pyramid of Success @ NJSD
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Core curricular standards
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assessment of work
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teacher prep
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Leadership

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">School Communities
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stability in programming
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tools/resources consistent throughout all schools in the district - iPads for LOTI walkthroughs and regular walkthroughs, admins; Teachers - laptops, flip video; Classrooms - Interactive boards, laptop carts, digital responders, document cameras.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HEAT Scoring guide - Watch video where they use classroom tools to collaborate to research revolutionary war to make presentation. How does it rate on the HEART score? Really low! LoTi #2.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Benchmarking interventions: Focus on Common core, Want to be at least LoTi #3, Contextualized within the content

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Look at activity: What possible bones could be hurt in mountain biking? Keystone bike park video. Students get together and talk about which bones could get broken then play FB? Think about types of equipment people wear for protection. Show skydiving video, what kind of protection do they need? Women’s gymnastics video. Make organization of table then word cloud. Create student responder questions which include metacognitive analysis questions asked. How can we build a better helmet, egg drop activity.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Another activity: Ratio/probability - world’s deadliest jobs and probability. High working job, holding target, unicycle meat market, electrician. Compare the 4 pix, which has most probability of dying? Can they take the probability? Can they convert it from fraction to decimal to a percentage? Rolling die in EditGrid (web 2.0 - does not require email address from students). What is the probability of dying if you have two jobs as a logger and electrical installer?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Digital age best practices
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Collaboration
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students generate their own questions
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Authentic connection

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fast Eddie Videos shows LoTi#3 - Students figure out what holiday he’s thinking. See what the level looks like.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HEAT Walkthroughs help build sustainability. Automatically generates the LoTi level.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video on garbage from DE. Students discuss and ask questions. Mindmap their ideas for solutions to solid waste disposal. Research the best ways to solve landfill problems. Pose solution to waste disposal. Put through HEAT rigors.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The checklists on handouts are helpful to bridge gaps to build sustainability.


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 * **Curriculum says students explore the make up of a leaf**: SE mini 45x Microscope/Illuminator @ Amazon.com Tape


 * **Put 14 pictures together into one image**: AutoStitch, an iPhone App. Open app then open iPhoto. Select pictures then tell it to stitch. Video panel, photo sith, 360 are other things you could use.


 * **Get the wiggles out of young children:** Singing fingers, Google singing fingers and iRig Mic ($60).


 * **Students create tutorials and share with others**: The global school net homepage. ShowMe app You can draw and then copy paste pictures into it to create a little tutorial. Creates an embed code. Story Rope, Sonic Pix.


 * **You want to web conference with somebody. All they have is web cams**. ClearSea allows students to be in field and use their iPad and go to web cams.


 * **How can you share a website with students?** Slingnote - Collect part of document you want to share and move it over to the right side. You can circle it and drag it over to right side. You can annotate as well. You can send it as a document or save as pdf.

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 * **You need some type of quick translator**. Wordlense Translates almost immediately as you pass the camera over it.


 * **Your students want to share an adventure and allow for people to comment**. Blogsy ($4.99) Adds as the code side or WYSIWYG. You can do stuff in one environment, but maybe not the other. Don’t have to add code to highlight or bold stuff. Easier to add link too. Can easily add details to the page. Others, wordpress, blogger.


 * **Students work hard for fluenc**y. How can we capture their voice so that student get better with audio fluency? Digitizing elementary writing. AudioBoo - no edit cloud recording. Minimal clicks. Wfryer’s AudioBoo page. Can add title, tag, and it’s shared immediately online. We can digitize portfolio stuff. Voice memos, photobabble can be others.


 * **Ad free multimedia flash website:** Wix - flash based

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 * **Students needs to publish.** How do ELL students do this? Multimedia and photos included. ePubs If we have Pages on the Mac, download the template. ePub Bud, a free web 2.0 site where you can text online.


 * **You need to tie a bunch of students together with their devices:** Edmodo, they changed their interface. Set up learning community and set up groups. You can set up your own URL so that kids can go there and use group code. LIke closed chatroom in real time and share it back on the fly and get instant feedback. Archive it too.


 * **App for moving files from student iPad to teacher book**. Airshare, email, dropbox, dropittome, posterus, good reader.


 * **App for handwriting to text?** Airdisplay changes iPad into IRB to text with Smart software. The last one was to create your own font in your handwriting.