Coaching in and out of the classroom: incentives

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Top 10 List for week of 3/25/11

Here are the TOP 10 topics, thoughts, links and blog posts I found this past week (during spring break) ENJOY!

10. I posted this list for my students, some really great free resources here: Free resources for the 2.0 student

http://www.technologybitsbytesnibbles.info/archives/239

9. Need a web 2.0 tool but can't sem to find the one you want, here's a great resource for choosing: Web 2.0 for the classroom teacher

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listweb20s.html

or this one

Cool web 2.0 portal organized for you!

https://sites.google.com/site/jeffthomastechsite/web-links

8. Livebinders are cool, here's some tips and tricks for organizing yours: Livebinders tips and tricks
http://livebinders.com/play/present?id=3342

7. Box of tricks, easy explanations of web 2.0 tools.

http://www.boxoftricks.net/?page_id=29

6. I gave a quiz, I graded it, gave t back to the student....Now what? The importance of Formative assessments

http://www.21stcenturyfluency.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=1777

5. 21st century learners need 21st century teachers. I accept the challenge

http://www.maggiehosmcgrane.com/2011/03/21st-century-learners-need-21st-century.html

4. Have you ever wondered how you could use Evernote in your classroom. Now here’s a great resource to tell you how. Perfect!

http://www.21stcenturyfluency.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=1798

3. Merit pay, assessment improvement here's a white paper on Teacher incentives and student achievement evidence from New York city public schools...huh, makes you think.

http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/fryer/files/teacher%2Bincentives.pdf

2. Get to the point: Teaching to the TEXT message

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/opinion/20selsberg.html?_r=1

1. Most RTs this week: 5 reasons to integrate technology into your classroom. Typical argument and even better reasons for it...

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/ed-technology-benefits-heather-wolpert-gawron

Top Videos of the Week

Sir Ken Robinson on Learning without frontiers.

“I am” a new exciting documentary that is going to cause the SHIFT to hit the fan
http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-shift-is-about-to-hit-the-fan-611.php

Integrating Online resources into your teaching

Education is changing to world of work

Thursday, March 17, 2011

The Top 10 list for this week:

10. Why Formative assessments matter

http://www.21stcenturyfluency.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=1777

9. Tying incentives to student performance for teachers. What’s the evidence say?

http://www.danpink.com/archives/2011/03/does-giving-teachers-bonuses-improve-student-performance

(also watch the movie Freakanomics)

8. Lyn (@L_Hilt) is an AMAZING principal, I’ve mentioned her here a number of times. I love her thoughts on where we are in education and the homework section really gives me thoughts to chew on

http://lynhilt.com/crossing-the-finish-line/

7. Don’t have a Twitter account, but want to "SPY" in on what’s being said. Check this out...

go here http://www.tvviboard.com/ Type in #edchat or #edtech

watch it load and enjoy the resources...

6. Free assistive reading tools. This is pretty cool and a great set of resources for writing, reading, and more

http://carlanderson.blogspot.com/2011/03/free-assistive-reading-tools.html

5. This looks like an awesome resource from the most gifted tech person down to the person who needs help using word/pages. Check it out

http://teachertrainingvideos.com/

4. Wallwisher.com, corkboard.me, spaaze.com, Lino it (http://en.linoit.com/) which one is the best...dunno, I like them all!

3. Can you flip your classroom. It’s all the rage now for 21st Cenetury learners

http://cybraryman.com/flipclass.html

2. THIS IS SOOOOOO COOL!!! Making an interactive lesson using YOUTUBE