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#DigiLit Sunday Blogging Challenge
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It’s Sunday! DigiLit Sunday is a Sunday post on literacy, an invitation by Margaret Simon, to share literacy strategies and tools for the classroom. This week’s list of bloggers: Click here. This week: Get started or restarted with class blogging…
#clmooc #middleschool Inspiration
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Inspiration is all around. One place is #clmooc. That is a Connected Learning Massive Open Online Collaboration. I was involved as a participant and as part of the support team. Read about my #clmooc experience and learn about Connected Learning. It really isn’t anything…
#clmooc #light #constellation collaboration
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Chief Astronaut: Kevin Hodgson In Week 5, our challenge was light. How do we make and write with light? Under the inspiration of Kevin Hodgson , we were invited to remake the night sky with our own constellations and stories.…
#clmooc #k6diglit Invitation to Stay Connected
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Margaret Simon asks a question: Tapping Student Connections How do we tap into student interests and create online learning environments for them to connect to and learn from? That is the question for DigLit Sunday bloggers from Margaret Simon. And…
#clmooc #f5f Inspire Yourself
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Thank you for the inspiration ! Larry Hewett Amy Cody Clancy Charlene Doland Kathleen Galarza Michelle Lynn
#clmooc Invitation Middle School Educators
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An Invitation to Connect Middle School Educators Teachers, Principals, Librarians, etc. As a member of #clmooc, I created two collaborative spaces: Connect in the Middle and Connect 2 Learn to provide a space for middle school educators to connect and plan for…
A Small Voice Gets An Answer
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One Does What One Can A Small Voice is Answered Our dog loves this walk in the park below the transmission lines. She checks every message left by every other creature that walks here. And the scrubby…
#clmooc #blogamonth Learning Walk
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Gami Link Sharpen The Saw Principal Jessica Johnson explains how she will read and attend conferences, reminding us to Sharpen Our Saws by quoting Steven Covey: Sharpening the saw means preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have – you !…
#clmooc Starts Monday June 16
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It’s Monday (or almost) and time to play! Build your personal learning network. Lurk and learn from others who are creating and making. Join in and make yourself or make together. Share and use ideas in the Make Bank. Read…
#clmooc The Inspiration Has Begun – Join In
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The Summer of Make, Play, Learn has begun at #clmooc ! We’re introducing ourselves with avatars and inspiring each other to try something. In my writing classroom, making avatars and pseudonyms are one of our first goals: creating an avatar…
#clmooc Welcome and Introduction
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Welcome to Summer! Have you considered what you will learn this summer? How about a summer connecting with other educators and making stuff? That’s what CLMOOC is all about: Making Learning Connected so we can update and revitalize our…
In Real Time Data Moves Forward Add Yours with #clmooc
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In Real Time: Click to see data move forward this second… Click the animation to open the full version (via PennyStocks.la). [Sources at bottom of linked page.] What do we do with so much data? Make sense of it, and…
#clmooc Blog Conversations
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Photo Credit: Collin Key via Compfight What is a conversation? A conversation, the give and take of ideas among people. We converse in the hallway, at dinner, or any time we meet. We listen to the stories of our friends, and we…
Resilience
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Resilience: A ReMix of “Bent But Not Broken” Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app Resilience. For yourself. For your students. My friend Susan Spellman-Cann created the HaikuDeck and a blogpost, “Bent But Not Broken” to guide us in…