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Creating Our Own Unique Learning Environments #DigiLead

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She embraced the autonomy that she was given in a position that functions as a librarian, media specialist, and educational technology integrator to push the envelop. Change Digital Leadership educational technology Innovation Laura Fleming Makerspace New Milford High School transformation'

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Twitter: A Resource For All

A Principal's Reflections

Finally, how can we move more schools to embrace social media in general as a valuable educational tool? You can view the entire winter Scholastic Administrator magazine HERE ). educational leadership educational technology Twitter'

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Chrome Extensions for Educators

A Principal's Reflections

feedly xt : Transform your Google Reader and Twitter accounts into a personalized magazine. educational technology Google Chrome Opinion' Chromed Bird : An extension for all the Twitterholics out there. Obviously I am just getting started with Google Chrome extensions.

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Taking Schools and Education to Another Level With Digital Publishing

A Principal's Reflections

School newspapers and magazines could be taken to an unparalleled level with Adobe DPS. The possibilities are endless, but what is needed is a change in mindset amongst many schools and educators. Adobe Change digital media educational technology Innovation Opinion' We need the will to accompany the means.

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Diving Deeper Into the Effects of Smartwatches on Kids, Schools and Families

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That’s what EdSurge senior reporter Emily Tate Sullivan found when she spent months researching the recent boom in smartwatches for kids, for a feature story that EdSurge co-published with WIRED magazine last week. The worst case scenario in the minds of the parents I talked to is just always looming,” she says.

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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

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I had earned my masters in the art of teaching elementary education. I was more of a periodical girl, with the magazines and the newspapers and an occasional novel or self-help book. Jami Rhue : I never thought of librarianship until I went to a job fair for Chicago Public Schools, and they were looking for school librarians.

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How a Vacant School Building Became a Symbol of Loss and a Source of Hope for a Small Town

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Laskas is a longtime magazine journalist with an expertise in immersing herself in unfamiliar settings to document them. And she spent the last three years on an unusually ambitious attempt to tell the story of this fading town which has much in common with many other small rural communities across the U.S.

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