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  Michael Boll talks with Emily Goligoski of the Mozilla Foundation about the Open Badges program. From their website:  Mozilla's Open Badge Infrastructure provides the open, core technology to support an ecosystem of badges. It is designed to support a broad range of different badge issuers, and allow any user to earn badges across different issuers, web sites and experiences, then combine them into a single collection tied to their identity. This collection of badges can then be shared out to various audiences across the web, resulting in real-world results like jobs or formal credit.      

Michael Boll interviews Mick Hewitt and Cory Reid of MasteryConnect.com From their website:  MasteryConnect makes it simple to share and discover common formative assessments and track mastery of state and Common Core standards. Built-in grading tools save teachers time.  

Michael Boll talks with Daniel Yoo of GoalBookApp.com From their website:  Individual learning plans (ILPs) should be living documents, not papers filed away in binders and drawers. Goalbook is the only ILP platform that enables everyone on the student's team to collaborate and celebrate student progress.

Michael Boll interviews Dan Jost of Inkling.com From their website: We started with a vision for a better textbook: one that was interactive and engaging, one that took advantage of the opportunities afforded by new media like iPad. But we aren’t just reinventing publishing, or reinventing the book. We’re reinventing the way people learn. Inkling began in the living room of our founder and quickly grew to a handful of designers and engineers in a tiny office in San Francisco’s startuppy SoMa district. Here, ideas and sketches were translated into a touchable textbook experience, designed to make the most of iPad.

Chris, Jamie and Michael discuss the articles of the week, enjoy an interview with James Sanders of ClassBadges.com and share their tech tips of the week. Articles of the week Kinect in the Classroom: Scratching the Surface of Potential Cheryl Arnett, a 19-year veteran teacher at Sunset Elementary School in Craig, Colo brought the Xbox Kinect into her classroom. Her reasoning? “Bringing technology into the classroom inspires them,” she said. “Their lives are different than ours were, and just giving them a book and a worksheet is not always appropriate anymore. I’m fascinated by Kinect. There’s power for kids in things that capture their interest and are also something they can learn from. We’ve barely scratched the surface of where this can go; it’s limited only by our imaginations.” About KinectEDucation See how the Kinect is being used in education at Kinect EDucation. "KinectEDucation is an educator-driven community resource for developers, teachers, students, enthusiasts, and any other education stakeholder to promote the use of Kinect applications in classrooms. Our goal is to transform classrooms to a 21st-century model of learning with accessible technology – to integrate a “connected education” – and we want you to be a part of this! Join the movement!" Ignore The iPads! How Disruptive Technologies Are Leading the Next Great Education Revolution -- THE Journal "Thornburg contends that, in the whole of human history, only three major technological revolutions have fundamentally resculpted education. The first two are taken for granted: the construction of a phonetic alphabet, and the propagation of the mass-produced book in the 16th century. These changes seeped into education because they were consumer-driven, and ultimately too big to ignore. Thornburg argues that mobile device technology has placed us on the cusp of the next great revolution, which is already very much in progress and is certain to affect education. Like its predecessors, this one is consumer-driven, and has the potential to drastically transform an education environment that has become, to his mind, too focused on assessment and evaluation." Ed Tech Coaching: Let's Stop Talking about Teaching with Technology, and Start Talking about Teaching Maybe we focus too much on the tools just to indulge our ADD and call it better teaching? Dawson student offered job, scholarship Classic case of white hat hacker doing good for a school. Wonder why the school overreacted and kicked him out. How mainstream video games are being used as teaching tools | eSchool News Interview of the week:  James Sanders of ClassBadges.com ClassBadges is a free, online tool where teachers can award badges for student accomplishments. Through your teacher account, you can award badges customized for your classroom or school.   Elementary Middle School High School Mathletics  is the world's most used maths website! It is next generation in learning, helping students enjoy maths and improve their results. Mathletics covers the full Kindergarten to Year 12 curriculum. Flipboard  Designed for iPad and iPhone, Flipboard is a personal news magazine filled with everything being shared across the Web, from breaking news to stories on world events, sports, travel and more. Simply pick a few topics and your Flipboard is instantly populated with the news you care about.  Symbalooedu allows you to organize and share the best of the web with your students. This web curation tool allows you to organize your teaching resources all in one place.  That one place happens to be the web that is accessible anytime, anywhere, from any device. Symbaloo promotes innovation while maintaining the ability to simplify digital curation. It is easy to create a webmix and share it with anyone whether they have a Symbaloo account or not. Take a moment and discover how Symbaloo works.  

Michael Boll interviews James Sanders of Classbadges.com ClassBadges is a free, online tool where teachers can award badges for student accomplishments. Through your teacher account, you can award badges customized for your classroom or school.  

Michael Boll  talks with Mike Lee of Edshelf.com. Our mission is to make a positive impact in the world by making education more efficient and effective. We strive to enable educators to do what they do best, teach and inspire. Edshelf is a directory of websites, mobile apps, and desktop programs that are rated & reviewed by parents & educators, for parents & educators. We help you find the right educational tools for your specific needs.  

Chris, Jamie and Michael discuss the articles of the week, enjoy an interview with Mike Lee of EdShelf.com and share their tech tips of the week. Articles of the week Susan Cain: The power of introverts | Video on TED.com  In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world, and should be encouraged and celebrated. PaperPort Notes goes from Amazing to Awesome! | Free Resources from the Net for EVERY Learner "You can now use the iPad camera, even the camera on an iPad 2, to photograph text and import it as editable text into PaperPort Notes." Introverts in the Classroom Apps Gone Free Preschoolers and iPads... Good or Bad? Make your own Gravatar | The Virtual Tech Hub Massive Open Online Courses Prove Popular, if Not Lucrative Yet - NYTimes.com Will this take over the future of education? Should we fear it or embrace it? Do we have a choice? Internet Addicts Experience Brain Changes Like Alcoholics And Gamblers, Study Says Interview of the week Edshelf is a directory of websites, mobile apps, and desktop programs that are rated & reviewed by parents & educators, for parents & educators. We help you find the right educational tools for your specific needs. Tech tips of the week Elementary Middle School High School Apps Gone FreeFind great apps without spending a dime! Get high quality paid apps for free each day. Unlike other apps, we offer no paid listings - these are expert-picked top-ranked apps, for FREE! Gravatar "Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?" PaperPort Notes PaperPort Notes is a digital note taking tool for the iPad that is transforming the way people create and share information. Now you can combine documents, web content, audio, typed text as well as hand written notes into a single document that you can easily organize and share with anyone.    

Chris, Jamie and Michael discuss the articles of the week, enjoy an interview with Emily Grover of EasyBib.com and share their tech tips of the week. Articles of the week I, robot-waiter: inside the Robot Restaurant - in pictures | Technology | guardian.co.uk Deeper Learning: Highlighting Student Work | Edutopia Lydia Dobyns: A '21st Century' Education Is SO Last Century Implementing Blogging in the Classroom | Langwitches Blog Socrative What Your Klout Score Really Means | Wired Business | Wired.com Should students be thinking about their brand? Waldorf Schools: Where Technology Isn't King | Education News Interview of the week  EasyBib  "The Free Automatic Bibliography and Citation Maker. Save time by creating a Works Cited page instantly in MLA, APA, or Chicago" Tech tips of the week Elementary Middle School High School MyStory iPad App: "This app allows your child to draw and add text, voice, and photos to create a storybook of his or her own. After the book is completed, you can share it with friends and family to iBooks, email, or within the app." Socrative "Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets." Popcorn Maker "makes it easy to enhance, remix and share web video. Use your web browser to combine video and audio with content from the rest of the web — from text, links and maps to pictures and live feeds."