who is an essential worker
categories: teaching
Posts Tagged ‘teachers’
mindfulness school teachers
categories: mindfulness
Effects of Mindfulness Training on School Teachers’ Self-Reported Personality Traits As Well As Stress and Burnout Levels
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more on burnout in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=burnout
more on mindfulness in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=mindfulness
K12 platform presidential candidates
Here’s where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump stand on the biggest K-12 issues
By Stephen Noonoo
October 24th, 2016
more than 2,500 educators responded to an informal eSchool News poll asking which candidate best represented their vision for the future of K-12 education. (Clinton won that poll with 58 percent of the vote, while Trump received 28 percent; 12 percent were undecided.)
about the candidates and their positions on education, check out the infographic compiled by eCampus News, which hones in on higher education issues, such as college tuition costs.
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more on presidential election in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=election
Taking Screenshots on Your Laptop or Tablet
categories: technology
A Short Guide to Taking Screenshots on Your Laptop and Tablet
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/02/a-short-guide-to-taking-screenshots-on.html?m=1
Chromebook:
Diigo’s Awesome Screenshot tool. Awesome Screenshot is a simple one step installation
TechSmith’s Snagit. Awesome Screenshot will only capture things that are displayed in your web browser.
Snagit download the Snagit Chrome app and the Snagit browser extension. . Both tools allow you to draw and type on top of your screenshot images.
Macbook and Windows laptops:
Mac keyboard combination of “Command+shift+4” “Command+shift+3” will capture everything on your screen.
Windows computer Snipping tool
Jing to take screenshots on my Mac and on my Windows laptop.
Skitch If you have an Evernote account, you can save Skitch images in your Evernote account.
iPad and iPhone:
Taking a screenshot on an iPad or iPhone is a simple matter of holding down your “home” button (the big round one) and power button at the same time. The image will save directly to your device’s camera roll. When I need to draw, highlight, or type on an image in my camera roll I turn to Skitch again.
Android phones and tablets:
As long as your device is operating on Android 4.0 or later you can take a screenshot by holding down your home button and power/sleep button at the same time. The screenshot should save to your camera roll unless you’ve designated another place for it to save. Once on your camera roll you can use the image in other apps for drawing, cropping, annotating, and sharing. Some Android devices, depending on manufacturer, include a built-in screenshot image editor.
Pixlr and Skitch. Skitch on Android offers all of the same features that are outlined above. Pixlr is a more robust tool that allows you to apply image filters in addition to drawing and typing on your images.
Please consider other IMS blog entries on the topics:
A Problem-Solving Game For Teachers and Administrators
categories: gamification, gaming
A Problem-Solving Game For Teachers and Administrators
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/10/a-problem-solving-game-for-teachers-and-administrators/
This activity empowers all stakeholders. It gives everyone an opportunity to share pain points and observations and to brainstorm solutions. By building a card deck of context-specific pain points and observations, there’s buy-in from the start. All participants have a vested interest in the cards they create. Likewise, the activity has enough structure built in to drive toward solutions.
Former Obama Spokesmen Join Attack on Teacher Tenure and Seniority
categories: announcement
Former Obama Spokesmen Join Attack on Teacher Tenure and Seniority
Campbell Brown, a former CNN anchor who is highly antagonistic to teachers’ unions, is creating an organization to pursue a Vergara-style lawsuit in New York against teachers’ job protections. Her campaign will have the public relations support of an agency led by Robert Gibbs, former Obama Press Secretary, and Ben LaBolt, former Obama campaign spokesman.
twitter resources for its use in education
categories: Twitter
A Quick Guide To Twitter Hashtags For Professional Development
http://www.edudemic.com/twitter-hashtags-for-professional-developement/
Why It’s Time For Teachers To Embrace Twitter
http://www.edudemic.com/teachers-on-twitter/
How (And Why) Teachers Should Have Multiple Twitter Accounts
http://www.edudemic.com/teachers-multiple-twitter-accounts/
Twitter Aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy for Your Students ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/12/twitter-aligned-with-blooms-taxonomy.html
D2L free training videos for Version 10.1
categories: Desire2Learn (D2L), training materials
Free training videos. See http://mnscuims.mnscu.edu/training.html for links to the videos.
Version 10.1 Videos for Teachers
From Desire2Learn Community Site:
Content Overview
User Progress Overview
From Atomic Learning (free):
32 short videos–Content, User Progress, Discussions
From MnSCU:
Content Tool Changes in D2L Version 10.1
User Progress and Discussion Tool Changes in D2L Version 10.1
Version 10.1 Videos for Students
On Millennials
categories: learning, Millennials
Millennials comprise the largest generational sector since the baby boomers. As this group enters the job market, training organizations will be forced to find new innovative ways to reach this new audience.
http://www.allencomm.com/3-strategies-to-engage-millennials-get-results/
Schaffhauser, D. (2015). American Millennials Not Terribly Bright When It Comes to Pretty Much Everything That Matters, Analysis Finds. Campus Technology. Retrieved from http://campustechnology.com/articles/2015/03/04/american-millennials-not-terribly-bright.aspx
“America’s Skills Challenge: Millennials and the Future” actually examines data from a couple of years ago that came out of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) to compare the United States to 21 other member countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
American PISA Scores Drop
12/03/13
The numbers are in from the latest Programme for International Student Assessment(PISA), and for American students, as United States Department of EducationSecretary Arne Duncan put it, “It is a picture of educational stagnation.”
The problem is not that our 15-year-olds are performing worse today than before. The problem is that they’re simply not making progress. Students in many other nations are advancing instead of standing still. In a knowledge-based global economy where education is more important than ever before, both to individual success and collective prosperity, our students are basically losing ground. We’re running in place as other high performing countries start to lap us.”
Daniel Domenech, executive director of AASA, theSchool Superintendents Association. “The problem we find in American education isn’t that schools are ‘falling behind,’ it is that schools are ‘pulling apart.’ Poverty in America is the real issue behind today’s education gap.
Among the findings: Top-performing countries, primarily those in Asia, place great emphasis on selecting and training teachers, encourage them to work together and prioritize investment in teacher quality. They also set clear targets and give teachers autonomy in the classroom to achieve them.
American Millennials Not Terribly Bright When It Comes to Pretty Much Everything That Matters, Analysis Finds
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2015/03/04/american-millennials-not-terribly-bright.aspx
“This report suggests that far too many are graduating high school and completing postsecondary educational programs without receiving adequate skills,” the report stated. “If we expect to have a better educated population and a more competitive workforce, policy makers and other stakeholders will need to shift the conversation from one of educational attainment to one that acknowledges the growing importance of skills and examines these more critically.”