Best of What Tim Found 12/07/2012

• 15 Things Teachers & Students Can Do With Edmodo

  tags: edomodo projectideas post2blog

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Failure- Don't Fear It!

Anthony Halter made an interesting comment yesterday during the recognition breakfast for SPED, Health, and PE students.  His comment was basically about how failure is viewed by different societies.  In the west, we typically view failure or struggling as a negative rather than a natural, welcomed, or even celebrated part of the learning process.

 

His point was that the student he was recognizing was not detoured by struggles.  Rather, this student simply continued to work hard, study, and seek help until he mastered the concept.

 

I was reminded of a Arkansas Leadership Academy activity where achieving the goal (all members of our group had to work through a maze in a short amount of time) was not possible until we realized that through individual failure, we collectively identified the appropriate path.  Then everyone was able to navigate the maze well within the allotted time.

 

Whether you are trying a new instructional strategy, piloting a new common core based unit, or trying out a new tech tool, embrace and share both your successes and your failures.

 

If we’re afraid to share what goes wrong, we will continue repeating mistakes that can be avoided.

 

So, when you interact with other teachers, your PLC group, your digital PLN, the new Edmodo group started by David Welsher…share what goes well, what you’re proud of, but also what goes wrong.

 

Also, remember to play!  The most innovative teachers are the ones that aren’t afraid to challenge themselves, push new buttons, try new tools.  In short, they don’t fear failure.

 

Sometimes, there is much more to be learned from a failure than from a success.

Best of What Tim Found 12/05/2012

• What inspired you to become an educator? SmartBlogs

  tags: post2blog adminblog

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Best of What Tim Found 11/30/2012

• A Must Have App Evaluation Rubric for Teachers

  tags: ipad app appevaluation appevaluationrubric post2blog

• 10 Awesome Web Tools Teachers should Be Using

  tags: toptools post2blog

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Best of What Tim Found 11/29/2012

• Again: Relevance, why Twitter? SmartBlogs

  tags: twitter whytwitter whypln pln adminblog post2blog

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Best of What Tim Found 11/27/2012

• iOrganized: How a teacher can use the iPad to stay organized? | Reflections of a Passionate Educator

  tags: ipad teacherorganization teacherplanning productivity post2blog

• Are You Behind?

  tags: technologyleadership adminblog post2blog

• Create Your Own Interactive Primary Source Document Activities

  tags: primarysource interactive socialstudies post2blog

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Best of What Tim Found 11/21/2012

• I want to: Edcanvas

  "You can create a canvas based on YouTube videos, photographs, files from Dropbox, Google Drive, the web or bookmarks. These can then be edited together to form a coherent whole, which can be saved and used with students."

  tags: edcanvas youtube video photos images creativity projectideas post2blog

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