Learn how you can become an Apple Distinguished Educator today! Jon Corippo discusses his tips and tricks to making a great ADE video. www.TeacherCast.net

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If you are interested in working with amazing students in a completely digital environment, check out this great opportunity from BlackRocket. I have had the pleasure of getting to know the BlackRocket team over the last few months and I am VERY impressed with the amazing programs they offer teachers and students.

Learn the 8 Tips to improve English Grammar that you can't live without. These tips are super helpful!

Are you being efficient with the way you do your presentations? These 5 presentation tools are my most used and favorite ways to help my students.

The Microsoft Office Mix team demonstrations how to dynamically flip your classroom through the use of Power Point and Office 365

On Sunday March 1, Tim Robinson from the Microsoft Office Mix team was a guest on the TechEducator Podcast. In this video segment, Tim demonstrated how easy it is for a teacher to create an Office Mix and share it with their students creating dynamic lessons.

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Organizing Your Ideas Differently... using Microsoft SWAY The TechEducator Podcast is a weekly round table discussion about current topics in educational technology. For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com.

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Jeff sits down with Jacqueline Russell to discuss why new Microsoft Surface Tablet is the perfect solution to your digital classroom.

I love using videos in the classroom: they are engaging, multi-sensory and provide quasi-authentic language. The question of course is what do you have students do while they're watching the videos? Well, one tool I've come across recently is videonot.es.Videonot.es is a web app that allows users to take notes of online videos (Youtube, Khan Academy, Coursera, Udacity) and then store and share their notes using either Evernote or  Google Drive. Why would you want to use this site?Ease of collection - Instead of carrying paper copies, you just have students "share" their work with you (more on that later).Tracking the process - If you are having students write essays on videos, it is a lot harder for them to plagiarize if you are tracking their work from the very beginning. Collaboration - Students can share their notes and ideas with each other nearly instantly.Safe Keeping - Students "misplace" their paper notes all the time. Unless a student consciously deletes the file from their Google Drive account, their video notes aren't going anywhere.So how do you use Videonot.es?1) Go to their website videonot.es and press "Connect with Google Drive"Read more »

If you work at a large institution, you have access to experienced teachers, in-house workshops, seminars and (possibly) travel assistance for presenting at, or possibly, attending conferences. Additionally, your line manager has probably assigned you a mentor who can answer the day-to-day questions like "What happens if I need a new CD?" as well as fill you in on the "culture of the school" or the "unwritten rules."Yep, if you work at a school with a growth mindset, you will always be reminded that a teacher is a learner first and foremost and, therefore, will always be challenged to improve not only their content knowledge but also their pedagogy. In this type of school, in-house professional development workshops will be mandatory and there will be competition to see who can generate the highest turn-out for workshops.Do you do things because that is how they have always been done?But what if you don't work in "that" school? What if you work in a school that has a fixed mindset, one that believes that if you have a BA/BS in anything and a CELTA or TESOL Cert then you know "enough?" What if you are THE English teacher at your school? Well, in that case, you can either:choose to be the valedictorian of summer school (aka "the biggest fish in a small pond") or  embrace the web and create your own personal learning network (PLN). Since you're reading this post, you're in group 2. The problem with the web isn't the lack of information, it is actually the opposite: known as The Paradox of Choice, the number of options is so overwhelming that instead of doing something, people feel overwhelmed, don't know where to begin and ultimately do nothing. The goal of these posts is, if you're a new teacher, to point you in the direction of some resources that could REALLY help your teaching. If you're a more experienced teacher, maybe you'll come across some sites that will help you fill in some of the holes in your game or get you to rethink something you've been doing. Additionally, please feel free to post your favorite sites in the comments section below but beware, I have final say on what gets posted. Translation: if it's off topic, or off color, it gets deleted. Without further ado, lets begin.Read more »