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Teaching the iStudent
By Mark Barnes
Accustomed to constantly evolving mobile technology, our students crave more than paper and pencil can provide. In this volume, veteran teacher, renowned author, and tech expert Mark Barnes shows how educators can use mobile devices and social media to create a win-win for teaching and learning.
This inspiring resource describes how to:
- Mentor students in responsible use of technology
- Use technology to encourage positive collaboration beyond the classroom walls
- Benefit from teaching examples, K-12 lesson ideas, and a teacher–friendly technology glossary
Learn how to make technology a catalyst in your classroom–one that builds students’ aptitudes for critical thought and partnership.
Connected Leadership
By Spike Cook
This book is for the educator who is hesitant about getting connected. It tells the stories of several Connected Educators, discussing the myths about social media they had to overcome and the results that being connected has had on their schools. Spike Cook meets school leaders where they are at and gives them a roadmap for transformational change in their schools through connectedness.
This book will give leaders:
- An understanding of social media and its benefits for educators
- Tools for becoming connected
- Proof through research and examples of how connectedness makes a difference
Learn how to make technology a catalyst in your classroom–one that builds students’ aptitudes for critical thought and partnership.
All Hands on Deck
By Brad Currie
Brad Currie sheds light on the many ways educators can engage with parents and community members to impact student learning inside the classroom. With so many Web 2.0 tools, social media, and other online tools available, the community expects to know what is going on. Currie shares how it is possible not only to keep community members informed, but make sure they are involved in their students’ learning.
This book gives leaders:
- Tools for telling your school’s story
- Tools for connecting with parents and stakeholders
- Examples of how to involve community members in students’ learning
- Ideas of areas where you can start involving stakeholders
Learn how to make technology a catalyst in your classroom–one that builds students’ aptitudes for critical thought and partnership.
Flipping Leadership Doesn't Mean Reinventing the Wheel
By Peter M. DeWitt
In this volume, use the principles of connectedness and flipped learning to engage stakeholders digitally on their time so they’re ready for productive discussion when you meet in person. Flipped leadership:
- Makes the school community visible to parents
- Creates more authentic staff meetings
- Maximizes communication between parents and school
- Models effective use of technology
Learn how to make technology a catalyst in your classroom–one that builds students’ aptitudes for critical thought and partnership.
The Edcamp Model
By the Edcamp Foundation
Learn to run an Edcamp “unconference,” where participants create the agenda, lead sessions, draw on individual expertise and collaborate for real results. Technology keeps the conversation going, building a connected learning environment that lasts. Here you'll find:
- An overview of the model
- Practical strategies to use right away
- A series website to connect with authors
Empowered Schools, Empowered Students
By Pernille Ripp
This book helps you empower teachers and students to regain control of their own teaching and learning journey. Administrators and teachers learn to:
- Cultivate the experts at your school
- Create an environment of trust and collaboration
- Give students and staff a voice
The Power of Branding
By Tony Sinanis and Joe Sanfelippo
Branding is a way for leaders to make students' learning visible to the entire education community in order to share best practices, celebrate achievements, and make sure that the education community is focused on the most important person: the student. This book will give leaders:
- An understanding of why branding is so important to students’ success
- Stories of how branding has brought positive impacts to schools
- Tools to start telling your school story
The Relevant Educator
By Tom Whitby and Steven W. Anderson
What is a Connected Educator? How do you get Connected? Whitby and Anderson pave the way with a guide to connecting through social media sites, Personal/Professional Learning Networks, conferences, and more. Leaders will learn how connectedness is vital to a school’s health and growth. This book will give educators:
- An understanding of what connectedness is and the qualities of a connected educator
- Tools to start becoming connected leaders and educators
- Ideas for building your PLN
- Resources for further learning about connectedness
Blogging for Educators
By Starr Sackstein
This engaging, all-in-one resource from expert blogger Starr Sackstein takes educators by the hand and guides them through the step-by-step process of blogging. You'll quickly turn snippets of writing time into a tool for reflective and collaborative professional growth.
Educators will learn:
- Blogging for professional learning
- Platform, writing, and technical tips
- Safe digital citizenship
Worlds of Making
By Laura Fleming
Get the nuts and bolts on imagining, planning, creating, and managing a cutting-edge Makerspace for your school community. From inception through implementation, you'll find invaluable guidance for creating a vibrant Makerspace on any budget. Practical strategies and anecdotal examples help you:
- Create an action plan for your own personalized Makerspace
- Align activities to standards
- Showcase student creations
Leading Professional Learning
By Thomas C. Murray and Jeffrey J. Zoul
Confidently learn to build a values-driven school culture, personalized professional roadmaps, and a collaboration-minded staff. You'll find concrete examples, leadership profiles, and a wealth of resources to help administrators and teachers:
- Take ownership of their professional growth
- Design meaningful learning opportunities
- Collaborate using technology, blogs, and social media
- Model and support professional learning for others
Principal Professional Development
By Tony Sinanis and Joseph M. Sanfelippo
Filled with real-world experiences from leaders all over the country, you'll build balanced and effective leadership skills, grow a network of support, and model your vision for a thriving community of learners. Includes a handy start-up guide to help busy principals:
- Connect virtually with K-12 leaders
- Model continuous learning
- Close the gap of knowledge and experience between educators
5 Skills for the Global Learner
By Mark Barnes
Mobile devices and social media give students unlimited resources and opportunities to build an international network of teachers. With this easy guide, you'll learn five skills to transform the average learner into a global student:
- Creating and Sharing Digital Information
- Using Social Media
- Digital Publishing
- Building a Personal Learning Network
- Using Aggregators to Create, Maintain, and Share Content
Content Curation
By Steven Anderson
Teachers and students are constantly inundated with information. This handy guide will help you find, store, and share the best information and resources found online today - and teach your students to do the same.
Real-world tips, tools, and examples help you systematically:
- Understand the curation process
- Find, collect, and share reliable web-based information
- Build students' information literacy skills
The Missing Voices in EdTech
By Rafranz Davis
This book offers a reflective journey into diverse perspectives on technology as it is understood in our schools. Through step-by-step strategies and powerful vignettes, Davis explores the impact inclusive EdTech conversations can have for teachers, students, women, and people of color. Solutions-based reflections help educators:
- Engage students and give them a voice
- Gather student and teacher feedback
- Encourage leadership for women and people of color
Standing in the Gap
By Lisa Dabbs and Nicol Howard
In this helpful guide, new teachers will discover key strategies to help build confidence in the classroom and quickly get connected to resources and educators in the field who can stand in the gap to support them.
Save time and learn to easily:
- Connect with online Communities of Practice
- Find and plan 21st Century lessons
- Collaborate with a face-to-face or virtual mentor
Learn how to make technology a catalyst in your classroom–one that builds students’ aptitudes for critical thought and partnership.
Breaking Out of Isolation
By Spike Cook, Jessica Johnson and Theresa Stager
Through powerful vignettes and strategies, you'll discover how innovation-minded school leaders connect to avoid isolation, lower stress, find support, and share ideas. This roadmap to transformational change will help you to:
- Strategically connect with colleagues and staff
- Jumpstart and sustain your Professional Learning Network
- Overcome isolation for lasting impact
The Educator's Guide to Creating Connections
Edited by Tom Whitby
This book is every educator's guide to becoming connected through social media, blogging, personal learning networks, and even new policy. Contributors to the book include Steven Anderson, Kristen Swanson, Kyle Pace, George Couros, Pam Moran, Adam Bellow, Lisa Nielsen, and Shannon McClintock Miller.
Thought leaders in Connected Education help you use real-world tips and tools to:
- Master and adapt to 21st Century teaching methodologies
- Build ongoing technology literacy skills
- Begin your connected journey
Using Technology to Engage Students With Learning Disabilities
By Billy Krakower and Sharon LePage Plante
Harness the power of today's technology to improve learning and engagement for students with learning disabilities. By engaging students with learning disabilities using the technology already at your fingertips, you'll see your students begin to thrive and grow in exciting new ways. In this volume in the Connected Educators Series, you'll discover:
- New ideas for using assistive technology to teach core subjects and study skills
- How to build positive opportunities for students to show what they know
- Tools to provide better content accessibility
- How to help students connect and share through technology tools
Confident Voices: Digital Tools for Language Acquisition
By John Spencer
Engage your ELL students through technology!
When it comes to technology integration, don't overlook the needs of your ELL students. Introduce project-based learning into your classroom and utilize strategies to engage your ELL students and bridge the growing divide between technology and the ELL students that need it to thrive. Connected Educator John Spencer shows ELL educators how to combine technology with teaching in this easy-to-use guide to blended learning. Get ready to:
- Blend innovative technology with project-based learning
- Strengthen your students' English language skills
- Engage your students through the intentional integration of digital tools
Digital Citizenship
By Susan Bearden
Use this book's community-based approach to building digital citizenship to teach, learn, and thrive in today's digital environment. Expertly navigate the pitfalls of the digital world, take hold of the plethora of opportunities available to you, and confidently engage in online connections without fear! Educators, parents, and students will discover how to:
- Protect privacy and leave positive online footprints
- Understand creative credits and copyright freedoms
- Foster responsible digital behaviors through safe and secure practices
- Enlist all stakeholders to help ingrain digital citizenship into the school culture
Redesigning Learning Spaces
Edited by Robert Dillon, Ben Gilpin, A.J. Juliani, and Erin Klein
Bring hope, joy, and positive energy back into the daily work of the classroom. Explore how learning space design can positively impact classroom learning, the culture of a school, healthy communities, and systems and structures that make education meaningful. In this book you'll:
- Find resources for redesigning spaces on a sustainable budget
- Support technology integration through blended and virtual learning
- Hear success stories from the field
