4 Tools for Creating Instruction Video
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4y ago
Many educators are plunging into creating digital resources as part of their districts plan to continue instruction while school facilities are closed for the remainder of the school year.  If you have not explored this before now, there are several options available to you in a variety of prices and skillset. The tools we suggest will be free or inexpensive and only focus on creating videos that you can share with students later.  There are options for live video conferencing and some of these tools are designed for that, but we are only focusing on video recording.  This type of learning mo ..read more
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Free Apps
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4y ago
Here are a few iPhone/iPad apps that are free today.  I don't know how long these will be free, but I thought they might be useful to a few people.  Check them out.  Times Tables and Friends ($4.99) Stickyboard 2 ($4.99) Tiny Orchestra: Educational Music Game ($2.99) Star Rover HD: Night Sky Map ($1.99) DB Meter: Noise Measure ($1.99) CareerFitosity ($0.99) Thank you for reading The Cluttered Desk.  You can find me on Twitter @jasonbengs.  Please feel free to comment on the post and share your ideas with me.  You can also leave a response on The Cluttered Desk Flipgrid page if you woul ..read more
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Do you need a Philosophy of Education?
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4y ago
When we first start out in education we often think that we know what we're doing. We think that we don't need any help and that everything that we need to know we learned in our education classes. It only takes about three days into the job to realize that our college education did not fully prepare us for every single student that we're going to face. It didn't truly prepare us for how we really should deliver a lesson when we have students on five different levels along with multiple types of disruptions. It didn't prepare us to handle all the routines, all the the daily tasks, all the deci ..read more
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What Motivates You?
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4y ago
The beginning of the school year has blown past us, and there are countless things you probably did to for the group of students that will be entered your classroom.  Setting up your room, completing you management plan, writing lesson plans, contacting prospective students, reviewing curriculum updates, and the list goes on. All of those are important, but I think there is something that needs to gravitate to the top as you prepare for each year, but also as you navigate through the year. Find your motivation. At the end of the year you may have been worn out, wondering if you should retur ..read more
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Friday Links 9-13
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4y ago
I have missed a few weeks with a chaotic start to the year.  Today is Friday the 13th and a full moon so for all of you that are superstitious or believe the lunar cycle has significant impact on your students' behavior I wish you well as you navigate this day.  I believe that weather, light, seasons and astronomic cycles may have some impact on biologic activity, but the most important influencer of students is the teacher in the classroom.  With that out of the way here are the posts and links that caught my attention this week.  I hope some of them serve you well. This first tweet has me r ..read more
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Who is in charge?
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4y ago
When it comes to professional learning, who is in charge?  For years the term was professional development, but that has come to have a negative connotation to it.  Think about it, when someone says they have to attend a professional development session, you almost cringe for them. You do this because the first thing that comes to mind is blood-borne pathogens, workman's comp or hazardous communications workshops.  This feeling is shared across many professions. But what if it didn't have to be that way? It doesn't! Before you try to correct me, I am fully aware that there is a certain amo ..read more
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Community Support
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4y ago
The start of school has been different for me this year.  I started a new position as a professional learning director that enables me to be in several different schools across the state.  Previously my experience at the beginning of the year has been limited to either attending district & building meetings or in more recent years facilitating the tech needs of district meetings and scrambling to make sure the systems and network continue to function properly as the beginning of the year demands approach. In those roles I was able to see how much that particular community supports the educ ..read more
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Friday Links 7-19
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5y ago
I have missed a couple of weeks of Friday links and thought I should send out a few of my favorites this week.  Here are some of the tweets from this week that caught my eye.  Some good, some bad, I will let you decide.  I will hold off on articles for the week and pick them up next time. So many of us prepare staff duty schedules to kick off the year...going to start by changing the titles to “Staff Connection Schedules”...connection should not be a duty...but an opportunity! #PrincipalsinAction #LeadLAP #leadupchat #dadsasprincipals #NPC19 https://t.co/qgzW2HiG8e — Dr. Todd Schmidt (@tssch ..read more
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Continued Success-Classroom Management pt4
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5y ago
As part of your classroom management plan should be some ongoing review.  You should be reviewing your procedures, rules, layout and philosophy routinely.  What and how often you review can be placed into two categories: annual and periodic.  Not only that, but the way you review them can also be categorized by the type of review: refresh and improve. All four components of your management plan that I mentioned earlier would naturally need to be reviewed annually for improvement.  But some of them need periodic review for refreshing.  Your procedures may need to be periodically refreshed and ..read more
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Success in Action-Classroom Management pt3
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5y ago
This is my third post on classroom management plans and will deal specifically with putting your plan into action.  The first post, Classroom Management, was a basic overview. The second, Plan to Succeed, was on developing your management plan and what to include in the plan.  This post involves putting your plan into action.  I suggested writing your philosophy of education and including that as the first element in you management plan.  I believe this should be first because it serves to remind you of what you believe about education and should motivate all other components of your plan (wi ..read more
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