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July 1, 2016
How Can Teachers Just Work 40 Hours a Week?
Find life balance and get your weekends back
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis
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This year, I started hearing about this amazing new program. Angela Watson has a 40-hour workweek club for teachers. Many teachers are getting their lives back.
Learn about the 40 Hour Workweek Club for Teachers
Join the program.This is such a great program that I asked Angela if I could link up with her to recommend her program to all of my readers. She only opens up e...
June 30, 2016
Support teachers with @Staples and Donorschoose.org
and enter to win a $50,000 scholarship & trip to meet Katy Perry
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis
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So many teachers spend their own money on school supplies for their classrooms. In the US, some estimates show 99.5 of all public school teachers use their money to equip their own classroom. I’m so excited that Staples is again supporting DonorsChoose.organd partnering with Katy Perry to encourage people to make their donation to support US public s...
Sextortion: Your Students Are at Risk, Teachers Can Help
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Sextortion is a shocking new way online predators are targeting kids. At ISTE this week, I was upset when the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children explained this disturbing trend to me. So, I recorded a show. Educate yourself. Talk to kids. Keep them safe.
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June 29, 2016
#iste2016 Mindsets and Classroom Management for Making and Inventing in Every Classroom
Presentation Resources
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The third panel I’ll be moderating this ISTE is full of some of the best in the business of people who are making and inventing. As with the sketchnoting slides I shared earlier, it will be best to see this in person, but so many of you can’t be here at ISTE 2016 in Denver! Here are the slides from today’s presentation.
A big shout out to the panelists: Dr. Jackie Gerstein, David Jakes, Erin...
Sketchnoting Superstars Panel from #iste2016
Slides and Resources
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Sketchnoting is a fascination for me. So, ISTE was a dream for me. What if we got some of the best in sketchnoting together to share their secrets and how this applies to education? Well, we submitted and it is happening today!Today, June 29 at 8:30 am at the ISTE 2016 conference, I’ll be moderating
Today, June 29 at 8:30 am at the ISTE 2016 conference, I’ll be moderating Sketchnoting in Educa...
June 27, 2016
Blended Learning Slides and Resources #iste2016
Presentation from the panel Monday, July 27 at 8:30 am
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This morning at ISTE Tom Arnett, Jon Bergmann, Mike Gwaltney, Aaron Sams, Stephanie Sandifer, and Jerry Obermyer all did an incredible job discussing blended and flipped learning. Shell Terrell shared the session on Periscope. (watch here)
I tried to upload these slides to ISTE, but they only take 5MB of files and this file is much larger. So, I’ll add the lin...
June 26, 2016
#iste2016 Day 0 Recap
Here's my storify to capture a tiny bit of what happened.
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ISTE 2016 is here. It is simply impossible to capture everything, so I’ll share what I can. If you’re not here, I’ve included some powerful ways you can JOIN IN! Give it a second to load!
[View the story “ISTE 2016 Day 0” on Storify]The post #iste2016 Day 0 Recap appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be ex...
June 23, 2016
Let’s Catch up at #iste2016 : Here’s how
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ISTE 2016 is here! I hope to catch up with so many of you out there. Here’s the schedule of where I’ll be presenting and sharing this year. It is always great to go. Since I only go every other year, it is always extra sweet to see people that I’ve not seen in a while. Say hi!
If you want links to these events to register, go to my ISTE 2016, Presenter Page.
Workshop: BYOA: BUILD YO...June 20, 2016
What Is Your Mental Momentum About Teaching?
What has to happen before you can make your classroom better
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis
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We have a problem in the hearts and minds of many educators everywhere. I’m guilty of it sometimes, too. Sometimes my momentum is not moving forward. I can wish for something that never will be and not do what is right in front of me.
AlvinToefflersaid,
“you’ve got to think about the ‘big thing’ while you’re doing the smallthings,so that all the things g...
June 17, 2016
Things Every Teacher Should Know About Digital Citizenship
Educate yourself to prevent the nightmare
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis
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Picking the wrong technology tool can unleash a nightmare.Don’t think it can’t happen to you. 
If you look over the shoulder of one of Gord Holden’s 10,000 students,it looks like theyare playing a video game. They are not. They are learning. They are safe, too. Let’s dig into Gord’s three things about digital citizenship that every teacher should know.
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