Daily Spotlight on Education 06/07/2009

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Social Media Monitoring Tools: 26 Free Online Reputation Tools

Really, there should be vice principals in schools who have the job to set up an RSS page to monitor this for their schools. Who is monitoring what people are saying about your business or organization? Do you care? You should!

tags: education, learning, technology, edu_trends
12 Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives | bridges.org

Excellent reading for IT Directors and Technology Integrators – I particularly like the part about doing your homework and the thorough needs assessment – this fits with excellent books like the Influencer that have researched positive change.

tags: education, IT, ICT, technology, techintegrator, professionaldevelopment, administrator, edu_trends
Shoyu Education Talk

Teachers are important — to me, sure, it would be nice to have higher salaries – but as someone who makes so much less than the promosed $125,000 teacher salaries from DC — I think it is important for society to respect teachers AND for teachers to be the type of people that society can respect. Know that the news media is trying to get eyeballs and clicks and so sensational stories are what they sell and that for every horrible teacher story you hear, there are hundreds of thousands of great teacher stories that you won't!

tags: education, learning

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Vicki Davis is a full-time classroom teacher and IT Director in Georgia, USA. She is Mom of three, wife of one, and loves talking about the wise, transformational use of technology for teaching and doing good in the world. She hosts the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast which interviews teachers around the world about remarkable classroom practices to inspire and help teachers. Vicki focuses on what unites us -- a quest for truly remarkable life-changing teaching and learning. The goal of her work is to provide actionable, encouraging, relevant ideas for teachers that are grounded in the truth and shared with love. Vicki has been teaching since 2002 and blogging since 2005. Vicki has spoken around the world to inspire and help teachers reach their students. She is passionate about helping every child find purpose, passion, and meaning in life with a lifelong commitment to the joy and responsibility of learning. If you talk to Vicki for very long, she will encourage you to "Relate to Educate" or "innovate like a turtle" or to be "a remarkable teacher." She loves to talk to teachers who love their students and are trying to do their best. Twitter is her favorite place to share and she loves to make homemade sourdough bread and cinnamon rolls and enjoys running half marathons with her sisters. You can usually find her laughing with her students or digging into a book.

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