Lindseyb

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Name: Lindsey Barlow
Date registered: July 6, 2008
URL: http://www.digitalback.com

Latest posts

  1. Study Success for MCAS Biology — February 19, 2012
  2. Infographic, the new link bait? — October 19, 2011
  3. Homework Entry Ticket — October 15, 2011
  4. Flipped Instruction with Camtasia — October 12, 2011
  5. 10 criteria for a successful e-course — October 11, 2011

Most commented posts

  1. Ipod touch as a classroom voice recorder — 3 comments
  2. Back to School with a Digital Toolbox — 2 comments
  3. Holiday book list for educators — 2 comments
  4. Edcamp Boston Takeaways — 2 comments
  5. Low Tech Literacy Initiative — 1 comment

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Feb
19

Study Success for MCAS Biology

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MCAS biology test questions sampler

This is the post I wish you didn’t need, but you do, hopefully one day you won’t. Plan for plenty of sessions broken into three parts, video, vocabulary, question practice. Find an always available teacher An always available teacher is one nice enough to leave digital breadcrumbs for you to review whenever you need to. …

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Oct
19

Infographic, the new link bait?

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Infographics, the latest way to present a lot of information to our repatterned brains that have shorter attention spans but love visual stimulation and images. See some fine examples at vizthink. I recently got an email asking me to share an info graphic on this blog. The graphic is about backpacks and how heavy they …

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Oct
15

Homework Entry Ticket

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You made it! If you didn’t get here from the homework entry ticket try it here. Why use the Homework Entry Ticket ONE LINK, SAME LINK for all homework (just alter the confirmation page with the actual link to the homework). TIMESTAMP. Each time a student submits information to get to the homework the spreadsheet …

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Oct
12

Flipped Instruction with Camtasia

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Loving this video, for many reasons, he teaches chemistry, he flips, he uses camtasia, and the students are standing up learning, the best kind of combination!

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Oct
11

10 criteria for a successful e-course

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Well Paced A course can consist of a series of emails, a series of blogposts published to a private blog for participants. A well-paced e-course will have a regular schedule, once a day, or for longer e-courses once a week. Posting or emailing at the same time each day ensures that participants soon get used …

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Jun
11

After the trainer leaves

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Opportunities for keeping the spark alive Opportunities for keeping the spark alive after professional development is over and the teachers return to their classrooms are often missed. Here are a collection of ideas to reinforce and recapture that initial rush of enthusiasm Schedule practice time on a regular basis. Encourage participants to snag a partner …

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May
31

Easy Cash Tracker Google Form

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Tech Level: Easy Looking for a simple way to track all of those slippery cash purchases? Me too. I decided to make a simple google form that I could access via my web-enabled phone. The form is ridiculously simple, just two inputs in the form of questions. So simple it’s one of those, why didn’t …

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May
10

Edcamp Boston Takeaways

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Edcamp Boston unconference was this Saturday. It was so successful many teachers left with the hope of doing the same type of unconference professional development model at their school. It can be a very hard sell to the powers that be because it can come out all wrong and counter intuitive and it sounds so …

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Mar
29

Verify This…Visual Radiation Infographic

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Blue Square, Green Square, Red Square, Yellow Square. If you too are saddened by the continuing events in Japan and the continuing worsening of the situations both human and man-made the  you may be interested in this. I’ve spent some time this week discussing and trying to process the information presented on this graphic from …

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Oct
25

Creating a Movement for Change @ massCUE10

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Welcome MassCUE members. I am excited to present Wednesday (3:15 Blue 14). Our session at MassCUE10 this year describes how the ideas of a grassroots technology group in a high school spread to include the whole school and how using this simple idea in your own school can help improve the use of technology schoolwide. The …

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