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Author: Susan Hennessey

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Blended learning and teacher empowerment

May 22, 2015April 22, 2022 Susan Hennessey 7 Comments blended learning

Getting educators to a place of power with a powerful method When I think about educational technology, it has never

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Student motivation in claims, evidence and audience

April 28, 2015 Susan Hennessey 6 Comments authentic audience, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.1a, Common Core, Debate Graph, flipgrid, Google+ Communities, iCivics

What makes an argument worth making? Recently, I was working with a colleague about getting students more jazzed to dive deep

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Digital Display: add Credly badges to Google Sites

March 13, 2015April 12, 2022 Susan Hennessey 6 Comments badges, badgestack, credly, digital portfolios, Google Sites, personalized learning, personalized learning plan, personalized learning plans, PLP, PLPs, portfolio, portfolios

100 years of Girl Scouts can’t be wrong Digital badges have potential to serve as both markers of achievement and

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Storing digital badges for portfolios

March 11, 2015April 12, 2022 Susan Hennessey 5 Comments badges, badgestack, credly, digital portfolios, personalized learning, personalized learning plan, personalized learning plans, PLP, PLPs, portfolio, portfolios

What are some mechanisms for keeping track of digital credentials? As we work with schools who are piloting digital badge

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Encouraging Conversations with EdPuzzle

March 9, 2015 Susan Hennessey 5 Comments EdPuzzle

Make active video viewing a social activity Edpuzzle opens up the possibility for both students and teachers to encourage a

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Active video viewing

February 21, 2015April 15, 2022 Susan Hennessey 9 Comments EdPuzzle, MIT Blossoms, Videonot.es

 Encourage critical thinking & discussion with note-taking I have been excited lately with the potential of using VideoNot.es in blended classrooms

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Reflecting in the math classroom

January 15, 2015 Susan Hennessey 3 Comments math, reflection

Keeping your resolution to reflect My colleague, Meredith Swallow, recently shared a post about the importance of reflection in her

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Multiple learning pathways with MOOCs

December 29, 2014April 15, 2022 Susan Hennessey 1 Comment differentiation, MOOCs, personalized learning, personalized learning plan, personalized learning plans, PLP, PLPs, portfolio, portfolios

What does change really look like? I’ve been on the search for examples of teachers creating multiple learning pathways in

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Common sense advice for tween social media use

December 10, 2014December 10, 2014 Susan Hennessey 6 Comments digital citizenship, social media

  Apparently, asking friends to follow HennesseyGirlsMom on Instagram would be social suicide. My 12-year-old twins are counting the days

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iBook Authors at Harwood Union Middle School

October 27, 2014October 27, 2014 Susan Hennessey 6 Comments Harwood Union Middle School, iBooks, reading, Shadow Puppet, Vermont

Be your own Hero Using the free iOS Shadow Puppet app, I created this brief look at an amazing unit

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Too much good stuff: a wealth of reading and curation resources for the classroom

October 17, 2014April 15, 2022 Susan Hennessey 5 Comments ATOS, Clearly, diigo, Harwood Union Middle School, iSpeak, Kahoot, lexile levels, Newsela, Read and Write with Google, Spritz, Subtext

The technology cannot thwart us, it can only make us stronger As many of you are aware, I was out

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How to add footnotes to Google Docs on your iPad

October 8, 2014March 6, 2017 Susan Hennessey 6 Comments Google Drive

Cite your sources as you write I was working with a teacher the other day who expressed some frustration around

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Differentiated social reading with Subtext

September 17, 2014December 12, 2020 Susan Hennessey 3 Comments differentiated learning, lexile levels, Newsela, reading, social reading, Subtext

Make the most of Subtext’s capacity for differentiated reading A-reading we will go, A-reading we will go, hey ho the dairy-o, a

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How to use EdPuzzle for differentiation

September 8, 2014September 8, 2014 Susan Hennessey 19 Comments differentiation, EdPuzzle, flipped classroom

New cool tool for flipped classrooms and personalized learning Check out this great resource for differentiation and the flipped classroom:

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Interact with reading on the Chromebook

August 20, 2014April 14, 2022 Susan Hennessey 3 Comments Clearly, iSpeak, Save to Drive, screencasting, SnagIt!

Chrome extensions for immersive online reading

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Create community in your classroom with ShadowPuppet

July 28, 2014December 12, 2020 Susan Hennessey 18 Comments back-to-school, intro to iPads, iPads, Shadow Puppet, slideshows

Free app for students to make quick and easy back-to-school slideshows

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Testing unbound

July 24, 2014April 14, 2022 Susan Hennessey 0 Comments standardized testing

Turn formative testing into a learning opportunity Wonder what words, when using free association, are conjured from folks when they

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Customizing Google search results

June 2, 2014December 12, 2020 Susan Hennessey 2 Comments

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Simplifying the search for information

May 6, 2014 Susan Hennessey 2 Comments Instagrok

A teacher with whom I work asked his 7th grade students recently for feedback: “We did this in order to

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