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Innovative Education in VT

A blog exploring innovative school change by the UVM Tarrant Institute

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      • Penny Bishop
      • John Downes
      • Susan Hennessey
      • Audrey Homan
      • Emily Hoyler
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      • Rachel Mark
      • Robin Merritt
      • Jeanie Phillips
      • Scott Thompson
      • Lucie delaBruere
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      • How to use this Educator’s Guide
      • Ch 1: Defining Personalized Learning
        • 1.1 The Three Pillars of Personalized Learning
        • 1.2 The Definition of a PLP
        • 1.3 New Student & Teacher Roles
      • Ch 2: PLPs Aren’t Just For The Teacher
        • 2.1 Knowing Students Well
        • 2.2 Avoid the Pitfalls!
      • Ch 3: Laying The Groundwork for PLPs
        • 3.1 What Are Your Pedagogical Priorities?
        • 3.2 Structures to Support Personalized Learning
      • Ch 4: Starting with the Learner Profile
      • Ch 5: Flexing Your Pathways
        • 5.1 Engaging Pedagogies for All
      • Ch. 6: Scaffolding for Equitable, Deeper Learning
      • Ch 7: PLPs & Proficiency-Based Assessment
      • Ch 8: Student-led PLP conferences
      • Ch 9: Sustaining Innovation
      • Chapter References
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    • Proficiency-Based Learning Videos
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    • The 21st Century Classroom
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      • #vted Reads Videos
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    • PERSONALIZED LEARNING
      • PERSONALIZED LEARNING PLANS (PLPs)
      • FLEXIBLE PATHWAYS
      • PROFICIENCY-BASED EDUCATION
        • Learning Goals
        • Meaningful Instruction
        • Formative Assessment
        • Summative Assessment
    • Action research
    • Digital citizenship
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    • Family communication
    • Flexible classrooms
    • Genius Hour
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iPads

virtual bulletin board corkulous
Tools We Like 

3 ways to use virtual bulletin boards

October 19, 2018October 31, 2018 Audrey Homan 1 Comment corkulous, Google Keep, iPads, padlet, Peoples Academy Middle Level, Proctor Elementary School, vocabulary

Padlet, Google Keep and Corkulous — oh my! 1.Padlet Padlet’s been a go-to for a number of our educators for

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Uncategorized 

4 Earth Day lesson ideas with iPads

April 21, 2015January 9, 2021 Audrey Homan 5 Comments Ag PhD app, app-smashing, Bee Friendly app, Drought Feed Calculator, ecology, Flower Pedia, GardenMinder, Google Maps, H2O Tracker, iPads, Leafsnap, Minutely, outside, Personal Weather Station app, Rain Harvest, Smart Aqua Meter

Study the Earth’s ecology with deep-digging tech tools Earth Day is April 22, and if you’re looking for some ideas

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Science Saturdays 

The Weather and Vermont

February 14, 2015February 28, 2016 Mark W. Olofson 4 Comments community engagement, Earth Science, iPads, STEM

In Vermont, in the winter, we talk about the weather. A lot. Perhaps this is due to our agrarian roots

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The 21st Century Classroom 

Taking the lid off technology

October 20, 2014February 26, 2019 Audrey Homan 3 Comments 1:1, current events, iPads, open source
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The unintended consequences of branded tech in the classroom In this episode of The 21st Century Classroom, Tarrant Institute graduate

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Flipped Classrooms Tools We Like 

4 ways to use Flipboard in your flipped classroom

September 12, 2014September 12, 2014 Audrey Homan 13 Comments Android, collaboration, curation, current events, Flipboard, flipped classrooms, Google Nexus, iPads

We’re flipping for Flipboard — and your students will too! Flipboard is a free mobile app for the iOS, Android and

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News 

What We’re Reading: 1:1 rollout tools

September 4, 2014September 18, 2016 Audrey Homan 3 Comments 1:1, Chromebooks, family involvement, iPads

A parent presentation video, visit a model Chromebook school, and 1:1 consulting options With Fair Haven Union High School, the

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Uncategorized 

Painless printing from your iPad

August 25, 2014August 30, 2014 Audrey Homan 5 Comments intro to iPads, iPads, printing

(without calling tech support) Despite Apple releasing AirPrint waaaay back in the heady days of iOS4, printing has long been

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Tools We Like 

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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News Tools We Like 

What you should know about iPad cases

July 18, 2014January 9, 2021 Audrey Homan 12 Comments 1:1, intro to iPads, iPad cases, iPads

Getting mobile devices into the hands of educators and students is the name of the game, but what happens after to

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Uncategorized 

How to import videos from your device directly to Camtasia

July 14, 2014July 29, 2014 Audrey Homan 5 Comments Android, Camtasia, iPads, screencasting

Get videos off your device with this easy app Attention screencasters! This could save you a ton of time. For all

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News 

Tuesday Links Round-up

July 8, 2014July 29, 2014 Audrey Homan 5 Comments American history, intro to iPads, iPads, Mr Betts Class, reading, Shake Up Learning, Thinglink

What We’re Reading A ton of things, that’s what! Because we’re participating in the 3rd annual #summerthrowdown reading challenge! How

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News 

Build a custom iPad charging tray

July 7, 2014July 21, 2014 Audrey Homan 3 Comments iPad cases, iPad charging cart, iPads

If you build it, they will charge Not all of our iPads get checked out at once, and, as a

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms 

Get out! 4 ideas for using iPads outside (and away from Wifi)

May 9, 2014August 7, 2019 Audrey Homan 3 Comments 30hands, corkulous, HaikuDeck, iMovie, iPads, LinoIt, Notability, QR codes, scavenger hunt, Touchcast, ubiquitous learning

Get out there! It’s spring (unless you’re in the Antipodes) and IT HAS FINALLY STOPPED SNOWING. Yes, all those capital

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Uncategorized 

Build your own iPad charging cart out of office supplies

May 2, 2014August 25, 2014 Audrey Homan 26 Comments DIY, iPad charging cart, iPads, school hack

Sixty dollars, a dremel and a dream It all started with a post on the iPad Ed Google+ community. Wait,

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Uncategorized 

Essays on Rube Goldberg: capturing the scientific process with iPads

April 21, 2014September 19, 2018 Audrey Homan 5 Comments Google Docs, Harwood Union Middle School, iPads, physics, Schoology

How one class of 8th grade scientists at Harwood Union Middle School used Google Docs, Schoology, and iPads to capture

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Tools We Like 

Use Image Capture to harvest videos off iOS devices

April 18, 2014September 25, 2015 Audrey Homan 15 Comments iPads

Has this ever happened to you? You’ve captured some amazing in-classroom video footage with your trusty iPad — a compelling

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Stories from VT Students 

Authentic cell biology with Notability on the iPad

April 14, 2014September 19, 2018 Audrey Homan 4 Comments cell biology, Harwood Union Middle School, iPads, Notability, STEM

This spring, Nancy Spencer and her class discovered something amazing about their cheek cells. The students discovered that by placing

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Uncategorized 

iPad management in the classroom: Did this educator do the right thing?

March 21, 2014 Audrey Homan 12 Comments classroom management, iPads, math

From our tumblr, an unusual iPad management situation with one educator who confiscated a student’s iPad during class and added

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Edugaming Innovative Edtech Classrooms Tools We Like 

ARIS @ Echo

December 4, 2013 Audrey Homan 3 Comments ARIS, community partnership, Edmunds Middle School, iPads

When last we left our trusty Edmunds Explorers, they had just defeated a horde of geometry-loving aliens who’d invaded the

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Tools We Like Videos 

The Parable of the Puppet Pals: integrating technology in religion class

November 18, 2013 Audrey Homan 0 Comments iPads, Mater Christi

Julia Melloni, the Middle School Religion teacher at Mater Christi School in Burlington, worked with her students on “blending ancient

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Uncategorized 

A Google Drive lesson for iPads + iPad skill checklist

November 11, 2013 Audrey Homan 0 Comments 1:1, Google Drive, iPads

Meet Theresa White. She teaches 4th and 5th grade at Roxbury Village School, and this past summer, in preparation for

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Uncategorized 

23 ways to use the iPad in a PBL classroom

October 29, 2013 Audrey Homan 0 Comments iPads, PBL

Via TeachThought, here are 23 ways you can integrate an iPad (and its apps) into a classroom focused on project-based

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Videos 

From PAML’s 1:1 Toolkit: dotepub

October 18, 2013February 23, 2016 Audrey Homan 0 Comments 1:1, iPads, Peoples Academy Middle Level

Our partners at Peoples Academy Middle Level are going 1:1 with iPads, and the educators have put together a Google

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Tools We Like 

Having an augmented reality kind of morning

September 10, 2013July 30, 2014 Audrey Homan 0 Comments augmented reality, iPads

Okay, so I’m a few months early but oy, this weather, #btv. Brought to you by AR DinoPark, a free

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Tools We Like Videos 

How students are using Touchcast: welcome videos!

September 4, 2013 Audrey Homan 1 Comment iPads, Touchcast

As a follow-up to our post on how teachers are using Touchcast, here’s an example of how students are using

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms Tools We Like Videos 

Explain Everything, um, explained.

June 26, 2013 Audrey Homan 1 Comment explain everything, Harwood Union Middle School, iPads

A middle-schooler from Harwood explains how they’re using Explain Everything for a class project to capture stills and videos.

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News Tools We Like 

iPads in VT: we came, we saw, we apped

May 16, 2013 Audrey Homan 0 Comments iPads

Over on Storify, a brief recap of how our first annual iPad play-day went this past weekend. With more than

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms Videos 

“The students showed me how it was done”: Students and colleagues as educator resources

April 18, 2013 Audrey Homan 0 Comments iPads, QR codes, student mentors

A guest post by one of our partner educators, Jacki McCarty. McCarty is an educator at Harwood Union Middle School,

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Tools We Like 

iPad Apps We Like: Germ Blaster

September 1, 2012 Audrey Homan 0 Comments iPads, STEM

A one-minute screencast of actual game-play from the free iPad app Germ Blaster, by the Rice University Center for Technology

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Uncategorized 

Rob Gervais on going 1:1 with iPads

July 30, 2012February 28, 2016 Audrey Homan 0 Comments 1:1, iPads

Going 1:1 with iPads: lessons learned In this 40 minute webinar, Rob Gervais, director of technology for Enosburg Town Schools, goes

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Videos 

How to: create your own iPad stylus

February 12, 2012 Audrey Homan 0 Comments iPads

Professional development coordinator Meredith Swallow demonstrates a quick and cheap way to create your own iPad stylus.

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