CETPA Florida Digital Educators Vision The vision of the Florida Digital Educators (FDE) is to ensure that teachers and students seamlessly use technology as a tool to accomplish tasks through higher-order thinking skills within a disciplined study so that students will succeed in the global community. Students succeed in a changing global community. Engage the digital student. Mission The mission of the Florida Digital Educators is to enable students to achieve world-class standards by transforming the learning environment through professional education, follow-up mentoring and support, use of digital tools for the creation of content, the development of collaborative communities and rigorous evaluation and research activities. Goals of FDE Develop practitioners who seamlessly integrate technology into the curriculum. If you have any questions, please contact Michael Sweeney at msweeney@usf.edu For FDE workshop and institute opportunities, please see the Training section
A Collection Of New Interactive Infographics There have been quite a few new tools that are called “interactive infographics,” and I thought it would be useful to share them all in one post: Surging Seas shows the impact of rising sea levels due to climate change. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn About Climate Change. Climb every mountain: visualising the world’s 50 most prominent peaks is from The Guardian. Behind a better life: interactive guide to the data is an interactive from The Guardian. The Better Life Index is a Wall Street Journal interactive using the same data. Who works the longest hours? Do you work a lot or a little? We Are What We Eat is a pretty amazing interactive infographic on food habits in the U.S. and around the world.
Resources & Tools Grants NEA Foundation Grants The NEA Foundation's Innovation Grants provide an opportunity for teachers, education support professionals, and higher education faculty to develop and implement innovations that significantly improve student learning. Eligible applicants may submit a proposal at any time. Nutrition Grants Having a healthy and nutritious school meal is the right of every student. Resource: Nutrition Grants (3 pgs) Professional Development NEA ESP Conference The ESP Conference is designed to provide professional development opportunities for participants to help them gain the skills they need to: build stronger locals, build strong internal and external relationships, organize members, and enhance NEA ESP members' ability to positively influence student achievement. Click here to review the NEA Online Degree Criteria Executive Summary. Click here to visit our NEA ESP Conference Highlights page. Retirement Web Resources NEA ESP Publications Let’s Learn About ESPs Coloring Book
Next Vista for Learning 9 Amazing Word Cloud Generators For The Classroom …Word Clouds in Education Series: Part 3 Welcome to a series of posts devoted to the use of Word Clouds. I know you will find new information… whether you are a seasoned user of word clouds, or brand new. I am certain you will enjoy reading about these nine amazing Word Cloud Generators. In the last two posts you already discovered 12 Tips in Using Wordle and 108 ways for educators to use word clouds in the classroom. There will still be more in this series including: An Amazing Word Cloud Generator That Is Not Wordle… Word Clouds in Education Series: Part 4Beyond word clouds… cool sites and applications to integrate word clouds… Word Clouds in Education Series: Part 5 To ensure you do not miss one of these valuable posts or other resources covering PBL, STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. ABC Ya – This application may be the most Wordle like and, in fact, operates much like Wordle. Make Word Mosiac – A creative tool put out by Image Chef. That’s right!
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