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November 18 and 19 I had an amazing privilege to attend the Google EdTech Summit in London Ontario.  In this post I want to share some amazing extensions I discovered. One that truly  will change my life Doc appender.  So I'll start with the one that will change my life. Imagine one document to keep track of student progress. All forms connected to one document that is updated when you submit the form. Here is the slide show from the session with Leslie McBeth . A dynamic inspirational, #renegadeoptimist. The DocAppender extension : http://bit.ly/docappender1 The next was Kim Pollishuke . I loved her larger than life spirit and enthusiasm for student learning and streamlining workflow. With add-ons and extensions that will streamline your day. My favourite was extensity(organize add-ons) tab resize(split your screen in two clicks)and tab glue (replaces tabs) More Add-ons and extensions: link J uan deLuca from Mexico shared some great tools to bri...

a. Is modeling your learning something that is important to innovation?  What do you do to model your own learning through your practice?   Modeling learning as an educator can be nerve wrecking. But I have learned to fail In front of my students with grace and humility. And to show that success doesn’t happen without failure hard work determination cooperation. Being challenged is hard but good. When you work out there’s nothing like feeling it the next day. b. Relationships and collaboration are crucial to innovation, but what about working in isolation? Where does that come into play? Isolation is the moment where personal struggle is evaluated the failures and the successes are measured. Isolation can be lonely if the approach is to take failure personally. However if you distance yourself from the failure and evaluate the failures to improve them to try again that is success. c. Who is an educator that has had a tremendous impact on you in your career that you met th...

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