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Unlock Your Second Brain: A Guide to Choosing the Best Digital Notetaking App

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today, I'll share six apps fo r digital note-taking and my experiences with each. Send a copy of every blog post to an Evernote note automatically and archive a lot of my digital world. Logseq: The Open Source Alternative] Okay. So it's open source.

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Fantastic Figjam Makes Brainstorming and Collaboration in the Classroom Better

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter What is Figjam? Figjam is part of the Adobe Figma suite of tools and is free for educators and their students. How do you set up a Figma/ Figjam education account? How Do You Set Up an Education Account on Figma and Figjam? What is Figjam?

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7 Activities to improve online class participation rates

Neo LMS

And even though schools have started to slowly open, it’s still a shaky situation. If you’re feeling stuck right now or want to get them to open up more, here are seven activities to try next: 1. The flipped classroom is nothing new, but now more than ever, educators turn to this instructional method to raise engagement levels.

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Summer Reading Online

Ask a Tech Teacher

Educators sign up with a Teacher account and then set up classes and accounts for students. By setting up an account, readers can add tags to books and organize them according to their preference. Here, students can read, get ideas for new books, comment on books, and earn badges and points to reflect their love of reading.

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Rebirth of my daily blog

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

In July, I decided to (re)start my daily blog, coined Daily-Ink. At the time of my original attempt, I was a regular reader of Stephen Downes OLDaily , and a fan of one of my student’s blog name Wandering Ink. So what prompted the rebirth of my daily blog? I wrote this on my Daily-ink: Why blog daily?

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 35 Edition)

Doug Levin

Two news stories this week have turned my attention (again) to the issue of conflict of interest in education, technology, and public policy. The first was another in Natasha Singer’s New York Times must-read series, ‘Education Disrupted,’ entitled Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues.

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How edtech supports teacher work-life balance and wellbeing

Neo LMS

One of the greatest lessons I learned as a former educator turned e-learning company leader is that an organization is only as successful as its employees. Gathering feedback from hundreds of teachers in more than a decade has shown me that educators also benefit immensely from teaching with the help of technology. .

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