Educational Technology Guy

JULY 18, 2012

Walyou , a great site for interesting information and more, has a great collection of cheat sheets that have tips, shortcuts, and more for social media sites. The sites include Google+, Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook and have some great tips for making them more useful and easier to use. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2019

A few weeks ago, Aaron, a student in my high school elective class, mentioned he didn’t use social media very often. I consulted the lessons and ideas published by the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG), Google's Applied Digital Skills and the archives of The Sift from the News Literacy Project.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 10, 2021

237 Social Media Safety, Advocacy, And Education. Drew Perkins talks with Mark Berkman & Ed Peisner of The Organization for Social Media Safety about their work to help schools, parents, and youth be more safe in the world of social media. Also available on Google Music for subscribers !

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 10, 2021

237 Social Media Safety, Advocacy, And Education. Drew Perkins talks with Mark Berkman & Ed Peisner of The Organization for Social Media Safety about their work to help schools, parents, and youth be more safe in the world of social media. Also available on Google Music for subscribers !

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Jeremy Hyler According to one Common Sense Media report , on any given day, around 60 percent of teens use social media, spending an average of two hours on platforms like Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, all of which are having a big impact in the way they engage with the written word. Is it quality writing?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Translated, it means that the video-based social media platform is biting into the search engine’s popularity. Last fall, TikTok surpassed Google as the most-visited site on the web. That makes it second only to YouTube in social media popularity. The educators we asked responded with a resounding—nope.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Google Fact Check is the topic of our blog post today! We live in a reality where thousands of articles, videos, and social media posts are unleashed onto the web every minute. What is Google’s ‘Fact Check’ Feature? Initially, this ‘Fact Check’ tag was exclusively available in Google News.

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Educational Technology Guy

AUGUST 1, 2012

HootSuite is an app that you can use to access and manage your social networks, such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ Pages. Evernote for HootSuite lets you create notes from your social media content and also manage your notebooks within your streams. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy.

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The Thinking Stick

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Ready to get our new free guide “Exploring our relationship with social media”? Check out Jeff’s recent episode about parenting and caretaking with social media and healthy digital habits in mind, you can read it here. Click here and head over to shiftingschools.com to see our 70+ free guides!

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Finding time to engage in professional learning can present a challenge for educators. So how can educators engage in professional learning and find time to connect with other educators, when schedules and responsibilities make finding extra time difficult? How I have found time to connect and grow as an educator.

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Kyle Pace

JUNE 7, 2017

It’s also a time that educators can give adequate time to new learning opportunities. One thing that I think summer is great for in terms of professional learning is investing the time to better understand how you can use social media as an educator. Google+ Communities. Ah, the power of video.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

RockMelt is a free web browser that blends social media into the browser to keep everything in one place. The difference in RockMelt is that it combines your social media networks into your browser. You can easily share what you are viewing online through social media, and quickly chat with friends.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

From Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, retired teacher and education consultant, Christian Miraglia: Instagram: A Student Vehicle for Social Change. Here, the focus is how students use social media to advance their causes and concerns. In my last post, I wrote about using Twitter for classroom instruction.

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Neo LMS

JULY 29, 2021

A recent report shared by Google and KPMG reveals that the education tech industry would cater to about 9.6 Even more appealing is that edtech has the potential to get education back on track in a post-pandemic world. Below are three ways edtech can make a difference in the education sector.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor Christian Miraglia, Educational Consultant for T4Edtech, reminds us that how we used it at first is probably not how we use it now: I Need an Idea, and I Need it Now! The social media platform became a resource when I was running on empty. I need a lesson idea, and I need it now!” Where did I turn?

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Ditch That Textbook

JANUARY 16, 2019

Google Slides is a unique creature in the G Suite set of tools. Educators and students with open minds can use it for stop-motion animation, as a brainstorming template, to recreate the social media experience, and more. Google has added a feature to make it even more […].

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 17, 2023

Generative Art Generation Coming to Your Favorite Slide Creation Program Recently Google Slides added generative AI. I applied for the Google Workspace labs program ( you can too – I used my personal Google account to test this.) Google Slides Add in for Generative Artwork. Teaching About AI Art 1.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 9, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As we struggle with the coronavirus COVID-19 health crisis, many of us educators are figuring out how to prepare to teach online. I hope these resources can take you to the educator communities that are collecting and sharing. Learn more here.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 21, 2023

As I asked a concerned parent, “What kinds of things do you get when you search Google?” But if you think that you can ignore ChatGPT and the implications for education, it is like those who ignored the Internet, Google, and social media when they came along. Except this one won't go away.

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Hapara

JANUARY 14, 2022

Integrating technology into instruction and learning is a way of life for educators today. Luckily there are edtech experts who are sharing strategies and tools through blog posts, social media, books, courses and podcasts. Here are 10 edtech experts every educator should follow. Lindy Hockenbary. Dr. Monica Burns.

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The Web20Classroom

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In a world where we are constantly bombarded with information as adults and as educators, there are still many untapped resources to learn from and share with and grow, especially through social media. Being a connected educator doesn’t mean sticking to one favorite platform and having that singular lens to learn from.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 8, 2022

This became increasingly important over the past decade as social media became the primary source for news. ” A typical year in the class began with learning how to source information using the Reading Like a Historian lessons from the Stanford History Education Group. Essential Skills. Guiding Principles. We all are.”

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 22, 2023

I shared the following on social media recently: Entry points for change are crucial. Consider using Google Scholar, which is a great, FREE resource that anyone can use to search for peer-reviewed research on any topic. I prefer Google Bard over ChatGBT. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 42(4), 357-377.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

In his book, The New Rules of Marketing & PR , David Meerman Scott perhaps captures why a number of us so heavily engage in using social media: “ It’s fun to blog and tweet, and it makes you feel good to get your ideas out into the world.” The best way to do this is to optimize your social media presence as an educator.

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 10, 2013

Student Voice launched their first Google Hangout. The topic was: Learning in the 21st Century: Social Media in Education. During the hangout participants discussed how they are using social media in their education and how they think it can better be used in their learning experience.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Michael Backus on episode 557 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Michael Backus had a problem as he was teaching in Google Classroom. So, he programmed add-ons to solve the problem of needing checklists attached to his Google Classroom assignments.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Has the ubiquity of social media given plagiarism new life? Whether or not the Internet is to blame, plagiarism seems to have become more socially acceptable across grade levels. This creates an unhealthy, competitive environment which actually promotes cheating by shifting the focus from education to grades.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 30, 2022

March 13, 2019, for many educators in California and nationwide, was a day that will forever be etched in their memories. What nobody could have seen was that these closures would become more permanent and reshape the educational landscape for years to come. All teachers have online options (Canvas or Google Classroom).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Education is no longer contained within classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Today, education can be found anywhere, by teaming up with students in Kenya or Skyping with an author in Sweden or chatting with an astrophysicist on the International Space Station.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Upon getting on Twitter in 2009, I was not only baffled about how to use the social media site but also about all the symbols associated with it. Let’s start by defining what a hashtag (#) is in the sense of social media. education, #edtech, #pedagogy, #teaching). One of them was the hashtag (#).

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eSchool News

JULY 29, 2016

Social media has fast become an educator’s dream, with almost immediate responses to questions about teaching strategies, resources, and professional development opportunities. But how are educators really using social media, and is it really as widely-used as everyone assumes?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 27, 2022

I am learning about many things I haven’t had time to explore during the busy pandemic season and beginning to share many things on social media and here relating to autonomous vehicles, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Blockchain, Robotics, Drones, AI and so many technologies that will truly transform our world. ISTE Resources.

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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

Many kids are online every day, so it’s important for educators to help them stay safe and develop healthy boundaries with technology. Common Sense Education digital citizenship activities Common Sense Education offers interactive activities and lessons that span grade levels. What is digital citizenship in the classroom?

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The Daring Librarian

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Sometimes, when you're sharing the benefits of a professional Social Media presence, it can become a bit bewildering and overwhelming. Social Media Shortcuts: At-A-Glance Tips for Educators from The Daring Librarian Experience From Slideshare, you can download the PDF OR you can copy it also from my GSuite Drive Share !

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I'll also give you a peek at my first testing of Google NotebookLM. The Notetaking Apps I'll Cover The apps I'm covering in today's “Tech Tool Tuesday” include Evernote , Notion , OneNote , LogSeq , Apple Notes , and Google Keep as well as Google NotebookLM. In fact, A.I. is built right in.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The US Office of Educational Technology says, "Everyone in education has a responsibility to harness the good to serve educational priorities while also protecting against the dangers that may arise as a result of AI being integrated in educational technology." Generative AI Use Case #1: AI is built into social media.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2023

I saw this post a while back in an educational technology forum: I have been given roughly an hour for PD on January 4th to work with teachers on anything that I’d like. Should I show teachers how to be better organized with Google Keep/Tasks, find a free new tool for them to use in the classroom? to do this important work.

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