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How Using Slack Can Improve Socratic Seminars

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As society becomes increasingly dependent on social media sites for consuming information and as a personal pulpit for ideas and opinions, schools and classrooms need to become the primary source of instruction on how to prepare students for effective offline and online discourse. identifying an idea worth highlighting, and.

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2017 Teachers Pay Teachers’ July Conference — Overview

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Seminar Overview. Each of the seminars I attended (a handful of roughly five dozen offered) was filled with pithy ideas, how-tos, and problem-solving. Across the board, the presenters were friendly, humorous (I thought some could do stand-up comedy as a second third job), and knowledgeable. building an email list. copyrights.

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Make your LMS a social learning platform

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We inadvertently learn from our daily social interactions, with most of our informal learning happens through online sources of information. For example, YouTube, social media, news websites, even self-help videos/blogs which are present in every possible genre. Seminars held online, are called webinars.

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What Do Teachers Know About Student Privacy? Not Enough, Researchers Say

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As a former classroom teacher, Cotto recalls that her own privacy training came down to a one-hour seminar on FERPA, which governs how student data can be released and displayed. “We Teacher interns especially lauded the program, she says, because they were already living the scenarios presented for discussion. “It

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Presenting and participating in the EDUCAUSE 2015 conference

Bryan Alexander

This October I’ll be presenting, participating, networking, schmoozing, reconnecting, and generally hob-nobbing with people at the EDUCAUSE 2015 conference in Indianapolis. This seminar will describe how to build and grow a futuring capacity in a campus team.

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How I use social media for my professional development

Nik Peachey

This has been a common theme to many of the presentations, workshops, webinars and seminars that I have been asked to do over the last few years, but however many times I try to present on this subject I never really feel that I get the message across as clearly and persuasively as I would like.

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22 Strategies For Learning Through Conversation

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I’ve also marked which of these are also ‘digital and social media-friendly’–that is, useful online as well as off. Paideia Seminar. You can read more about the Paideia Seminar here. In the second part, students work in small groups to present their ‘seeds’ to one another.

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