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3 Ways to Stress Less in Today’s Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Dr. Desiree Alexander is an award-winning, multi-degreed educator who has been in the educational field since 2002. Dr. Alexander’s Twitter: @ educatoralex. Teachers are stressing over so many things. Learn more at www.educatoralexander.com.

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Helping Students Understand Media Literacy

edWeb.net

Michelle Luhtala is the Library Department Chair at New Canaan High School in Connecticut and was one of five school librarians named as a “Mover and Shaker” by Library Journal in 2015. She is the winner of the 2011 “I Love My Librarian” Award and the Library Association’s 2010 Outstanding Librarian Award. Join the Community.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

van Dijk, 2002) or simply another phase in its relentless progress. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association 27, 65-67. digital media FaceBook higher education learning social web Technology The future Twitter universities Web 2.0 Kamel Boulos, M. Maramba, I. and Wheeler, S. BMC Medical Education 6, 41. O''Reilly, T.

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The changing Web

Learning with 'e's

Van Dijk, 2002) or simply another phase in its relentless progress. Delicious, Diigo), microblogs such as Twitter, mashups (e.g. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 27, 65-67. Health Informatics and Libraries Journal, 24(1), 2-23. 2002) The Network Society. geotagging). References Barsky, E.

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6 Ways to Avoid Those Social Media Landmines

The Daring Librarian

I’m so proud that my district has had a “Responsible Use of Technology and Social Media Policy” since 2002 and has updated it every three years. My pat answer to students who ask me to follow their private Twitter or Instagram accounts goes something like this: “Sorry, no can do. If so, read it and follow it to the letter.

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and then our tools shape us

Learning with 'e's

I have scoured my personal book library in search of a dozen books that have influenced my own thinking, and share a synopsis of their contents with you. Today''s book recommendation is the fifth in the series: Howard Rheingold (2002) Smart Mobs: The next social revolution. For previous reviews start here. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Lucy Gray and I, the founders and co-chairs of this massive, worldwide, and free event, may have gotten ourselves a little behind this year on GlobalEdCon planning (with STEMxCon in September, then the Reform Symposium , Library 2.01 3, and Connected Educator Month in October--how are we still standing?!),