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8 Ways for Teachers (and Parents) to Use Twitter

Gaggle Speaks

Unless you’ve been living in a box at the bottom of the ocean since 2006, you should know about Twitter, the social network that lets users read and send “tweets” no more than 140 characters long. According to the Pew Research Center , Twitter is the fourth most popular social network used by teens.

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#4: What does research really say about iPads in the classroom?

eSchool News

Popular mobile devices may come and go, but the iPad has remained a hit in the K-12 classroom. Prensky, 2006). [ Editor’s note: This story, originally published on February 15th of this year, was our #4 most popular story of the year. The countdown continues tomorrow with #3, so be sure to check back!].

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5 Ways Adobe Premiere Rush Encourages Creativity in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Product Review: Features, Lesson Plan Ideas, and Tips From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Adobe Premiere Rush is a simple to use video creation tool that includes powerful camera features, video editing, and publishing features. I love that this works with their individual mobile phone cameras.

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Our mutual friends

Learning with 'e's

How it can be applied in education Social ties are crucially important in the digital age, for as Henry Jenkins argues, it''s the dynamic and participatory elements of reaffirming a group''s social ties that helps us to acquire our collective knowledge (Jenkins, 2006, p. 2006) Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.

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Livestreaming and Podcasting in the Classroom

edWeb.net

For instance, TwitCasting lets users stream video while commenting via Twitter. He retired from Mobile County Public School System in December 2005. He began working at Freed-Hardeman University (FHU) in January 2006. You can follow Dr. Tatom on Twitter @drmmtatom. Will you be collaborating with someone else?

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Strategies for Surviving All Types of Assessments

edWeb.net

She then began teaching in 2006 at Airways Middle School as a 7th-grade science teacher. He retired from Mobile County Public School System in December 2005. He began working at Freed-Hardeman University (FHU) in January 2006. You can follow Dr. Tatom on Twitter @drmmtatom. Vernice became a candidate in the M.Ed.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

It is literally the ‘ architecture of participation ’ (O''Reilly, 2004; Barsky and Purdon, 2006) and demands active engagement as a natural facet of its character (Kamel Boulos and Wheeler, 2007). digital media FaceBook higher education learning social web Technology The future Twitter universities Web 2.0 and Purdon, M. Maramba, I.

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