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8 Education Books For The Digital Age: The Connected Educator Series #CorwinCE

The Web20Classroom

Ask any of the thousands of teachers who regularly use Twitter, Pinterest, or Facebook about connected education, and you may get an earful about using digital tools as a means to connect with educators and students worldwide. The Edcamp model connects educators to PD like never before. My book, The Relevant Educator ships today.

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Learning Resolutions For 2015

The Web20Classroom

Learning Resolution 2-Share More Twitter has been my learning drug of choice for over 6 years now. That might mean sharing all my notes from the conferences I am lucky to attend in Evernote, to mentoring new teachers who are using social media to connect. Perhaps you''ll attend a conference or Edcamp this year.

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Twitter Equals Growth Mindset?

The Principal of Change

This could be something to applied the idea of educators using Twitter. With the Twitter now implementing video in the service, it will be something that people will not only be open to learn, but I am sure will do interesting and new things with. For those reasons Twitter will never connect all educators.

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Google Apps for Education Tips, Tricks, and our Favorite Chrome Extensions | #TechEducator 101

TeacherCast

Twitter: @TechEdShow ([link]. Learn How to Create a Professional email signature that links to social media accounts. Quick Tweet for Multiple Twitter Accounts. A wealth of knowledge June 15, 2015 by jpdalton from United States I got the honor of hearing this gentleman speak in person and he knocked my socks off!

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Compliance does not foster innovation.

The Principal of Change

A long time friend of mine, Beth Still , had sat down in the session (although it was not necessary for her to be there as she could have easily led the session), as I shared some ideas for empowering use of social media for both teachers and students. Neither of them were listening to me, and to be honest, I didn’t really care.

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7 Ways to Spark Innovation and Collaboration In Your School

MSEDTechie

Some teachers engage in creative learning spaces with makerspaces, some create “classrooms without walls” via social media), and some explore virtual and augmented reality. Social Media in the Classroom Google+, Twitter, Instagram, Voxer, Snapchat—chances are you’ve heard of at least two of these platforms.

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Being Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

Kyle Pace

In my district, it’s our 1:1 initiative, which we call Connect2Learn , that will be our new challenge for the start of the 2015-16 school year. There are loads of ways to do this: Twitter, Facebook groups, Google+ communities, blogs, and more. Get connected. Pick one (or more if you’re feeling adventurous) and jump in.

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