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A Year to Remember, A Year to Reflect:  Pandemic Instruction

Ask a Tech Teacher

Over the past year teachers have been bombarded by colleagues, administrators, and social media pundits on which platforms can best serve them and their students. Nearpod or Pear Deck, Google Classroom or Canvas, Flipgrid or Adobe Spark? What did one do?

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5 Creative Ways to Connect Young Adults to Reading

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Librarian Karen Scott challenges us with some non-traditional practices to get kids interested in reading including organizing her library by genre and using social media and graphics to inspire a love of reading.

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Social Media Success: Easy Strategies For Schools And Districts

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter This podcast with Andrea Gribble will help school administrators and principals create a school social media strategy to drive engagement, build community, and enhance their organization's online presence. That's where this podcast comes in. Thanks!

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

Communicate with parents through tech: Use digital resources (like apps, texts, or social media groups) to keep parents informed about class activities and upcoming assignments.[10]. The good news is this doesn’t mean teachers need to be intimately familiar with every new form of tech or social media platform. Adobe Blog.

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Unlock Your Second Brain: A Guide to Choosing the Best Digital Notetaking App

The CoolCatTeacher

If I didn't include yours, just message me on social media and tell your story! They have over 100 mil users on all their apps, so they did just release in January 2020 for a new interface. I've also included a transcript below that I have checked for errors. I hope you enjoy picking out the notebook service that works for you.

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

Edsurge

Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence. Smart Sparrow’s current platform is built on Adobe Flash, the technology that supports interactive elements in web browsers. The plan is to move all of its higher-ed offerings, including digital textbooks, onto it by the end of 2020.

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Ebook Protection: Important Things You Should Know to Prevent Anyone from Copying and Selling Your eBook

Kitaboo on EdTech

Platforms like Amazon, Apple, Google Play, and Adobe apply their DRMs for the eBooks on their platform. Utilize social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Goodreads, etc. Digital Publishing / August 27, 2020. Write blog posts related to your eBook. Give incentives to buyers . Set Up Google Alerts.

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