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JUNE 29, 2015

There are a lot of options out there, but none had enough of the characteristics that most teachers I know look for with an LMS, namely: delivers content to students in a variety of formats. intuitive to use for both teachers and students, to encourage daily access. full access to Google Drive. includes reminders of activities.

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LMS Meeting Khan Academy Digital Citizenship 150

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JULY 8, 2022

rework existing lesson plans in the school’s mandated digital program that too often, changes every year. This means they have to re-enter the lesson plan in a new format for a new LMS. the digital devices–computer or Chromebooks or iPads–won’t work on the Big Day. Even if it’s Minecraft.

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Common Core Libraries Digital Citizenship eBook 376

Neo LMS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Here are five tools that offer a lot of possibilities for students to create, to explore, to develop digital citizenship skills, and which promote social-emotional learning (SEL) skills as well. It can be used for creating multimedia, interactive presentations and gives students more authentic ways to learn and to express themselves.

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EdTech Tools Digital Citizenship Guidelines 545

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JUNE 13, 2022

Know how to use the digital devices available in your class. Your school probably uses a variety of hardware (laptops, iPads, Chromebooks, and more) to access class websites, blogs, online grade books, and/or an LMS (like Otus, Google Classroom, or Edmodo). Model good digital citizenship.

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Digital Citizenship Learning Edmodo eBook 329

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APRIL 19, 2023

Instead, people use a digital calendar that automatically syncs life events across all of their digital devices. Enter them to an easily accessible digital calendar like Google Calendar and share with students, parents, and interested stakeholders. Classroom activities should be handled the same.

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How To Classroom Educreations Digital Citizenship 293

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MARCH 24, 2017

Beneylu is a K-8 online learning platform that puts critical classroom applications, resources, activities, and games in a secure online universe that is accessible to parents, teachers, and students. Beneylu is equally accessible to students and parents, providing a transparent view of a child’s classroom.

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LMS Digital Citizenship Exercises Libraries 159

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MARCH 27, 2020

How to I provide equity for those without computers or internet access at home is challenging? Access the required site through mobile devices. Access community hotspots and open WiFi, often made available by local businesses who are eager to assist. If I am online, students can access me any time.

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Khan Academy LMS Broadband Digital Citizenship 245

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JULY 12, 2021

First of all, as a veteran Canvas user I continued on my use of the LMS. One, all assignments were created so that students could have access 24/7. Equally as important is the instructional design of each lesson, its accessibility and real-life application for students. For me it served multiple purposes.

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Adobe Digital Citizenship LMS Google 398

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APRIL 25, 2017

Because students couldn’t access school-based materials at home (for reasons like no internet or no digital device), I had to assign homework that could be completed without school resources, by themselves. What’s an LMS. How to decide which LMS works best for you. intuitiveness : How easy is the LMS to use?

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LMS Khan Academy Training Digital Citizenship 213

Neo LMS

JANUARY 13, 2022

Some of my favorites include using Formative, Google Jamboard, and Nearpod, and Classkick, all of which are beneficial for connecting students in learning, whether in-person or remote and which enable educators to have access to data or information about where students are in the learning process. Multimedia presentations.

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Future Ready Tools Digital Citizenship Libraries 532

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

Pascack Valley Regional High School District in northern New Jersey makes available lesson plans and assignments that can be accessed from home, on the Internet: Before the snow fell, teachers were prepped, parents were warned and students had received enough assignments to fill a snow day. Google Hangouts.

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Schoology LMS Khan Academy Google 197

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

When you have the list, add all words to a word cloud in Wordle or WordArt and share this “100 New Words Learned This School Year” with parents and classmates through the class website, blog, or LMS. Another fun idea is to have students see how many words (or phrases) they can make with the two words “one hundred”.

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Adobe Exercises Digital Citizenship eBook 236

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

When you have the list, add all words to a word cloud in Wordle or WordArt (or a free Google Doc’s add-on like Word Cloud Generator ) and share this “100 New Words Learned This School Year” with parents and classmates through the class website, blog, or LMS. Write a 100-word story. Share your thoughts below in the comments!

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Adobe Exercises Digital Citizenship eBook 298

Neo LMS

AUGUST 15, 2019

As Oxford professors put it , “The debate over digital technology and young people needs less shock and more substance”. According to the Pew Research Center , “Fully 95% of teens have access to a smartphone, and 45% say they are online ‘almost constantly’”. It is an essential aspect of digital citizenship.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Examples LMS 299

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

” If your school has an LMS, consider whether you can make the learning and teaching jobs more flexible and differentiated by providing a schedule of all work. If social media becomes a problem in your classes, by all means employ traditional communication like email, private discussion boards, and LMS-based forums.

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Online Learning Social Media Learning LMS 309

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

This includes typical LMS (Learning Management Systems) functions like homework, classwork, schedules, quizzes, resources, and gradebooks so stakeholders–teachers and students–can access them from any location and any digital device. It’s only free if you have a G Suite for Education account. forums and chats

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Moodle Google Classroom LMS 154

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JULY 31, 2019

Create a scavenger hunt of class stuff (like the gradebook, the class website, the LMS, the classroom management system) and have a spot where parents who find that scavenge leave their name. Creating a PP filled with information is not a bad idea but deliver it digitally, to be consumed by parents at their leisure.

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LMS Digital Citizenship Meeting Social Media 190

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

It can operate as a stand-alone web-based tool or be integrated into an LMS like Google Classroom or Moodle. When you set up an account, you tell it whether you want to access it as a teacher, a student, or an individual owner. PlagiarismCheck.org quickly checks it against all accessible Internet pages for plagiarism.

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Moodle Digital Citizenship LMS Report 205

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Review the class LMS. Digital forms have become a go-to activity for polls, bell-ringers, exit tickets, quizzes, and more. This particular project uses HyperDocs but if you don’t have that digital tool, replace it with any number of other presentation tools or simply use Book Creator ‘s built-in presentation option.

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LMS Adobe Digital Citizenship Tools 201

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JULY 22, 2019

When a student presents an idea or a project to their parent(s), they inherently take ownership of the results and goals. Because of this, they strive to understand what went right and wrong, what they could do differently, and what they got out of each piece that will be presented to parents. Students t ake ownership.

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Conference How To Digital Citizenship LMS 253

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 30, 2020

In my reflection, I have attempted to present ideas for all schools across the digital divide. It might go from text messaging, to email, to a a complete LMS. What can be provided with low bandwidth and quick access limitations? Investigate possible home connect programs for students who do not have access.

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LMS Digital Divide Blended Learning Survey 217

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

When you have the list, add all words to a word cloud in Wordle or WordArt (or a free Google Doc’s add-on like Word Cloud Generator ) and share this “100 New Words Learned This School Year” with parents and classmates through the class website, blog, or LMS. Write a 100-word story.

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Adobe Learning Exercises Digital Citizenship 291

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APRIL 13, 2020

Why pick a word processing tool over a presentation tool? Do you want the ability to integrate with your LMS? Online options that assess digital literacy. These four options for assessing digital literacy range from fast and simple to far-ranging and comprehensive. What to look for in assessment tools. NorthstarDigLit.

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Assessment How To Digital Badges Digital Citizenship 458

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Users can access a wide variety of AR games, lesson plans, and other experiences created by others and shared in the Metaverse ecosystem via the free app (reminder: Always preview these to be sure they fit your student group ). Once the experience is completed, publish to Facebook, Twitter, an LMS, or share the link.

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Education LMS Facebook Digital Citizenship 240

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Our students need to learn how to interact in the same digital space and one of the best ways is to use either Google or Microsoft. With these tools, teachers and students can share access to documents and create presentations together, and collaborate at any time, whether in the same physical space or not.

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Collaborative Learning Classroom Learning Digital Citizenship 408

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OCTOBER 13, 2015

When looking for an app to curate classroom reading, consider these requirements: works well with your current LMS. What became apparent as I researched was that GoodReader was one of several considered Best in Class because of its broad-based ability to read, manage, organize, access, and annotate a wide variety of file formats.

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Educreations LMS Khan Academy iPad 150

Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Some of the tools my students have used for digital storytelling are great for creating short videos, newsletters, animations, and even augmented reality experiences. With a tool like Buncee , students and teachers have thousands of options for telling a story or creating a specific type of presentation to use in the classroom.

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Tools Learning Elementary Adobe 535

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AUGUST 28, 2018

No last-minute “I forgot to print this” Yes, digital files do get lost but that’s a story for another time. increased organization: All those permission slips, AUPs, and exams can be curated into a digital file folder that is backed up automatically and never lost (“never” being a fungible sort of word).

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Classroom eBook LMS Libraries 175

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I’m a big believer in online web-based curricula that can be accessed from any browser, any digital device, any location. The problem is trying to blend them effortlessly into a class LMS or learning platform without lots of extra clicks and logins. To me, the growing popularity of web-based curricula is no surprise.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Academic Standards Outcomes 174

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JANUARY 24, 2020

When you have the list, add all words to a word cloud in Wordle or WordArt (or a free Google Doc’s add-on like Word Cloud Generator ) and share this “100 New Words Learned This School Year” with parents and classmates through the class website, blog, or LMS. Write a 100-word story. scholastic @flipgrid @history.

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Adobe Learning Exercises Digital Citizenship 225

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MARCH 22, 2018

In our school we started using Google Classroom LMS as a way to collect, review and grade the assignment, now we use it as a basis for creating greater learning opportunities becoming real due to the apps that hugely extend the functional set and diversify the learning. Checking the written assignments.

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Google Classroom Learning LMS 156

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AUGUST 24, 2018

Accounts don’t require emails and can be accessed from both desktops and mobile devices, A decade ago, PBWorks was the second name that teachers thought of when considering a wiki, eclipsed only by Wikispaces. Canvas is a fully-featured learning management system (LMS). It is easily accessed from a desktop or mobile device.

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Moodle Wiki LMS Mobility 152

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JUNE 15, 2018

No matter how many redundancies are in place, if a student can’t access their cloud storage for a project they’re working on, if a teacher can’t get to lesson plan resources, or if a student started a project at school and can’t finish it at home, the excitement of learning melts away like ice cream on a hot day.

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Adobe Chromebook Software Digital Citizenship 153

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JUNE 2, 2017

Anyone who has access to these teachers’ computers can access all of their files. Your school probably uses a variety of hardware (laptops, iPads, Chromebooks, iPods, and more) to access cloud-based class websites, blogs, online grade books, and/or an LMS (like Otus, Google Classroom, or Edmodo).

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Digital Citizenship Classroom Learning Edmodo 153

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AUGUST 26, 2019

This can be incorporated into Google Classroom or another LMS that you use. Access the assignment provided by the teacher. Once that is completed, access other challenges via online apps (usually third party, outside of the eSpark app), new videos, or something else. How to get started. Set up your class. Begin the first quest.

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Learning Chromebook Common Core iPad 172

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OCTOBER 14, 2015

This means the perfect portfolio would talk well with a wide variety of digital devices and LMSs. If the digital portfolio is intended to be a living document that is often accessed, ease of use is important. Last point: Should the digital portfolio work within the school’s LMS? Is ease of use important?

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Wiki LMS Digital Citizenship Chromebook 150

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Sometimes an LMS discussion will help and other times integrating with another tool can be beneficial. Check out my Booking Page .

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192