Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2022

You probably know the most common tech problems faced last year like hooking digital devices to the school WiFi, running a tech-infused lesson, or what students face with technology. Know how to use the digital devices available in your class. Model good digital citizenship. Technology is a tool–not a goal.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When you have the list, add all words to a word cloud and share this “100 New Words Learned This School Year” with parents and classmates through the class website, blog, or LMS. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2022

It’s become clear that for most of them, adding technology to their lessons means layering more work on top of their already overburdened lesson plans. Despite the claims of tech gurus that technology makes the job of teaching easier, few educators see it that way. First: Only use technology when it expands your teaching.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2021

As an experienced educator who has been in the forefront of technology integration, this past year seemed like a tidal wave. Most of the training was put together to assist teachers with the basics of integrating technology such as using Google Classroom or Canvas. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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. coronaviruseducation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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. link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

From interactive applications to collaborative online platforms, a diverse array of technologies is contributing to more engaging, personalized, and efficient learning environments. What are some good examples of using technology to enhance learning? How does technology help students learn?

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 21, 2020

When I look to use technology in my classroom, I always start with the purpose behind it. 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. 5 Edtech tools to try out this year.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 15, 2019

This is just one example of the many articles that warn us of the latest shocking discoveries about the dangers of technology. As Oxford professors put it , “The debate over digital technology and young people needs less shock and more substance”. However, we can’t ignore the extent of technology use in our lives.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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. link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Writing Write a 100-word story.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

WASHINGTON (PRWEB) — In celebration of the 38th annual SIIA CODiE Awards, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) today announces the 50 winners of the 2023 CODiE Awards in Education Technology. The winners were presented during a virtual awards celebration hosted on the NewSky XR secure online platform on June 22.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 28, 2017

Her article today can be summed up by a line in the last paragraph: “ Technology is not your enemy…” Educators aim to equip students with an understanding of the world, its fragility, & opportunities, by teaching them various common subjects like math, language, or science. You can contact her via LinkedIn.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 13, 2022

Using technology to build future-ready skills. Especially during the past school year, digital tools helped facilitate learning in many different settings. Students can develop vital technology and digital citizenship skills as they learn to create multimedia presentations to demonstrate learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Integrating presentations in teaching is an accessible way to bring technology to the classroom and make the best digital tools available. Teachers and students alike can select from many templates and access over 40 million Creative Commons-licensed images with automatic attributions upon import, promoting digital citizenship.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 13, 2019

There used to be no alternative but more and more, schools are using technology to keep the learning going. Big Blue Button is open source and not a stand-alone platform so it must be integrated into an LMS such as Canvas, Schoology, or Moodle. Google Hangouts is a free virtual meeting that anyone with a Google account can access.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2020

On my blog, Ask a Tech Teacher , I run a column called Dear Otto where I answer teacher questions about how to integrate technology into their classes. Of late, the most common question is, “How to I assess student digital literacy?” How do I assess faculty digital literacy so I can teach them what they don’t know?

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The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 23, 2018

When I was a Director of Instructional Technology it was always a fun day when we could deliver brand new devices to a school. The focus on our instructional technology team was on the “stuff” kids could create when we should have started our conversations on the obvious. Norms are important when it comes to using technology. (Of

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 30, 2020

As the Coronavirus has changed the landscape of education, I have become more and more aware of inequity and the digital divide. Over seven years ago I worked with our District Technology Director and Superintendent to create a 1:1 e-learning program that would be used to make up snow days. – Mike.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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. This is a biggie.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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. More on LMSs: Need an LMS next year? Otus–Exciting Free LMS You Want to Meet.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Review the class LMS. Digital forms have become a go-to activity for polls, bell-ringers, exit tickets, quizzes, and more. When used early in the school year, they become an easy way to show students how technology can update classroom activities. These tech tools may include: the school’s LMS. Set individual goals.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Adobe Learning Exercises Digital Citizenship 290

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Technology has created more ways for students to collaborate beyond the class period and beyond the school day. We can choose traditional methods in class, it does not always need to include technology. However, adding in a digital tool does extend when and where learning happens. Beyond the classroom space.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Tech Helpful

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Educational technology LMS platforms are spending much money and man hours on creating safeguards against plagiarism. Where should technology start and students end? Where is the line between "technology is an aid to the learning process" and "technology did this by itself" for the ever needed good grade?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2019

Students should become comfortable using a digital portfolio such as Google Classroom, DropBox, OneNote, the school’s LMS, or another option as a convenient way to curate their work for easy access during the conference. How Do Non-Techie Parents Handle the Increasing Focus of Technology in Education?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Gaggle Speaks

MAY 27, 2015

The school district discovered that the Gaggle Safe Classroom Learning Management System (LMS) hit all the criteria educators were looking for, including simple access, great customer service and a way to keep students safe without requiring additional time and resources from teachers or the technology department.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Neo LMS

JANUARY 14, 2020

A version of this post was originally published on November 25, 2019, in Education Technology. With educational technologies taking over the classroom, the virtual learning environment needs to be a safe space for students as well. A sense of security is something usually unseen yet it’s paramount to a great learning experience.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It also helps students to develop essential skills such as critical thinking and problem-solving and depending on the choices available to students, it also promotes the development of technology skills. For students who may want to draw, use pictures, create a podcast, or make a video, there are many options out there to choose from.

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