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Practical examples of social media in elementary school

The Innovative Educator

Here is how we use it at PS 10 Webpages and wikis - Teachers have class webpages and wikis to help foster the home-school connection. Twitter - Blog posts, wikis and web pages are great, and the time invested is well worth it, but sometimes there are great things happening in class that deserve to be shared immediately.

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Connected Educator Series

The Electric Educator

Wikis in the Classroom - Amber Kowatch from Ludington''s Franklin Elementary shares how her 2nd grade students use wikis to help them connect and reflect as they write. Amber gives some fantastic ideas about different ways wikis can be used at any grade level. 10:38 mins. 12:36 mins. Connecting. - 11:04 mins. 11:04 mins.

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Mobile Connections and Resources

The Mobile Native

SIGML Wiki @sigml SIGML is an ISTE special interest group for mobile learning. This wiki provides mobile learning resources, webinars, discussions and a place to connect with other educators. Go Mobile 4 Learning This site gives you access to connections with teachers and researchers interested in mobile learning.

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Isn’t it time to stop Wikipedia shaming?

NeverEndingSearch

Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia’s crowd-sourced authorship–its wikiness–has provoked debate relating to authority, despite the fact that many Wikipedia authors are topic experts and that a growing number of librarians and academics contribute by adding and editing references. Elementary think alouds.

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Notes from the 2015 Iowa STEM Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

Created a STEM and Scale-Up Introduction short course on AEA PD Online (explains each scale-up grant in ways that are easier, more accessible for teachers). instead of being openly accessible via a blog, web site, wiki, etc. Wish this wasn’t locked down behind AEA PD Online (with quizzes!) Breakout group questions.

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Web 2.0 Tools

MSEDTechie

A place where schools have access to the same invaluable technology as businesses and universities -- where innovation is the rule, not the exception. Embed the voki on class blogs, wikis, websites, and more. Forum WIKI What is wiki? ? What is good about a wiki? Wiki Examples' Stay tuned for that!

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Launching a Makerspace: Lessons Learned From a Transformed School Library

MindShift

Her experience was very different from elementary school librarian Andy Plemmons , whose makerspace started with a 3-D printer obtained through a grant and blossomed into a core teaching resource at his school. Luhtala kept most of her fiction and donated a lot of the nonfiction, which kids are now mostly accessing digitally anyway.