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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

And it is clear that the library must be the center of that experience. But, first, a little background: I’ve been playing around with building virtual school libraries for a very long time. I started playing around with the fairly easy and recently very popular strategy of building a library scene in Slides. Valenza, J.K.

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5 Practical tips for online teaching in times of disasters

Neo LMS

All you need is a centralized library to store and manage different learning resources such as files, class templates, rubrics, and web content. There are many ways to communicate, both synchronous (chat, web conferencing), and asynchronous (online forums, wikis). Read more: Learning and growing as educators.

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Will AI Chatbots Boost Efforts to Make Scholarly Articles Free?

Edsurge

When it comes to getting access to the latest scholarly articles, there’s a stark digital divide. Students and professors affiliated with most colleges have unlimited access to large collections of scholarship such as JSTOR and HeinOnline, because their institutions subscribe to site licenses.

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How to build your global classroom in 4 steps

Neo LMS

For asynchronous collaboration, you can use groups and forums, a shared blog, or a wiki. It’s also easier to organize the project by having a shared resources library and the integration of multimedia tools for presentations. Sure, this might seem fun, but it takes some careful planning on both sides. Intentionality of interaction.

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Visual learning made easy with Lucidchart

A Principal's Reflections

They have hundreds of shapes in their native library, and you can also import Visio stencils and shape libraries, which are available all over the web. One caveat: You will only have access to Lucidchart’s educational templates once you’ve signed up for a trial account and your educational upgrade has been approved.

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Tech Ed Resources for Your Classroom: Survival Kits

Ask a Tech Teacher

Tech teachers, tech coordinators, library media specialists, curriculum specialists. When you buy the K-5 and K-5 Survival Kit, you get free weekly webinar training via a companion wiki, access to a Master Teacher to address your questions. Who needs this. How do you use it. The Ask a Tech Teacher crew. What else do you need?

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. Instead of being limited to my teaching and our textbook, we’d have access to an entire planet of experts.

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