The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 27, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. If you follow me on Twitter and Instagram, you should see some of the things I’m sharing. So, the official hashtag is #ISTELive and you can follow and see all of the things people are discussing on social media. ISTE Resources.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 9, 2019

I started this blog 10 years ago, which was shortly after using Twitter and other social media tools to connect with educators. Part of connecting and spreading the word of new posts, online conferences I’ve organized, online courses, Twitter chats, and other news is creating visuals to share online.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 18, 2016

For anyone who missed the April announcement, Twitter switched its app category from ‘social media’ (where it consistently ranked in the top ten with Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Pinterest) to ‘news’ (now ranked #1, ahead of apps like CNN, Fox News, and Reddit).

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My Island View

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Social media is ever-evolving, although, as of late, some see it as de-evolving. As an educator, I was an early adopter and advocate for social media as a tool for professional collaboration, and development. Along with all this, I began to explore Twitter as an additional source of educator collaboration.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2011

The book is entitled Communicating & Connecting With Social Media: Essentials for Principals and will be available from Solution Tree on May 19, 2011 Using Twitter to Build Your School’s Brand The good news is that open-communication practices in a social media world don’t have to be intimidating. See figure 1.1

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

My answers to Bill''s questions provide a snapshot of my social media in education journey. What made you interested in using social media to reach out to your school community? In early March of 2009, I was reading my local newspaper, The Staten Island Advance, and came across an article on Twitter.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 3, 2021

The move to remote learning, then a hybrid model , and frequent back-and-forth changes necessitated the need for timely and accessible information. If things weren’t challenging enough, the added stress of a lack of engagement by remote learners on video calls compounded things further. Consider having students help you create these.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 20, 2022

Like most kids, past, and present, I loved playing video games. Social media is, and still represents, one of the most powerful ways to move a learning culture forward and engage with stakeholders. During my very early years, Atari was the best and only option. If leaders don’t get It, change rarely happens.

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Kyle Pace

JUNE 7, 2017

One thing that I think summer is great for in terms of professional learning is investing the time to better understand how you can use social media as an educator. Social media can be used as a great communication tool for a district, school, or a classroom. Here are some options to think about: Twitter.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 30, 2022

In previous posts, I wrote about using social media in the classroom for instruction and to share ideas. Although not a social media platform, Zoom became a valuable tool in connecting grade-level groups of teachers at the district level. Technology is providing access and engaging students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 17, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter So many things are happening with Artificial Intelligence right now; much of it is generative AI artwork. These could then be embedded in social media platforms to help us distinguish the real from the fake when it comes to new connections’ faces.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teaching online and blending classrooms is a hot topic, but there’s always room for improvement. In a flipped classroom, students watch lectures and other lesson content on video. UDL is an excellent framework that can be used in any classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 17, 2022

Use social media platforms to engage with students and provide supplemental resources. You can also use social media platforms to connect with your students to help them prepare for their exams. Supplement traditional textbooks with digital versions that can be accessed online.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

From my point of view educators become quickly attached to one specific social media tool as their go to source for his/her Personal Learning Network (PLN). Take Twitter for example. Now anyone who knows me knows that I absolutely love Twitter as a professional learning and networking tool. What if you want more?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2023

However, to truly maximize the reach and impact of your TikTok videos, subtitles and closed captions are crucial. They not only make your content accessible to a wider audience, including those with hearing impairments, but also cater to viewers who prefer watching videos without sound.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Please join Dr. Heather Johnson and me for one or both of our two Spring 2019 social media workshops for SEHD faculty and students! ]. Unfortunately, two decades after the Internet became accessible to the masses, many educators still are slow to realize the possibilities that accompany our new digital tools and online environments.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2019

We live in amazing times where readily accessible research and connectivity converge to not only transform practices but also provide the means to share them for the benefit of others. I have also been blessed to observe great examples that members of my Personal Learning Network (PLN) make available on social media.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 20, 2021

If we humans aren’t giving away our personal information (as we do on FB, Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter and every other social media account), we’re having it stolen without our permission or knowledge and sold to those who mean us harm. we have a access to our income streams on our digital devices. DuckDuckGo.

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 11, 2018

Social Media is part of life--and a good context for targeting social cognition and narrative language. In general, social media is now one context for us all to be sharing our stories through words and pictures, and also is a way we send messages about ourselves and interact around them.

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 9, 2019

Haben Girma , the first deaf-blind student to graduate Harvard Law spoke at an Accessibility Expo to a New York City Department of Education audience about the importance of sharing positive disability stories and services available. They forget to celebrate on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 5, 2020

What if instead of banning devices or lamenting students’ preference for video, we teach them to use them for educational purposes? Some teachers might opt for using social media, posting frequent updates on Twitter, or uploading student reviews of books on Youtube. Video reviews and trailers.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Flipgrid is a great option to have students share ideas, record videos, and connect with classrooms and experts from around the world. It has been referred to as a social learning platform and in our experience, helped us to connect globally for our PBL. Read more: Can EdTech enable Social Emotional Learning (SEL)?

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Neo LMS

JULY 5, 2022

In the absence of being together in the same physical space, finding a tool or tools that we can rely on whether it’s social media, a voice message, jumping on a quick video call, or having a collaborative space and posting a question, there are tons of options. Social network communities.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 25, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Educators are the best! So, yesterday I asked educators on “X” (the new rebranded, Twitter, I guess) to share where they are learning about AI. Generative Video Free Lesson My friend Thomas Ho shared a generative video free lesson in his tweet.

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Neo LMS

JULY 27, 2021

Schools have recognized the benefits of nurturing a partnership with students’ families and are constantly looking for tech solutions to support their cause, such as: Video conferencing tools. However, parents nowadays are more into social media, so the solutions mentioned above will help teachers reach parents easier.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Cyberbullying occurs on not just social media like Twitter, Facebook, and topical forums, but multiplayer games and school discussion boards. Examples include mean texts or emails, insulting snapchats, rumors posted on social networking sites, and embarrassing photos or videos. Cyberbullying videos from BrainPOP.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 19, 2020

So many resources are being shared daily on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. When using social media, think about the platforms being used and mix it up by mashing together text, hyperlinks, images, and video. This definitely applies now.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

He started creating videos on TikTok, and he worked to make his posts fit the playful spirit of the platform. In many of his videos, he acts out scenes from famous Hollywood films, except swapping in terms from the strategic management courses he teaches. I used this TikTok video as a way to talk about how representation matters.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Joe Sanfelippo, superintendent of Fall Creek school district in Wisconsin, leads a social media campaign for his schools using the hashtag #gocrickets. The rural district of Fall Creek, Wisconsin, has only 850 students and one school building, but it has 13,300 Twitter followers, and that’s just for the superintendent, Joe Sanfelippo.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Cyberbullying occurs on not just social media like Twitter, Facebook, and topical forums, but multiplayer games and school discussion boards. Examples include mean texts or emails, insulting snapchats, rumors posted on social networking sites, and embarrassing photos or videos. Cyberbullying videos from BrainPOP.

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The Innovative Educator

APRIL 9, 2014

Carly Fleischmann hadn''t communicated with many people before she started using social media. Today however, social media has opened the door to give this very social young lady access to connecting with tens of thousands of people around the world. social media in education'

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter What is the Learning Pit metaphor? So there's lots and lots of resources that you can access. If you visit that, right on the homepage, there's an animated video that is me talking and then some very clever person is animating.

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Neo LMS

MAY 12, 2020

Though there are many inequities that have been revealed in the amount of access that students have to the tools needed for distance learning, there are also many ways in which global collaboration has, directly and indirectly, benefited educational institutions during this crisis. One of these has been the increase in global collaboration.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 20, 2019

The exponential evolution if the Internet and social media tools have allowed for the quick sharing of knowledge, ideas, images, videos, and opinions. In one respect everyone with a smartphone has instant access to information at any time and from anywhere. Digital literacy is more important now than it has ever been.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We educators need to rest and recover this summer. While the stress of the pandemic, lack of reliable Internet access, and a thousand understandable reasons could be part of students not showing up, students weren’t motivated to want to attend.

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Social media channels provide the digital alternative for the “traditional” social life and support communication within online communities non-stop. They turn to other social media sites , like Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Yik Yak, or Twitter. E-learning supports videos.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 24, 2018

Backchannels or back-channeling is common at conferences where attendees use tools like Twitter to discuss the various presentations in near real time. A backchannel is a place that teachers can share supporting resources such as video's, links and photos. It can also take conversations to new levels of interactivity and expression.

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