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A PLN Quick Start Guide

A Principal's Reflections

Educators can join a variety of groups that cater to their individual learning interests and engage in discussions as well as submit, read, and comment on articles. An RSS reader is a tool that allows you to keep up with educational blogs, news, wikis, and podcasts all in one convenient location.

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Four Social Media Strategies for Principals

MiddleWeb

Principals can use social media to improve communication, provide information during school safety situations, increase collaboration, and enhance professional development. Ron Williamson and Barbara Blackburn argue, in fact, that social media is a leadership essential today.

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ChatGPT with My Students

User Generated Education

As many in education know, commentary about ChatGPT is appearing on the news, social media, and the internet. Now, similar work is often seen as innovative by colleagues. I still am an early adopter of technologies in that I believe many can benefit students in their learning.

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How Digital Tools Improve Teaching and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Adapted from an article I co-authored, Real-World Ready: Leveraging Digital Tools Digital tools are transforming essential elements of the education space. Increase collaboration : Just as social media has given rise to new definitions of community, digital tools are transforming community and the give-and-take between students and teachers.

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7 Skills Students Need for Today’s Classwork

Ask a Tech Teacher

By middle school, they work in online groups through forums, wikis, and Google Apps. Each year, add a few more from this list of nineteen digital citizenship topics including cyberbullying, digital footprint, digital law, fair use and public domain, copyrights, plagiarism, social media, and digital commerce. Internet use.

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Fire and brimstone

Learning with 'e's

In my presentation, entitled The Good, the Blog and the Wiki, I tried to paint some broad brushstrokes on how students (and their teachers) are creating and sharing content that supports their learning, both socially and academically, through a range of social media. Unported License.

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The Edublog Awards

The Web20Classroom

These awards celebrate "the achievements of edubloggers, twitterers, podcasters, video makers, online communities, wiki hosts and other web based users of educational technology." From tons of Google Tips to Social Media and Social Networking, there is something here for every educator. edublog awards'

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