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Why and How Students Can Blog

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Blogging is a popular tool used in education to not only practice writing, but reinforce collaboration, perspective taking, speaking/listening skills, and a lot more. Look at these reasons why teachers incorporate blogging across all academic topics and lesson plans: Collaboration. Digital footprints. Developing a profile.

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Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do

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A free site that lets you collect all the pieces of your experience into one nicely-formatted digital place. . Use a free WordPress blog, but instead convert the pages to topics discussed below. In this section, also include all of your social media contacts. Here are examples. PorfolioGen. Here’s an example.

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6 Tips I Wish I’d Known When I Started Blogging

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I’ve been blogging for about six years, some professionally (for my tech ed career) and others on topics of interest to me (writing, USNA, that sort). But somewhere around the twentieth post, I figured out I had to do blogging right. That’s when you use a picture on your blog that’s hosted on another server.

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2017 Teachers Pay Teachers’ July Conference — Overview

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million education-oriented Pre-K through High School lesson plans, curricula, videos, classroom activities, assessments, books, bulletin board ideas, classroom decorations, interactive notebooks, task cards, Common Core resources, and more. Seminars I attended included: using social media to spread the word. copyrights.

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7 Skills Students Need for Today’s Classwork

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Creating an online graphic organizer on the animal kingdom doesn’t necessarily conflate with knowing how to compare-contrast (a skill mentioned thirty-eight times by Common Core between kindergarten and eighth grade). Digital Citizenship. Let’s face it: Students are on social media or will be soon.

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What parents should ask teachers about technology

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Who teaches digital citizenship? . Teach digital citizenship is easily done either through dedicated platforms like Common Sense Media and Netsmartz , or a full-blown curriculum like this one from Structured Learning. For Common Core schools: How do they prepare students to succeed with online testing?

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The Fun of IFTTT

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It uses a simple statement that will turn all the social media mavens into engineers—IF THIS THEN THAT. Grammaropolis is aligned with both national Common Core standards and Texas Expected Knowledge and Skills Objectives for grades K-6. Automatically publish class blogs and webposts to a school blog or website.