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MOOCs for Professional Development - #TCEA15

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Notes from MOOCs for Professional Development Presentation at TCEA 2015 Dr. Kay Abernathy, Lamar University [link] Lamar University sponsored the MOOC on Social Media Communication Tools for Educators which Dr. Abernathy facilitated. Dr. Abernathy also put all of the course information in her Word Press blog. Unported License.

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

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Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. District #5 : Kindergarten teachers started class Twitter accounts! Here is Mrs. Cook''s Twitter. November suggests you can follow someone on Twitter via text messaging instead of having to set up a Twitter account. Use every bit of social media that you can.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.” ” Coursera, initially only emailing former students about their old course work, decided finally to blog about its platform change.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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It's rolling out a social media push today using the hashtag #DontSettle4Cs to promote the program, called March2Success. Coursera ’s Daphne Koller announced in a blog post that she’s leaving the MOOC company she co-founded to work at a Alphabet (a.k.a. million people since 2003.”

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News Literacy Resources for Classrooms

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News and politics have been reshaped by social media and 24-hours news entertainment. As a result, there's a lot of crossover between what we think of as news literacy, media literacy, and digital citizenship. Each newsletter also ends with tips on incorporating the content into classrooms. E.S.C.A.P.E.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via the Coursera blog : “Announcing the Global MBA from Macquarie University.” ” ClassDojo is now a full social media platform for schools - this letter & video just emailed to parents. From the Department of Education’s blog : “ Back to School by the Numbers : 2018.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Here is venture capital well spent: “ Coursera Promotes Its ‘Affordable Online Courses’ With New TV Ad Spots ,” says Class Central. More via a Department of Ed blog post on what it’s doing to support these students. tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media. Heckuva job.