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11 Tips for Engaging Parents

Teacher Reboot Camp

This past week at the ISTE conference, I shared my tips and resources for engaging parents. Below are a few tips and resources from my presentation, Engaging Parents with Technology and Social Media. Every school needs a social media plan and guidelines. Feel free to download the slides.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with 'e's

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. Other tools such as wikis, blogs and podcasts also began to be used in education, at first tentatively, and then as embedded features in various programmes of study. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.

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How to build your global classroom in 4 steps

Neo LMS

Social media: platforms like Twitter help teachers build their personal learning network and share teaching tips and tricks. Discussions can be synchronous (via video conference) or asynchronous (via an online forum). For asynchronous collaboration, you can use groups and forums, a shared blog, or a wiki.

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ISTE Social Media& Web Resources

The Daring Librarian

Holly Jobe to create " a page on the board wiki and/or a word doc with links and descriptions of the tools that would help orient new board members to all the ISTE tools " and I did! Learn more by visiting ISTE''s Second Life wiki or by visiting us in world !" A week or so ago I was asked by soon to be ISTE president the AWEsome Ms.

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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. I get frustrated when I see conference presentations about 50 educational technologies in 50 minutes. Now, similar work is often seen as innovative by colleagues.

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ISTE "Unplugged" - We've Just Added an Online Conference!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Each year hundreds of educators interested in social media, technology, teaching, and learning gather to build and participate in " unplugged"-style activities as a part of the ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) conference. given us by the conference organizers at ISTE (HUGE THANKS!) details below!

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TeachMeet Nashville 2010

The Web20Classroom

TeachMeets are unique conference experiences where everyone has an opportunity to share, learn and grow as professional educators. I will be part of a panel on Social Media in Education. Thursday Conference Rooom A [link] Starts at 11. Friday Conference Room A [link] Starts at 10.

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