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Tools for Designing Awesome Graphics

Teacher Reboot Camp

I’ve learned to use free web tools to design headers on different social networks, graphics for books and digital badges, banners, flyers, parent newsletters, programs, digital magazines, book covers, logos, and more! The fonts are amazing as well as the images, icons, frames, and color schemes.

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Balancing Act: Cybersecurity in the Connected Classroom

EdTech Magazine

BECOME AN INSIDER: Sign up access to exclusive EdTech videos, whitepapers and articles. The APS Digital Badge Program: The APS Digital Badge Program uses microcredentials to describe student success across five key areas: collaboration, critical thinking, information literacy, invention and self-direction.

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5 Key Areas of Technology Professional Development for Teachers

EdTech Magazine

“Our eighth grade team is our most reluctant team, and two members [who attended the PD on digital badging] took it back to their team at the end of the day and they’ve now implemented digital badges for vocabulary, which is a campuswide focus,” said one DLP coach.

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Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

Finally, microcredentials or digital badging are another terrific way to make learning more fun. Digital badging is a tool used in professional development to give teachers tangible goals. It validates their skills by giving them a badge to display. It’s a great way to break out of the old standby art lesson.

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How Microcredentials Help Educators Develop New Tech Skills

EdTech Magazine

Also known as digital badges, these tools are increasingly used to improve student focus as well as provide a means to incentivize teachers to complete new disciplines. SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! Open New Doors for Teachers in the Classroom.

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Microsoft Education Has New Features for Social-Emotional Learning

EdTech Magazine

Beginning in late September, Teams will feature SEL-specific badges that teachers can give to their students as part of the Praise app.

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Microsoft Education Has New Features for Social-Emotional Learning

EdTech Magazine

Beginning in late September, Teams will feature SEL-specific badges that teachers can give to their students as part of the Praise app.

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