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Effective Digital Citizenship Education

The CoolCatTeacher

Digital citizenship education doesn’t work in a lecture format. Dr. Kristen Mattson, author of Digital Citizenship in Action talks about how they’ve integrated digital citizenship into all of their courses at her school and how you can too. Digital Citizenship that Works. Enhanced Transcript.

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Tech Tip #16: What’s Today’s Date?

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That puts the current date into any Word document (use Ctrl+; in Excel and Google Sheets). Be aware: This inserted date will update every time you open the document. If you want the date to memorialize the document, skip the shortkey. Is there a shortcut for people like me? A: Push Shift+Alt+D.

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Tons of Online Resources About Classroom Management

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She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. ” Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. .” ” Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Tech Tip #29 I can’t find a file

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Today’s tip: Find a file Category: Problem-solving Q: I saved my document, but I can’t find it. A: There are five ways to search for a document you saved, but don’t remember where (see poster below): If none of these work, try these two: One: Open the program you created it in, say MS Word. What do I do? Select File>Open.

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Tech Tip #133 5 Ways to Find Lost Files

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Sometimes, they find a version of the document, but not the latest version. Often, students save it to a default location—like My Documents on the local drive. Can they search the network for it (which requires they know the name of the document)? They assume (often wrongly) that it’s gone forever and they’ll have to start over.

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Easy Photo Editing in MS Word

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For basic image editing, Word’s pallet of tools do a pretty good job ( Note: Depending upon your version of Word, some of these tools may not be available; adapt to your version ): Open a blank document in MS Word. Insert a picture with multiple focal points (see samples). Duplicate the image once for each focal point.

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Another Excellent Online Feature from Jotform–Sign

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It streamlines your workflow, making it easy for users to sign documents and you to collect responses. Jotform Sign is perfect for any public or private school looking for a way to easily and automatically create legally binding documents with signatures. Customizations to fit your document to your school or District.