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3 Apps to Keep Parents in The Loop

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If you’re looking for a way to involve parents more granularly in your classroom, try these three ideas: Edmodo for Parents. If your school uses Edmodo as a Learning Management System, roll out Edmodo for Parents so parents can keep updated on how their children are doing anytime, not just during report cards and parent conferences.

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Tell Me All About it with Tellagami

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Tellagami is a mobile app that lets users create a short animated video using any mobile device. Teachers could have students turn in their Gami by submitting the URL on a class Google form or turning the URL in via an assignment on Edmodo. BYOD BYOT digital citizenship edmodo edtech flipclass'

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3 Organizational Apps to Start the School Year

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Educreations can be linked to file locations like Dropbox and Google Drive as well as LMS communities like Edmodo. Otus is a free all-in-one mobile learning management system designed by teachers for teachers, available on iPads and desktops. It’s as simple as a slideshow with a voice-over and built-in whiteboard.

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How to (Not) Fill a Blank White Page

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Using Edmodo, Twitter (#BWP12), Skype or Google Hangouts, students can collaborate on creating and sharing answers. Additional participants could be found via networking on Twitter with other educators-- just pop into a #flipclass chat on Monday nights-- or via posting a request to one of the communities on Edmodo.

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Buncee for Engaging Learning Opportunities

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One of the first ones that I did was to teach about digital citizenship, and it was easy to create something using all of the different options available within the media library, and to give students an opportunity to then create their own Buncee to share what they had learned. Teach a Lesson. At ISTE19, ?Rachelle

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Go Paperless for Earth Day

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This may include: Google Apps for Education and/or Google Classroom–this serves as a basic digital portfolio for students, a collaborative tool with classmates, the teacher’s inbox and her tool for returning graded and analyzed student work. Would you trade your smartphone for a 1983 Nokia mobile phone? And then charge.

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How to go Paperless in Your Classroom

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This may include: Google Apps for Education and/or Google Classroom–this serves as a basic digital portfolio for students, a collaborative tool with classmates, the teacher’s inbox, and her tool for returning graded and analyzed student work. Would you trade your smartphone for a 1983 Nokia mobile phone? And then charge.

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