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How to Evaluate Programs You’ve Never Used in Less Than Seven Minutes

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you’re like me, you spent the summer attending webinars, seminars, and conferences. You chatted with colleagues on Twitter and Facebook about learning tools they loved. Ready or not, it’s time to go back to school. But that list could take hours to preview. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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A Gullible Population Is a National Security Issue

The CoolCatTeacher

It was a discussion about a digital literacy issue at the U.S. Army War College National Security Seminar that caused this response. For the curious, one requirement for attending the Army War College National Security Seminar is “non-attribution.” These aren’t regular Facebook and Instagram ads.

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2017 Teachers Pay Teachers’ July Conference — Overview

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Seminar Overview. Each of the seminars I attended (a handful of roughly five dozen offered) was filled with pithy ideas, how-tos, and problem-solving. Seminars I attended included: using social media to spread the word. Post to Facebook with meaningful information (like education posters or memes) to gain an audience.

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The Internet Can Be a Force for Good. Here’s How.

Edsurge

All of this amounts to what is essentially a new frontier in society, and it’s often called “digital citizenship.” Over the summer, EdSurge sat down with one of the foremost experts on this topic: Marialice Curran, founder and executive director of the Digital Citizenship Institute. What is digital citizenship?

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Make your LMS a social learning platform

Ask a Tech Teacher

Seminars held online, are called webinars. Before the advent of Facebook, most social interactions were undertaken using instant messaging apps such as AOL, Yahoo messenger or IRC. It could be in the form of a presentation or a lecture, usually addressed to a broader audience via a video conferencing platform or social media.

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

One mentioned that their institution used to host WordPress locally, but is now exploring externally hosted social media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc). Q: Autumm Caines asked:”I’m getting ready to teach a 1st year seminar on digital citizenship. The rest of the Forum was devoted to… III.

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

One mentioned that their institution used to host WordPress locally, but is now exploring externally hosted social media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc). Q: Autumm Caines asked:”I’m getting ready to teach a 1st year seminar on digital citizenship. The rest of the Forum was devoted to… III.

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