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APRIL 19, 2023

Enter them to an easily accessible digital calendar like Google Calendar and share with students, parents, and interested stakeholders. This should include homework, projects, student presentation, school events–everything that requires preparation. Would you trade your smartphone for a 1983 Nokia mobile phone?

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter I have picked five of my essential classroom tools. I’ve also added some of my favorite new productivity tools for my smartphone, iPad, and a few new ones for my Mac. Nearpod Nearpod is my favorite tool for presentations. Show Notes 1.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

All teachers agree that digital citizenship is essential knowledge for students whether they’re going onto college or a career, yet when I ask who in their school teaches it, they always shrug. Kids often feel freer to taunt or bully someone online because they feel protected behind the computer or smartphone screen.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 10, 2018

A strong understanding of digital citizenship is essential for students of all ages to be able to make smart choices online and in life. The new, free K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum from Common Sense Education has lessons for all ages to address the current technology landscape. About the Presenters.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

Here’s a short list of items that won’t take long to accomplish: Update your online profile –your blog profile page, your gravatar, FB, Twitter, professional groups, your PLN. Check the appearance of your blog on a smartphone and iPad. Have you changed your focus? Switched jobs? Is your contact information current?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The end of the calendar year is a good time to do these: Update your online profile –This means your blog profile page, your gravatar, FB, Twitter, LI, professional groups, and your PLN. Check the appearance of your blog –View it on a smartphone, Chromebook, and iPad to see if those venues display properly. Switched jobs?

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MAY 25, 2017

These days, you might be asked to scan a QR code and visit a website, access meeting documents online, interact digitally, or use a backchannel device to share your real-time thoughts with the presenter. Bring the latest version of Google Maps on your smartphone or iPad, complete with audio directions. Digital note-taking.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Let’s reinforce that goal by stepping away from digital device, recognize that these skills — critical thinking and problem-solving — apply to any part of life, even without a computer, iPad, or smartphone in hand. Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher).

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

The end of the calendar year is a good time to do these: Update your online profile –This means your blog profile page, your gravatar, FB, Twitter, LI, professional groups, and your PLN. Check the appearance of your blog –View it on a smartphone, Chromebook, and iPad to see if those venues display properly. Switched jobs?

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MAY 12, 2016

Now, you might be asked to scan a QR code and visit a website, access meeting documents online, interact digitally, or use a backchannel device to share your real-time thoughts with the presenter. Here are five tools that will make you look and act like the Diva of Digital: Waze. Digital note-taking. Conference App.

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

The end of the calendar year is a good time to do these: Update your online profile –This means your blog profile page, your gravatar, FB, Twitter, LI, professional groups, and your PLN. Check the appearance of your blog –View it on a smartphone, Chromebook, and iPad to see if those venues display properly. Switched jobs?

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

This particular project uses HyperDocs but if you don’t have that digital tool, replace it with any number of other presentation tools or simply use Book Creator ‘s built-in presentation option. While this project suggests drawing selfies, my classes use pictures taken with their digital device (or a smartphone).

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

The end of the calendar year is a good time to do these: Update your online profile –your blog profile page, your gravatar, FB, Twitter, LI, professional groups, your PLN. Check the appearance of your blog on a smartphone , Chromebook, and iPad to see if those venues display properly. Have you changed your focus? Switched jobs?

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

I did a quick Google search for images, saved them in my camera roll, and added them to the presentation, cropping the images as needed. After the final product is published, I emailed it to rmyself to generate a URL from which I can get the embed code or share to Facebook, Twitter, or Google+.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Ask a Tech Teacher guest blogger, Steven Wesley, has some great suggestions for using augmented reality: Day by day, technology is becoming more and more present in our lives. You don’t have to buy expensive glasses, you can just use your smartphone or a tablet for educational purposes. Follow him on Twitter. Elements 4D.

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MAY 20, 2015

Now, you might be asked to scan a QR code and visit a website, access meeting documents online, interact digitally, or use a backchannel device to share your real-time thoughts with the presenter. Here are five tools that will make you look and act like the Diva of Digital: Google Maps. Digital note-taking. Any ideas?).

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MARCH 25, 2019

The value of research is to find the truth but let’s face it, lots of kids start a research project sure they know the truth (for example: “Yes, global warming is a problem” or “No, smartphones aren’t bad for you”) so why spend hours on research to research a conclusion they already know?

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

A la Twitter with it''s 140 characters per message, the teacher creates the name of the room and provides the students with the URL address. The chatroom or backchannel can be accessed on a computer, tablet, or smartphone, and puts students'' texting talents to work. Oh, what I want to learn to do! Why do they work?

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APRIL 11, 2016

Enter them into an easily accessible digital calendar like Google Calendar and share with students, parents, and interested stakeholders. This should include homework, projects, student presentation, school events–everything that requires preparation. Digital newsletters. quick methods like texting are fine.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Enter them to an easily accessible digital calendar like Google Calendar and share with students, parents, and interested stakeholders. This should include homework, projects, student presentation, school events–everything that requires preparation. Digital newsletters. quick methods like texting are fine. And then charge.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

A Global Search for Education, Cathy Rubin, Post From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. But are students doing these things or are they physically present with their minds away whatever they are doing? How much time should a student spend at school? Either scenario is alarming.

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DECEMBER 5, 2020

App Inventor –build Android apps on a smartphones; from MIT. Comments are closed but feel free to contact me via Twitter (@askatechteacher). 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. Build an App.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

. “the ability to use digital technology, communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use and create information” –Digital Strategy Glossary of Key Terms. Here are the eight transformative skills required of the digitally-literate student: Basic tools. Digital citizenship.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 12, 2012

Office Suite Skills Productivity Apps - Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Presentation Tools, Note taking and organization apps - educators need to now how to create, edit, and modify documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. I learn so much from Twitter and Google+ because of the people and web sites I follow there.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Messenger Kids is a free video calling and messaging app designed for kids under thirteen to connect with others from their tablet or smartphone. These are the kids who love digitally chatting on parent cellphones (or other digital devices) but aren’t old enough for the nuances and maturity required of popular 13+ messaging platforms.

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APRIL 9, 2018

Adding Grammarly to Chrome means that your spelling and grammar will be vetted on Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Tumblr, and nearly everywhere else you write on the web. The only downside of Grammarly is the lack of smartphone apps. It corrects not only grammar but spelling (including typos). Language Tool. Free; all ages.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Please visit [link] to see session descriptions and instructions for joining each of the day''s presentations. It will be free to attend, and everyone is encouraged to submit a presentation proposal, including first-time presenters. Follow us on Twitter #liveclass20. Follow #TLChat on Twitter to participate.

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MAY 11, 2015

easy access from digital devices that teachers commonly carry. Waze is a free navigation app for GPS-equipped smartphones that bills itself as ‘the largest community-based traffic and navigation app’ It includes spoken turn-by-turn directions and the ability to search for destinations by address, category, place name, or landmark.

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