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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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4 Ways to Get Started with Security

EdTech Magazine

IT people at school districts are typically stretched thin and don’t have time to attend workshops and seminars. If time doesn’t allow, check out Google for Education’s online Digital Citizenship and Safety Course. Please join the discussion on Twitter by using the #ConnectIT hashtag. Content Subtype. CDW Activity ID.

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2017 Teachers Pay Teachers’ July Conference — Overview

Ask a Tech Teacher

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. Add a weekly image post to Instagram, FB, Twitter that might be posters, tech tips, or projects.

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A Gullible Population Is a National Security Issue

The CoolCatTeacher

A Global Search for Education Reflection From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. It was a discussion about a digital literacy issue at the U.S. Army War College National Security Seminar that caused this response. Suddenly, information literacy became real — and urgent. AuthorHouse.

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Incorporating Social Media and Digital Citizenship in the First-Year Experience Course

Mistakengoal.com

Part of that program requires (nearly) all undergraduate students to take a First-Year Seminar (FYS) course and one of the resolutions updated some of the specific outcomes of that course. Second, students and faculty will use Twitter throughout the class to share information with one another and connect with specific resources.

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It is Not a Project to Get Students Talking: Two Tools

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

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. Caveat : Expect some shenanigans the first time using the backchannel as students move through Maslow''s Heirarchy of Needs and engage in social learning and digital citizenship.

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Free Digital Formative Assessment Tools… Important Thoughts Before Implementing

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

First, to ensure you do not miss a valuable post or other resources covering PBL, Digital Curriculum, Web 2.0, As always, I invite you to follow me on twitter ( @ mjgormans ). If a tool states that students not have to sign up… still be sure that students do not leave a digital footprint that leaves an identity.