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10+ Ways to Recharge Your Batteries Over the Summer

Teacher Reboot Camp

Twitter Chats, webinars, MOOCs, online courses, online conferences, virtual events, livestreams, Edcamps, Facebook groups, #Hashtags Find your hashtag community! Games, Karaoke, Dancing, Exercise, Celebrations, Watch Parties Netflixparty.com Bit.ly/quarantinegamessorted For more information about this class, click here.

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Three Ways That Rural States Can Become the Hotbeds for School Edtech Innovation

Edsurge

Technology has been a key component in the planting, fertilization, growth and eventually, the blossoming of new statewide initiatives including distance education and new professional learning opportunities for educators that have benefitted students in a variety of ways. I’ve got some experience with this from the past eight years.

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How to DIY Your Distance Learning PD

Graphite Blog

Common Sense Educators : A Facebook group with over 15,000 educators dedicated to a collaborative culture of digital learning and digital citizenship, this is a closed group, so you'll need to request to join. Want to join a Twitter chat on ideas ranging from #AntiRacistEd to #digcit to #edtech ?

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App Overkill: Going Beyond the Buzz Words #SXSWedu

EdTechSandyK

App Overkill: Going Beyond the Buzz Words SXSWedu 2017 Panel Jena Draper, CEO, CachOn Inc Carl Hooker, Director of Innovation & Digital Learning, Eanes ISD P.H. There's a huge gap between what's being designed by edtech companies and what is happening in classrooms and what classrooms need.

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Do-It-Yourself Professional Development

Graphite Blog

If You Are a Librarian or EdTech Coach: Start with the Digital Citizenship Curriculum. Sometimes we hear about so many different tools from conferences, edcamps, and workshops it can be a little overwhelming. This is when I turn to the EdTech Quick Take videos.

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Do-It-Yourself Professional Development

Graphite Blog

If You Are a Librarian or EdTech Coach: Start with the Digital Citizenship Curriculum. Sometimes we hear about so many different tools from conferences, edcamps, and workshops it can be a little overwhelming. This is when I turn to the EdTech Quick Take videos.

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

This, unfortunately, discourages staff members from looking outside of school for professional learning opportunities and punishes them for the times that they do seek to improve themselves. Step 2: Recognize that Staff Members are Constantly Engaged in Professional Learning. What is professional development?

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