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Instagram: A Student Vehicle for Social Change

Ask a Tech Teacher

From Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, retired teacher and education consultant, Christian Miraglia: Instagram: A Student Vehicle for Social Change. Here, the focus is how students use social media to advance their causes and concerns. In my last post, I wrote about using Twitter for classroom instruction.

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Communicating and Connecting With Social Media (An Excerpt)

A Principal's Reflections

The book is entitled Communicating & Connecting With Social Media: Essentials for Principals and will be available from Solution Tree on May 19, 2011 Using Twitter to Build Your School’s Brand The good news is that open-communication practices in a social media world don’t have to be intimidating. See figure 1.1

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Upgrading Family Communications

A Principal's Reflections

I'll tell you that I have personally experienced this as a principal and seen in many districts school staff who are asked to print, collate, distribute, collect, read and process all kinds of paper forms and documents. While many schools now commonly use social networks to inform the community, these come with drawbacks.

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7 Great AI Translation Tools to Try out

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For mobile applications, check out best translation apps for iPhone and Android. AI-powered translations can be used for dozens of languages, and are particularly useful for automating multilingual content creation tasks across websites, apps, documents, emails, mobile messages and more.

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Boosting Digital Literacies for a Purpose

Digital Promise

These skills include the ability to navigate, interpret information, generate information, and communicate online and through mobile devices. Literacy skills related to connections involve the ability to use online social and professional networks, like Instagram, WhatsApp, or LinkedIn. Connection Literacies.

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5 Steps to Plan & Host an ACP Enrollment Event

Education Superhighway

When promoting via social media, use your official social media accounts to raise event awareness and ask your participating partners to repost or share posts with their own comments to elevate the event. You can check out some sample social media posts in our Social Media Toolkit.

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Time Is Not Always On Our Side- 5 Minute Mobile Projects with Field Trips

MSEDTechie

Sometimes we want our students to complete quick mobile projects that take very little time, but produce awesome projects. Each group on the field trip had an iPad to capture video and or images to document their experience. Check out these examples: Document Class Activities w/ pictures and recordings https://audioboo.fm/fuglefun