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From Banning to Embracing Social Media: #GovTechLive Names #NYCSchoolsTech Facebook Group & Twitter Chat Best in NYC

The Innovative Educator

The New York City Department of Education has come a long way since 2012 when I took a risk and criticized the city's conservative approach to social media. It wasn't long after that I was brought on to help New York City schools embrace social media for teaching and learning. I’m here to say that not all tweets do that.

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Create and share story time and read-aloud videos

eSchool News

These story time or read-aloud live events may not be maintained in the archive of the social media platform and appropriate measures should be taken to ensure that videos of the live events are not retained. and delete it.

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What Students Want Teachers—and Facebook—to Know About Digital Citizenship

Edsurge

In some hands, social media tools are blights on society, tools for bullies and misinformation campaigns. Policing Policies in Headlines Most of the event focused on the positives of social media’s role in students’ lives. Sanah Jivani has personally experienced both extremes of the spectrum.

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Buncee for Engaging Learning Opportunities

Buncee

Check out some of these recent additions to the Buncee Templates Library for having students express themselves by creating an acrostic poem or a virtual locker. Explore the Templates Library to create something like this fast, and make it your own by selecting from the more than 35,000 choices available in the media library!

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21st Principal's Top 10 Web Tools for Administrators

The 21st Century Principal

link] Twitter : I been using Twitter the longest. I''ve had a Twitter account since 2008. One way I use Twitter is through a school Twitter account to make announcements. My administrative documents library follows me everywhere I go because of this app. This is by far my favorite tool as administrator.

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It’s about time: a round-up of time-lining tools

NeverEndingSearch

The site offers a basic icon library as well as the ability to import your own icons. New York Public Library Map Warper. Create your own timeline or use the Explore tab to examine the HSTRY created library of CCSS-aligned timelines created by experts and educators or shared community timelines. MyHistro plays nice with Edmodo.

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Unconventional Research Sites to Inspire Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

Pew Research recently reported that about half of Americans regularly get their news from social media. That’s newspapers, evening news, and anything considered ‘mainstream media’ They prefer blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. So why do students turn to it for news?

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