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How to Create a Paperless Classroom

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Options include Jing (provides a link to a video), Screencast-o-matic (provides a video that can be embedded or uploaded to YouTube), and Educreations. Give students a method to work together using forums, LMS Discussion Boards, blogs, and even Twitter. Would you trade your smartphone for a 1983 Nokia mobile phone?

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Some app substitutions for iPad apps to use on a Chromebook

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Digital Activities & Icebreakers for Gen Y

Teacher Reboot Camp

GET YOUR COPY OF THE 30 GOALS FOR TEACHERS OR LEARNING TO GO , WHICH HAS DIGITAL AND MOBILE ACTIVITIES AND HANDOUTS. You will find hashtags used on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Vine, and many other social networks. Mobile Show and Tell - Divide students into small groups (3 to 5 students). ENJOYED THESE RESOURCES?

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Goal: Make It About the Relationships

Teacher Reboot Camp

Mobile Show and Tell – Divide students into small groups (3 to 5 students). Each student spends about 30 seconds sharing a personal photo from a mobile device and the anecdote behind the photo. Recreate a Photo – Students choose one of the Mobile Show and Tell images to recreate as a group. Give them 30 seconds.

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iPad Basic Training for Teachers

EdTechSandyK

The purposes for this initiative were to give teachers an additional tool for teaching and learning and to familiarize teachers with mobile devices in anticipation of more iPads being purchased for classroom use and a grades 6-12 BYOD program coming in the next school year. Unported License.

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5 Must-have tools for Ed Conferences

Ask a Tech Teacher

apps for Twitter/FB/G+/LI–or whatever your social media of choice is. There are great app alternatives to Evernote/OneNote: Educreations –turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Apps you’ll want installed are: Skype (for face-to-face conversations). a scanner (for paperwork, business cards). There are many options.

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Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, Oh My! 4 Tools for Picting in the Classroom

Edsurge

Picting by the Numbers Snapchat, a mobile app that allows users to capture video and pictures that disappear after a few seconds, has over 173 million daily users and the average number of Snaps per day hovers around 2.5 They are on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat before they even step into our classrooms. “If

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