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

Edsurge

Instagram, a social networking app for sharing photos and videos, counts more than 400 million daily users. Approximately three out of every four tweens and teens are on some type of social media platform these days. As Kayla Delzer says in a recent EdSurge article , “social media is happening—with or without you.”

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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).

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10 Killer iPad Projects Students Will Love #ISTE13

EdTechSandyK

Use Student Instructors - Educreations and Doodle Cast - teacher can record lessons for students to review or have students record presentations or their thinking when completing an assignment 5. Get Social - Edmodo, Twitter, Blogger - Example: @Emilydrocha posts what''s going on in her class via Twitter.

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An Educator's Challenge! iPads in an Elementary Classroom

MSEDTechie

Ten years ago we did not have facebook, instagram, or twitter, but now corporations pay big bucks using social media to market their products. Read more about QR codes EDUCreations - This must-have App is very simple for kids to use at any age. Skitch or picCollage are both great apps that allows you to annotate images.

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

Good apps for creating tutorials: Explain Everything, Screen Chomp, Educreations District #2 : Revisiting their BYOD initiative. District #5 : Kindergarten teachers started class Twitter accounts! Here is Mrs. Cook''s Twitter. Twitter is his favorite tool for professional learning. Mitch Resnik, creator of Scratch.

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A Guide for Bringing the SAMR Model to iPads

MSEDTechie

Students are developing mapping, critical thinking, and problem solving skills through Mystery Skypes , completing collaborative writing through Kidblog , and connecting to the world through social media like Twitter. O ur school used QR codes and Augmented Reality to make our annual art show interactive.

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Digital Assessments: More than an online quiz

Class Tech Integrate

Wouldn't your students take more ownership in their learning if they were developing a social media graphic about the causes of the Civil War as opposed to filling out a google form? Video & Multimedia - So many video and media tools available these days. This allows them to ask for feedback from others.