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This Professor Known for Viral Videos Is Actually Camera Shy. Here’s How He Overcame It.

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Wired magazine once awarded him as one of 22 “innovators, instigators and inventors” who are “changing the game” (alongside J.K. One of them entails interviewing a stranger and sharing a picture or video of the encounter on social media. Micheal Wesch is a rare professor who is a celebrity on YouTube. Let us know here.

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Make This the Year That You Take On Ambitious IT Projects in Your School

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Explore offerings in the Google App Hub for educators or features in Google Classroom, Calendar and other G Suite apps. In Georgia’s Columbia County School District , for example, students in teacher Erica Cox’s class use Google Drawings and other G Suite apps to illustrate and create presentations. . Try out new digital tools.

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8 Tips to Strengthen Parent Involvement With Digital Tools

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Google Hangout, Skype and FaceTime let parents participate in class activities while being in a remote location. Take Advantage of Social Media. He spent two years as an elementary teacher, two years as an educational trainer, 10 years as a director of technology and six years as a school superintendent.

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5 Ways to Build Real Teacher-Student Connections for the Year Ahead

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When Mr. Jasper was an elementary school teacher he did a fine job of making connections and getting to know kids as people. Share your “out-of-school” life: Think about all the projects you probably did in elementary school where you had to bring in pictures or cut out images from magazines to represent your life.

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Make Parents Comfortable with Tech for a Successful 1:1 Program

EdTech Magazine

Each student has a brand-new laptop and has easily mastered Google Classroom and the other educational apps you carefully chose for them. Use Social Media and Events to Keep Parents in the Know. Make Parents Comfortable with Tech for a Successful 1:1 Program. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 07/30/2018 - 11:28. by Curtiss Strietelmeier.

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The 2018 Honor Roll: EdTech’s Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs

EdTech Magazine

Ricky publishes and manages the content on BizTech magazine's website. He's a writer, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all-around digital guy. Google’s education solutions just keep expanding. Thankfully, there’s Alice Keeler, a Google Certified Teacher and self-described super-nerd. Customer Focused.

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Giving Up Privacy or NOT in the Digital World

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Teachers of elementary and middle school students have to be vigilant in how they introduce technology to kids. A few weeks ago I downloaded an app called Vero- it's self-touted as a social media app with the tagline "Less social media, more social life. Behave online as you do offline."