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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

3 – Social Media Tools in Teaching – Using Them the Right Way I’ve seen social media used in ways that aren’t very safe or effective. For example, when teachers post their video conferencing links publicly on social media, they are unknowingly allowing unwanted attendees to enter their online classrooms.

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How One High School is Helping Students Craft Eportfolios People Will Actually Read

Edsurge

A significant number of K-12 teachers looking to move away from student success measures that focus on standardized testing and grades are turning towards eportfolios, online websites showcasing projects tied to learning objectives. In the end, her students were working on what many would describe as an eportfolio and blog hybrid.

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How we built an ePortfolio platform for our district

eSchool News

While teachers are finding more and more ways to use social media within the classroom, they still are unable to completely bridge the divide between social interaction and education, as these social channels lack the academic component necessary to be effective.

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Meaningful Learning with Digital Portfolios: Tools & Examples

Teacher Reboot Camp

The technology we use changes rapidly and our students will work with tools and social media many teachers have little knowledge using. For my courses, my students use these curation tools to build their eportfolios. Eportfolios for Meaningful Student Learning from Shelly Sanchez Terrell. Enjoyed these resources?

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New Posted Resources 03/20/2012

The Web20Classroom

Googlios tags: google ePortfolio googleapps favorite What can Twitter do for your school? The rest of my favorite links are here.'

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Adobe Spark: Easily create and share videos, images, and newsletters

iLearn Technology

Produce and share impressive videos for storytelling, projects, or to share to social media. Students can use these tools to create book reviews, to document science experiments, for storytelling, to explain their inquiry process, as an eportfolio, to illustrate math concepts, and so much more!

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What are your edtech resolutions?

eSchool News

I will use less paper by having students document learning electronically and posting to their FreshGrade eportfolios. “I Whether that be from fellow tech leaders on social media or reading more articles, I want to better prepare my students for future technology integration.”. Expand my tech knowledge and usage.

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