The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We educators need to rest and recover this summer. But the reality is also that we’re going to have to prepare for a fall that – whatever it looks like – will include an online learning component. So many of us are exhausted.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 16, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter This podcast with Andrea Gribble will help school administrators and principals create a school social media strategy to drive engagement, build community, and enhance their organization's online presence. That's where this podcast comes in.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Joe Sanfelippo, superintendent of Fall Creek school district in Wisconsin, leads a social media campaign for his schools using the hashtag #gocrickets. The rural district of Fall Creek, Wisconsin, has only 850 students and one school building, but it has 13,300 Twitter followers, and that’s just for the superintendent, Joe Sanfelippo.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

For example, if schools want teachers to manage their time better, they should try to reduce the admin work before creating online courses on time management. A survey of 755 teachers in the US found that they value the immediate feedback they get on Twitter. Schools might be concerned about the lack of interaction in online learning.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Another "big" for Texas is education, and when I'm looking to get a pulse on what the current trends and landscape are, I turn to social media! These educators use Twitter as an effective tool to engage others in conversation and share their knowledge—all in an effort to teach the state's future leaders. Tony Bonazzi @GISDMath.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

While autonomous school buses may be far down the road, companies like RobotLAB are already designing interactive learning experiences that incorporate autonomous machine s to teach programming. Members of the online community maintain multiple versions of themselves through social media sites, online profiles and other means.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter This podcast with Jennifer Seravallo is dedicated to helping reading teachers improve their teaching methods by providing practical tips and in-depth insights into differentiated reading strategies. So the lesson examples throughout the book.

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The Daring Librarian

APRIL 24, 2016

But this post is all about the difference between sharing what is personal versus private on social media. Why do people TMI share on Social Media? Even so, I think it's important to keep your interactions on Social Media authentically you, real, but always professional. It's shocking!

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Social media: platforms like Twitter help teachers build their personal learning network and share teaching tips and tricks. For example, there is a much larger global conversation going on about recycling and reducing our use of certain materials. See #globalclassroom for inspiration.

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My Island View

APRIL 20, 2015

The basic principle of Twitter is that if you follow ten people on Twitter, you will only see the tweets of those ten people. If you add a Hashtag, #Edchat for example, the range of your tweet is extended beyond your ten followers to thousands of educators who follow that specific #Edchat hashtag on a search column.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2017

When a student tweets at their school’s Twitter handle, chances are they don’t expect a response–it’s like tweeting at Starbucks, or the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency—you feel like you’re talking to an entity that’s far too busy and important to ever respond to you. Twitter’s a great place to spitball ideas with your peers.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2017

In the case of Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) , when the district began a huge leap to personalized learning, its leaders consciously began designing a communications strategy to bring together students, teachers and families. Twitter has become the most widely used medium for sharing stories about BCPS.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Share Out: A goal of the design thinking process is sharing learning out to a broader public. This is typically done by sharing documentation of learning and final reflections through social media. Universal Design for Learning® (UDL). They may interview, do observations or survey them about the problem.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Enjoy the read and please know you can contect me anytime at mjgormans@gmail.com or on my X(Twitter) Feed mjgormans. It helps us by learning, solving problems, and making decisions, just like we do! It can make learning more personalized for each student. Give four real world examples for each.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 16, 2013

Earlier this year she experimented with using Twitter to foster creative thought. As she explained the project to me I immediately asked her if she could email it to me so I could not only share it, but also gather some feedback for her from my Personal Learning Network (PLN). So what do you think of this project?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

Much like how social media giants Facebook and Twitter are utilizing our digital footprints to better understand consumer behavior, teachers are also turning to data analytics to learn more about their students. These devices double as both a whiteboard and a screen. Data Analytics.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 23, 2010

The following list provides some good PLN starting points and resources to assist any educator looking to take their professional growth to new levels: Twitter : Microblogging platform that allows educators from all corners of the globe to communicate in 140 characters or less. For more information on Twitter check out this video.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2016

As I developed and grew my Personal Learning Network (PLN) I learned how much I did not know. He pushed me to extend beyond the use of Twitter to share what was going on in my school through a blog. Social media, Twitter and blogging in particular, had another unintended, positive consequence.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 25, 2011

I was also adamant that social media had no place in an educational setting, but most of you who read this blog know about my radical change of mind in regards to this. technology, including social media. This small change evolved into my present philosophy on how schools can, and should, use social media.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Some districts are using fully remote learning models to start, some are opting for hybrid models, while others are implementing new safety protocols to begin in-person learning. They’re shared on Fridays via email and social media and have become a routine communication outlet for the district that families are engaging with.

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My Island View

JANUARY 29, 2020

If one teacher welcomes the tech and works to use it to its best advantage, while the other two teachers are less comfortable and less willing to fully commit, is the technology that is failing to help students learn? Two thirds of the students would be limited with their technology in this example. Twitter is the backbone of my PLN.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

His meaning-making challenge presents three different options for demonstrating and further exploring our learning. In fact, he welcomes us to share what we are learning by using the class hashtag across a variety of social media. We don’t have to be enrolled in his class to access it.

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The Web20Classroom

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In order to maintain relevancy in the classroom for students and each other, educators need to connect together, to learn, share, reflect and grow. Our mobility, use of social media and access to devices has made making connections easy and impactful. Alone we are smart but together we are brilliant.

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The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

The Art of the Follow: One of the hardest things on Twitter is to master is the art of the Follow. Twitter Comic Tutorial At-A-Glance Part Deux that coordinates to this blog is below- thanks!) Twitter Comic Tutorial At-A-Glance Part Deux that coordinates to this blog is below- thanks!) Middle school that''s great! 6 - Say What?

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My Island View

JANUARY 7, 2016

Recently, I have read a number of posts and tweets about how people are unfollowing their accumulated “follows” on Twitter in large numbers. I guess at least some of this action was generated by a proclaimed “national unfollow day” that was made up and broadcast out by someone with a little media influence.

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MSEDTechie

MAY 18, 2016

For those in education, summer is a time for relaxation, reflecting, and also new learning. Whether you are attending a conference like ISTE , or creating your own personalized learning experience, utilizing this “break” to explore new tools and strategies that help expand your teaching toolbox can be very rewarding.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2016

30+ ideas to improve learning with awesome classroom design From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A well-designed classroom boosts student learning by as much as 16% (Barrett, Zhang, Davies, & Barrett 2015), but overdecorating is a distraction. Build Your Classroom Design PLN.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

He's a writer, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all-around digital guy. The organization’s blog offers useful insights and advice on classroom technologies, digital citizenship, personalized learning and more. Keller ISD Digital Learning Blog. Teaching, Tech and Twitter. Content Length.

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

From Jane: I feel so fortunate to be attending the AASL National Conference in Phoenix, getting to hear great speakers, discover new books and resources, build my personal learning network, further my lifelong learning, and enjoy social activities. Don’t despair! Make sure to use caps for OR.).

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EdTechTeam

MAY 15, 2017

They love sharing video posts to YouTube, pictures to Instagram and short tweets to Twitter. It is also important for them to share their learning. Social media can provide an excellent platform for this. After this conference I have been encouraged to blog more and to record my stories about my moments of learning.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

A year ago, the richest man in the world asked Twitter for suggestions on how he should most efficiently and charitably spend his wealth. ” “We’ll use the same set of principles that have driven Amazon,” Bezos wrote in a note posted to Twitter. The child will be the customer.” ” W.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Egregious examples abound on social media, where companies of all stripes pay celebrities to mention or pose with a product on Instagram. The cozy relationship between educators and companies has sparked fiery debate across social media and private Slack groups. The tactic is not unique to education.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 3, 2010

From now until November 25th, Adam is running a social media charity drive and when anyone clicks on this link he will donate a penny to charity. Right after Thanksgiving he will donate all the money to the charity that his website audience (Twitter-folk, and Facebook friends) vote on. Lisa Nielsen was absolutely fabulous.

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 2, 2014

What do you see as the most important advantages of adding social media tools to your personal learning network? I think that social media tools play an integral role in my Professional Learning Network and without them, my PLN would not be very effective.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 16, 2012

Six Degrees of Separation is a useful book because it illuminates the science behind our daily use of Facebook, Twitter and other social media. Watts, for example, discusses the nature of biological viruses and uses the concept as a means to develop his ideas and theories around social connections in a digital world.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Instead, we are looking at the following (not mutually-exclusive) categories: Social networks – as in tools like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and God knows what else lies in the future. We also do not want to ignore the early history of networked learning from the early days of eLearning, pre-social media and MOOCs.

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The Daring Librarian

AUGUST 18, 2016

This post will provide some easy tips and examples of how up your ed tech game and get ready for a super new school year. If you want to go deeper with LinkedIn discussions and groups, and build a personal learning network that connects with other educators, you can! Never vent about administrators or students via social media!

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