Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In today's post and in the spirit of the Halloween season, I am re-sharing with you this collection of pre-made Halloween presentation templates that you can use to create engaging content to share with students in class. You will find templates that work for Google Slides and others for PowerPoint.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Translated, it means that the video-based social media platform is biting into the search engine’s popularity. Last fall, TikTok surpassed Google as the most-visited site on the web. That makes it second only to YouTube in social media popularity.

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Ditch That Textbook

JANUARY 16, 2019

Google Slides is a unique creature in the G Suite set of tools. It’s way more than an oral presentation program. Educators and students with open minds can use it for stop-motion animation, as a brainstorming template, to recreate the social media experience, and more.

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Kyle Pace

JUNE 7, 2017

One thing that I think summer is great for in terms of professional learning is investing the time to better understand how you can use social media as an educator. Social media can be used as a great communication tool for a district, school, or a classroom. Google+ Communities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

The social media platform became a resource when I was running on empty. Nowadays, there are so many social media platforms that it can be overwhelming to keep track of for teachers. As Twitter evolved to become mainstream social media, my use did. I need a lesson idea, and I need it now!” Where did I turn?

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

DECEMBER 6, 2019

I’ve been invited to host a Round Table Breakout Session at the 10th Canadian EdTech Leadership Summit today, titled: “ Harnessing the Power and Potential of Social Media to Build Learning Communities. My True Story Of Connectedness about my network being better than Google: Here is a short link to the video: 2di.me/connectedstory.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Dig hole through the earth with Google Earth. Whyville–Social Media Sim. Wolfquest—simulation–DL. Civics games. Looking Glass—animated story. runs in your browser. Wolfram Alpha widgets. Earth science animations. Geography for Kids. Geography Games. Geography Games II. Geography—geonet game. Geography quiz—Seterra.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Students can use Google Earth to take a virtual tour of a zoo or a blog to collaborate on class research. Today, education can be found anywhere, by teaming up with students in Kenya or Skyping with an author in Sweden or chatting with an astrophysicist on the International Space Station.

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Class Tech Integrate

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

For years PowerPoint, Prezi, and Google Slides have been the "go to" presentation tools that allow for some student creation in the classroom. There are many free online presentation tools out there, but I am going to highlight a couple that your students can use to create with. All three types are simple for students to use.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If they aren’t updated, we are left wondering why our blog isn’t getting visitors, why our social media Tweeple don’t generate activity, and why we aren’t being contacted for networking. If you have active social media, employers will check it out. Make sure it represents you.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 5, 2022

4 Great Alternatives to Google Classroom. Oh–would you mind adding me to your social media links? Here they are–my top 10 hits of 2021 (though I’ve skipped any that have to do with website reviews and tech tips because they’re covered in separate posts): Top Ten Hits. 16 Great Research Websites for Kids.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The post Kasey’s TCEA & IDEAcon 2021 Presentations and Resources appeared first on Shake Up Learning. I’ve attended and presented for many years. Kasey’s #TCEA & #IDEAcon 2021 Presentations and Resources. Kasey’s TCEA & IDEAcon 2021 Presentations & Resources. Blended Learning with Google.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 24, 2022

Kids tend to think if a site is at the top of the Google hit list, it is the most reliable. What has increased in the last decade is the prevalence of ‘fake new’, what used to be called ‘yellow journalism’, where news is presented ina way that garners views and clicks rather than disseminates the truth.

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Hapara

JANUARY 14, 2022

Luckily there are edtech experts who are sharing strategies and tools through blog posts, social media, books, courses and podcasts. She is a Google for Education Certified Trainer and Educator Level 2, a Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Master Trainer and Expert, a Minecraft Certified Trainer, a Ha?para Vicki Davis.

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 11, 2018

Social Media is part of life--and a good context for targeting social cognition and narrative language. In general, social media is now one context for us all to be sharing our stories through words and pictures, and also is a way we send messages about ourselves and interact around them.

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Hubbli

JULY 20, 2023

Two significant platforms schools can leverage to effectively reach potential students and their parents are Google Ads and Facebook Ads. While both platforms are valuable, the unique differences they present should be factored into your overall marketing strategy. This social media giant, with over 2.8

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 6, 2021

4 Great Alternatives to Google Classroom. How to Use Google Drawings. How to Use Google Drawings. Oh–would you mind adding me to your social media links? Here are the reviews you-all thought were the most helpful in efforts to weave tech into the classroom experience: Quick Review of 7 Popular Math Programs.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Upon getting on Twitter in 2009, I was not only baffled about how to use the social media site but also about all the symbols associated with it. Let’s start by defining what a hashtag (#) is in the sense of social media. Use your hashtag or those that you most engage with, across a diverse array of social networks.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 12, 2012

SlidePresenter is an online presentation service. It has a free account that is full-featured and the service allows you to create videos that are synced with PowerPoint presentations. Each presentation can be tagged, embedded in other sites, and easily shared via social media. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

I cannot adequately express how grateful I am for educators’ generous and giving personalities as well for the social media platforms where they share resources and ideas. I found a blog post by @SteinbrinkLaura entitled, How to Add Game Elements to Your Lesson: Among Us-Google Style!

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 30, 2022

For example, if you want your staff to use a communications tool like Remind regularly to keep students and parents abreast of assignments, then you should be using social media daily to communicate with stakeholders. Worked with a high school principal to create an asynchronous course in Google Classroom on personalized learning.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

hyperlinks, pingbacks, comments, embedding of social media feeds, RSS subscription) highlights the Engagement guideline of Sustaining Effort and Persistence because it ‘fosters collaboration and community.’ ACTION & EXPRESSION Guideline(s): Executive Functions Tool(s): Google Sheets. Students can use text.

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 10, 2013

Student Voice launched their first Google Hangout. The topic was: Learning in the 21st Century: Social Media in Education. During the hangout participants discussed how they are using social media in their education and how they think it can better be used in their learning experience.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 17, 2022

This can be created using PowerPoint, Google Glides, Haiku Deck, or another slideshow tool you’re comfortable with. This includes not just Google Apps and Microsoft Office but webtools for digital storytelling, coding, backchannel devices, digital notetaking, programming, Scratch, and others. Here’s an example.

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Hapara

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This includes how to interact appropriately with others on social media websites, email and the like, which falls under the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act. Deledao ActiveScan, presented by Hāpara is one web filter for schools that takes protection further than legally required.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

By the time students reach me in high school, they are already juggling multiple social media accounts and unknowingly driving many business and political decisions through their media consumption. One of my favorites is the “Social Media and Misinformation” presentation.

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Hapara

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Educate Learners need to be educated about copyright; reliable sources; appropriate communication for email, texting or social media; and how to safely shop online. They also need to be aware of what type of images they can use in Google Slides or other presentations.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 8, 2020

How to Use Google Drawings. 4 Great Alternatives to Google Classroom. How to Use Google Sheets in the K-12 Classroom. Oh–would you mind adding me to your social media links? 61 K-8 Hour of Code Suggestions–by Grade Level. 10 Tech Tools for Your Math Class. 11 Webtools That Make Images Talk. Facebook: [link].

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 30, 2020

The post Fake Instagram Template with Google Slides (FREE) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Engage your students with this awesome Fake Instagram Template in Google Slides from Carly Black. I knew one of our Google-loving listeners would create one for Google Slides. Fake Instagram Template with Google Slides (FREE).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 6, 2022

“Students are evaluating teachers; they do that on social media and Rate your Teacher. If a teacher wants a good picture of how teaching impacts students, I suggest using a Google Form survey or Microsoft forms. During my years in the classroom, I created Google forms and then posted them on Canvas or pushed them out via email.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Communicate With Social Media. With 90% of school-age individuals (kids over thirteen and adults) on some form of social media, it has become a natural way to communicate ideas, collaborate on projects, accept class work, and answer questions. More on Social Media. That’s easy to solve.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 18, 2021

The post 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Google Meet – SULS0110 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this episode with Shake Up Learning Trainer and Community Manager, Pam Hubler, we explore the new updates to Google Meet. 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Google Meet. Google Meet is all grown up!

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The Internet and social media provide learners with a worldwide audience in which to share their ideas, passions, innovations, thoughts, and brilliance. The Internet and social media also presents many influences that can negatively impact our physical, mental, spiritual, psychological, emotional, and social well-being.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The responses mainly echoed, “just Google” and “stay away from Wikipedia.” Focusing on developing critical literacy with students can help students question their sources during academic research and when faced with information from outside of school, namely on social media. Is it all right as a jumping off point?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2021

Over the past year teachers have been bombarded by colleagues, administrators, and social media pundits on which platforms can best serve them and their students. Nearpod or Pear Deck, Google Classroom or Canvas, Flipgrid or Adobe Spark? What did one do? Simplicity in instructional delivery had to be in the forefront.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 19, 2020

Try to ensure that there is new content presented in a manageable fashion where students then have multiple opportunities to practice and then apply what has been learned. When using social media, think about the platforms being used and mix it up by mashing together text, hyperlinks, images, and video.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 5, 2021

4 Great Alternatives to Google Classroom. How to Use Google Sheets in the K-12 Classroom. Oh–would you mind adding me to your social media links? 16 Great Research Websites for Kids. An Open Letter to Teachers About Online Classes. 12 Websites to Teach Mouse Skills. Quick Review of 7 Popular Math Programs.

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