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MA folks- My one-day workshop on Social Media and Personal Learning Networks

SpeechTechie

The day will also include a component on using social media tools with students at varying levels. Bring your own laptop is preferred. This session will help you find information and lesson ideas, inspiring your work! Hope some of you can make it! Course Description: Do you feel isolated in your classroom?

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Lesson Ideas for Mobile Learning

Educator Innovator

I taught social media literacies at Berkeley and Stanford for years, and although we regularly used forums, wikis, blogs, social bookmarking and video chat, I only used the power of my students’ mobile devices once — toward the end of my last teaching year. I’ve learned a great deal from her.

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Are You Ready for a New Twitter? It's HERE!

The Daring Librarian

The first things I encourage new Twitter users is to break that egg and add a profile picture, write a banging profile description, include your location (at least country & time zone), add a link to some professional website (school, wiki, blog, Flickr, something that legitimizes you!) and to customize your Twitter background.

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Looking Back At 2010 And Looking Forward To 2011.

The Web20Classroom

Check out the Voicethread In Education wiki for some. I think the bigger story here is the fact that social networking in the classroom really took off. Through the use of Twitter, Facebook and other sites, educators are starting to see the power of social media to extend learning beyond the classroom. Need ideas?

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Don't Miss These Great Activities at CUE and ISTE!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Now a regular event at several conferences each year, EduBloggerCon is an opportunity for those who are interested in the use of social media in education to gather in "unconference" style and share--the agenda gets set when we arrive together. CUE EduBloggerCon is on Wednesday, March 26th, from 4 - 8pm.

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Digital Literacy–What is it?

Ask a Tech Teacher

As a teacher, you’ll want to provide the following: digital devices–such as laptops, iPads, Chromebooks, or desktops, for daily use. Social media. Social media has the reputation as a gossip column–where people meet to chat. That’s social media. Cloud computing.

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

The CoolCatTeacher

Whether my class is uploading their Scratch video games, or linking to their website efolios, we post our group work on the class wiki. Tip: See the sandbox lesson plan and rubric I use to introduce wikis to my class. I fired up a laptop, installed dropbox and was back writing within an hour. Keynote (for Presentations).

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