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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

And it is clear that the library must be the center of that experience. But, first, a little background: I’ve been playing around with building virtual school libraries for a very long time. I started playing around with the fairly easy and recently very popular strategy of building a library scene in Slides. Valenza, J.K.

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What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media

The 21st Century Principal

For the administrator who would like a general, not-too-technical overview of digital technology and social media, the book What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media , edited by Scott McLeod and Chris Lehmann is the answer.

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How to build your global classroom in 4 steps

Neo LMS

Social media: platforms like Twitter help teachers build their personal learning network and share teaching tips and tricks. For asynchronous collaboration, you can use groups and forums, a shared blog, or a wiki. You can use their educational resources and their World Wise Platform to connect with other teachers in the program.

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129 Digital Citizenship Links on 22 Topics

Ask a Tech Teacher

Copyright and Fair Use –Common Sense Media video. Take the mystery out of copyrights –by the Library of Congress. Common Sense media. Wiki Images. Social media. Look up –don’t let social media take over your life. Social Media Revolution –video; great music.

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The changing Web

Learning with 'e's

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 27, 65-67.

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9 Best-in-Class Digital Storytelling Tools

Ask a Tech Teacher

When done editing, students can add music from an included royalty-free library. Besides saving their own masterpieces, students can view the works of other students in the walled garden of their private Storybird library. When completed, it can be saved to the camera roll or shared via email or a variety of social media options.

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QR Code Scanning for Parents

The Daring Librarian

So, taking that one step further I created with Comic Life & iPhoto a QR Code Tree Poster (see above) with all our important MHMS Daring School Library & school web links. I''ll be posting this outside the Libary Media Center and in the school lobby as parents on BTSN don''t usually visit the library.so