The Web20Classroom

MAY 7, 2010

This week I had the honor of guest posting over at the Microsoft Teacher Tech Blog for teacher appreciation week. This was a quote that appeared in a principals magazine in 1815. A great friend of my, Tom Whitby , and I have traveled across the country talking to various groups about the use of Social Media in schools.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 4, 2019

Because these products are born on social media, they should be shared on social media. Next time around, I will share our projects using the hashtag and encourage students to become part of the broader community of educators who share their reading lives, as a way to better understand social reading.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Microsoft has instructions on their website for cookie management that can be useful for classrooms that either allow students to bring in personal devices or use the company’s tablets as part of a one-to-one device program. Social media platforms, for example, will usually deploy cookies when students click a “like” or “post” button.

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Policies Data Student Data Privacy Edmodo 182

EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Test Adobe Spark, free for educators and a user-friendly tool for creating video, social media graphics and web pages. In Georgia’s Columbia County School District , for example, students in teacher Erica Cox’s class use Google Drawings and other G Suite apps to illustrate and create presentations. . In the Beaverton (Ore.)

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 14, 2018

They also create a monthly flyer for the community and hold quarterly meetings with parents where they talk about technical issues such as social media, data privacy and innovations. Battaglia said she often visits schools and offers tips on Google Chrome or Microsoft Word while chatting with staff or teachers. “

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E-rate EdTech Social Media System 197

The Daring Librarian

AUGUST 18, 2016

(A version of this post was published in NEA Today Magazine - 5 Super Geeky Tips -So honored to have been invited to write again for them! Resources 6 Tips to a Super Twitter Profile How to Write a Professional Social Media Bio 4. When sharing on social media, remember to be passionate, positive, and always professional.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.” Pearson is Not a Platform.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2019

Social Media: @alicekeeler, YouTube. Alice Keeler is a Google Certified Teacher, New Media Consortium K12 Ambassador, Microsoft Innovative Educator and LEC Admin & Online and Blended certified. Social Media: @cultofpedagogy, iTunes podcast. Social Media: @ericcurts, YouTube. Kathy Schrock.

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Social Media Adobe Conference Training 171

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Participants are encouraged to use #library2016 and #librariesofthefuture on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. Prior to joining the School as Director, she worked in the Silicon Valley for more than a decade at major technology companies: Hewlett Packard and Microsoft. and at the Library 2.0

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” “Rethinking the Goal of Childhood Education” – a Q&A with WeWork co-founder Rebekah Neumann in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop (the magazine, not the goop) on how we need to make kindergarteners into entrepreneurs. Via The New York Times : “ Karlie Kloss Teaches Teenage Girls How to Code.” million total.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 7, 2018

Social media, software and apps all have settings that can keep data protected. From email and social media to collaboration tools such as G Suite for Education and cloud storage, students today need a solid understanding of which solution is best for a given situation and also need to know how to use it effectively.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Software Microsoft 348

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 30, 2019

If you delete the apps for social media, you’re not deleting the social media service. Tweak Your Tablet for Learning My favorite way to read blogs, magazines and such is Flipboard. I have a Flipboard magazine you can check out and subscribe to as well. Go off the grid.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Participants are encouraged to use #library2016 and #librariesofthefuture on their social media posts leading up to and during the event. Prior to joining the School as Director, she worked in the Silicon Valley for more than a decade at major technology companies: Hewlett Packard and Microsoft. See you online!

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Tech and Learning Magazine e-Learning Resources – Since I am an advisor for the magazine I thought I would include this list of abundant resources. Microsoft Innovative Learning – This website contains some powerful rubrics for assessing the 21st Century skills. Some had been, and still maybe available for free.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

When Microsoft Publisher came out over twenty-five years ago, it was the first major desktop publishing effort to blend layout, colors, and multimedia that was accessible to everyone. When they’re done, the magazine can be shared, printed, or displayed on the class screen via the Presentation mode. Canva makes it easy.

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Classroom Microsoft Digital Citizenship Assessment 150

The 21st Century Principal

JANUARY 14, 2013

This app connects to your Google Reader account and pulls your chosen RSS feeds down to your iPad, where you can read them, share them on social media, or curate them to your Evernote account. Flipboard: Flipboard advertises itself as “your personal news magazine.” Create documents or open Microsoft Word documents.

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TeacherCast

MAY 8, 2019

These shows are often short … only a few minutes and often these days are used as teaser episodes when doing early promotions on social media. Created by Microsoft, Skype is extremely simple to connect to and also produces a nice file using the paid eCamm Software. ($20). Social Media. Rendezvous.

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TeacherCast

MARCH 17, 2022

Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint. Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft PowerPoint. This activity works well with all ages and can be done with a variety of texts, including picture books, novels, non-fiction texts, magazine articles, a page of a textbook, research articles, or just about anything else.

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TeacherCast

MARCH 17, 2022

Google Slides Microsoft PowerPoint Seesaw Mixbook Resources: How to Create Digital Books Book Creation with Google Slides Examples: Digital Publishing with Decker Colony Students Examples: Student-Created Book Showcase Are You a Super Hero? This fun writing idea was adapted from Kurt Klynen.

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Digital Learning Microsoft Learning Google 88

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Karen has presented at conferences around the country about teaching students to navigate social media and working with teachers to develop digital projects that embrace new media literacies. In 2008, he was named by Contribute Magazine as one of 10 Tech Revolutionaries Redefining the Power and Face of Philanthropy.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2018

With the Trump administration prioritizing $200 million a year toward STEM and computer science education and tech giants including Microsoft , Google, Amazon and Facebook ponying up another $300 million , there may be opportunities for schools new to the idea of STEM to get started. . Alex writes for CDW’s Tech magazines and websites.

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STEM Robotics Microsoft Conference 405

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Claims on Social Media : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information. Social Media Video : Students watch an online video and identify its strengths and weaknesses.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

His recent appearance on PBS’ Growing A Greener World (Episode 808) won an Emmy Award, and he and his students were recently featured on the covers of TIME for KIDS and Scholastic Magazine. Over the years, she has written for everyone from The Wall Street Journal to Mad Magazine. She was even on The Daily Show!) Yes -- Mad.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Anil Dash and Gina Trapani announced they’re closing down their social media analytics product ThinkUp. That is, major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter increasingly made it difficult for ThinkUp to work with their APIs. Who owns your data – whether it’s social media or school-related?

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Hack Education

AUGUST 25, 2017

” Via The Nation : “ Trump’s Border Security May Search Your Social Media by ‘Tone’ ” Via Education Week : “Setback for DACA Supporters Places Program’s Fate Squarely in Trump’s Hands.” Estimates for previous years had been close to 100,000.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Speaking of Michigan State and Nassar, via The State News : “Original MSU alumni magazine leaked.” ” ClassDojo is now a full social media platform for schools - this letter & video just emailed to parents. ” Infuriating. ” It was apparently scrapped by someone in the university administration.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

” President Obama talked to Wired magazine about artificial intelligence, Mars, self-driving cars, Star Trek and more. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” Via The New York Times Magazine : “The Professor Wore a Hijab in Solidarity – Then Lost Her Job.”

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Microsoft had a media event this week. Via The New York Times : “Microsoft Looks to Regain Lost Ground in the Classroom.” ” “Microsoft’s new education push plays to its strengths, the cheap and familiar,” says Techcrunch. Here is the Microsoft blog post announcing its new products.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

tl;dr: emailing them, holding webinars, using social media. ” Via The Tennessean : “ Belmont University ousted a student Tuesday after he made a social media post using the N-word to describe black NFL football players, who he said needed a ‘bullet in their head.’” Heckuva job.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” It’s 2017 and many critics agree that social media is full of trolls and harassers, that it helps subvert democracies here and abroad, but hey: “To Teach Digital Citizenship Effectively, Educators Say It’s Time to Unblock Social Media ,” says Edsurge.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

” Via McClatchy DC : “Forced to watch child porn for their job, Microsoft employees developed PTSD, they say.” The social media platform had raised $2.5 Via EdTech Magazine : “How Learning Analytics Can Help Inform K–12 Decisions.” Government Over Dismal Education.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Via The New York Times Magazine : “What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn.” Meanwhile on Campus… The New York Times on “How the Parkland Students Got So Good at Social Media ” – a really important corrective, I’d argue, to that “digital native” silliness. PHEW, RIGHT?

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Via Philadelphia Magazine : “This Quaker Sex Ed Teacher Says Your Kids Need to Be Porn-Literate.” Microsoft has acquired GitHub. Here’s the NYT headline : “Microsoft Buys GitHub for $7.5 Via Forbes , the king of clickbait: “Elon Musk-funded XPRIZE Is One Step Closer To Ending Global Illiteracy.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on social media.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.

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