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Join #TeachDoNow Summer MOOC

Educator Innovator

This online opportunity is open to anyone interested in learning how to use Twitter and other media sharing applications to promote social and civic discourse with students and will take place this summer from July 7 – August 17. Week 4: July 28 — How do you engage millennials in civic discourse and promote community engagement?

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Literacy in the Digital Age: 9 Great Speaking & Listening Tools

Educator Innovator

is a platform that allows students to take notes synchronized with video. In other words, students can be viewing a video on half their screen while simultaneously taking notes on the other half. This is an innovative way to help students engage deeply with a text, as called for by the Standards. VideoNot.es

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10 Experts’ Predictions for Education and Technology in 2016

GoConqr

Educators will soon need to start thinking like game designers if they want to keep their students engaged. “To To win student attention, educators will soon need to start thinking like game designers.” He blogs at www.brightclassroomideas.com and shares educational ideas on Twitter at @SSavides. GoConqr Click To Tweet.

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Online Learning Does Not Mean Sans Engagement

Fractus Learning

All of the above engagement techniques humanize the online learning process, while also allowing the instructor to monitor the learning environment. Prompt Student Engagement , via group assignments, well thought out discussion board questions, live streamed lectures and virtual office hours. They want engagement.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Our Twitter hashtag is #stemx13, and we have some resources for publicizing at [link]. Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? MP3 and MP4 versions will be available as well as the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings, although they take some days to process.

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Welcome Your Participants Home | 3 Keys to Quality Online Course Design

The PL2C Blog

Is this Twitter feed essential to the learning of my students or participants from the moment they enter? The purpose of the home page should be to provide students with essential information that they will need throughout the duration of the course, as well as a clear method to navigate the course. Key 2 | Make it Flow.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. Follow her on Twitter at @TeachitRalph. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council.

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