Tech Helpful

APRIL 5, 2018

Recently I attended an e-parenting workshop at a local school here in Chattanooga and the speaker shared a great social media rating guide: This can be found at www.safesmartsocial.com. Follow your kids on social media. Your child does not have to have access to ALL the social media apps.

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The Web20Classroom

MARCH 11, 2010

And it would have been difficult, nigh impossible, to have these kinds of connections and relationships without social media. The topic on #edchat this week centered around Social Media and the role it currently plays in education and the role it should play in education. Social Media has a place in the classroom.

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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. Modeling is one of the most powerful strategies to initiate and sustain change. This is just one example.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Please join Dr. Heather Johnson and me for one or both of our two Spring 2019 social media workshops for SEHD faculty and students! ]. As a faculty member who has an outsized social media presence ( 53,000+ Twitter followers ; video series with 100+ million views ; one of the top education blogs in the world , etc.),

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

In his book, The New Rules of Marketing & PR , David Meerman Scott perhaps captures why a number of us so heavily engage in using social media: “ It’s fun to blog and tweet, and it makes you feel good to get your ideas out into the world.” The best way to do this is to optimize your social media presence as an educator.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 20, 2023

I often get asked both through social media and in person how to become a consultant. For various reasons, educators are enamored by the keynoting circuit, facilitating presentations at both national and international events, and coaching in school systems.

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edWeb.net

MAY 3, 2017

edWeb is so excited to congratulate Michelle Luhtala, department chair at New Canaan High School Library in Connecticut, for being selected as a 2017 AASL Social Media Superstars winner ! I’m the founder of edWeb.net and had just started our social network for educators. Time well spent. Thank you to both of you.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 7, 2019

The Tech Team also offers ongoing resume writing workshops, which allow learners to communicate their job skills and experiences through writing in a digital platform. Tech Team members learn to navigate livestreams on social media such as FaithLife , for example.

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SpeechTechie

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

The day will also include a component on using social media tools with students at varying levels. This workshop will help you develop your Personal Learning Network (PLN) through social web tools that will open up a world of educational ideas to you and your colleagues. Hope some of you can make it!

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

For the most part, this consisted of attending mandatory district “PD” days, professional learning communities (PLC)’s or approved off-site experiences such as conferences, workshops, or webinars. Through the use of social media, I realized that I didn’t really need to be “developed.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

An award-winning educator, Alec helps his undergraduate and graduate students take up the incredible affordances of our connected world through the integration of educational technology in teaching and learning.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 30, 2016

Below are a few tips and resources from my presentation, Engaging Parents with Technology and Social Media. Every school needs a social media plan and guidelines. Check out how other schools use social media to inform parents. Host parent workshops. Some suggestions for your workshop.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 26, 2019

Technology, most specifically social media, has flattened the world. I have been blessed to not only deliver keynotes and workshops but also to facilitate job-embedded coaching on a long-term basis. We live in amazing times. Educators now have access anytime from anywhere to people, ideas, resources, strategies, and feedback.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 1, 2014

10) Social media, especially those that enable users to create and share content, fall into the category of tools that are worked by us. He would no doubt also have warned us about the danger of enslaving ourselves to social networking tools, and would have expressed cynicism over the blatent advertising cultures that surround them.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 20, 2019

The exponential evolution if the Internet and social media tools have allowed for the quick sharing of knowledge, ideas, images, videos, and opinions. It also extends well beyond social media to articles, books, keynotes, workshops, and presentations. Digital literacy is more important now than it has ever been.

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Hubbli

JULY 27, 2023

Leverage Social Media Use social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn to reach a broader audience. Run Summer Camps and Workshops Organize summer camps and workshops that are not only fun and educational but also serve as a marketing tool.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

But it’s been controversial, causing “ knock-down, drag-out math wars ” that have included parent protests, threats and academic-on-academic social media spats about whether calculus should be reworked. The 28 educators at the workshop training seemed positive. I just fundamentally disagree with that.

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Waterford

JULY 30, 2023

Family Trainings or Workshops Even those who want to be involved in their child’s academics might not know where to start. As an educator, you can facilitate family trainings or workshops, like those offered by Waterford Family Academy. Social Media This method for connecting with families continues to grow in popularity.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2016

You’ll likely read many blogs and books, follow maker educators through social media, and attend webinars and workshops. By now you have probably heard about makerspaces, and you might even want to create one in your library or classroom (or even in your own home!).

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 24, 2018

So why and how should one incorporate backchanneling during workshops, presentations, faculty meetings, after hours, or in classrooms? In many cases, especially during conferences, presentations, and workshops, Twitter is the preferred medium for this.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 30, 2019

There should always be a long-term plan following any keynote or workshop. For the purposes of this post, let’s put aside more traditional pathways that are either provided to educators or ones that are sought out, such as conferences and workshops. The same can be said about drive-by professional development.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

The in-depth workshop or multi-day training can come later.) But too often, when teachers go into webinars or workshops [offered by] their school or district, it rarely connects with the direct needs they have in the classroom that moment,” she says.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 17, 2018

Take it easy and slow, and focus on the enthusiasts among the staff complement, and work from there — perhaps by presenting your successes at staff meetings and other workshops to entice further interest. Think of interesting titles such as: Digital Citizenship for Today, Using Social Media to Teach or Mastering Emerging EdTech.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 30, 2021

You may have seen these types of videos on various social media platforms. If you found this video creation technique to be helpful, check out the week long summer workshop I am leading: Creating High Quality Instructional Video. Check out the entire creation process in the video walk-through below!

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ProfHacker

MAY 31, 2016

But when you are invited to present a keynote or facilitate a workshop to people you know little or nothing about, how do you ensure you are sufficiently sensitive to your audience? I can be giving a workshop on the same topic and I would do it completely differently to faculty at my institution vs other universities in Egypt.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Engage with peers through online forums, study groups, and social media platforms dedicated to your program. Participate in online workshops, webinars, and coding challenges to apply your knowledge in real-world scenarios. Building a Strong Support Network While studying online, it’s vital to establish a support network.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 8, 2017

I was recently working on my slide deck for a three-day workshop that will take participants on an immersive experience into digital leadership and learning. My primary objective for all multiday workshops is to illustrate the vital role that technology can play in improving teaching, learning, and leadership.

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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.’ Similarly, the interactive nature of blogs (e.g.,

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2023

These skill-building, multi-player games help students build critical skills in math, language arts, and social studies in a fun and entertaining way.   A new collection of compelling social studies and civics education resources from Sesame Workshop which can be found in the Discovery Education platform’s Sesame Learning Channel. 

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User Generated Education

MARCH 24, 2017

I am facilitating two mini-workshops at ASCD Empower 17 and the 2017 ASCD Conference on Teaching Excellence on using a framework for implementating maker education activities. tools and social media.

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The Jose Vilson

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This year, it was human-centered education, appropriate given the ascent of artificial intelligence, social media, and deeper polarization. Later that night, I started to think about the workshops I’d like to attend the next day. Traditionally, the first panel has a set of big picture thinkers around a specific theme.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

With online training you can use social media or discussion forums that are more private to build the district/school’s own personal learning network. They solve this by offering PD days, which tend to be long days filled with workshops. Hundreds of teachers are interacting daily through Twitter, Reddit, Quora etc.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 26, 2015

Accomplish this goal by creating your own hashtag on social media, getting your students to create their own hashtag movements, or working as a class to create a class hashtag movement. Hashtags are one of the most powerful ways to communicate and spread messages on social media. The Power of Hashtags.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 26, 2015

Accomplish this goal by creating your own hashtag on social media, getting your students to create their own hashtag movements, or working as a class to create a class hashtag movement. Hashtags are one of the most powerful ways to communicate and spread messages on social media. The Power of Hashtags.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Since then, dozens of nonprofits across Michigan serving workers and entrepreneurs have facilitated short, “real world” workshops in which students use their own businesses or organizations to learn to market via Facebook business pages. To date, these organizations have trained more than 500 people across the state.

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 28, 2019

At the conference innovative educators from across NYC Schools share their knowledge and expertise with other educators from NYC, surrounding areas, and even around the world thanks to social media. There are dozens of workshops , lunchtime activities, and school reimagineer Jason Green is our keynote speaker. What do you think?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Your role as a parent is critical to preparing your children to go online before using social media platforms. Remember this: Few social media websites are vetted for age-appropriateness. Most social media platforms do enforce age limits but these are self-monitored. My kids are age 13 and 10.

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