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How to Find Trusted News: AI Art, Social Media Chaos, and AI Privacy

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Discover practical tools like Feedly, Flipboard, Blue Sky, Canva, Adobe Express, and Mastodon to stay informed and teach responsibly in an AI-driven world. Guidance on teaching AI art generation using Adobe Express and Canva. Tips for organizing your digital life with the “Second Brain” method using Evernote.

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20 Online Resources About Digital Storytelling

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It blends traditional storytelling with digital technologies, allowing stories to be told through various digital formats, including videos, podcasts, blogs, social media, interactive websites, and multimedia presentations. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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18 Digital Tool Musts in the Classroom — a Video

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It is now available for free, here on Ask a Tech Teacher: Summary 18 essential digital tools for classrooms, emphasizing their impact on modern education. Highlights Annotation Tools: Essential for digital note-taking. Avatars: Promote digital citizenship and privacy.

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#9: How to Look Like a Photoshop Pro–in Fifth Grade

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Let’s start with what Adobe Photoshop is–a grown-up KidPix, and the default photo-editing program for anyone serious about graphics. Adobe Photoshop has an impressive collection of tools to add pizazz to pics. Don’t worry. It’s not hard–just the basics. You might have students open their school picture for this project.

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An Update on Digital Storytelling

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Best-in-Class Digital Storytelling Tools. 10 Tips for Digital Storytelling You Don’t Want to Miss. And, here are some webtools you may find useful: Adobe Spark Video –digital stories that blend images and audio into a video. Adobe Voice –Show your story; free. Book Creator.

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Groundhog Day and the 100th Day of School

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When students finish, publish them to a Hundred Days ebook using Adobe Spark or similar and share it with classmates and parents. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Adobe Spark — All-purpose Desktop Publishing Tool for the Classroom

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Adobe Spark is a free graphic design app that allows students and teachers with no design experience to create impactful graphics, web stories, and animated videos. Spark, Adobe’s replacement for Adobe Slate and Adobe Voice, is actually three apps in one — Spark Page, Post, and Video — providing three ways to tell a story.

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