Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Poor students often carry around cheap cell phones or access the Internet through a library or Internet cafe. They are my posts from ESL Library and Sprout English where I blog regularly. As technology becomes more accessible we need to continue to find meaningful ways for our language learners to use it.

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Technology Social Media Libraries Training 364

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 13, 2023

Before getting started, here are 5 tips for using Canva: Take advantage of Canva’s templates: Canva offers a wide range of templates for different design projects such as social media graphics, business cards, flyers, and more. You can customize the templates to match your brand or personal style.

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Social Media Libraries Course Examples 363

Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 21, 2018

With web tools, students can layout their writings, pick from hundreds of cool fonts, and add their own images or choose from a library of stock images. Students can add stock images from their library. Now, creating a digital magazine is much easier. Some web tools allow students to embed video and audio.

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Tools Android Social Media Libraries 358

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Library closures hit patrons hard—especially those who relied on them as their main internet source and used them to access online educational resources. Libraries Close, Internet Access Ends There have been several studies about how the lack of fast home broadband has hurt kids’ access to online learning during school closures.

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Libraries Survey E-rate Report 180

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Communicate With Social Media. With 90% of school-age individuals (kids over thirteen and adults) on some form of social media, it has become a natural way to communicate ideas, collaborate on projects, accept class work, and answer questions. More on Social Media. That’s easy to solve.

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Online Learning Social Media Learning LMS 341

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 19, 2022

social media. Tech teachers, tech coordinators, library media specialists, curriculum specialists. Topics include: cyberbullying. digital citizenship. digital commerce. digital communications. digital footprint. digital law. digital privacy. digital rights and responsibilities. digital search/research. image copyrights.

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Digital Citizenship Resources Internet Safety Social Media 414

Digital Promise

MARCH 30, 2020

With most schools, restaurants, coffee shops, and public libraries closed, students have lost much of their access to public wifi. Work with local businesses and partners to create wifi hotspots where students can safely access wifi while maintaining social distancing protocols. Finally, keep it simple.

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How To Student Data Privacy Learning Handbook 431

Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 14, 2018

You can usually find free books at thrift stores or libraries or ask for donations from the community. Not all learners have the means to travel to a library, so make it easy for them to grab some materials. Take them on field trips to the school or community library and help students get a library card.

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Libraries Social Media Microsoft Mobility 305

Digital Promise

MAY 12, 2020

Rahman explained, “The students brought up social media as the platform. When schools closed, Rahman’s students continued designing and sharing their social media campaigns. Sorrells, a math teacher in Alabama, also uses social media to connect students with authentic audiences.

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Social Media Learning Examples Twitter 298

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 26, 2019

Technology, most specifically social media, has flattened the world. It behooves all of us to consider reality when ideas are presented, whether through social media, workshops, professional development days, in books, or during keynotes and presentations. We live in amazing times.

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Education Social Media Differentiated Instruction Outcomes 360

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The Association of College & Research Libraries maintains in its “access entitlement principle,” which functions as a sort of library bill of rights, that all students of an institution of higher education “are entitled to the library services and resources of that institution,” including access to a librarian, regardless of location.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 29, 2020

social media. Tech teachers, tech coordinators, library media specialists, curriculum specialists. Topics include: cyberbullying. digital citizenship. digital commerce. digital communications. digital footprint. digital law. digital privacy. digital rights and responsibilities. digital search/research. image copyrights.

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Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Resources eBook 394

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 16, 2022

If I want to push my re ading, I sign up with my local library’s reading club, but other times I set a goal of a book or two a month in the summertime and make time to sit and read. Take a Social Media. While social media can be helpful, it can also distract and keep us from deepening and focusing on relationships.

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Learning Social Media Gamification Course 466

ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The metaverse, as a concept, focuses on the idea that virtual or digital worlds can replicate existing forms of social interaction or create new ones. Because of this idea, companies all over the world are investing in the metaverse either as a form of social media, eCommerce, and even an educational platform.

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Social Media Gamification Trends Accessibility 370

NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

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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Libraries OER Wiki Strategy 145

Neo LMS

MARCH 15, 2022

Creating lessons through Buncee enables us to include a lot of content and a variety of media formats all within one space. There are sample lessons and other templates ready to use in their library. Presentations can have sound, hyperlinks, social media buttons and so much more.

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Student Engagement Tools Game-Based Learning Gamification 530

Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2020

Micro-credential COVID-19 Library. To help educators continue their professional learning during this time of social distancing, we have curated a library of micro-credentials which can be earned outside of the classroom and without students. COVID-19 is the first social media pandemic.

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Professional Learning Student Data Privacy Social Media Learning 310

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 18, 2022

Social media has over a thousand posts on how awesome it is. The platform also has a library of over 45,000 topics teachers can access when looking for a content lesson or idea. In the history classroom, teachers can create reading assignments with annotation options or use templates from the Kami library.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 26, 2019

In an age of digital formats, quick texts (and the associated degradation of spelling and grammar), online content, blogs and posts, many in the education, publishing and library sectors — as well as broader cultural institutions — are wondering and worrying about the future of literature. …And then back on paper.

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Trends Libraries Social Media Report 327

Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You can also customize any lesson from the Nearpod Lesson Library, including hundreds of already made slide-based lessons. Pear Deck offers a library of templates from which teachers can choose to support the learning objectives. Teachers can add a quiz, a poll, and open-ended questions to any slide-based lesson.

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Tools Classroom Microsoft Digital Citizenship 410

Hapara

MAY 23, 2022

Many of us remember heading to the library to gather books and printed articles for our school projects. Libraries, of course, still hold a wealth of information, but now learners can go beyond the library walls. An internet search can bring up videos, message boards, blogs or social media posts with toxic messaging. .

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Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Hapara Social Media 263

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2024

Who needs this Tech teachers, tech coordinators, library media specialists, curriculum specialists Classroom grade level teachers if your tech teacher doesn’t cover basic tech skills. It can take the entire 45-minute class if you have time or multiple pieces of various classes.

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Digital Citizenship Resources Internet Safety Social Media 333

The Web20Classroom

APRIL 20, 2020

See if your kids school is letting you check any out or look up where a Little Free Library is closest to you. Sure, you might be sharing on social media every day but social media comes and goes. Writing and Reflection- Writing is reading too. Paper will stick around for a long while after they are gone.

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EdTech Social Media Exercises Libraries 364

Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Visit a library. Libraries are underused but important spaces for improving literacy skills and sparking excitement. Engaging with a local library is one of the best ways to foster a love of reading and language. So, why not arrange a library tour with a librarian? You can: .

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Libraries LMS Social Media Exercises 326

MiddleWeb

APRIL 2, 2023

Scholastic’s Dwaine Millard explores how community libraries can both offer all young people opportunities to improve their access to resources and technology and provide face-to-face settings where they can form positive social norms outside the boundaries of social media.

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Libraries Social Media Accessibility Resources 101

Neo LMS

AUGUST 5, 2021

However, if you’re using your social media account to log in to a platform that you use to create materials or communicate with students, that could mean that hackers could gain access to all of your accounts by simply hacking into your social media one. The platform usually has a Resources library or section.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 3, 2021

It is a tool that I use to create presentations, welcome messages, social media graphics, interactive lessons, and more. Buncee offers more than 38,000 items in their media library and thousands of ready-made templates to choose from to get started for all grade levels and content areas.

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How To Assessment Video Social Media 470

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 30, 2019

If you delete the apps for social media, you’re not deleting the social media service. If you prefer face-to-face groups, check your local library or coffee shop for book clubs and other hobby groups. Go to the Library (or Dance Class or the Pool) Go to the library and check out some books.

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Libraries eBook Facebook Social Media 305

Neo LMS

MARCH 5, 2020

Some teachers might opt for using social media, posting frequent updates on Twitter, or uploading student reviews of books on Youtube. For finding an author, Google is your friend and so is social media and sites such as Goodreads.

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Technology eBook Social Media LMS 396

Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 3, 2019

Canva – web tool and iPad app with a free library of stock images, stickers, and graphics. Also, find a library of stickers, frames, and templates. Genial.ly is a free web tool for creating interactive visuals, including infographics, presentations, interactive slideshows and so much more.

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Examples Android Social Media Libraries 280

Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 29, 2018

I regularly share free web tools, resources, and tips on ESL Library to help teachers find great resources to use with their learners. Even with little access to technology teachers can add background music to a story or show students a short clip to spark conversation or inspire ideas for writing.

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Resources Technology Advocacy Social Media 264

Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Technology and social media have ignited an artistic share revolution. Places to find free music licensed to use in projects are CCMixter (web/app), YouTube audio library , and Free Stock Music. “Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.” – Austin Kleon.

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Digital Learning Resources Social Media Learning 323

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 18, 2023

Who needs this Tech teachers, tech coordinators, library media specialists, curriculum specialists Classroom grade level teachers if your tech teacher doesn’t cover basic tech skills. It can take the entire 45-minute class if you have time or multiple pieces of various classes.

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Digital Citizenship Resources Internet Safety Social Media 318

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 8, 2014

Here is a short list of some of the changes that have been implemented and sustained: Social media use as a communications, public relations, branding, professional growth, and student learning tool implemented in 2009. Makerspace added to the library in 2013. Online courses through the Virtual High School implemented in 2010.

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Khan Academy BYOD Social Media Digital Badges 403

Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 23, 2018

Canva – web tool and iPad app with a free library of stock images, stickers, and graphics. Also, find a library of stickers, frames, and templates. Pinterest – free and popular curation web tool, iOS/Android app, and bookmarklet to easily pin inspiring posts, documents, videos, and images to a board.

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Android Libraries Social Media Video 271

Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 23, 2018

Canva – web tool and iPad app with a free library of stock images, stickers, and graphics. Also, find a library of stickers, frames, and templates. Pinterest – free and popular curation web tool, iOS/Android app, and bookmarklet to easily pin inspiring posts, documents, videos, and images to a board.

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Android Libraries Social Media Video 271

Neo LMS

APRIL 17, 2018

Mix it up: Try using different formats such as: workshops, individual coaching, just in time, drop in hours, presentations during staff meetings/department meetings, or developing a video library or channel. Create attractive courses: Use a high-quality LMS to develop a library of attractive courses your teachers can take in their own time.

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Technology LMS EdTech Digital Citizenship 351