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I started this blog 10 years ago, which was shortly after using Twitter and other socialmedia tools to connect with educators. Part of connecting and spreading the word of new posts, online conferences I’ve organized, online courses, Twitter chats, and other news is creating visuals to share online.
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Librarian Karen Scott challenges us with some non-traditional practices to get kids interested in reading including organizing her library by genre and using socialmedia and graphics to inspire a love of reading.
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21st Century Leadership Shift Happens (must see video for any educator unfamiliar with the tends and impacts associated with technology and socialmedia. Principals can use socialmedia for communication, public relations, branding, professional development, and opportunity. Learn more about Google Reader here.
Rahman explained, “The students brought up socialmedia as the platform. They compared audiences of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and they decided what would make a message go viral.” When schools closed, Rahman’s students continued designing and sharing their socialmedia campaigns.
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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Among the newer aspects of these kinds of complaints is whether college socialmedia communication meets accessibility standards. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights focus on the extent to which students, faculty and others can make full use of a college’s websites, education software and socialmedia channels.
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A conversation with Richard Byrne on Episode #57 of the 10-minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Twitter handle: @rmbyrne. Today Richard Byrne @rmbyrne discusses the edtech tools he’s most excited about today. Plus, he’ll tell you about his newest project.
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From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Have a great classroom library. Check out @EmilyBHardeman on Twitter. Reading stamina matters. Prior to the pandemic, nearly two-thirds of students in the US were below grade reading level for grade 4,8, and 12 (NAEP). Advertise great reads.
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In 2017, Monsignor Paul Tighe may have been the only priest amidst a sea of techies at South by Southwest (SXSW), where he spoke about his past experience serving as Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications for the Catholic Church. Think “socialmedia director” for the Catholic Church.)
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From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Educators are the best! So, yesterday I asked educators on “X” (the new rebranded, Twitter, I guess) to share where they are learning about AI. We can't let the fracturing of socialmedia cause us to have conversations that leave people out.
Translated, it means that the video-based socialmedia platform is biting into the search engine’s popularity. That makes it second only to YouTube in socialmedia popularity. Last fall, TikTok surpassed Google as the most-visited site on the web. Are they turning to TikTok for school research papers, for instance?
But there’s so much to sift through across socialmedia, online searches and hallway conversations. When content catches your eye but you don’t have time to read, tap or click a flag found on every article and video to save it in your library and quickly access it later. Thank you for making EdTech a part of your workday.
Test Adobe Spark, free for educators and a user-friendly tool for creating video, socialmedia graphics and web pages. Just like we would teach them to read a book or check a book out of the library, the same thing needs to be in place for the computer ,” Jones said in an interview with EdTech. . In the Beaverton (Ore.)
For the administrator who would like a general, not-too-technical overview of digital technology and socialmedia, the book What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and SocialMedia , edited by Scott McLeod and Chris Lehmann is the answer.
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If they didn’t have a computer, they had to go to a library or a friend’s house. Remember that as of 2018, there are 3.196 billion people using various forms of socialmedia on Earth. The top function of a phone isn’t sending or receiving calls anymore – it’s Facebook and Twitter.
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The library has over 2,000 individual products inside performance tasks. . Product display is also a great time to take pictures to share on socialmedia and publicly celebrate learning with public displays and student-created bulletin boards.
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In Part 1 of “ Why Every School Needs and AI Policy Right Now ,” I shared the empirical evidence about Artificial Intelligence and how it is impacting our world and schools. Generative AI Use Case #1: AI is built into socialmedia.
SocialMedia: @alicekeeler, YouTube. Alice Keeler is a Google Certified Teacher, New Media Consortium K12 Ambassador, Microsoft Innovative Educator and LEC Admin & Online and Blended certified. Training: Jumpstart: A Technology Course for Thoughtful Educators, Twitter for Teachers and Students. Blog: Cult of Pedagogy.
When you finish your project, it can be directly uploaded to Twitter and Facebook (for olders), downloaded as a JPG, accessed via link (for Spark Video), or downloaded as an MP4 (for Spark Video). Spark Post is intended for students old enough for a presence on socialmedia. That’s fine. I didn’t find any shortkeys.
In some hands, socialmedia tools are blights on society, tools for bullies and misinformation campaigns. The event comes during a time of continued debate over how much responsibility socialmedia networks ought to bear over what people say or share on their platforms.
Socialmedia is like a giant search engine that we can tap any time. Around this time, I first got on Twitter. It can be a common area, a library or a space with flexibility. We can connect with other educators. We can ask questions, we can answer questions. For me, I got connected with it in 2009. Think strategically.
Twitter: Professional or Personal? When I speak to groups, I often talk about how I use Twitter as my main source of rich professional development and as a transformational PLN builder (Personal Learning Network). If you''ve been reading my blog or follow me on Twitter you know that we broke up a few years ago. Sophomoric.
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(and prevent problems online) From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. If you’ve ever taught kids who have their own smartphones, you know how quickly socialmedia problems can escalate at school. In 2014, Shannon was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker.
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From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. I hope you enjoy it and look forward to hearing your feedback on socialmedia. So the other piece that I didn't mention, which is self differentiation, is classroom libraries. Classroom Libraries And so I like classroom libraries.
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This includes creating tools like text groups, email lists, and socialmedia sites. Use Facebook, Twitter, and any and all media that’s most popular at your school to share the details with members and interested students. The National Association of Collegiate Esports. nacesports.org, February 27, 2018. Accessed 4.17.18
Find life balance and get your weekends back From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. They get an email when new content is added to the membership library. They can join both if they chose, but I recommend that they pick one in order to limit the amount of time they’re spending on socialmedia.
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