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9 Web Tools for Creating Digital Magazines

Teacher Reboot Camp

My sisters and I spent several days creating various publications with construction paper and markers, including magazines. Now, creating a digital magazine is much easier. Class Magazine. Yumpu is a free web tool for creating engaging digital magazines and flipbooks with links, videos and sounds.

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Videoconferencing and Social Media Boost Reading Engagement

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Collaboration tools allow students to interact with their favorite authors.

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Tools for Designing Awesome Graphics

Teacher Reboot Camp

I started this blog 10 years ago, which was shortly after using Twitter and other social media tools to connect with educators. Find templates for creating logos, flyers, posters, greeting cards, business cards, online magazines, and social media headers and graphics (Facebook, Twitter, etc.).

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Twitter: A Resource For All

A Principal's Reflections

was, and adamantly believed social media had absolutely no place in education. Finally, how can we move more schools to embrace social media in general as a valuable educational tool? You can view the entire winter Scholastic Administrator magazine HERE ). I would say things have changed a bit.

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Fact or Fallacy: What’s the State of Digital Learning in Schools?

EdTech Magazine

Fallacy: Social Media Has No Place in the Classroom. In fact, social media can be a powerful teaching and learning tool when used strategically. Are you in a school that encourages, bans or hasn’t taken a position on the use of social media during the school day? by Monica Burns.

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13 Ways to Use Canva in Your Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

You can create professional presentations, posters, multi-page documents, marketing materials, social media graphics, and more using Canva’s more than 1 million photos, icons, and layouts, each with colors and fonts coordinated into attractive schema easily accessed by both beginners and reluctant designers. Canva makes it easy.

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A Gullible Population Is a National Security Issue

The CoolCatTeacher

Social media has not shown an ability to “self correct” perhaps because by its very nature, the responses can only be positive and thus, there is no self-correcting mechanism built into its algorithm. Below are some of the ads that you may have seen on social media that were released as being traced back to Russian origin.