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[Infographic] Characteristics of a Good Digital Citizen – EdTechReview™ (ETR) “When technology is used in education, it is important to teach kids about digital ethics, to help them to become responsible digital citizens. Digital citizenship includes digital etiquette, literacy, culture, norms, ethics, online safety, rights, and much more. Knowing the traits of a good digital citizen is important in this technological era. This infographic sets out the characteristics of a good digital citizen.”
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Summer Reading Tips From Librarians | Scholastic.com Ideas from public librarians (USA) who shared information about summer reading programs that work for them and what tcan be done to keep young people reading during holidays
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Snapchat and 7 More Iffy Messaging Apps Teens Love | Common Sense Media “The best way to approach these apps with your kids? Talk to them about their online reputations — not in terms of “getting caught” by teachers, college-admissions officers, or future employers but as a matter of being true to themselves. Acknowledge that, chances are, they’ll come across extreme, inappropriate, or hurtful content online … and that it’s OK for them to ask you about it, especially if it upsets them. These kinds of conversations will be far from fleeting — the benefits will last a lifetime.”
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Why is Digital Citizenship Important? Even for Youngest Kids – EdTechReview™ (ETR) “In all your classes make your student understand that web is a place to learn and gain things. Keep their focus only on good place over the web where they can learn good things. Today, the engagement of students with technology is more in this digital world, and most of them do not make right choice, in fact they don’t really know what they are doing and what is its affect. Therefore, digital citizenship lessons are mandatory to teach”
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3 Ways Teachers Are Using Social Media to Engage Students – Brilliant or Insane “Post that makes the case for including social media into learning in schools. Taking advantage of social media as a learning platform is an idea that has been met with some great success. There are three ways described here about how teachers are using social media to engage their students.”
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Digital Citizenship and Internet Safety – EdTechReview™ (ETR)
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Quozio – Make Beautiful Quotes “Quozio turns meaningful words into beautiful images in seconds. Then share ’em on Facebook, Pinterest, email and more!”
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Fastest Quote Maker – QuotesCover.com “… turns any ordinary quotes texts into beautiful quotes picture for Facebook, Twitter header, Google Plus, E-Cards, Wallpapers, Pinterest, Posters and other print design.”
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PixTeller – Image Maker PixTeller offers a simple way to design and create visually stimulating images and then share them with others. All you need is your imagination to create targeted image quotes to stimulate interest/learning.
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Top Tech Tools for Formative Assessment “Formative assessment is useful tool assist teachers assess the learning needs of their students. Such knowledge allows teachers to modify their teaching to meet the needs of their students. The digital formative assessment tools listed here offer a range of approaches to help teachers undertake this task. “
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EDUCATIONAL MAKERSPACES | Teacher Librarian “This article, reprinted from the June 2014 issue of Teacher Librarian: The Journal for School Library Professionals, is a thoughtful and insightful examination of the philosophy and pedagogical underpinnings of the maker movement. The authors’ analysis and argument are strong, and the benefits they tout are inspiring.”
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EDUCATIONAL MAKERSPACES | Teacher Librarian “This article, reprinted from the October 2014 issue of Teacher Librarian: The Journal for School Library Professionals, is the second in a series of three articles which provides a thoughtful and insightful examination of the philosophy and pedagogical underpinnings of the maker movement, as well as expert guidance on how to establish a program. The third article in the series will be published in the December edition of TL and on this website. In this second installment, we will explore the look and feel of the environment and the selection of tools to inspire and equip makers to tinker, create, and invent. Innovation is fundamentally an inspired activity, and the right environment has the potential to inspire new thoughts and creative endeavors.”
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Educational Makerspaces | Teacher Librarian “This final part of the series exposes a real-life case study of a makerspace in an average school in an average district, with results that are anything but average.”
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NEA – Minecraft: Make Learning a Blast “One middle-school teacher describes how he has mined the blockbuster game for equally popular classroom lessons.”
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Year of the Learning Commons Google site set up to share: Celebrating the Transformation of School Libraries and Computer Labs into a Learning Commons. April, 2015 ~ May 2016. Celebrate, initiate, advocate and create opportunities all year. Celebrate, initiate, advocate and create opportunities all year.”
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Puppet Pals HD App Review You can use this to create some unique shows with animation and audio in real time. Iti s easy to pick out actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and tap record. Movements and audio are recorded in real time for later playback. The free version is limited but the add-ons aren’t too expensive if you are careful about your choices. I like the idea of being able to use people and things from my own photos.
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Resources for Teaching Students HOW TO LEARN — Emerging Education Technologies “Schools are so caught up in teaching fundamentals like reading, writing, and good old “‘rithmatic”, as and knowledge required to pass standardized tests, but how often are they actually teaching students how to learn?” Includes links to resources that explain more about how to learn rather than what to learn.
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Why I Started Teaching With Minecraft | a blog by JasonWilmot
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CamScanner- A Great App for Scanning, Editing and Sharing Docs ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning “CamScanner is a document scanning and sharing app. It allows you to instantly scan any type of text or graphic and save or share them with others. Using your phone or tablet camera, you can take a photo and CamScanner will automatically enhance the scanned results so you can easily email, print, fax or share them in PDF or PNG format.” The basic version is available for free.
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Top 5 Android Apps for Teaching Kids Coding Skills ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning “5 suggestions on some good Android coding apps. This list embeds some really great alternatives to iOS to use on Android. Using these apps students and kids will get to learn coding skills while engaging in funny and enjoyable games and activities.”
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Game: The Sequel to I Hunt Killers (Trailer) – YouTube Game: (#2 or the sequel to I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga) (Book Trailer) – YouTube
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Blood of My Blood trailer – YouTube Book trailer for Blood of my Blood (#3 of I hunt killers by Barry Lyga)e
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After the Ball Official Trailer 1 (2015) – Chris Noth Comedy HD – YouTube “Published on 13 Aug 2014 The book trailer for Blood of my Blood, the final book in the I HUNT KILLERS trilogy by Barry Lyga”
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How do You Choose Good Online Sources? | An Ethical Island This is a great visual to back up teaching students about evaluating their sources of information. You know some” get it” but others are still struggle with evaluating something even if they agree to the why. This is clean and concise.
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Jonathan Stroud – Fan Questions – YouTube Jonathan Stroud, author of the Lockwood & Co. book series – answers Fan Questions – YouTube Published on 14 Nov 2014
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Simon Mayo introduces his book, Itch Rocks – YouTube “Published on 1 Mar 2013. Itch Rocks is the second book in the explosive ‘Itch’ series, in which life is finally getting back to normal for young element hunter, Itchingham Lofte – at least, as normal as it can be when you have a round-the-clock detail of government security guards watching your every move.”
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Free Technology for Teachers: Dozens of Story Starters in One Free eBook A lot of good ideas for writing.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Google Safety Center – Good Tips for Parents
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Connected Leaders: Engaging School Communities Through Social Media | maelstrom
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