Useful links

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• Some Handy Google Sheets Tips for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning “After Google Docs poster, here is the one we promised to prepare for Google Sheets. Our purpose behind these visuals is to highlight basic features teachers (and students) need to know to make the best of Google Drive services in their teaching (and learning).  These are especially helpful for novice users. All of the data we include are taken from guidelines provided in Google Drive Help Centre. Today’s post features what we think are the 10 basic Google Sheets tips to help you make better spreadsheets. Again, feel free to download, print, share or distribute the visual the way you want provided you credit our blog as the source and keep it free of charge”
•  Some Very Good STEAM Websites to Use in Your Class ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning “A handy visual we published featuring some of the best   STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering ,Art, and Math)  tools to use in your classroom.  Under each category we featured four representative tools that will help students cultivate the skills involved in that category. The overall aim is to provide teachers with a handy resource to use with their students to help them develop critical thinking skills and  adopt ‘an engineering or design approach towards real-world problems while building on their mathematics and science base’. We have also created a visual for this post which you can download in PDF format from this link”
•  10 Best uses for OneNote in your teaching and learning – Microsoft EDU “OneNote is often described as a digital 3-ring binder, or considered to be the Swiss Army Knife of note-taking. That description covers the basics, but over the years OneNote has gained many new features designed with education in mind. It has developed into a more comprehensive teaching and learning framework that belongs in every learner’s toolbox.”
• 3 Lessons Learned Building Student Digital Portfolios | Getting Smart One teacher’s attempts to build use digital portfolios in the classroom – advances and setbacks and becoming paperless.
•  24 Must-Share Poems for Middle School and High School – WeAreTeachers Classroom Ideas. These poems inspire creativity instead of yawns.
•  Engaging Parents to Engage Learners with Digital Portfolios A succinct article explaining the benefit to student learning when digital portfolios are created and used by them.
•  Is Banning Smartphones the Answer to Children’s Online Safety? 
• 3 Tips to Keep Parents Assured that Student Data Is Protected | EdTech Magazine “Schools and families can work together to make sure information is kept private.” Discussion on topic.
•  Census 2016: This is Australia as 100 people – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Interesting visual representation.
• Caren Cooper – Home Advocate for citizen science.
•  ISTE RELEASES NEW STANDARDS FOR EDUCATORS TO MAXIMIZE LEARNING FOR ALL STUDENTS USING TECHNOLOGY | Tech Learning “ISTE last released standards aimed at teachers almost a decade ago, when technology in classrooms looked very different. The updated ISTE Standards for Educators support educators by providing a framework for learning, teaching, and leading that is amplified by technology.
• High School Flexible Seating Done Right | Edutopia
• Learning to Learn: You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain – The New York Times Discussion about the topic topic and 4 techniques explained that could easily be tried by the readers.
•  What are Pixels and how do they work? – YouTube A basic introduction to what a pixel is, and how it is used to display images, video & content on our screens.
•  3 Lessons Learned Building Student Digital Portfolios | Getting Smart One teacher’s journey with gains and setback in trying to go paperless with students.
•  3 Fast, Free Lesson Plans to Fight Fake News @coolcatteacher The fake news epidemic is becoming more disturbing. How can we, as educators, fight it? One idea is to take a hint from how the medical community fights the flu or any other virus. We inoculate ourselves. In this post, Vicki Davis explains how she teaches students about fake news. Just as the flu shot exposes a person to enough of the dead “harmless” virus to cause immunity, we can also expose students to things that have already been verified or shown to be fake. By exposing our students to things that look very real, we can help them notice and understand that many things that look real, are lies. We can also help them understand why shady companies and organizations actually benefit from fake news (like a movie coming out this month in one of these examples.)
•  How Savvy are Your Students?: 7 Fake Websites to Really Test Their Evaluation Skills – EasyBib Blog Although not new, the sites here are worth looking art if you want to test your students’ capabilities at figuring out if a website is real or not? Use these fake websites to help, but be careful! Looks may deceive you! Some of these sites are tougher to catch than others.
•  Fact vs Fake: Resources to Help Librarians Navigate Digital Literacy – ALSC Blog The role of librarians when it comes to helping their patrons negotiate and assess the information that comes from those sources varies greatly depending upon the community it supports.  The role, to provide media and digital literacy in a constantly changing world, demands more than ever that we share what we learn and our own expertise. Towards that end, ALSC’s Intellectual Freedom Committee partnered with AASL to host a joint Community Forum on Digital Literacy/Digital Citizenship. If you missed the forum you can access the transcript (Link given) or focus on the media literacy section of the ALSC Post-Election Resource. There are a few of the great resources listed as well.
•  Lesson 5 – Hoax or No Hoax – Multimedia Presentations A practical lesson plan that sets out the following objectives: Students will be able to: a. Evaluate the quality of informational websites. b. Rate informational websites by applying criteria. c. Compare their results and learn that all sites are not of equal quality.Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.