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Adobe Spark — All-purpose Desktop Publishing Tool for the Classroom

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Adobe Spark is a free graphic design app that allows students and teachers with no design experience to create impactful graphics, web stories, and animated videos. Project templates include social memes, mini websites, narrated tutorials, presentations, reports, posters, how-to videos, and more. Set up an Adobe account.

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5 Easy Photo Skills For Your Class

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One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors has ideas on photo effects that students will be able to quickly master and enjoy using: 5 Fun Photo Effects and Edits to Try Out With Your Class As a teacher, you might have noticed that your students love taking photos and posting them on popular social media platforms.

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

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What Does it Mean for a Student to be a Digital Native? What is a digital native? The term was coined by author Marc Prensky to describe a person who grew up surrounded by technology and is familiar with the Internet from an early age on. Others caution against taking the “digital native” concept too far.

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A Year to Remember, A Year to Reflect:  Pandemic Instruction

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Over the past year teachers have been bombarded by colleagues, administrators, and social media pundits on which platforms can best serve them and their students. As an experienced educator who has been in the forefront of technology integration, this past year seemed like a tidal wave. What did one do?

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Looking for Trusted Advisers? Look No Further

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Social Media: @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. Cult of Pedagogy.

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Tech 101 for Teachers

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This week, I’ll post my updated suggestions for three holiday activities that will get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of teaching that starts after the New Year. I mean click the free update that’s been nagging at you (Adobe Reader for example). Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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End-of-Year Maintenance: 16 Steps To A Speedier Computer

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This week, I’ll post my updated suggestions for three holiday activities that will get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of teaching that starts after the New Year. I mean click the free update that’s been nagging at you (Adobe Reader for example). Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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