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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

3 – Social Media Tools in Teaching – Using Them the Right Way I’ve seen social media used in ways that aren’t very safe or effective. For example, when teachers post their video conferencing links publicly on social media, they are unknowingly allowing unwanted attendees to enter their online classrooms.

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How One High School is Helping Students Craft Eportfolios People Will Actually Read

Edsurge

A significant number of K-12 teachers looking to move away from student success measures that focus on standardized testing and grades are turning towards eportfolios, online websites showcasing projects tied to learning objectives. How do we make it more relevant, more shareable?’” It was relevant to what I do. He got the job.”.

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Genially Walkthrough: Create Highly Interactive & Animated Social Media Graphics & Presentations, Growth Portfolios for Students with Embedded YouTube & @Flipgrid Videos, Drag & Drop Activities Including Audio, & More! @genially_en

techieMusings

Genially allows you to create highly interactive and animated presentations, graphics (ie: images with hotspots, eye-catching social media posts), infographics , videos, and more! From there, I share a quick demo of how students can create a video showcase embedding both YouTube and Flipgrid videos.

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Meaningful Learning with Digital Portfolios: Tools & Examples

Teacher Reboot Camp

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.” – Yvon Chouinard. The technology we use changes rapidly and our students will work with tools and social media many teachers have little knowledge using. For my courses, my students use these curation tools to build their eportfolios.

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STEAM It Up for Struggling Students! 15+ Resources

Teacher Reboot Camp

With technology, students can create mindmaps, comics, eportfolios, digital stories, podcasts, videos, movie trailers, radio shows, blogs, scavenger hunts, infographics, multimedia posters, infographics and more! Create a virtual learning space with Edmodo , Schoology , Weebly , Wikis, blogs, or other social media tools.

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New Posted Resources 11/14/2011

The Web20Classroom

Empowering Students Through Reflection and Feedback letsgetengaged - tags: reflection assessment favorite Digital Portfolios Guidelines for beginners tags: eportfolio favorite INFOGRAPHIC : How To Twitter Effectively tags: Twitter favorite 62 things you can do with Dropbox tags: dropbox favorite Guide to Twitter in the K-8 Classroom tags: Twitter favorite (..)

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Adobe Spark: Easily create and share videos, images, and newsletters

iLearn Technology

Produce and share impressive videos for storytelling, projects, or to share to social media. How to integrate Adobe Spark in the classroom: The collection of tools in Adobe Spark are perfect for students and teachers alike. Make beautiful web stories for event recaps, newsletters, photo journals, portfolios, etc.

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