Buncee

MARCH 29, 2022

April is School Library Month and it brings an opportunity to highlight the work done and impact made by librarians and media specialists. First sponsored in 1958 by the American Library Association (ALA), it originally got its start after the creation of the National Book Committee, a non-profit organization in 1954.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2020

The definition of digital literacy is pretty much what you’d expect: “the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.” ” –from the American Library Association.

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Assessment How To Digital Badges Digital Citizenship 458

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 1, 2024

Turning off SafeSearch on Google is pretty straightforward, both on desktop and mobile devices. Turn Off SafeSearch Here’s how to turn off SafeSearch: On Desktop (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook) Open Google Search : Start by visiting Google.com on your preferred web browser.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

Common Sense Media’s award-winning Digital Passport is the gold-standard in teaching digital citizenship to grades 3-5 (or Middle School). This free-to-schools online program mixes videos, games, quizzes, and the challenge of earning badges to teach students the concepts behind digital citizenship : Communication.

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Digital Citizenship Libraries Google Report 172

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It can be plugged into a heavy base for free-standing use or directly into a laptop for greater mobility. Besides displaying documents to your laptop and class screen, you can record video or audio which can be uploaded to YouTube (or emailed), annotate and edit images, and even make Skype/Google Hangout calls. HUE Animation.

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Classroom Software Laptops Digital Citizenship 204

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Students do need to set up their mobile device to run the app. Here’s a quick video tutorial on the basic app, Talk To Me : Code HS: Mobile Apps. Code HS: Mobile Apps is an online curriculum for teaching app building in High School. Teachers can access a curriculum and resources for teaching. High School; fee.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This year’s event featured more than 800 sessions on various topics such as leadership, mathematics, STEAM, digital citizenship, literacy, English language arts, and more. New features include an Organization Library, Shared Libraries, Co-Editing, and Learning Management System Integrations.

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Epson Digital Citizenship Libraries Laptops 71

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With Internet access we have also used Google Docs, or online versions of Microsoft Office products Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. . We began taking our mobile lab to schools, churches, libraries, and other non-profit sites. When I offered to bring my mobile lab to the class for monthly sessions, my offer was accepted.

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Laptops Facebook Digital Citizenship Mobility 242

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 22, 2017

Share it in a teacher-provided summer activity folder (this should be quick to use, maybe through Google Drive if students have access to that). Use free online resources like Google Maps and learn skills that will be relevant to class field trips they’ll take next year. This doesn’t require a library.

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eBook Learning Mobility Libraries 153

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 20, 2017

The two most popular sites for creating podcasts are Audacity (for PCs) and Garageband (for Macs and mobile devices). Once the podcast is completed, it is saved (typically) as an MP3 which can be played through any program that accepts that file type such as QuickTime, Windows Media, SoundCloud , and even Google Drive.

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Digital Citizenship Libraries Mobility Report 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It’s been a couple of years since my tech teacher advice column “Dear Otto” got its first question about classroom digital assistants like Google Home and Amazon Alexa. What is a digital assistant? Amazon’s Alexa has about 80,000 skills and Google Home about 4200 actions. to tell a story.

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Will more schools embrace student-centric mobile devices? “There will be more momentum for mobile devices in classrooms with an eye toward affordable alternatives to traditional 1:1 rollouts.” Some states mandate digital citizenship training for students and administrators in order for school districts to receive funding.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

Books can be read online or on most mobile devices. This site provides thousands of digitized books, audio recordings, DVDs/CDs from the public domain (or out-of-copyright). You can read them online, on a mobile device, or download them. International Children’s Digital Library. Open Library.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 3, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Sunday, June 8th at 4pm Common Sense Media: Digital Citizenship - Seeing the Big Picture , with Dr. Jason Ohler.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 16, 2017

GeoGuessr is a free web-based geographic discovery game that requires users to guess where they are in the world based on clues and the Google Street View image. Google Earth. Google Earth is the iconic approach to introducing students to the world they live in. Google Lit Trips. Landform Detectives.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

" Pressing play on the YouTube video will set third-party cookies controlled by Google if you are logged in to Chrome. See Google's cookie information for details. Digital media and technology are increasingly a part of our lives, but it's important that we're conscious of the media choices we're making.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 12, 2016

More and more schools adopt BYOD policies and allow students to bring their own mobile phones, tablets, eBooks, and other devices in the classroom, and use them as tools to enhance learning. Students from low-income families may not be able to afford new mobile devices, or the devices they can afford won’t be the top performing ones.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 16, 2016

Google Storybuilder. Google Storybuilder tells a story with text and music through the eyes of specific individuals. No log-in is required, but students can register with their Google accounts. When done editing, students can add music from an included royalty-free library. Freemium; mobile app. VoiceThread.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Tellagami is a mobile app that lets users create a short animated video using any mobile device. Sharing Created Gamis While not having to worry about log in information is a plus and sharing is easy, there is not currently a way to see a library of the Gamis one makes when in the app.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 31, 2016

Critical to a successful LMS is that it’s easy to learn, intuitive to use, dependable, contributes to the learning experience (rather than just another digital tool that must be juggled before learning happens), and it saves time. Otus is a free all-in-one mobile learning management system available on iPads and desktops.

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techlearning

JUNE 24, 2018

The software has been updated to include a new mental health keyword library, google authentication, and improved scalability to support larger school districts, among other features. Impero also offers Impero EdLink , a mobile device management tool to help schools manage one-to-one initiatives and BYOD programs.

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Buncee

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Check out some of these recent additions to the Buncee Templates Library for having students express themselves by creating an acrostic poem or a virtual locker. Explore the Templates Library to create something like this fast, and make it your own by selecting from the more than 35,000 choices available in the media library!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Before starting, review the digital citizenship associated with visiting an online site (such as privacy, staying on the assigned website, and not talking to strangers). Open the spreadsheet program you use in your school (Google Sheets, Excel, or another). For this project, students will use a spreadsheet program.

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EdTechTeam

MAY 10, 2017

An EdTech Playground is a mobile space that can be set up in small or large areas. The resources that are featured in our EdTech Playgrounds come directly from our classrooms and libraries. The resources range from coding, drawing, dancing, virtual trips, and digital citizenship. What is it? Who manages it?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2016

To kickstart your paperless digital classroom requires a modicum of preparation. Take a few weekends this summer to set up a class blog and class website and get comfortable with the digital side of your school. Once in place, here are the digital tools that will replace tasks that precipitate daily learning: Digital Note-taking.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

To kickstart your paperless digital classroom requires a modicum of preparation. Take a few weekends this summer to set up a class blog and class website and get comfortable with the digital side of your school. Here’s traditional note-taking vs. digital note-taking: One feels like a blender on whip. Digital textbooks.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

OCTOBER 27, 2013

The SotF mobile app, via Guidebook, was incredibly useful. I attended the "Digital Citizenship and Digital Natives" session about Kamehameha Middle Schools'' Digital Curriculum. Digital citizenship is taught in the advisory program and embedded in the curriculum. Google Rocks!

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 27, 2018

It’s hard to imagine not fully realizing the potential for our mobile devices as learning tools. Google Street View : Create your own 360 images. Here’s part of our conversation about the role librarians might play in introducing immersive technologies to faculty and students. Save what you create and upload and showcase.

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Gaggle Speaks

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Students are creating an increasing amount of digital drama on social media, email, mobile apps and online collaboration tools. ” Cyber Civics prepares young people with the skills to be ethical, competent and empowered digital citizens. .” “We want to guide them to be better digital citizens.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. We’re taking Google education summits online! How does your library manage digital collections? See you there!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. This virtual conference will be hosted in Adobe Connect and registration is free for librarians and leaders of libraries.

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Gaggle Speaks

JUNE 15, 2016

How Gaggle fits into the direct’s digital plan is described in a new case study. You will also learn how Mooresville Grade School District: • Refocused its efforts around digital citizenship and keeping students safe online. Uses metrics to measure success. .”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 18, 2022

I immediately was attracted to the interactive model of Pear Deck, which integrated with Google Slides or PowerPoint with a simple add-on. For those teachers who use Google Classroom Pear Deck just announced an integration with the platform that will mirror the functions of slide presentations.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 14, 2023

Since its introduction over a decade ago, Google Sites has developed into a powerful site-building platform, ideal for us in education. Several new features and services have been added including the ability to buy a custom domain name for your Google site. I personally prefer Google Sites to other website builders out there (e.g.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. Is your library mobile friendly?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2011

Meet the ATLAST Explore participants and start networking using Google+. Session will also include a brief how-to on Google+ and a brainstorming activity of ways to implement Google+ with students. In this presentation, I will guide participants step by step on sign up and download Mendeley to their computer/mobile devices.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Of more pressing concern is the signage on the walls that focuses on learning strategies and digital citizenship. But deep integration of technology in learning should–ideally anyway–make learning mobile–always-on, asynchronous and self-directed access to both content and collaborators. Also to fret?

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