Articles In The Social Media in the Classroom Category
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Twitter Roundup: Last Month’s Best Education Tweets
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Twitter is always an excellent resource to find great articles within the education field. For this post, I searched some of education’s most popular hashtags- #edchat, #edtech, and #lrnchat- to provide you with some highlights from last month’s Twitter feed. Here are some of the more interesting and informative articles I came across:“Education Technology Success Stories”- This article, written by Darrell M. West and Joshua Bleiberg, landscapes a few different education technology success stories. It begins with a moving story of how a young girl from Pakistan was …
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Favorite Education Hashtags and How to Use Them
The internet is transforming the practice of professional development as we know it, and I cannot stress enough about the importance of collaborating with other education leaders on the web! More specifically, the social media network Twitter (follow us! @PearsonK12Tech) has a large community of people talking education—with useful hashtags organizing the many topics being discussed. These hashtags are often seen being used in other social networking spaces as well, such as Facebook and Instagram.
There are hundreds of educational hashtags on Twitter being used right now—as demonstrated by this Edudemic …
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Education Blogs we loved following in 2012
Last December we shared blogs we loved following in 2011, and we even continued to follow them throughout 2012. However, now we have a few more to add to the list! Here are three additional blogs we enjoyed this year:
image from iStockTeachThought: Many of the blog posts on their site cover “progressive education and trending topics,” and also “seeks to support the implementation of innovative learning.” We also found their Education Hashtags page to be extremely helpful.
Mindshift: This blog “explores the future of learning in all its dimensions—covering cultural and … -
Six Creative Ideas for Education Blogging
With the incredible popularity of blogs, it’s no surprise that many teachers have molded the medium to fit their classroom needs and help engage their digitally inclined students. Here are six ideas to help you make blogging work for your classroom:
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Back-to-school Icebreaker. Since we are still at the beginning of the year, why not use your class blog as a way for students to get to know one another? Interview each student individually and then post it online! You can post each one as a short video clip, …
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Teaching with Instagram
The proliferation of smart phones has led to the development of innumerable educational apps for all subjects and grade levels. The problem is that students may not necessarily be interested in apps with high scholastic value, so it’s up to teachers to find didactive opportunities in the apps that students are interested in.
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Facebook recently bought Instagram, the incredibly popular mobile photo sharing app, for nearly one billion dollars. It had a user base of 30 million before it even released to Android™ in early April, so odds are … -
Five Alternatives to Facebook and YouTube
There are so many ways that Facebook and YouTube can be functional to learning. However, one question always remains in the back of most minds: are they safe to use in the classroom? While I’m not trying to speak ill of these sites—I think they are great– I sometimes come across questionable content that causes me to wonder if they would be okay to use with students. It is also for this reason that some, if not most, schools block these websites. Not to mention, the last thing any teacher …
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Three Blog Posts We Loved in April
Another month has come and gone, which means it is time to highlight some more thoughts and Edtech ideas that ‘wow’ me! You can view last month’s highlights HERE. It seems this is becoming a monthly tradition; it would be selfish to keep all of these valuable resources to myself, right!? So without further ado, here are three blog posts I loved in April:
The Whiteboard Blog- Blogger Danny Nicholson shares a web-based system that allows teachers and students to set up questions and polling on any device with a web …
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Pinterest Resource Roundup
Pinterest continues to be a wellspring of ideas and resources for educators and their classrooms. If you didn’t catch our first Pinterest blog post discussing methods to incorporating it into the classroom, you can read it here. And if you haven’t checked out Pinterest yet, then check it out now! Here are some noteworthy ‘pins’ that I have stumbled upon recently:
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80+ Google Forms for the Classroom- I have already talked about various Google tools for educators, but this article shares one that wasn’t mentioned—Google Forms. See how Google Forms can …
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Three Blog Posts We Loved Last Month
More and more teachers and schools are blogging, which leads to a blogosphere full of wonderful resources, stories, and ideas. Here are 3 blog posts we loved last month:
In her first year of teaching, Heather Hanson made a bold move to attempt to connect learning with her students’ lives. The move paid off and her students became so engaged that they ended up creating a video that has become a hit on YouTube. Their story was picked up by NPR and they presented at a conference in Washington DC. Read …
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Pinterest Resource Roundup for the Classroom
Pinterest was originally thought a place for fashion fanatics, cooking enthusiasts, and home designers to collect their creative ideas and photos in a single place on the Internet. However, it has found a bright spotlight in education and has become a major topic of conversation among educators and students. It even appears to have grown in popularity since our last post about Four Ways to Use Pinterest in Education!
Image from iStockNot only do I find the ideas shared in our post great, but I have also observed many other applications …