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QuickCast is another option to add to your toolbox to access when you need to create a short instructional video for your students or colleagues. Creating screencasts can be a good way for students to practice giving clear and direct presentations of information. One of my former colleagues used to have her students create screencasts as means for practicing scripting and narrating while teaching their classmates about help aspects of software on their laptops.

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Free Parents’ Guides for Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook from ConnectSafely (9): ConnectSafely is a great source for tips and advice for keeping kids safe on social media. Their comprehensive guides for teens' favorite social networks highlight the risks, privacy settings and strategies for keeping young people safe. Some of educational ideas for Instagram:

There are so many ways to use mobile devices with students. You can create interactive textbooks (1) for children to read, ask them to explain their thinking through screencasting (2) or help them access informational text using QR codes (3). Mobile devices can also be used to help students practice foundational math skills and build their math fluency.

Students can create movies right inside the Chrome browser.  Students can upload movies as well as photos to add to their projects.

Every student works at their own pace, so no student is in over their head, and no student is bored

They do this using a diagnostic pre-test the kids take the first time they use Front Row. This figures out where the kids are, and then they practice at their own level.

student knows more about the technology than you do.

2. Converting

Start by taking a lesson you’ve done before and transforming it. How can you use technology with the lesson?

videos for flipped classroom

There is no doubt that finding the time to integrate technology is an overwhelming task for anyone. Throughout the course of a day, teachers find themselves pulled in many directions. However, technology is already integrated in nearly everything we do and nearly every job our students will encounter. So how do educators find an ideal balance for learning about and eventually integrating technology? It begins with a focus followed by good instructional design -- but ultimately, a healthy balance.

It's equally important to expose students to information literacy skill sets. As databases grow and information continues to evolve into paperless formats, it is essential to teach students how to question effectively and efficiently.

Getting caught up in the never ending, always expanding world of web 2.0 applications and iPad or Android apps will only confuse your students and, inevitably, frustrate you.