Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir is made up of 185 people sitting in front of their computers, singing. Their performance of "Lux Aurumque" is magnificent.
1.Help develop and follow your school’s policy about Facebook.
2.Encourage students to follow Facebook’s guidelines.
3.Stay up to date about safety and privacy settings on Facebook.
4.Promote good citizenship in the digital world.
5.Use Facebook’s Pages and Groups features to communicate with students and
parents.
6.Embrace the digital, social, mobile, and “always-on” learning styles of
21st Century students.
7.Use Facebook as a professional development resource
Educators have traditionally helped parents teach young people about appropriate behavior towards others. Now, with the explosion of social media, educators can be part of a larger conversation with young people about digital citizenship and online behavior. We will discuss more about what digital citizenship means in Section 4. As educators you can instruct them in safe, ethical, and responsible Internet use
The study reports an analysis of 85 lesson logs in which teachers recorded their use of space, digital technology, and student outcomes in relation to student engagement and learning.
This guide is designed to equip teachers and teacher educators with the competencies and resources to use ICT to transform their practices and practices of their schools and education system.
The twelve first-person films that make up this series explore three related themes, each in its own way at the center of current debate about what works, and what's needed, to help students succeed during school and in life.
The final report of the Online Safety and Technology Working Group (OSTWG), which was a government-appointed task force asked to look into how to online child safety issues.
This handbook has been informed by the work of fourteen teachers who are interested in how technology is used in classroom teaching and who took part in Futurelab's digital participation project. Rather than being prescriptive, it aims to provide information which will help teachers to make the best use of their own expertise to support students' emerging digital literacy.
A tool for teachers who are not experts on a particular piece of software. It has specific tasks for each application on the site and each video is short sharp and to the point.
"TimeMaps is a world history resource that uses a combination of Timeline, Atlas
and Encyclopedia to cover the history of the world in an authoritative, engaging
and informative way. Navigate to any civilization or period in history for
either a broad overview or an in-depth look at the people, places and events."
using new media technologies to create a channel between the scientists, engineers, explorers and visionaries who are shaping the future, and today's learners who will one day succeed them.