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Pinterest allows you to create a category and collaborate with your social or PLN to pin photos, ideas, videos, visuals, and more. I have created a specific board for "Ad Tech Learning."

Make music online by recording vocals, guitars and more. Invite friends to collaborate. It's free and no download is required. Works on Mac, Windows, iPad, Android tablets and phones, Linux and ChromeBooks.

Fun and free educational games for kids in K-8. Featuring multiplayer learning games, math games, language arts games, and much more!

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a great way to find ideas on how to teach your students to get great digital citizens! #techinpedagogy400

Have your students sign up to become the Carnegie Cyber Academy's next cadet by completing missions on topics like cyber defense and security. Or, supplement your digital citizenship instruction with games and resources available on their website

Digizen - Internet Social Networking advice and guidance for young people, parents and teachers

A great teacher resource with ideas to integrate digital citizenship into lesson plans across all subjects. I love the suggested reading list for students such as the Case of the Digital Deception by Ellie O'Ryan and The Pirates of Plagiarism by Lisa Downey.

This parent-teacher communication app offers the texting features of Remind.com plus classroom calendars, a meeting scheduler, volunteer tracking, and more. Parents can also communicate with one another, and can consult a mini social-media feed incorporating everything going on with the group. Upload photos, videos, or documents. Bloomz is particularly well-suited to elementary school classes. Private, secure, easy, and fun.

This article has a lot of good resources for teaching digital citizenship, particularly for elementary educators.

This YouTube video describes how for children today, their entire lives are part of their digital dossier, often from before they are even born. Show it to your students and get their thoughts. They may not be aware of the digital footprints they leave behind every day. This is one way to address digital security and digital citizenship with your students.

Use these very short, interactive(!) YouTube videos to teach digital security, digital responsibility, and the dangers of not thinking critically about digital communicaiton. This series about the dangers of "sexting" would be a great conversation starter with middle and high school students.

(Formerly Quizinator) This is a free web application which can be used to create, deliver and store worksheets, quizzes and exams. Information is stored in a content file and when you update one file, it updates the same information across all files keeping you up to date.