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stephanie karabaic

Free teacher training videos for using Edmodo - 0 views

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    Free teacher training for Edmodo for teachers and students. TeacherTrainingVideos.com provides free step by step camtasia screencasts that take you through a whole range of ict and web2.0 tools
leahammond

Student Rights and Responsibilities in the Digital Age: A Guide for Public School Stude... - 0 views

  • You have the right to express yourself online, whether you are writing e-mails, posting to a blog, updating a homepage, or talking in a chat-room. Yet you also are responsible for your actions as they affect others
  • The U.S. Constitution and the Washington Constitution guarantee freedom of expression for everyone, including students. Students do not give up their constitutional rights when they walk onto school grounds. Whether you want to comment on a new school rule, gay rights, teen pregnancy, or the latest national news, you have the right to express your ideas, including those that are controversial. But there are limits
  • such as giving a sexually suggestive speech at a school assembly, or promoting illegal drug use at a school functio
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  • But in most situations, school administrators and teachers cannot prevent you from saying something just because it is controversial.
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  • True Threats Whether you are in school or not, online or in-person, the right to free speech does not protect speech that a reasonable person would interpret as a serious expression of your desire and ability to harm him/her.
  • Defamatory Statements The right to free speech also does not protect false personal attacks against another person that are untrue, that harm someone's reputation, and that you knew, or should have known, were untrue when you said or wrote it.
  • Obscene Speech The right to free speech does not protect speech that deals with sex in a manner appealing to purely lustful interests in a patently offensive manner, and without serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
  • For speech to be considered a "true threat," it must be something that a reasonable person would interpret as a serious expression of an intention to harm him/her.
  • If the school provides students with an e-mail address, it can impose rules on its use. For example, it can require that the address be used only for school-related purposes and can prohibit using the account in a way that interferes with another student's learning, such as sending flames or bullying messag
  • It may also monitor what you view, send, or receive on school-provided computers or e-mail account
  • Your school may prohibit all access to the Internet on any computer. Or your school may prohibit using school computers to access the Internet, including sites such as Facebook or YouTube, or using Hotmail or Gmail accounts, if school officials believe access is disruptive to the schoo
  • When you are using the school's computer and Internet access, school officials can see what you are sending and receiving onlin
  • Check your personal e-mail or non-school-related websites outside of school, on your own time, with a computer that does not belong to the school.
  • But merely because you are off campus, you are not free to say just anything. Remember, state and federal laws make it illegal to post threats of violence against a person or to advocate certain illegal action
  • Posting information on the Internet can be like publishing it in the newspaper. If the website is public, anyone can look at i
  • Keep in mind that school officials, college admissions officers, and potential employers are free to look at it.
  • Other people could take your posting and copy it to another website where you can't delete it
  • What's more, what you put on a public website may stay on the Internet foreve
anonymous

Lack of Home Internet a Challenge for Students - Education Week - 0 views

  • Nationally, the Federal Communications Commission notes that 7 out of 10 teachers assign homework that requires high-speed Internet access, yet in some communities, only 1 in 3 students can access the Web at home.
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    edweek.org has a ton of articles about internet access and students. This particular article talked about a girl in high school who lived in a home without internet and how she struggled with doing online homework until the free Kajeet program gave her family free internet.
Adam Deyo

Tony Vincent - Google+ - Educational Apps on Sale for Free Today! Resume Desi... - 0 views

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    Check these out. Tony Vincent is a great follow on Twitter or Google +. Free apps are great for individual use, but they can be a problem for schools with multiple iOS devices if/when the app transitions to a paid version. Especially if you are using Configurator to manage the devices.
leahammond

Standard Digital News : : Lifestyle - 6,000 primary schools picked for free laptop project - 0 views

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    "6,000 primary schools picked for free laptop project"
stephanie karabaic

BHS Recommended Apps - Google Документы - 0 views

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    This is a school that is breaking all the ceilings in digital learning..and here are the free apps they recommend
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    This is a school that is breaking all the ceilings in digital learning..and here are the free apps they recommend
Leah Starr

6 Great Platforms Where Students Share Book Reviews and Reading Recommendations ~ Educa... - 0 views

  • Once you are registered you can then connect to people who read what you post and also interact with what they publish.
  • Once you are registered you can then connect to people who read what you post and also interact with what they publish.
  • also provides books with different reading levels and has a great and intuitive reading logs.
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  • Once you are registered you can then connect to people who read what you post and also interact with what they publish.
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      Audience = engagement!
  • It lets you create a virtual bookshelf, discover new books, connect with friends and learn more about your favourite books for free.
  • It lets you create a virtual bookshelf, discover new books, connect with friends and learn more about your favourite books for free.
  • ne of the best ways to get your students motivated about reading is to provide them with online platforms where they can meet other student readers and share their recommendations, reads, and book reviews.
  • you decide upon titles and genres you like and Good Reads gives you insightful recommendations and right into your inbox.
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      This platform for recommendations keeps reading logs and provides books by reading level!
  • This is a platform where kids connect to their teachers, friends  and parents to share and recommend their favourite books and good reads. It
  • also provides books with different reading levels and has a great and intuitive reading logs. 5- Figment Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. 6- Scholastic Scholastic has a section in which teachers and students can share what they are reading and discover new books based on their friends recommendations. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); You might also like: 4 Important New Gmail Updates You Should not Miss Excellent Classroom Poster Featuring 10 iPad Usage Rules New Handy Chart on The Difference Between Projects and ...
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    Book Recommendation Platforms.
lstormvt

Common-Core Testing Drives 'Tech Prep' Priorities - Education Week - 0 views

  • some feel "tech prep" is a waste of time, but far more view it as a crucial set of skills that does double duty.
  • SETDA advocates blending computer skills seamlessly into instruction, rather than teaching them in isolation.
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      Yes, but some skill lesson has to happen or poor habits will develop and their skills will bottom out way to soon.
  • asked her students to practice typing by using a free online program at home for 20 minutes, twice a week,
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  • Of course, some computer skills are valuable, like keyboarding, creating multimedia projects, manipulating programs they'd use in life and school,
  • "They can run an iPhone like a champ, or the iPads we have here at school. But they're not that exposed to keyboarding skills or using the mouse to move something up and down on a screen."
  • said her students have been honing their keyboarding skills while using an online curriculum for computer coding.
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      Love this!
  • Using an online math program, they learn to move and click a mouse, and cut and paste text. As they move through the grades, they add more skills, integrated into their core-content study, Ms. Warr said.
  • "If we were trying to teach the tech skills in isolation, there would be a huge pushback [from teachers], but we integrate them into other subjects," Ms. Warr said.
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      But this has to start young so it builds. Teachers need help in how to make this happen seamlessly.
  • But because the Smarter Balanced assessment expects more "writing in one shot" online, he's encouraging teachers to shift their "quick writes" to the computer, he said.
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      A balance between the writing process (paper, revision) as we know it and quick writes on the computer
  • 1st graders are starting with a free online game called Dance Mat, where they pick out letters one at a time, and work up to typing their names, Mr. Decker said. In 2nd grade, students begin using an online program called Type To Learn three times a week. Third and 4th graders continue it twice a week, and by 5th grade, it's down to weekly.
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    In this article, teachers and administrators share their desire to differentiate between computer skills that are test-based only and those that are actually life skills, too, and then figure out how to work those into the school day in a constructive way.
slangevin

ChatWing - 0 views

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    ChatWing is a free service that you can use to put a live chatbox into your blog or website.
Michael Oquendo

Answer Pad: The Free Student Response System - The Ed Tech Roundup - 1 views

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    I found this resource through #edtech. It looks like a great tool for keeping all students engaged and also for differentiating instruction. There is a lot of customization available as well, so the teacher has a lot of control.
Jill Dawson

Finalists - 2014 SIIA CODiE Awards - 0 views

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    Schoology is featured in this post, and explains ways that it may be integrated with other platforms.  It also explains how the paid version differs from the free version.
seantheoret

Infinite series - 0 views

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    Free math problem solver answers your algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and statistics homework questions with step-by-step explanations, just like a math tutor.
seantheoret

Virtual Nerd Math Videos - 0 views

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    Virtual Nerd's patent-pending tutorial system provides in-context information, hints, and links to supporting tutorials, synchronized with videos, each 3 to 7 minutes long. In this non-linear system, users are free to take whatever path through the material best serves their needs. These unique features make Virtual Nerd a viable alternative to private tutoring.
seantheoret

Using Google Hangouts - 1 views

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    Connecting students to resources beyond the classroom. This is a particularly useful tool for schools that already take advantage of Google Apps for education. Perfect for meetings, PD, connecting with other classrooms, and virtual field trips. And it's FREE! The article also does a great job asking questions to help you decide if you area at a point where you a ready to embrace this technology.
Nichole Vielleux

Reinventing Schools: The Technology is Now! - 1 views

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    Free e-book
slangevin

Enterprise Learning Management System | Free LMS | Schoology - 0 views

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    Schoology Intro Video
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