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How to set a Featured Video on YouTube
YouTube continues to prove to be a big player in search results and social media. By many accounts, YouTube is the second biggest search engine in the world and your YouTube channel should receive some much-needed attention.
Read MoreWebinar: Communicating and Connecting with Social Media
This webinar will focus on the integral use of social media and its use in our schools. Using his new book, "Communicating and Connecting with Social Media," co-author Jason Ramsden will discuss: How to use social media to communicate effectively about your school, how to use social media to enhance professional development for educator and much more.
Read MoreUsing social media for student research, part 2: practices and habits of mind
In an earlier post, I discussed how to get students set up to do research using social media. This is the advice I’ll give them on how to actually go about doing the research. The Technical Side of Things Managing social media can be overwhelming, so I’d give my students the following advice: Get the [...]
Read MoreWhat’s the best way to think?
A colleague recently sent me a link to this article at the Harvard Business Review, which suggests it’s a waste of time to organize your email and, by extension, your life more generally. Where possible, use technology to search so you don’t have to spend your time organizing needlessly. She asked what I thought, and [...]
Read MoreContent Curation for Teachers
Have you ever felt that there is simply too much interesting, educational content on the web? Fortunately, there are also some great, free products out there that are hugely helpful when it comes to curating all of the many things one can read, watch, hear etc. on the web. The beauty of taking control of [...]
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