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My New eLearning Blog
I am stuck at home with two feet of snow, but thankful that I can still do my job as I have recently changed from a classroom teacher and chair to the eLearning Coordinator of our 4000 student, 53 course strong Online Campus.
To that end I have, as you might have noticed found some other to help continue my other blogs and have continued adding posts myself to them. But my new site - "eLearning Blog" is where I am putting anything related to learning online. You can also receive the posts using Google+ and/or following me on Twitter. Recent posts have included
- How to make your own flipped videos
- How to teach online during snow days
- Texting homework reminders
- Using Twitter as a teaching tool
- Digital Resources for the US Department of Education
- How to quickly convert a Microsoft document into a Blackboard test
- Scripts for shortcuts in your grading
- Url (link) shorteners
- and much much more.
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Google Drive Tutorial
This is a nice overview of Google Drive and its power. If you are like me, you have almost completely (I recently found my first use for Microsoft Word in the last year). The video above shows you many of the highlights and how to use them...
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More On Google Classroom: Things You Can Do
If you are interested in Google Classroom and read Ken's post below, you might want to read some of Alice Keeler's blog posts about how to use Google Classroom. Keeler has also written a book called 50 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom....
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Lots Of Information On Starting A Pln
Two weeks ago I introduced my teacher-students to Twitter and the reasons why we should use Personal Learning Networks. Here is a great Pinterest set of posts (not sure what to call this) on PLNs. There are links to Google+ ones, lists of...
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Popular Educational Hashtags
Now that Frank has me doing hashtags, I am glad I just found this Edudemic list of educational hashtags. Here are ones that can help you: The Most Popular Hashtags#edchat ? Education, worldwide (lots of US teachers). A really useful hashtag...
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Blog Contributors Grow By One
When I started this blog 4+ years ago I wanted it to be a way to communicate between schools in my district - something beyond the traditional collaborative teams that were then being implemented - as I did not feel lesson planning and great ideas to...
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