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Steven W. Anderson is a recognized expert in using social media in education. Steven regularly consults with schools and districts around the country on how they can use social media to break down...
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Mary Beth Hertz is a certified Instructional Technology Specialist and K-7 Technology Teacher in Philadelphia, PA. She has presented at a number of conferences and is a blogger and avid user of social...
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Chris Johnson is an entrepreneur and currently the co-founder of Wakefield, a daily email read by students that features startup companies, people, and products. ——————– We often get asked why we...
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Adam Bellow, founder of eduTecher.net, was recognized in 2011 as the Outstanding Young Educator of the Year by ISTE. Adam has been sharing his vision for education reform by harnessing the power of...
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Steven W. Anderson is a recognized expert in using social media in education. Steven regularly consults with schools and districts around the country on how they can use social media to break down...
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Mary Beth Hertz is a certified Instructional Technology Specialist and K-7 Technology Teacher in Philadelphia, PA. She has presented at a number of conferences and is a blogger and avid user of social...
View ArticleVisibility Is A Synonym For Advocacy
Margaux DelGuidice works as a school librarian, adjunct professor and children’s services librarian and is co-author of the book, Make A Big Impact @ Your School Board Meeting. Sometimes she sleeps...
View ArticleA Summer Reading List for Educators
Mary Beth Hertz is a certified Instructional Technology Specialist and K-7 Technology Teacher in Philadelphia, PA. She has presented at a number of conferences and is a blogger and avid user of social...
View ArticleGuest Post: Clipix, a research tool for teachers and students
When developing ways for both teachers and students to use Clipix for educational use, the concept of using one platform for saving everything and anything they come across was key. A student, when...
View ArticleGet A Job… From Your Librarian
Chris Johnson is a Co-Founder at Wakefield Media, a New York-based company that connects dreamers and doers with successful startups through transformative content and event experiences. So where’s a...
View ArticleShannon Miller: “Let’s Declare Our Rights to Libraries”
This post originally appeared on Shannon Miller’s Van Meter Library Voice blog. Shannon kindly asked us to share the news of this good cause on the EasyBib blog, and we are excited to join her and...
View ArticleLifelong Learning: Exciting News from Project Information Literacy
As part of National Information Literacy Awareness Month, we are excited to feature guest posts from leaders in the field. We are honored to have Alison Head from Project Information Literacy...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Information Literacy in a time of Social Media and Pervasive...
As part of National Information Literacy Awareness Month, we are excited to feature guest posts from leaders in the field. We are honored to have Neil Krasnoff from Dallas ISD contribute. Recently, I...
View ArticleFrom Small Steps to Big Ideas – What I Learned from 2 Weeks at a Tech Start-up
Who am I? Andrew Dumit Where am I from? Davis, CA. What do I do? Sophomore at Rice University in Houston, Texas. What am I studying? Stats and Math Econ. Why am I here? To learn. “To understand how...
View Article10 Educational Games That Teach Kids About Social Issues
Incorporating games into the classroom is a great way to engage students and increase motivation. But how can social studies and history teachers use games to help students better understand social...
View Article5 Text-Based Games That Teach Close Reading Skills
Text-based gaming has been around for almost as long as computers. The first interactive adventure was Infocom’s Adventure, which dates back to the 1970s. Other titles followed, including the Zork...
View ArticleThree Google Docs Hacks to Boost Your Students’ Ethical Writing
In his 2010 survey of 24,000 students at 70 high schools, Don McCabe of Rutgers University found 58 percent of students admitted to plagiarism. As a former high school English teacher for nine years,...
View ArticleOpportunities Are Everywhere: Reflections on #GeniusHour Throughout K-12
I get a lot of questions about Genius Hour. The first (and most basic question) is where do I start? Then the follow up questions usually fall in this order: What happens if the students don’t come up...
View ArticleEssential Attributes of Digital Leadership: Curriculum, Instruction, and...
This post is the first in a multi-part series on Middle Level Digital Leadership, contributed by Brad Currie. School leadership in 2015 requires a commitment to promoting the success of students in...
View ArticleEssential Attributes of Digital Leadership, Part 2: Courageous Leadership
This post is the second in a four-part a series on Middle Level Digital Leadership, contributed by Brad Currie. Essential Attribute #2 Courageous Leadership School Leaders Set the Shared Vision In the...
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