BYOD: Resources for Making it Happen

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This page includes a variety of ideas and suggestions for making a bring your own device (BYOD) program work at your school. Some of this material was assembled by a group of teachers and tech trainers in our school district as a summer project. Since most of our BYOD resources lie behind the district firewall, [...]

Twitter: Why Should I Care What You Had For Breakfast?

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If that’s how you understand Twitter, then you don’t know the whole story. Twitter is far more than random babble by celebrities and nobodies. It can be a valuable part of your professional development as an educator. On this page are the notes for a session I do on the basics of Twitter and how [...]

A Very Brief Introduction to Creative Commons for Educators

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This page is part of a presentation on what educators need to know about Creative Commons, specifically what can you do with materials released with a CC license and how do you find them. Most of this is just a list of resources I used for the session and some may not make sense outside [...]

Flickr Fun: Web Sites For Using Photographs

There are many ways to use photographs for the classroom, both for student projects as well as for decoration. These sites allow you to select a picture from your flickr collection or other web page and do some fun things with it. And they’re all free. However, because of advertising on the pages, it’s not [...]