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CiviliNation - Taking a Stand for Civil Discourse. The Facebook Guide for Teachers. How do I properly use Facebook in the classroom? What are the golden Facebook rules for teachers? How can as a teacher utilize Facebook in the classroom? These are some of the questions that you will be able to answer after reading the Facebook Guide for Teachers. The incredibly successful social media site, Facebook, has a billion users so it’s a fair guess to say that most of your students have a Facebook profile.

In fact, they probably spend more time on Facebook than they do studying or completing homework assignments. Face it, most students from kindergarten up through university would rather socialize than study so why not meet them on their own ground by using Facebook as an interactive learning tool? What is Facebook? Facebook is the world’s largest social networking site. After creating a personal profile, users can connect with “friends” from their hometown and from all over the world. As a teacher, the question then becomes, how do I properly use Facebook in the classroom?

Avatars and other introductions. 10 Tips To Effectively Use Social Media In Formal Learning. 22 Effective Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom | Edudemic. How B2B Marketers Can Use Storytelling to Reach a Busy, Distracted Audience. RealtimeBoard | Online collaboration whiteboard. The 10 Best Web Tools For Flipped Classrooms. While flipping the classroom is still one of the hottest trends in education, it’s got nothing on time-saving and downright useful apps and web tools.

In an effort to provide a quick look at some of the best web tools for flipped classrooms, I thought it would be useful to poll the @Edudemic Twitter followers . POLL: What are your favorite apps and tools for flipped classrooms? — Edudemic (@Edudemic) April 5, 2013 Including the tweets, I also got at least 40 emails from friends, colleagues, and administrators from around the world.

Below is a simple list designed to help get any educator, administrator, student, or parent a bit more familiar with some of the most popular web tools for flipped classrooms. Wikispaces About The Tool: Wikispaces is a free and useful web tool designed to give students (or ‘users’ of any kind, really) the ability to share their thoughts, reflect on the work of others, and edit a body of work together.

Poll Everywhere Edmodo Screencast Celly Dropbox YouTube Twitter. How To Use Pinterest With Bloom's Taxonomy. 10 Interactive Lessons By Google On Digital Citizenship. YouTube has a firm place in the current classroom. From Khan Academy’s videos to YouTube EDU and beyond, there’s a reason all these videos are finding a home in schools. In an effort to help keep the ball rolling, Google just launched a set of 10 interactive lessons designed to support teachers in educating students on digital citizenship.

A topic obviously quite close to Google’s heart. Google (which owns YouTube) built the lessons to educate students about YouTube’s policies, how to flag content, how to be a safer online citizen, and protect their identities. Below is a list of lessons, and the recommended flow for delivery. Or you can download the Full Teacher’s Guide or the Full Set of Slides in PDF . The killer feature for this curriculum is the extra features that come with each video. 22 Effective Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom. Using Twitter in the classroom is a no-brainer. It’s a powerful and free tool that already has wide adoption among educators, students, administrators, and parents.

So how do you effectively use Twitter to resonate with students? Why not start by using the following methods that are organized by Bloom’s Taxonomy? The below visual showcases a variety of cases that should be of use for any teacher looking to effectively integrate Twitter into courses, lessons, projects, etc. What if you could use your favorite social network in the classroom? Okay, we write about using Twitter in the classroom a lot. That’d be the cat’s pajamas. (For our many international readers not familiar with that term, it simply means ‘that’d be great.’)

You can actually use Twitter with Bloom’s Taxonomy thanks to this below table built by TeachBytes . Digital Citizenship. Social media in education. Twitter-hashtag-infographic.