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Educational technology
- Free Technology for Teachers: Google Classroom Now Lets You Customize Your Classroom Themes
- Free Technology for Teachers: 10 Good Google Docs, Sheets, and Forms Add-ons for Teachers
- 2015-02-05 – Google Slides for Interactive Stories, Quizzes, and Games – Technology Integration
- The SAMR Model In 120 Seconds
Instructional strategies
- 3 Ways of Getting Student Feedback to Improve Your Teaching | Edutopia
- Free Technology for Teachers: Develop Science Writing Projects on ProjectWriter
Create writing assignments for students to complete in groups that you organize
How to
- Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Videos on Making Flipped Video Lessons
- Free Technology for Teachers: How to Search for Old Newspaper Articles in the Google News Archive
In the Google News Newspaper archive you can search for a specific newspaper, search for article titles, or as demonstrated below you can search for a topic. - High Tech Friday: 9 Ways to Improve and Speed Up Grading with Google Apps
Suggestion mode at 3:21; Custom lists at 8:03 - Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Hashtag How Tos – Figure, Configure, Follow, Find, + Find Others
Books and reading
- Why digital natives prefer reading in print. Yes, you read that right. – The Washington Post
- Collecting Marvel and DC Comics for Teens | YALSAblog
- Collecting DC Comics: The New 52
- For the Love of Dogs (and a Few Wolves): Canines in YA Literature | The Hub
Copyright and fair use
- Resources | Fair Use Week
- Fair Use Week 2015
- Origin of fair use
2-page comic book-style explanation
Libraries and advocacy
- School Librarians Needed Instead of Instructional Coaches in CA | Knowledge Quest
- The near and far future of libraries — Hopes&Fears — flow “Technology”
LIBRARIES ARE MORPHING, are surviving, by becoming places of community, where kids go, come to read books, draw together…there are workshops being held… it’s more than just a source of information. People need physical places to read, find like-minded people from the neighborhood. Libraries hold things like writing contests. Those roles have not gone away, librarians are changing what they do, for example they’re teaching people how to use technology. The need for a physical place to meet, surrounded by books and information …
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