Marketing & Communication
10 Spring Cleaning To Dos for Your Digital Abode: Part I
By: Tracy Clark. It’s spring cleaning time and your digital life is no exception!
A Yearbook Advisors Guide to Handling Privacy Dilemmas On Social Media
In just the past decade, those who battle for the right to privacy have taken on an entirely different fight and sites like Facebook, with their frequently changing and often confusing privacy policies, don’t exactly make it easy to keep up. But, like it or not, it’s an issue that has to be kept up on.
EdTech 10: No Throwback Thursday Here
Here are this week’s most up to date EdTech on the day the Getting Smart team likes to refer to as “Thinking Ahead Thursday!”
To Tweet Or Not To Tweet: There Really is No Question
Twitter is a tool for educating the world on complex topics in just 140 characters. So, how do we leverage this tool in the best way? Here are 10 tips on how to make your Twitter presence relevant, intriguing, and expansive.
Pin for Math Awareness: 10 Math Pinterest Boards to Follow
In April, I turn to the social media site to help build math awareness. Whether you are a math expert, a teacher, a parent, or anything in-between, check out these 10 boards to see how pinterest has helped create a new way to engage in mathematics. Happy Math Awareness Month!
An EdChat Soundtrack: 60 Songs to Keep Your Class Jammin’
Pretend this: every day of your teaching career there is a gigantic boombox (Yes, I was raised in the '80s) hovering just above your head. It includes a very intuitive and accurate D.J. who constantly selects just the right song at the right time.
Infographic: A Simple Recipe to Create a Better Yearbook
We are excited to share this new infographic that illustrates how even traditional school icons, like the yearbook, are transforming to stay relevant and important to the students of today. TreeRing is the Next Gen yearbook company, allowing students to capture their memories at the level that they are now expecting- with this infusion of social media into their everyday lives.
Digital Citizenship: There’s an App for That From Learning.com
Simply limiting or restricting access is not the answer to keeping students safe. Students need to use the tools that will help them learn their best at any time and anywhere. As a result, Learning.com has developed a brand new Digital Citizenship App, specifically designed for middle and high school students, to teach them how to be safe and make good choices online.
The Long Stretch Until Summer
Your day-to-day is anything but ordinary. Each day you have the opportunity to reach students in a way that nobody else can. You will spend more time with them in a given day than some of their parents. Your "boring" life involves shaping the future.
Yik Yak, Geofencing and the Future of BYOD
By: Kirsten Winkler. But if we take Yik Yak as a precedent there will be voices who call for more and better control over devices that are brought into school.