Tag Archives: social media

5 Tech Tools for the Newly Connected Educator

This one is for the teaching with technology newbies. I know there are lots of you out there; I find myself teaching you quite often. Sometimes those of us whose lives are threaded through with technology in every possible way forget that somewhere out there, there is a teacher who doesn’t understand the difference between a tweet and a status update. If the extent of your online activity is looking at pictures of your grandkids on Facebook, this post is for you! As you go through this post, you’ll see words and phrases that are underlined. Click on those for more resources related to that word or phrase. {…}

Talking to Kids about the Boston Marathon Bombings

Oh, how I wish this wasn’t something that needed to be posted. Unfortunately, we’ve seen yet another violent attack take innocent lives and injure countless others. Right now, if you’re a caregiver or teacher, you have a couple of choices. You can drown in the social media and television coverage of the events, or you can carefully curate what your children have access to, and mediate the exposure you can’t control (for older kids). {…}