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        • 2.1 Knowing Students Well
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The Perils and Possibilities of YouTube

February 16, 2016February 16, 2016 Audrey Homan 9 Comments the internet is made of cats, YouTube, YouTube videos

How to make YouTube appropriate for the classroom YouTube can provide students and educators with hundreds of powerful educational videos

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Flipped Classrooms 

How to save, edit and share video clips with your students

November 11, 2015November 11, 2015 Scott Thompson 10 Comments flipped classroom, Google Classroom, Google Drive, YouTube

Part 2: sharing videos in Google Classroom, Drive, and YouTube In Part 1, we looked at tools for finding and editing

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To lock or not to lock

October 29, 2015April 22, 2022 Scott Thompson 5 Comments CIPA, COPPA, digital citizenship, internet filtering, network use agreement, the internet is made of cats, YouTube

School approaches to filtering internet content As social media,Youtube, and gaming become more educationally relevant, how do we leverage their

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Remote Learning 

How to use Google Hangout for screencasting

May 26, 2015March 16, 2020 Audrey Homan 10 Comments Google Hangout, screencast, screencasting, YouTube

NOTE: Whoo, five years is a whole *eon*, in tech time, people. So, the original updated version of this post,

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4 ways to use an iPad1 in the classroom

April 13, 2015April 14, 2022 Audrey Homan 3 Comments Aura, Kindle, My Memos, My Movie, podcasting on an iPad1, RadioRec, research on an iPad1, Tubee, TuneIn, video editing on an iPad1, VPR, YouTube

Making the most of an original generation iPad Yes, you read that right: you can definitely still use an iPad1 in your

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Want to try out interactive fiction and games?

April 24, 2014April 14, 2022 Audrey Homan 4 Comments digital storytelling, interactive fiction, StoryNexus, Twine, You can do it!, YouTube

Want to try out writing interactive fiction and games with your students? Here are three tools that make it easy

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“When Student Published Videos Go Viral” (podcast)

July 23, 2013 Audrey Homan 0 Comments digital citizenship, Internet safety, reflection, student voice, YouTube

In September of 2009, Sarah, the 9 year-old daughter of our keynote speaker posted a 90-second YouTube response to President

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