Spice up Your Google Slides with Slides Carnival
If you’re creating a slideshow in Google Slides, you can find some more interesting templates than those built into Slides. To do so, go to Slides Carnival. Once you find… Read more »
Category: TechTips
Take Control of Your Privacy
Do you ever feel a bit freaked out about what the Internet knows about you? Do advertisements ever seem to be too well targeted to you? Do you want to… Read more »
Tune up your Online Security in 2017
If you listen to news, you probably heard about a number of data breaches last year. Companies like Linkedin, Yahoo, Adobe, and Dropbox where all hacked, with user information being… Read more »
Safety and Security on Facebook
Facebook is still the most popular social network for teens. My (unscientific) research done by talking to teens about their use of Facebook reveals that they still use Facebook in… Read more »
5 Tips for Online Child Safety Over the Holidays
Embed from Getty Images With lots of free time over the Winter Holidays, we can anticipate spending a lot of time using technology devices, be they tablets, smart phones, computers,… Read more »
Resources for Free Online Images
Model responsible use and teach students to use online images responsibly. Remind your students to make sure that they have permission before selecting and using an image that they find… Read more »
5 Ideas for Digital Citizenship Week
Common Sense Media is highlighting Digital Citizenship Week from October 16 – 22. It is a good time to revisit the ideas of what it means to be a responsible… Read more »
5 Top Technology Use Habits for Families
The question of how to keep children safe online is a thorny problem that many of us struggle with. There are specific settings available for various devices, but a determined… Read more »
The Student Blogging Challenge
You’ve likely heard of blogging. If I ask you to define it, could you? OK, so what is blogging? We can create all sorts of complicated definitions, but at its… Read more »
Keep a Record of your Edublogs blog
There are several reasons why you may want to keep an archive of your posts on an Edublogs site. These include: you’re leaving a school and will lose access of… Read more »