Kathryn Laster (@kklaster), Nancy Watson (@NancyWTech), and Misty Trevino (@TrevinoMisty) share 20 tips, ideas, resources, and tools for the new year. If you have additional ideas or tools for us to try, please tweet us @DigLearnRadio.
Digital Citizenship Ideas
- Spotting Bots tutorial - tips on identifying social media bots
- Informable app from the News Literacy Project - helps you build news literacy skills
- Everyday #DigCit app - questions and talking points for quick digital citizenship lessons any time. Digcit.glideapp.io Contribute your ideas for the app at bit.ly/digcitideas
- Digital Citizenship online course - coming soon!
Mindfulness
- Calm app (oops, no longer accepting teacher applications)
- Headspace app (free for educators)
- The Joy Makeover from Ingrid Fetell Lee (sign up here)
- Before Breakfast Podcast, 5-minute podcast from Laura Vanderkam, which shares tips about time management
- Forest: Be focused, stay present Chrome extension
Learning Opportunities
- #ClassyCreations with Tony Vincent
- #GifADay from Jake Miller
- The Learning Scientists, website focused on research connected to learning
- Google Teacher Training Center
Random/Fun Tools
- Just a Line - An app that lets you make simple drawings with white lines in 3D space
- Jen Giffen’s blog post on creating friendmojis
- While You're Waiting slide example
Tools to Try in 2020
- Classroom Q, students virtually raise their hand to get help from a teacher, discovered from this tweet from Catlin Tucker
- Floop, tool for streamlining feedback loops, heard on the "6 EdTech Tools to Try in 2020" podcast episode from Cult of Pedagogy
- Parlay, discussion prompt/response tool, also mentioned on the Cult of Pedagogy podcast
- Shortcuts for iPhone - see the post 12 Shortcuts You Should be Using (includes video to GIF shortcut) and how to use shortcuts to dictate into notes