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Social Presence in Online Learning

Online Learning for Iowa Educators, or Project OLLIE, is an initiative of AEA Learning Online. Explore this OLLIE-provided course module to learn...

The Power of Social Presence for Learning

Social presence is key to a successful learning experience. The above resource from EDUCAUSE will give you an overview of the power and...

5 Research-Backed Tips to Improve Your Online Teaching Presence

Are you an educator teaching remotely? Perhaps there are a few back-to-back eLearning days coming up. You should check out these research-backed...

Digital Citizenship Week with Common Sense

Digital Citizenship Week is a great time to spotlight topics that impact our students' social and emotional well-being and leave a lasting footprint....

Digital Citizenship Week | Lesson Plans for Grades K-2

It is important to teach students how to make safe, smart, and ethical decisions in the digital world. "Building a culture of positive digital...

Digital Citizenship in Your Classroom

Digital citizenship is important, but where do we start? Teaching all the necessary skills can be overwhelming. This article from the people at ISTE...

Creating Accessible Social Media Posts

Ensuring that our learning materials are accessible for all students is always important, but even more so when many digital forms of instruction are...

Creative Commons Guide for Copyright and Fair Use

It might seem like any photo we want to use for a cool lesson or project is just a Google search away, but that isn't true. If we adhere to the rules...

Copyright and Fair Use

Copyright law can be confusing. This video from Common Sense Media explains copyright and gives examples of how online material can and cannot be...

Considerations for Using Classroom Tech

As Matt Miller of Ditch That Textbook notes, classroom technology has the potential to be transformative. With the buffet of edtech choices...

Common Sense: Digital Citizenship Curriculum

Protecting your data on the internet is a vital skill for students to understand. These interactive lessons and activities from Common Sense provide...

Common Sense Digital Citizenship Resources for Family Engagement

Like other content areas, building a strong digital citizenship foundation takes a village. In this resource from Common Sense Education, families...

Class Dojo: Big Ideas Empathy Series

Watch this series of videos from Class Dojo with your students and facilitate discussion with related activities for social-emotional learning. In...

Civics with Minecraft

In this video, elementary students explore some of the following questions using Minecraft:How do we build a perfect community?What does a "perfect"...

Sharing Student Work in Online Spaces

When students share their work with an authentic audience, their learning takes on new meaning. Because the eyes will see the work of the "real...

SEL Practices in the Remote Classroom

Research tells us that implementing SEL practices aids in both academic and personal growth. Bringing those practices to the remote classroom isn't...

SEL + Jamboard

Are you interested in ways your students can communicate their social and emotional needs with you digitally and in real-time? Then Jamboard has you...

Shifting from Engagement to Empowerment

We often talk about what it means to move from compliance to engagement. It’s the idea of creating an environment where students want to learn...

Royalty Free Music: What is it and Where Can I Get It?

Technology can be an amazing resource. However, we need to be careful about our sources of information and if we are following proper copyright laws....