Tag: social media

  • ACE 2min Tech: Curved Word Art

    One of the great things about Adobe Express is the ability to create a series of common graphics from templates. Using templates can be amazing but come with some problems including spacing and layout. Learn how to use these tools to make better graphics as you change the words in the graphic template.

  • Va. Board of Education urges policy on social networks as teaching tools – The Washington Post

    Va. Board of Education urges policy on social networks as teaching tools – The Washington Post. Kimiya Haghighi, 17, had a prose problem. As much as her teachers preached concise writing, her sentences remained long and overwrought — the words poured out, unpunctuated, one after another. Then Aubrey Ludwig, her 11th-grade English teacher at Langley…

  • A Week without Social Media (via Chimaera)

    Very interesting read about the true usefulness of social media. I have to admit that the idea of walking away from Facebook is a very interesting idea. Hmm… I’m behind on everything because I’ve been moving, but I can’t possibly let Harrisburg University’s week-long social media blackout pass without a comment. I don’t know about…

  • New school year blues

    I know many teachers who get the itch to teach again in mid July. Days always seem a little odd without the segmented bell schedules or the socializing of 200+ adolescents. For me, this came into sharp contrast as I began the school. My new big idea would be using Twitter as a means to…