Edutopia
Edutopia: Why Media Literacy Is Not Just for Kids
Do you know the difference between social media skills and overal media literacy? Learn why these skills are not just valuable to students, but to teachers and parents as well.
Edutopia
Edutopia: Social Media Guidelines
Read about the ways in which educators can create social media guidelines that work to keep students safe.
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Queens University: Social Media Accessibility
This resource describes the problems related to social media accessibility for individuals with special needs and offers suggestions on how to work around some of them to make the content more accessible. The information is also...
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Aap: Constantly Connected: Adverse Effects of Media on Children & Teens
This article shares information about the adverse effects of the media on children's health.
University of North Carolina
Unc Libraries: Organizing Your Digital Media
A guide that discusses how to effectively organize digital media files on your computer.
BBC
Bbc News: Selfie Body Image Warning Issued
Could too much involvement in social media cause body image issues. Read about what current research says on the subject.
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Analog to Digital: Why and How to Teach Students to Write for an Online Audience
This article discusses the importance of teaching students how to write for an online audience using traditional writing skills but transitioning these to digital media. The author talks about ways to incorporate social media and...
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Social Media
Social media are apps and websites where you can connect and share content with friends. On these services you are often able to share and view a whole range of media such as video, photos, music and chat. Popular social media services...
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association: Social Media's Growing Impact on Our Lives
Media psychology researchers are beginning to tease apart the ways in which time spent on social media is, and is not, impacting our day-to-day lives and our psychological well-being. They are looking at whether time spent on social...
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Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative
One 21st Century way of helping students stay in touch with the real world is to utilize technology. There are several online leadership projects for classrooms to use.
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Ditch That Textbook: 10 Ideas for Digital End of Semester Final Projects
Final projects can help students summarize and review content from the entire semester. This article describes the value of final projects and ten ideas for integrating digital content, for example, designing a webpage or website,...
Edutopia
Edutopia: Anti Social Media: Spirit Day: Educators and Parents: Cyberbullying
Learn how educators and parents join together on Spirit Day to prevent online bullying of LGBT youth.
Media Smarts
Media Smarts: Your Connected Life: A Teen's Guide to Life Online [Pdf]
This guide is designed to help students who are just entering high school balance the demands their offline life with their digital one. The guide offers practical advice on a variety of activities kids like to do online, including...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Strategies to Build Engaging Digital Lessons for High School Students
In this blog, a teacher offers strategies for building engaging digital lessons as a result of the Covid Pandemic. My first task is to figure out how to make my lessons clear. I am working without the benefit of being able to circle the...
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Gov Loop: The 7 Barriers to Digital Communication
For all its conveniences, significant barriers to effective digital communication exist. These digital communication barriers can interfere with the ability to get a point across via email, chats, texts, messaging, discussion boards,...
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Gov Loop: Tips and Resources: Creating Accessible Digital Communication
With the massive shift to virtual work and education, it has become crucial that we strive to make all the content we put online accessible, particularly to people with disabilities who often experience barriers to accessing content....
Media College
Media College: Graphics Tutorial: Digital Images for the Internet
Tutorial on creating images for the Internet, with text and screenshots.
International Literacy Association
International Literacy Association: How to Help Students Interpret Digital Texts
How can we help students to move beyond summary and toward interpretation? A combination of digital popular culture modeling, heuristics, and choice - along with digital composition - can initiate that process. Interpretation combines...
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News Lab: Elements of Great Storytelling
This is a great site for broadcast journalists; it focuses on the elements that make a story great. You can find tips on writing from some of the top people in the industry.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Week of 3 10 14: Let's Play . . . Musical Ice Creams?
Learn about something called Lickestra and how its creators have found a fun way to create a new experience with their senses of taste and hearing. Includes video. [3:02]
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The Digital Scoop: Using Skitch in Kindergarten
In this article, a teacher explains how she taught kindergarten students to take photographs. They were then shown how to open an iPad app called Skitch and add words to accompany their pictures. This was followed by a Math activity...
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Nielsen Norman Group: Guidelines for Multimedia on the Web
Guidelines on how to design presentations for web media. This is an old article and some of the information is outdated, but much is still relevant. SL.9-10.5 Audio Visuals, RI.11-12.7 Eval Different Media/format....
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College Vine: The Importance of Face to Face Communication in the Digital Age
Just because we may have computers and smartphones readily available to us, this does not mean that we should abandon face-to-face communication. Find out some cases in which it makes more sense.
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The Conversation: Face Time Can't Replace Face to Face Time in Social Distancing
A discussion about why digital communication can't replace face-to-face time.
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