Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path
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Literacy in a digital education world and peripheral issues.
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Visual Note Taking- 5 Good Apps for Teachers and Students

Visual Note Taking- 5 Good Apps for Teachers and Students | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Looking for some good apps to help you with your visual note taking? The list below has you covered. It features what we believe are some of the best options out there. These are apps you can use to record  visual notes in different formats including: mind maps, diagrams, flowcharts, handwritten notes, sketches on virtual papers, and many more. 
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Some Good Websites to Help You with Your Classroom Management

Some Good Websites to Help You with Your Classroom Management | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Looking for some educational websites to help you with the management of your class instruction? The list below has you covered. These are some some popular web tools we have reviewed in multiple instances in the past which you can use to perform a wide variety of tasks. These include: creating interactive video lessons, collect formative assessment and provide real-time feedback to students, enhance students learning through the use of digital games and flashcards, create online classes and share with students assignments and learning resources, organize students into appropriate learning groups and many more.
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No Slacking Off! How Savvy Teachers Are Turning to Trello and Slack | EdSurge News

Schools may be behind on the technology adoption curve. But that doesn’t mean tech-savvy educators like Matthew Green, a 14-year veteran teacher who teaches high school juniors and seniors at Riverpoint Academy in Washington state, are slacking off.

“Our school sees itself as a startup,” he says, “and we’re always asking, ‘What are the best tools available right now?’”

Teachers have always found ways to adopt and adapt technology tools. Teachers are epic users of Twitter and Google docs.

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Personal Knowledge Management for Academia & Librarians - Writing tools

Personal Knowledge Management for Academia & Librarians - Writing tools | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
There are many tools available for the writer today.  Recently, I was asked to provide a brief overview of the more popular low-cost tools out there for new writers.  Here are a few of the ones, in no particular order, that I found during my preparation for that presentation to my writing group.
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5 Good Tools for Visual Note Taking

5 Good Tools for Visual Note Taking | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Have you considered the power of visual note taking in your online instruction? Well, if you have not you should. Visual note taking will help enrich your teachable content and facilitate your remote teaching. The apps below are some of the best visual note takers out there. Most of them support collaborative team work allowing you to work  with your students or colleagues on the same visual note, diagram or mind map and in real-time.
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Some of The Best Bookmarking Tools for Teachers and Educators

Some of The Best Bookmarking Tools for Teachers and Educators | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Bookmarking tools are key to the effective management of digital resources. They allow you to capture  and save important information to read later. Most of these tools provide organizational features enabling users to organize their bookmarked content into boards and collections that can be shared with others. Other tools  even go a step further to provide collaborative features that allow a group of people to collectively bookmark and share online resources. 

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Digital Productivity for work, study and life.

Digital Productivity for work, study and life. | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
The Technology Enhanced Learning team recently ran a bitesize online course for University of Sussex staff looking at Digital Productivity. This blog post will explore some ideas around that topic.

The course was conceived as a way to introduce staff to ways of working that take advantage of digital technologies to enhance or expand on practices they would previously have carried out manually. These techniques are equally useful for students and for ‘life admin’ for everyone.

It is very tempting to launch into lists of so-called productivity apps – and there are very many lists of that sort on the web – but if you are really going to find new, better ways of working then it is important to spend a little time thinking about where you are now and what you want to achieve
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