Teacher Education

Digital & Media Literacy

Electronic Signatures

Posted in Blog Posts, Digital & Media Literacy, Elementary & Middle Years, Not Subject Specific, Post Secondary, Remote teaching & learning, Resource, Secondary | Tagged with apps, esignature, signature, Teacher Use

Teaching and working remotely brings about new challenges many of us haven’t considered. Authorizing documents through your signature may seem complicated when you cannot sign a digital screen with your pen. Thankfully, there are many solutions to this issue. Note that this post only covers electronic signatures and not digital signatures. Digital signatures involve cryptographic […]

VR Tours & Literacy

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, AR & VR Tools, Blog Posts, Digital & Media Literacy, Elementary & Middle Years, Learning Design & Planning, Resource | Tagged with 360 degree image, 360 images, AR, core competencies, Language Arts, literacy, multimodal, novel studies, real-world, virtual reality, vr

NOTE: As of June 2021, Google Tour Creator is being discontinued (and this post and accompanying video resources will be archived/removed) Have you considered how 360° video, images, Augmented and Virtual Reality might help spark your students’ creativity and, perhaps, engage them in the ‘place’ or setting of a novel? In the past, such technologies […]