Bonus: 20 Ideas for 2020

Kathryn Laster (@kklaster), Nancy Watson (@NancyWTech), and Misty Trevino (@TrevinoMisty) share 20 tips, ideas, resources, and tools for the new year. If you have additional ideas or tools for us to try, please tweet us @DigLearnRadio.

Digital Citizenship Ideas

Spotting Bots tutorial - tips on identifying social media bots Informable app from the News Literacy Project - helps you build news literacy skills Everyday #DigCit app - questions and talking points for quick digital citizenship lessons any time. Digcit.glideapp.io Contribute your ideas for the app at bit.ly/digcitideas Digital Citizenship online course - coming soon!

Mindfulness

Calm app (oops, no longer accepting teacher applications) Headspace app (free for educators) The Joy Makeover from Ingrid Fetell Lee (sign up here) Before Breakfast Podcast, 5-minute podcast from Laura Vanderkam, which shares tips about time management Forest: Be focused, stay present Chrome extension

Learning Opportunities

#ClassyCreations with Tony Vincent #GifADay from Jake Miller The Learning Scientists, website focused on research connected to learning Google Teacher Training Center

Random/Fun Tools

Just a Line - An app that lets you make simple drawings with white lines in 3D space Jen Giffen’s blog post on creating friendmojis While You're Waiting slide example

Tools to Try in 2020

Classroom Q, students virtually raise their hand to get help from a teacher, discovered from this tweet from Catlin Tucker Floop, tool for streamlining feedback loops, heard on the "6 EdTech Tools to Try in 2020" podcast episode from Cult of Pedagogy Parlay, discussion prompt/response tool, also mentioned on the Cult of Pedagogy podcast Shortcuts for iPhone - see the post 12 Shortcuts You Should be Using (includes video to GIF shortcut) and how to use shortcuts to dictate into notes