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eduCanon It’s time to take those videos that students passively watch and make them interactive. With eduCanon, teachers can make their own videos or any Youtube video an active and engaging learning experience for their students. Teachers can differentiate by assigning different videos or bulbs to groups of students, and reports let you see learning needs as assignments are completed.   Create your free basic account by going to www.educanon.com   (see end of blog post for details on how to get a free upgrade to premium access) To design your first lesson, click on the design button at the top right corner. On the left hand side, you will see step by step directions for building your lesson-Enter in the title, learning objectives, grade, etc for the lesson. Search for video or enter url of desired video. Once you have inserted the video, it will show up on the right hand side of the screen. Here you can crop the video, add questions to the video...

Please incorporate a Digital Citizenship/Social Awareness lesson into your curriculum prior to using any electronic devices in your classroom. I have prepared one for you that you are free to use with videos and a short quiz for students: http://bit.ly/chhssocialmedia Additional resources: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/curriculum http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/schools.aspx http://www.netsmartz.org/Parents http://www.cybersmart.org/ http://www.edudemic.com/first-five-days-of-digital-citizenship-at-your-school/