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When photo owners include a photograph’s Web Statement of Rights (also known as Copyright Info URL)  in an image’s embedded metadata, Google will display a “Licensable” badge on the image in Google Images search results and the image will appear …

Millions of students are learning through Zoom this fall. So why does it still feel like a corporate meeting app that has been MacGyvered into an education platform?

https://www.fastcompany.com/90542917/zoom-is-failing-teachers-heres-how-they-would-redesign-it

Coursera just announced a new Social Media Marketing Professional Certificate from Facebook. The certificate is designed for learners without a college degree or any prior experience to become ready for social media marketing jobs within a few months.

https://blog.coursera.org/facebook-partners-with-coursera-to-launch-social-media-marketing-professional-certificate/

The awkwardness of last semester’s Zoom sessions is almost certainly just a way-station on this journey—a hasty adaptation to what will inevitably become a very different model for higher education. So what have we learned so far?

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-09-10-today-s-awkward-zoom-classes-could-bring-a-new-era-of-higher-education

If you’re not willing to run more than $200 worth of charges on your credit card, we’ve rounded up some of the best Android tablets you can buy for your money according to expert and user reviews, plus tons of …

Facebook Campus is a college-only space designed to help students connect with fellow classmates over shared interests. Facebook Campus makes it easy to find and start conversations within your college community.

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/09/introducing-facebook-campus/

In these times of physical distancing, are you suffering from “Zoom Fatigue”? Has the abundance of video conferences on your schedule led you to put yourself in the shoes of your students and ask yourself how they experienced a complete, …

This documentary from Jeff Orlowski explores how addiction and privacy breaches are features, not bugs, of social media platforms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/movies/the-social-dilemma-review.html

In today’s post we are sharing with you what we believe are four of the basic distance learning skills you as a teacher (and student) should master in order to optimize your remote teaching experience. 

https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2020/09/4-important-skills-for-distance.html

As a researcher who studies behavior and the brain, I have found the evidence suggests that online instruction can pose a range of challenges for students if they are required to keep their cameras on during class. Here are five …

Whiteboard Chat is a free service that you can use to create collaborative whiteboards to use with your students. It is possible to use Whiteboard Chat without an email address which makes it quick and easy to get started.

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/09/whiteboard-chat-online-whiteboards-you.html…

I thought I’d miss everything I love most about my work, but what happened was not what I’d expected.

https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/opinion-what-teaching-cegep-online-has-taught-me/wcm/0aa6b731-ecd8-45c4-93c2-35f9b68e8cc0/

I have volunteered to be a guest speaker in classes this Fall. It’s really the least I can do to help teachers and students through another tough term. I spoke tonight in Dorothy Kim’s class “Race Before Race: Premodern Critical …

Microsoft has developed a deepfakes detection tool to help news publishers and political campaigns, as well as technology to help content creators “mark” their images and videos in a way that will show if the content has been manipulated post-creation.…

Narakeet is a service called Video Puppet that turns PowerPoint presentations into narrated videos.  The new features include greater control over the voice-over. You can now have multiple voice-over voices in your video and you can now control pauses in …