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Natalie Butler, UK Manager, WebEx, and Karen Moyse, MD, KineticFuture, explain why digital presentation skills are more important than ever... and why businesses need to adapt to compete
The balance between face-to-face and remote communication is changing. Over the last few years a number of factors have contributed towards a growing trend for employees to conduct business via digital channels. Now the challenge is to ensure that any form of virtual communication remains as effective as the in-person alternative, and that the all-important art of face-to-face communication and charisma can be transferred to the digital world.

Virtual presentation skills are a relatively new phenomenon. Despite humble beginnings with the first, clunky video conferencing systems of the 1980s, it's now commonplace for businesses to use digital media to communicate - for example web conferences, social networks, online video, podcasts and blogs. The reasons for this shift are threefold: concerns about the environment, the need to reduce the time and costs associated with meetings, the changing nature of technology and how a new generation of knowledge workers is communicating with each other.

The green factor has been especially prominent in recent years as global efforts to fight climate change increase, encouraging businesses to consider their own carbon footprint and demonstrate corporate responsibility. Now more and more businesses are considering the environmental cost of air travel - and suddenly a round-trip to New York for a two-hour meeting seems far less appropriate as it may have five years ago. Specific targets on organisations' emissions, while not yet in force, are likely to be a key business consideration in the near future, and with studies showing that businesses and individual consumers alike are taking environmental factors into consideration when making purchase decisions, the importance of sustainable business practices is not going to diminish anytime soon.

The current economic climate also brings travel into question, on a basis of cost. The US credit crunch and fears of a subsequent recession mean corporate belts are being tightened across the world to maintain margins, efficiency and competitiveness - and business-class travel is one expense that can be trimmed in an instant. At the same time, the meteoric rise of consumer Web 2.0 applications, social networking tools and user-generated content is changing the way employees interact with each other and is fuelling the rise of digital communication even further. The next generation of office workers is already accustomed to using the internet for fairly advanced communication, whether it be managing an event via Facebook or sharing multimedia content through sites such as Flickr and YouTube. As a result technology vendors are now scrambling to add similar elements to their products to attract and engage customers for whom online networking has become second nature.

With these factors in mind, businesses are cutting business travel knowing that they can save money and cut their carbon output by replacing it where possible with technological alternatives. These include highly advanced web conferences with the ability to share any document, presentation or application, high-definition 'Telepresence' systems which give remote colleagues the sensation of sitting around the same table, or live sales and marketing events streamed over the internet. Using these tools, remote colleagues, partners or customers can collaborate efficiently on practically any issue without leaving their desks. The time employees save from not travelling can then be put to better use, increasing efficiency and productivity.

Using such technology organisations can bring practically any face-to-face meeting into the digital domain. For example, a sales presentation could be made to prospects or clients located anywhere in the world, or a large number of geographically dispersed staff could all attend the latest company training session simultaneously. Blanket broadband coverage and the ease-of-use of this type of application means getting into an online meeting is simple - the difficult part is making sure nothing is lost in the transition from face-to-face to online. It's easy to assume presenting remotely rather than in person is less challenging, but in reality it does require a different set of considerations to be a success.
Karen Moyse, Managing Director of specialist communications training agency KineticFuture, outlines some of best practices for online presentation below.
Film director Martin Scorsese talks about "The Psychic Lens of the Camera". What he means is that the camera exaggerates every emotion. So if you lack confidence or look 'shifty' you can multiply that impression by ten. Equally, being a strong digital communicator gives you a major advantage.

The goal for digital presentations is to look and sound like a relaxed and confident leader - not a "digital criminal". But in the online world you will have to work harder to keep your audience's attention. Our digital presentation training team has this advice on how to adapt your technique for the medium:
1. Understand the technology.
Find out about the new opportunities offered by these digital visual technologies, and work out the demands and limitations for you and for the audience. Make sure you're familiar with all the different features so you can use them to their maximum effect. Check whether you can use visual aids, such as images or video content, and have them ready in advance. Understand the more advanced features, such as live audience polls, so they can be used to back you up as and when required. Practice with the tool of your choice is essential.
2. Get into a dialogue.
If using a webcam, try to see through the camera and talk to the audience normally. This will allow your natural charisma and passion to come through. With or without a camera, never rush - take time to receive information and react to it. But at all times keep your language precise and clear.
3. Use relaxation techniques.
Excess tension in your face and shoulders or excessive blinking will make you look paranoid if you are speaking direct to camera. It's very different from being interviewed by a TV journalist. Stress or tension can also be detected in your voice so even if you won't be on screen you should always take time to prepare and compose yourself properly before joining a conference.
4. Learn film star skills.
Don't look directly into the camera. Use a point slightly above it and to the right. Vocally, use a normal volume - don't shout or project too much. Use your hands to make key points but you may need to tone down your normal gesticulation.
5. Maintain your energy and stay alert.
On camera, your eyes are critical. If you lose the passion or switch off for a moment, you'll lose the audience. Without a camera, you have to rely solely on your voice, which can prove more difficult. If you have someone else in the room with you try presenting to them as you speak - this helps maintain your energy and flow.

6. Use more interaction & variety.

Just like a TV programme, you need a way to hook the audience back in every five minutes. Make the message and format as exciting and interesting as possible. Then, keep using individual names, ask for active contributions and keep each segment as short as possible. The advanced features of web conferencing can really help here. If you can detect the audience flagging you could, for instance, launch an instant poll or quiz to gauge opinion on a particular point of interest, or break the presentation up with videos or other interactive content.
7. Be honest.
How good are you? These new skills are important. Get yourself filmed and take specialist advice.

KineticFuture is a specialist communications training company for leaders. For more information about digital communications courses contact Karen Moyse on karen@kineticfuture.com or www.kineticfuture.com

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Writing a blog post is a little like driving: nothing can prepare you for getting behind the wheel. In this post, we show you how to write a blog post that people will actually want to read.

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I am a co-founder of Pegasus ELS, an Edmodo Certified Trainer, an EFL teacher, as well as an Education Program Developer and Innovator, dedicated to fostering new approaches in education in order to enhance students language skills development through the use of digital tools in the teaching process.

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Pegasus ELS is a language school situated in Tetovo, Macedonia, which specialises in promoting the English language and culture through language courses for adults and young learners, employing contemporary methodology and modern technical applications. The school works with a team of qualified teachers trained by CELTA/ESOL standards.

Pegasus ELS is an institution promoting creative approaches in the informal education of adults and young learners. Its aims are to research new models and approaches that will enable a more successful attainment of our goal: developing the participants’ language and communicative skills. Thus, Pegasus ELS is an institution dedicated to fostering new ideas that will bring it closer to this objective.

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With the support of my excellent team of educators, I have developed an innovative approach in teaching students of EFL how to develop quality contents in English and, at the same time, enhance their digital skills. Digital Literacy for EFL Students is a course designed specifically for learners of English as a foreign or second language at Intermediate (B1-B2) level, aiming to advance their linguistic competence through the use of digital technology. The course comprises of five modules:

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* Blogging

* Web Design

* Filmmaking and Video Editing

* Presentation Skill

* Social Media.

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Digital Literacy for EFL Students was a finalist in the category of Local Innovation at the ELTons 2017 Innovation Awards, organised by the British Council in partnership with the University of Cambridge (Cambridge English Language Assessment).

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"Digital Literacy for EFL Students is a new and adventurous way of teaching digital skills to students of EFL. It makes use of important workplace skills to motivate learning in a creative and comprehensive package." - Expert Panel of Judges' Quote at the ELTons 2017 Innovation Awards (British Council, London)

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Digital Literacy for EFL Students is also featured on the online platform of HundrED Global – a non-profit organisation from Finland, whose mission is to help all young people flourish by seeking and sharing inspiring innovations in K12 education.

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As a HundrED Ambassador I am fully dedicated to promoting innovation in education in order to help young learners develop the necessary skills to meet the requirements of the digital age we live in.

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Since 2015, Digital Literacy for EFL Students has been promoting digital content creation to students of EFL (aged 12-19), developing their language and digital skills in a creative way through a meaningful context.

The 2018 is the European Year of Cultural Heritage and it inspired me and my team to upgrade our Digital Literacy for EFL Students program with a Cultural Heritage Module:  the idea is to develop it in order to become a standard part for content production in the educational setting we provide.

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Our goal is to educate our students about the significance of cultural heritage in shaping their cosmopolitan viewpoints, and to inspire them to explore this topic further, thus contributing to their greater understanding of the cultural diversity of the world we live in today.

Moreover, we hope to inspire other educators to take up a similar approach in developing students' understanding of this topic, and at the same time helping them advance their language skills through the use of digital technology.

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"Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings." Walt Disney

Follow our blog for more detailed information about the program's activities!

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The 2018 Year of Cultural Heritage will be an occasion to highlight the importance of European culture.

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Edmodo is a social network for teachers, parents, and students that enables exchange of ideas and digital contents within a group with a restricted access for the participants only. Participants will be given assignments related to the topics covered during this course to be edited and evaluated by the teacher. After the editing the texts will be published as blog posts, thus enabling quality content production for the purpose of the Digital Meets Heritage program.

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This blog post from Teacher Challenges offers tips on how to set up student blogs, as well as examples of student blogs.

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Welcome to the eleventh step in our free professional learning series on class and student blogging!

The aim of this step is guide you through the process of setting up your student blogs.

Why educators use student blogs

Educators normally start of with a class blog where the teacher writes the posts, and the students respond by writing comments.

This gives the teacher time to increase their skills while gradually introducing their students to blogging and educating their students on what is required.

However, as student's age increases educators are more likely to have them to write posts on their own student blog.

Student learning and writing improves faster when each student has their own blog as ownership is an important part of blogging. We all have increased motivation when we feel personal ownership. Students are more motivated by their own blogs when class blogging is done well.

Another key benefit of student blogs are they can be used as their ePortfolio to create an archive of your student's learning.

Image by Sylvia Duckworth licensed under Creative Commons ShareAlike 2.0.
Must Watch Videos
Make sure you watch The Possibility of Student Blogging by Andrea Hernandez and Slivia Tolisano.

This video provides an excellent explanation of the blogging and commenting process, impact of quality blogging on student literacy and the importance of writing as part of a global audience.

To learn more about the benefits of student blogging in higher education watch this video by students from the University of Western Australia.

Examples of Student blogs

Here are examples of real student blogs to check out for ideas:

1. Jarrod's Awesome Blog - 10 years old

2. Heather's Perfect Posts

3. Meaow @ Josie's Blog

4. Mirian's Magical Moments

5. Breana P ePortofio

6. Come Somersault with Sarah

7. Austicandproud - 13 years old

8. Avogadro Salad - High school chemistry blog

9. Youinnorway - 18 year old from Norway

Tips for creating student blogs

You can use any blogging platform you would like including Edublogs, WordPress and Blogger, however when we write detailed instructions they will refer to Edublogs. You can adapt this information to the blogging platform you are using.

Want to connect student accounts with your school's username and password? Check out CampusPress - Edublogs premium solution for schools, districts and University. Learn more about CampusPress here.

Here is some important things to consider before creating your student blog:

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1. Student Usernames, Blog URLs and blog titles

Educators normally use the same name for both the student's username and blog URL. Keep them simple and easy for the student to remember.

Most educators use a combination of their student's first name followed by numbers that might represent the year, class number and/or school initials. This is done to:

1. Protect the identity of the student (by not including their last name)

2. Ensure their username is unique (as Edublogs has close to 1,000,000 users).

For example, username mistybp16, blog URL mistybp16.edublogs.org and blog title Misty's blog.

If you want the students to use the blog for their entire school life then use a combination of letters combined with a number that represents the year they started school or are finishing school.

Your student's username is what they use to sign into a blog dashboard and is displayed on posts and comments they write.

The blog title is one of the first things a reader sees when visiting a blog.

We recommend that you keep the Student's first name as the first part of the blog title if you are using My Class. This makes it easier to identify a student blog from the Class Blog widget. The Class blog widget is used to list all student blogs attached to My Class.

You can always change the blog title any time via Settings > General in the student blog dashboard.

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2. Add yourself to your student blogs

Always add yourself as an administrator to your student blog.

This means if you need to edit/delete a post, page or comment you can quickly access their blog from your blog dashboard.

We'll show you how to do this using My Class tool below.

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Educators either prefer to let their students moderate their own comments or they moderate all the comments for their students. There are pros and cons to each approach.

We'll show you how to moderate comments using My Class tool below.

Create your Student blogs

Now you've done all the research it's time to create your student blogs!

The easiest way to set up and manage all student blogs is using My Class.

My Class can be used to:

1. Quickly create student blogs.

2. Allow students to publish their own posts on their student blogs (and the class blog) OR configure it so all student posts must be reviewed by a teacher before the posts are published.

3. Control comment moderation settings on student blogs.

4. Control the privacy settings on all student blogs with just one click!

5. Quickly enable extra features on student blogs to increase their storage space, enable mobile blogging, allow them to embed any code, access Premium themes and so much more.

6. Quickly preview all moderated posts and comments in one location.

To get started you first need to Create a Class as follows:

1. Go to My Class > Create a Class.

2. Select "This is a class blog" (1), "No - use if you want them to publish posts on their student blog" (2), choose if you want to moderate posts and comments on student blogs (3), your preferred privacy option (4) and which users you want to manage your student blogs (5).

3. Click Save.

4. The My Class menu should change to the menu item shown below.

Once you've created your class there are two options for creating student blogs:

1. You create the student blogs using My Class > Create Student blogs

2. Students to create their own blogs using the Edublogs sign up page.

How to create student blogs using My Class

The following instructions explain how you create the student blogs yourself using My Class. Refer to the create own student blog support page if you want students to create their own blogs and attach their blog to My Class.
Creating student blogs is as simple as:
1. Go to My Class > Create Student blogs.

2. Add username, email address, password, blog URL and blog title.

This creates their student blogs, adds them as a user to the class blog, adds you as a user to their student blog and connects their student blog with the class blog.

You can create your student accounts with one email account if you don't want students to use their own email account.

If students create their own account using the Edublogs account, and don't add an email address, you will be able to reset their password using the Edit link under their username in Users > All Users.

We recommend you use the preset password option and record their username/password/blog URL in a spreadsheet as you create their blogs. Some teacher require students to informed them when passwords are changed so they have a record of the student's latest password.

This is handy for those students who forget password or provided the wrong email address.

3. Click Submit.

Once you have created all your student blogs they will be listed in My Class > Student blogs where you'll be able to view all pending posts, pages and comments.

Add student blogs link

You and your students can easily add a link to all student blogs in the sidebar using the Class Blog widget as follows:

1. Go to Appearance > Widgets.

2. Add the class blog widget to the desired sidebar.

3. The widget will automatically open.

4. Select 'No' under Public only if you are using private blogs (1), alphabetical (2), the number of blogs (3) and then click Save.

Any time you add any more student blogs to My Class you update the Class blog list by opening up the Class blog widget and clicking Save.

5. The widget will look something like below in the sidebar of your class blog and the sidebar of a student blog.

When you set up My Class your student users are added as user to the class blog and to the student blog.

The menu items the students see depends on which dashboard they are logged into and what settings you have set in My Class > Settings.

Below is the menu items the students would see if you selected "No - use if you want them to publish posts on their student blog" for what the students can do on the class blog.

If your students see limited menu items it means they are logged into the Class blog dashboard and need to navigate to their student blog dashboard.
Changing blog dashboards is as simple as:
1. Go to My Sites dropdown menu in your admin bar.

2. Click on the dashboard of the blog you want to access.

If your students are using the Edublogs app they should see the title of their student blog inside the app. If a student sees the title of the class blog they need to follow these instructions to add their student blog.

Student posts and comments can be checked using Dashboard > Reader, My Class > Student blogs, Dashboard > My Sites or Users > Reports.

Edublogs Reader

The Edublogs Reader is the fastest way to check all pending posts and comments on your student blogs. This allows you to preview posts and comments and publish them with one click!

You would use the Reader if you used the following My Class settings:

Previewing and approving posts and comments is as simple as:

1. Go to Dashboard > Reader.

2. Click on Pending

On the pending page posts and comments are listed in reverse chronological order based on the date they were submitted.

3. Click on Read More if you want to read the full post or click on Publish if you are happy to publish the post.

Please note if you selected "I must approve all posts' students aren't able to edit the post once it is published.

If you want the students to do further edits you need to leave the post as pending or change the post to draft mode by opening it in edit mode.

This displays the full post and allows you to select from the following options:

View Original - when you click on 'View original' it loads the draft post on the student blog where you can see what the post will look like when published.

Edit - clicking on Edit opens the post inside the dashboard of the student blog where you can make edits to the post.

Publish - to publish the post click on Publish. Please note if you selected "I must approve all posts' students aren't able to edit the post once it is published. If you want the students to do further edits you need to leave the post as pending or change the post to draft mode by opening it in edit mode.

The forward and back arrows allow you to scroll to the next or previous student post or comment.

My Class > Student blogs

My Class > Student blogs and Dashboard > My Sites is where you'll see all your student blogs listed. Here is where you can use the Dashboard link to access their blog; where you'll see the number of published and pending posts / pages / comments on their blogs.

Clicking on pending under a student blog takes you to the pending post or pending comments page inside their student blog dashboard where you can edit, approve or publish the post or comment.

Reports, via Users > Reports, allows you to run a report on a specific student. It allows you to check comments they've submitted on any blog or posts they have published and choose the date range you want to check.

Reading Student Posts

The Edublogs Reader automatically feeds all published posts from all student blogs and the class blog into the dashboard of every users attached to My Class where you and your students can easily read and comment on each others' posts.

Reading posts is as simple as:

1. Go to Dashboard > Reader.

2. Click on My Class

3. Click on Read More if you want to read the full post.

This displays the full post and allows you to select from the following options:

View Original - when you click on 'View original' it loads the draft post on the student blog where you can see what the post will look like when published.

Edit - clicking on Edit opens the post inside the dashboard of the student blog where you can make edits to the post (only visible to the teacher).

Add New Comment - allows you to add a comment to the post from inside your dasbhboard.

The forward and back arrows allow you to scroll to the next or previous student post or comment.

Getting students started

There is a range of different approaches teachers use to get their students started.

Here is some ideas worth checking out for your class:

1. Miss Wyatt's Student bloggers - links to posts on basic blogging for students. The Student Bloggers blog contains basic skills for students to follow to learn to blog.

2. Have a look at Welcome to blogging, Today's class assignment and Explore your blog on Blogging with Mrs C for ideas on how you can introduce blogging to your students.

3. The Student blogging challenge - The Student Blogging Challenge runs twice yearly starting in March and September. It is made up of a series of 10 weekly tasks all designed to improve blogging and commenting skills. Participating in the Student blogging challenge is a good way to develop your students' blogging skills while connecting with a global audience.

We'd like you to add your voice and ideas to our ongoing conversation about student blogging by completing the following tasks:

1. Have a look at Miss Wyatt's Student Bloggers blog. Leave a comment to tell us what ideas from the approaches these teachers use with their students would you adapt and use with your students?

2. Read through the most recent comments in reply to this step and leave a response to another person's comment.

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Develop your digital skills for study success!

Whatever your course, if you're a student, you need to know how to use digital tools and technology to maximise your chance of study success. In this series of Digital Literacy videos, BBC Learning English presenters, Sian and Tim, guide us through the online world of digital information, safety and security, study tools, communication portals, storage options and much more.

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Develop your digital skills for study success

Whatever your course, if you're a student, you need to know how to use digital tools and technology to maximise your chance of study success. In this series of Digital Literacy videos, BBC Learning English presenters, Sian and Tim, guide us through the online world of digital information, safety and security, study tools, communication portals, storage options and much more.

Click on the images to go digital!

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To keep students' identities safe, it is best to encourage them to use avatars instead of their own images for their blogs.

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Digital Marketing Trends for Your Presentation

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Digital Marketing Trends for Your Presentation

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Every good presentation needs a good marketing plan. Every good marketing plan needs to include the latest trends. Digital marketing trends are the newest trends to change the industry. Research shows that 50% of businesses use digital marketing but without a strategy. Using digital marketing trends to promote your presentation can help you build upon your strategy and build your audience.

What are the latest digital marketing trends? According to Entrepreneur, business should include these in their strategy: visual content, interactive content, live video, expiring content and in-store applications. These trends are important for overall marketing strategies, but they can also be used in promoting your presentation. Here's our tips for how to use today's digital marketing trends for your presentations.

Visual Content

Visuals speak volumes when compared to text on a PowerPoint slide. As we have written many times before, research shows that the brain processes visual information 60,000 times faster than text. Presenters should rely on their visuals to spread their message instead writing it out. Include design elements and themes that will make your presentation more shareable. Use infographics, illustrations, photography filters, iconography and typography.

Interactive Content

Create interaction with your presentation through audience engagement. Holding a question and answer session or discussion is great during your presentation, but you can implement this engagement digitally. Social media websites like Facebook and Twitter let you ask poll questions. Create your own poll before and after your share your presentation online to gather more insight on the interest in your topic. You can also make fun quizzes, similar to Buzzfeed's style.

Try one of ours: What's Your Presentation Writing Style?

Live Video

Video marketing is on the rise. This year, it's expected that 69% of internet traffic is made up of videos. That is expected to rise to 79% in 2018. Now, almost every social media app has a live video feature. Use this digital marketing trend to share your presentation with your fans as it's happening. Let a friend record your presentations and give your audience a behind the scenes look at your event.

Expiring Content

In the article mentioned in the introduction, Entrepreneur reports that SnapChat has had a big influence on digital marketing trends. Creating a story that disappears forever once it's viewed is exciting for consumers. It can make them feel like they are part of something special and exclusive. In a way, presentation themselves are a form of expiring content. No presentation performance is exactly that same as another. Make your audience aware of that through social media messages emphasizes how special the event will be.

In-Store Applications

Entrepreneur's article introduced me to beacon technology, which allows businesses to interact with customers digitally. For example, a retailer can send push notifications to shoppers in their area alerting them to a sale. I have not heard of this type of technology being used in the presentation arena, but there is potential. Maybe you can offer discounted tickets to your event by notifying your contacts. This is a digital marketing trend to keep an eye on.

Digital marketing is evolving as new technology gets released. Stay up to date with the best ways to promote your presentations by joining the Presentation Revolution.
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Students choose one artist to explore and write a text for their 3rd blog posts about their favourite artist.

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Students go on a virtual tour to the British Museum with Google. They write a text for their 5th blog post, titled "My Time Travel Diary".

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The British Museum's remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history and culture. Over 6 million visitors every year experience the collection, including world-famous objects such as the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, and Egyptian mummies.
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British Museum, London, United Kingdom - Google Arts & Culture

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The British Museum's remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history and culture. Over 6 million visitors every year experience the col...

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Students are invited to create mock-up images of themselves with backgrounds from the British Museum to add to their blog posts.

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"Auto Background Changer" is an amazing application which allows the user to change his photos background automatically. This application is totally free and easy to use even child's can use it easily. (FEATURES OF THIS AUTO BACKGROUND CHANGER)1) Automatic background changer.2) manual background changer.3) re sizable cropping ball.4) magic tool to work automatically.

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Students are introduced to the use of VR technology in education.

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Students are introduced to the Google Arts & Culture VR App, and 'visit' a pre-selected cultural heritage site/museum during an individual VR tour.

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Google Arts & Culture VR - Apps on Google Play

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View artworks curated by museums from around the world with the Google Arts & Culture VR app. Step inside a virtual gallery to see works by artists like Van Gogh or Rembrandt.

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Students are encouraged to select a world heritage site/museum from a list, and explore the contents of a link to the selected site/museum from Wikipedia.
The list of cultural heritage sites/museums:
·      The Peacock Room - . Detroit, USA

·      Museum of Natural Sciences –  Brussels, Belgium

·      Quirigua, Ancient Maya Site – British Museum, London, UK

·      Wild Planet – Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia

·      Natural History Museum -  London, UK

·      Palazzo Madama – Rome, Italy

·      Temple of Hercules – Sicily, Italy

·      Taj Mahal – Agra, India

·      The White House – Washington, USA

·      Ge Garden –Yangzhou, China

·      Portchester Castle – Hampshire, England

·      The Homeland of Java Man – Java, Indonesia

·      Regional Ethnographic Museum – Plovdiv, Bulgaria

·      National Museum of Archeology – Valetta, Malta

·      A Stroll in Mantua – Mantua, Italy

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Students are introduced to Google VR.

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Augmented reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) bridge the digital and physical worlds. They allow you to take in information and content visually, in the same way you take in the world. AR dramatically expands the ways our devices can help with everyday activities like searching for information, shopping, and expressing yourself.

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Britain's Cultural Heritage Quiz on Edmodo

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Britain's Cultural Heritage Quiz on Edmodo

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Students are invited to do a quiz on Edmodo about Britain's Cultural Heritage.

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Students are guided on a VR expedition tour to some of Britain's most famous cultural heritage sites.

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Google Expeditions is an immersive learning and teaching tool that lets you go on VR trips or explore AR objects. Explore historical landmarks, go down to the atomic level, get up close with sharks, even visit outer space!

In the classroom or with groups, Google Expeditions allows a teacher acting as a "guide" to lead classroom-sized groups of "explorers" through VR tours or show them AR objects. Guides can use a set of tools to point out interesting things along the way.

Users that are not in groups can also explore on their own either in VR or AR.

Features:
* Explore a world of places and things on your own with your phone, tablet, or VR device.
* Guide classroom-sized groups of locally connected users from your phone or tablet.
* Join a guide in immersive AR or VR and let them walk you through one of our hundreds of VR or AR Expeditions. VR mode can be used with a Google Cardboard or Daydream viewer.
* Connect devices over the same WiFi network - if the Guide has downloaded some Expeditions, there is no internet connectivity required to run the Expedition!
* Choose from a growing list of over 800 Expeditions - each one is a curated set of VR imagery or AR objects along with integrated descriptions, talking points and questions.

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to your use of this app.

Do not use this app while driving, walking, or otherwise by being distracted or disoriented
from real world situations that prevent you from obeying traffic or safety laws.

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English Heritage with Google Arts & Culture

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English Heritage with Google Arts & Culture

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Students are encouraged to explore the English Heritage site prior to doing the quiz on Edmodo.

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English Heritage experts on their favorite objects, and what makes their jobs so special

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Are you a teacher? With Google Expeditions, take your students on immersive, virtual journeys and let them discover English Heritage

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English Heritage - Google Arts & Culture

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Using Google Expeditions in the Classroom

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Using Google Expeditions in the Classroom

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The Tech Edvocate article by Matthew Lynch

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Using Google Expeditions in the Classroom

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Spread the loveGoogle Expeditions is a free app that is a teaching tool in virtual reality. Think of it as allowing students to take a virtual field trip to any place in the world, at any time in history. It is designed for classroom use, and it permits teachers to act as "guides" to their students in the virtual world.

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Students are shown a video on YouTube to introduce them to the Google Expeditions App.

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Google Expeditions: over a million students, on trips to virtually anywhere

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Students are introduced to screencast video recording.

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ScreenPal’s screen recorder is intuitive, fast, and free. Capture any area of your screen. Easily add narration and use your webcam.

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Students are encouraged to edit their screen cast videos using Filmora.

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Students are encouraged to share their blog posts on social media of their choice:

- Facebook
- Twitter
- Instagram
- Snapchat

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Students are shown a YouTube video by AITSL to illustrate the importance of digital skills in the 21st century education.

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3 Ways Google Arts & Culture Can Enrich Your Lessons 

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Technology Solutions That Drive Education

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Imagine your students learning about the massive prehistoric creatures that used to walk the earth and being able to look them in the eye. Or imagine your class studying van Gogh's art and being able to look closely enough to study his brushstrokes.

We're not describing an episode of The Magic School Bus; we're talking about the reality that is Google Arts & Culture.

Similar to its foray into virtual reality via Google Cardboard and Google Expeditions, the tech giant announced in September that it had partnered with more than 50 natural history museums across the world to create a catalog of hundreds of interactive stories, photos, videos and virtual tours.

Included in the catalog are 360-degree views of creatures like Rhomaleosaurus, a 180-million-year-old sea dragon currently on display at London's Natural History Museum. Students can get the 360-degree view in the video below or on Google Cardboard.

"We wanted to give you a glimpse of how these colossal creatures actually looked," Amit Sood, the director of the Google Cultural Institute wrote in a Google for Education blog post. "So we worked with ecologists, paleontologists and biologists to put virtual skin and flesh on the preserved skeletons."

In addition to providing students with scientifically accurate experiences, Google Arts & Culture's offerings have potential for future lesson plans.

1. Providing Efficient and Immersive Museum Exploration

In addition to the individual exhibits already mentioned, Google Arts & Culture's Natural History collection has virtual tours of entire museums. Leveraging the technology of Street View, students can now take a tour of museums from New York to London to Australia.

When Google started offering virtual tours and up-close looks at art museums a few years ago, educator Samantha Peters blogged on TeachHub.com about how teachers could use Google Art Project to more easily take their students on more field trips - albeit virtually.

"Essentially, it can be treated just as a normal field trip would - by splitting students into groups, asking them to look at various genres of painting, requesting observational notes or comparisons of some sort," she wrote.

A virtual field trip of a museum of natural history could be taken with the same approach.

Google Basics for Teaching has a step-by-step guide for using the Google Cultural Institute as a virtual field trip. The guide suggests that teachers have students act as museum curators and create their own exhibitions by compiling related pieces.

In a post on The Art of Education, Apex High School teacher Melissa Purtee wrote that in addition to the museum collection, teachers can, with the help of Places, send their students on a virtual tour of a location they are studying.

"In a lesson about ancient Egyptian art, take a kids on a tour of the Great Pyramids at Giza," Purtee wrote. "This will give your lesson context and help students make the cross-curricular connections to make learning stick."

2. Getting Up-Close-and-Personal Access to Great Works of Art

Just as the natural history exhibit lets you get face to face with a sea dragon, Google Places has a zoom feature that allows students to get closer than ever before to the work of greats like Vincent van Gogh.

In her article, Purtee suggested that art teachers have students access Google Art when studying things like color theory.

"Try zooming in on a van Gogh painting and challenging students to match 10 of the colors they find. Your kids will develop a whole new appreciation for his application of color," she wrote.

Purtee also noted that students can learn how sculptures and other physical works are created by utilizing the 360-degree views.

3. Experiencing History Firsthand with Exclusive Museum Access

You won't have to spend hours traveling to Washington, D.C., and then waiting in line to check out the Smithsonian's newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Thanks to a grant from Google, the museum is set to become the most technologically advanced in the world, Google software engineer Travis McPhail wrote in a blog on Google for Education.

From its inception, the NMAAHC was designed by Google and the museum's director, Dr. Lonnie Bunch, to have a number of digital experiences.

"We worked closely with the museum to build an interactive exhibit to house artifacts from decades of African American history and let visitors explore and learn about them," McPhail wrote. "With 3D scanning, 360 video, multiple screens and other technologies, visitors can see artifacts like a powder horn or handmade dish from all angles.

McPhail wrote that Google has also created an expedition of the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, which commemorates the 1965 Voting Rights March.

Although the museum is now open, the digital components won't be available until the spring of 2017.

To explore everything we've talked about, visit the Google Arts & Culture.

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