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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