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20 Apr 2017

Safety Management Categories: Profanity & Hate Speech

With this Gaggle Speaks post, we’re launching a new series specifically about our Safety Management categories.


By     Gaggle
17 Apr 2017

How Instagram, Facebook and Twitter Foster Digital Citizenship & Safety

Did you notice any peculiar trends on Instagram recently? In efforts to foster a safer, kinder community, tens of thousands of Instagrammers came toge...


By     Corey Tutewiler
12 Apr 2017

Digital Life After School: Graduation for G Suite

As part of a G Suite for Education release earlier this year, Google introduced Graduation for G Suite, an easy way for students to migrate content to...


By     Corey Tutewiler
07 Apr 2017

Social Network Spotlight: Swarm

Swarm is a geo-location, social-gaming application that allows users to “check in” at specific locations and share with their social network. A compan...


By     Alex Beck
05 Apr 2017

Using Facebook Stories in the Classroom

As the adage goes, "the only permanent thing in the universe is impermanence." This is certainly true of the Stories feature on social media—made popu...


By     Corey Tutewiler
03 Apr 2017

Saving Students’ Lives: All Part of a Day’s Work

It takes a special person to work on our Safety Management Team. These former educators and members of law enforcement, who also have backgrounds in p...


By     Rob Yoegel
30 Mar 2017

How to Address Cyberbullying with Digital Citizenship and Gaggle

The importance of protecting students from harmful situations, especially cyberbullying in schools, was the theme of last week's Gaggle webcast, "Cybe...


By     Gaggle
28 Mar 2017

Why Network Security Doesn’t Keep Students Safe

Sometimes, educators will mistake us as a network security provider. The misunderstanding makes sense. When K12 schools and districts think of focusin...


By     Corey Tutewiler
22 Mar 2017

What You Need to Know About Adding Personal Accounts to Google Classroom

Last week, Google announced that users will have the ability to access Google Classroom from personal accounts, as well as from accounts on entirely s...


By     Corey Tutewiler
15 Mar 2017

The Problem with Free Email Archiving

While I want to spend some time talking about a handful of issues associated with free email archiving solutions, what they all have in common is that...


By     Patrick O'Neal

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