September 2010

Want to ask US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan a question?

September 29, 2010

Here’s your chance … Visit this site to submit a question, and the question may be posed to the Secretary of Education on Friday, October 1 in a live White House webcast from 2:15 p.m. EST. Submitted questions must be categorized into 1 of 4 categories: Costs and College, Race to the Top, STEM, or [...]

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5 Examples of Improved Approaches to Assessment (from the 2010 NETP draft)

September 26, 2010

The 2010 National Education Technology Plan draft provides some great examples of formative uses of technology-based assessment tools. I’ve been reading the 2010 National Education Technology Plan draft and I really appreciate the wealth of ideas and examples in it. I do wonder how much of what is proposed in this document will come to pass as it moves [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the week of 09-20-10

September 24, 2010

This week’s collection of Education Technology article and resource Tweets. (Originally posted on Twitter by@EmergingEdTech over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers). Tech has become indispensable in education: http://bit.ly/djLu0x StarCraft course the “best college course ever?” http://bit.ly/b28EyY Classroom iPad Programs Get Mixed Response: http://bit.ly/c13BIL Nice NY Time pictorial timeline [...]

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This is pretty cool - 3D motion video created by capturing extruded light from an iPad.

September 22, 2010

I know that’s a mouthful of a post title, and I know this isn’t exactly education technology, but I think you’ll enjoy it anyway (and it involves the iPad, which is a certainly a popular Ed Tech topic these days)! In this video, “Making Future Magic: iPad light painting”, these brilliant people create images and display them on an iPad [...]

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The Eno Interactive Whiteboard – A Teacher’s First Glimpse

September 19, 2010

In this week’s feature post, an instructor shares his initial experience with the Polyvision Eno Interactive White Board. Guest Post By James Lines Ed Note: This post is sort of a follow up to a series of posts I did here late last year in which I started learning about IWBs and discussed my experiences working with [...]

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EmergingEdTech Tweet Wrap for week of 09-13-10

September 17, 2010

This week’s collection of Education Technology article and resource Tweets. (Originally posted on Twitter by@EmergingEdTech over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers). High School science teachers using cell phones to facilitate practice tests in the classroom: http://bit.ly/bw1DQq Obama announces new initiative w/$5Mill funding, led by corp CEOs, aimed @ [...]

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Announcing EmergingEdTech’s video blog - another great way to learn about today’s education technology

September 16, 2010

I’ve got some great stuff to share in today’s mid-week post - EmergingEdTech’s new video blog, and a nice interview feature on Udemy.com! Today I am officially launching a nice addition to EmergingEdTech’s growing set of web based education technology resources - a companion video blog over on YouTube. Interview on Udemy Before introducing the new vlog with a quick video and looking [...]

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5 Easy Steps For Students To Establish Their Personal Brand Using Social Networking

September 12, 2010

Social networking sites can provide an excellent platform for students to begin establishing a professional presence. Today’s students hear frequent warnings about being careful with what they post on social networking sites, in consideration of the long term damage such postings can cause. But whether through Facebook, LinkedIn, or any of the social networking sites and forums out [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week of 09-06-10

September 10, 2010

This week’s collection of Education Technology article and resource Tweets. (Originally posted on Twitter by@EmergingEdTech over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers). Facebook As Retention Tool for College Students? http://bit.ly/9AN3aq Grants offered for identifying most pressing classroom challenges, and proposing solutions: http://bit.ly/cCqvLy Start-Up Aspires to Make the World ‘One [...]

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A Deeper View - Changing the Special Education Playing Field

September 8, 2010

This web based applications provides easy to use data capture and progress monitoring for any observable behavior. I recently had the good fortune of having a walk through this breakthrough application, and just had to share it here. Created by an enterprising parent of two children with autism, this tool that will dramatically improve the ability of educators and therapists to collect and [...]

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