November 2010

Exploring the World of Free Teaching Productivity Resources on the Web

November 28, 2010

There are so many free productivity tools available on the Internet for today’s educators. I’m creating a resource page that list many of the most useful ones, and I’d love to have your input! By “productivity” tools and resources, I am referring to tools that can help teachers get their jobs done more efficiently or effectively, at no cost (beyond the [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the week of 11-22-10

November 26, 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). From Some Teachers, Excitement About Classroom Tech: http://nyti.ms/clg1wC 8 Ways Technology Is Improving Education: http://on.mash.to/cD2Jar A Guide to Google Apps for Education: http://bit.ly/hs1g96 eSN Special Report: [...]

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2010 Edublog Award Nominations

November 24, 2010

And the 2010 Edublog Awards nominations are … In the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S., I would like to nominate the following blogs for 2010 Edublog Awards. I am grateful for the fine work that everyone involved in these blogs (and so many more like them) does, and I think that they [...]

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The Importance of Writing Skills: Online Tools to Encourage Success

November 21, 2010

Good writing skills are critical for today’s students, here’s a few online tools to help develop and reinforce them. As teachers, I think we’d all agree that communication is pretty important. In fact, it’s a necessary component of education, livelihood, and basic functionality in our society. It’s also fairly obvious that there are two main ways to communicate, [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week of 11-15-10

November 19, 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). Why Tying Teacher Pay to Test Scores Won’t Work: http://bit.ly/clns6V Enrollment in Online Courses in 2009 increased at highest rate ever (21%)!: http://bit.ly/9gK28o eInstruction offering 25 [...]

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Google Docs: Why Teachers and Students Should Be Using Them For Course Work

November 17, 2010

… or at least considering it. Guest post from writer Brian Jenkins. Google Docs, an increasingly popular technology with teachers and students, is free! Google Docs includes an online word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation editor. Students and teachers can use these tools to collaborate on assignments, projects, newsletters, and blogs, among other things. In this way, [...]

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5 Internet Technologies That School Administrators Need To Know About

November 14, 2010

These technologies can enable educators to improve communications, enhance student learning, controls costs, manage Internet access in the classroom, and more. There are many systems and tools available in today’s marketplace that can help administrators and faculty to succeed with some of the many things they need to do in their roles. Some of the technologies I’ve listed [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week of 11-8-10

November 12, 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). Final version of Nat’l Ed Tech Plan released, and summarized in this article: http://bit.ly/cVVolh Lawmakers eye use of mobile technology in schools: http://bit.ly/cDuKgO Small computers [...]

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What the heck is a Smartpen?

November 10, 2010

I’ve seen this technology mentioned a few times in recent months, but didn’t really know what it’s about. I did a little clicking around the Web to learn more about it. This is pretty cool technology and it’s going to be really interesting to see how it’s leveraged in the coming years, and how it evolves. [...]

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Moodle 2.0 versus Blackboard 9.1 – a Brief Comparison

November 7, 2010

Taking a look at some of the similarities and differences between the newest versions of these two popular LMS’s. Thanks to contributor Olivia Coleman (olivia.coleman33@gmail.com) for collaboratively developing this guest post. Moodle and Blackboard are both popular online learning platforms with which educators can develop complete online course that can include multimedia content. But how do the two [...]

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