Posts Index

This page provides another tool for locating and learning about the catalog of posts on this site. The listing is grouped into topical sections, and supplements the Category listing and Search function as means for accessing the ever expanding body of articles here on EmergingEdTech.

Posts focused on Professional Development

• 10 Education Technology Implementation Pitfalls and Ways to Avoid Them
• 10 Internet Technologies Educators Should Be Informed About – 2011 Update
• 3 Quick Lesson Plan Ideas That Utilize Technology
• 5 Tips for Advancing Any Career Using Technology Tools
• Announcing the 2012 Free Education Technology Resources eBook from EmergingEdTech
• Campus Technology 2010: Time and Money Well Spent
• Cybersafety: A Lesson Plan Outline in Internet Safety
• Emerging Education Technologies: Approaches To Staying Informed
• Steven Laster’s 8 Factors for Successful IT Management
• Survey Results – Professional Development Is Top Education Technology Wish List Item
• Teacher’s recommendations for academic uses of 5 fun free presentation tools
• The Importance of Source Evaluation and Content Credibility Skills for Today’s Students
• Understanding Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons, as they apply to Education
• Workshops & Conferences (Category)

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Making the case for embracing Education Technology in (and out of) the Classroom

• 5 Internet Technologies That School Administrators Need To Know About
• 5 Reasons Why Educators Need To Embrace Internet Technologies
• 7 Reasons To Leverage Social Networking Tools in the Classroom
• 8 Engaging Videos Advocating Better Integration of Technology in Education
• 8 Great TED Talks About The Future Of Education And Teaching
• 10 Internet Technologies Educators Should Be Informed About – 2011 Update
• Article “Why Web 2.0 is important to Higher Ed”
• Check out the (Education) Reform Library from The Foundation for Excellence in Education
• Collecting studies focused on the impact of Education Technologies
• Education Technology - Don’t Lean On It, Leverage It!
• Education Technology Leadership Spotlight: Celebrating the Work of Salman Khan
• Education Technology Is An Enabler, Not A Magic Wand
• Michael Wesch: New Learning Environments for New Media Environments
• Should hands-on technology be kept out of early grades? When is it okay to introduce technology?
• The Education Technologies That Educators Believe Can Have The Biggest Impact On Student Learning (Survey Results)
• The Gamification of Education and Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Learning Benefits
• The Key to Popularizing Technology in Education

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The Future of Education Technology

• 5 Examples of Improved Approaches to Assessment (from the 2010 NETP draft)
• 8 Engaging Videos Advocating Better Integration of Technology in Education
• A Conversation With The Future and Microsoft’s Cameron Evans
• Adaptive Learning, An Idea With Powerful Potential
• Cool insight into the future of virtual worlds and virtual reality
• Education Technology Leadership Spotlight: Celebrating the Work of Salman Khan
• Educators Use Cloud-Based Solutions to Take Learning to the Next Level
• Flipping the Classroom (Reverse Instruction) (category)
• Google’s Liquid Galaxy Project
• Is Reverse Instruction Education Technology’s Perfect Storm?
• Immersive Technologies and the Future of Education
• Kids Teaching Kids – Is This The Next Ed Tech Breakthrough?
• Telepresence (this is just too cool!)
• The Changing Dynamic of Online Education
• The Gamification of Education and Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Learning Benefits
• Web 2.0 is “the future of education”
• Virtual Desktops – an Exciting Emerging Technology Platform for Academic Computing
• Virtual Labs – Award Winning Virtual Dissection Apps

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Posts about Specific Technologies & Products

Most of the links directly open a post, or the first post in a series, on that topic. For a few technologies that have multiple posts and their own associated Category on this site, the link below opens the Category page for that technology (I have indicated ‘Category’ next those links).

• 1 to 1 technology programs: 4 Unique Ways That 1:1 Technology Can Transform Student Writing; Why Every Student Should Be In a 1:1 Classroom
• Blogs & Blogging (Category)
• Camtasia Studio
• Cell Phones, Smart Phones, and Texting: Embracing the Cell Phone in the Classroom With Text Messaging Assignments, 10 More Resources For Getting the Most Out of Cell Phones and Smart Phones in School
• Cloud Apps for Educators
• Collaboration & Brainstorming (Category)
• Creative Writing
• Crossword Puzzle Maker
• Dropbox
• Educational Games (Category)
• E-Portfolios
• Electronic Textbooks
• Evernote
• Eyejot – a free and easy video mail application
• Eye Witness to History (dot com)
• Facebook (Category)
• File Sharing: 4 Free Tools for Sharing Files with Students
• Financial Literacy Education: Teaching Personal Finance in the Classroom, 10 Reasons Why Schools Should Be Teaching Financial Literacy To Our Kids
• Flipping the Classroom (Category)
• Google Apps for Education
• Google Docs: Why Teachers and Students Should Be Using Them For Course Work
• Interactives (4 Sets of Introductory Computer and Internet Technology Interactives)
• Interactive Whiteboards (Category. See also ’Online Interactive Whiteboards’ below).
• iPads and Other Tablet Devices (Category)
• Learning Analytics
• Learning Management & Course Management Systems (Category)
• Lecture Capture (Category)
• Microsoft’s Live@edu
• MOOCs: How will MOOCs impact the future of college education?
• Moodle: Learning about Moodle – a leading open source LMS, Moodle 2.0 versus Blackboard 9.1 – a Brief Comparison
• Music Education Technology
• Netsupport School provides teachers with easy centralized control of classroom computers
• OER (Learning about OER – Open Educational Resources)
• Online Interactive Whiteboards
• Online Video Lectures
• Parent Portals (SchoolTool and other Parent Portals in K-12 Education)
• Picture & Image Editing (Category)
• Plagiarism Detection: Plagiarism Detectives at Work (plus 5 Top Plagiarism Detection Applications)
• Podcasting
• Polling & Surveys (Category)
• Portals
• Presentation Tools (Category)
• Project Management
• Read It Later
• Reverse Instruction (Category)
• Screencasting (Category)
• Skype in the classroom
• Smartpens
• Social Learning & Social Networking (Category)
• Story Telling & Timelines
• Talisma (CRM for Higher Ed)
• TeacherTube, YouTube, and other Video Hosting sites for education
• Telepresence
• Tutoring & online Homework Help (Category)
• Twitter (Microblogging) (Category)
• YouTube Channels for Educators
• Virtual Desktops – an Exciting Emerging Technology Platform for Academic Computing
• Virtual Worlds (Category)
• Voki Is A Fun, Free Animated Avatar Application That’s Easy To Use In The Classroom
• Vuvox
• Wikis (Category)
• Wikipedia (Is There a Role For Wikipedia in the Classroom?)
• Word Clouds (Wordle and more)
• WiZiQ (kind of a ‘lite’ Learning Management System)

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Posts about Education Technology Organizations & Sites

• 10 Beneficial Facebook Pages For Educators To Check Out
• 7 Twitter Users to Follow If You Are Interested in Education Technology
• 8 Great LinkedIn Groups for Educators
• Announcing ShoutLearning, where students can take environmental action while learning
• Are you using technology to positively impact K-12 student learning? Get recognized.
• Connecting a Million Minds (to after-school STEM Programs)
• Discovering the International Society for Technology in Education
• Exploring the Classroom2.0 Website
• Getting to know ELI (the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative)
• The Definitive Source for Information About IT Issues Effecting Higher Education
• The Foundation for Excellence in Education
• Top 10 ‘Language Technology’ Blogs (these are really just other good Ed Tech sites)

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Series on Special Needs Students

• A Deeper View – Changing the Special Education Playing Field
• ADD & ADHD
• Autism & PDD
• Hearing Impairments
• Helping Autistic children learn with Video Modeling techniques
• Visual Impairments
• Physical Disabilities
• Online Communities for Educators working with Special Needs Students

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Various Other Posts

• 11 Reasons Why Every College Student Needs a LinkedIn Page
• 5 Educator Guest Posts This Week on Microsoft’s Teacher Tech Blog
• 5 Strategies for Staying on Top of School Work While Traveling
• 5 Tips For Staying Motivated While Studying Online
• 7 Challenges To Be Aware Of When Considering Distance Learning
• 7 Online Resources For Finding Grants For Educators
• 12 Great (and free) Tools for Technology Integration in Education
• Education Technology Twitter Post Weekly Summaries (Category)
• Have an idea about leveraging technology to help students succeed in college? Want it funded? Read on.
• How Cool is Google Image Search? You Can Even Use a Picture as a Search Parameter!
• Implementing School Management Systems: Smaller Schools vs Larger Schools
• Infographic: How Technology is Facilitating Education
• Instructional Designer James Hill Discusses the Ups and Downs of Technology (Interview)
• KPIs to Drive Success Across the Student Lifecycle
• Let’s stop misspending education technology dollars
• Online Schooling and The Democratization of Education
• Over 50 Great Free Productivity Resources for Educators, from across the Web
• Should hands-on technology be kept out of early grades? When is it okay to introduce technology?
• Steven Laster’s 8 Factors for Successful IT Management
• Study shows 15% improvement in 5th grader’s fractions test scores after playing iPad Motion Math game for a week
• This is pretty cool – 3D motion video created by capturing extruded light from an iPad.
• The Internet as a Study Buddy
• The Safe Webspaces Project Helps Introduce Kids to the Internet

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Guest Posts from EmergingEdTech author Kelly Walsh on other web sites:

• Education Technology – Changing the Nature of Education, and Building a Bridge to Tomorrow, on The Official Microsoft Blog
• 5 More Internet Technologies Educators Should Be Aware Of, on Microsoft’s Teacher Tech blog