June 2010

Microsoft focuses on Critical Thinking Skills in ISTE 2010 launch

June 30, 2010

Free eBook, resource guide, Wiki, and more Critical Thinking educational resources announced. This week at the International Society for Technology in Education’s (ISTE) annual conference, Microsoft announced that they have worked with the ISTE and Howard Rheingold and created a various materials and a curriculum that helps to teach kids how to evaluate information found online. This [...]

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The Key to Popularizing Technology in Education

June 27, 2010

Meeting these requirements can position any education technology implementation effort for success. I’m delighted to post this guest post, contributed by Anna Miller, who writes on the topic of online degrees . Many readers of this column appreciate the challenges that educational institutions face in their efforts to leverage the many technological tools available to today’s educators. In [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the week of 06-21-10

June 25, 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 my blog readers). Staff development is top Ed Tech challenge! http://bit.ly/bKBQFq A guide to grading student blogs, from ProfHacker: http://bit.ly/9BEB9M Appreciated this edublogger’s thoughts on how to work to leverage [...]

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Skype in the classroom

June 23, 2010

We’re finding the popular, free voice and video conferencing solution to be very useful in the classroom. How about you? This year, there have a been a growing number of cases where we are being asked to set up Skype in our classrooms and provide webcams to facilitate video calls.  This free application makes it easy [...]

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Taking Mimio’s low-cost, portable Interactive White Board device for a test run

June 20, 2010

This week, I tried out an “Interactive Xi Bar” that the folks at Mimio loaned me. I really liked it. A few months ago I learned about this unique approach to turning a regular white board into an Interactive White Board. The Mimio Bar is easy to use and highly portable - it clips on to a white board [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the week of 06-14-10

June 18, 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 my blog readers). Competition offers $10K for 21st-century education ideas: http://bit.ly/au0KWk Educators & Students Need Actual Technology Training (don’t just assume they/we know tech!): http://bit.ly/bgiT9j Motivating Students with Application Projects [...]

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Let’s stop misspending education technology dollars

June 16, 2010

A lot of schools have over spent on, and under supported, interactive white boards and other education technologies. I was fascinated by this article yesterday in the Washington Post. The article is a follow up on a prior piece in the Post that explained that “a view is emerging that the large amounts of money schools [...]

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Indaba Music – a great resource for music teachers and students

June 13, 2010

Indaba Music is a wonderful example of how Internet based tools can raise “collaboration” to a level far exceeding what has been possible up to now. Alexandra Stewart from Indaba Music reached out to me and introduced me to this site. I was instantly intriqued, as I am an amateur musician (here’s an example of my work - I [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week of 06-07-10

June 11, 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 my blog readers). Great FREE eBook – Tools for the 21st Century Teacher: http://bit.ly/bwBJ77 Educators question whiteboards, other tech (even I don’t want tech for tech’s sake, it must be [...]

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Summer Math Programs for Grades 3 to 10 from Tenmarks.com

June 9, 2010

These new summer programs bring an Online Education twist to “summer bridge” programs. I recently learned about these relatively inexpensive online summer math programs, to help students refresh and practice their math skills over the summer. Definitely an interesting alternative to the summer bridge books my kids have used. Will some students be more engaged with the material [...]

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