Collaboration & Brainstorming

4 Approaches to Making Sure You Can Always Access (and Never Lose) Your Lesson Plans and Notes

August 22, 2012

A variety of free tools that can help educators organize and deliver and access learning content, and help to make sure they never lose any of it! Guest post collaboratively written with Evan Fischer. Most teachers will agree that educating the leaders of tomorrow in today’s society is something of a labor of love. Although [...]

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TechChange – Enabling Social Change With Innovate Uses of Education Technology

July 29, 2012

TechChange is the “The Institute for Technology and Social Change”, and they are at the forefront of combining technology and education to facilitate social change across the globe. TechChange.org has been successfully leveraging technology in educational applications to help groups of people throughout the world bring about social change where it is needed. TechChange President [...]

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4 Powerful Free Cloud Apps for Teachers

March 11, 2012

These popular free Internet based tools provide excellent functionality that you can access from many devices. The buzz about “the cloud” just seems to keep growing, but the fact is the cloud has been around for years – if you’re using an Internet based tool, you’re using the cloud. Search Engines, YouTube, Facebook – these [...]

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8 Great LinkedIn Groups for Educators

February 1, 2012

In the last few months, we’ve posted articles sharing 10 Beneficial Facebook Pages For Educators To Check Out and 7 Twitter Users to Follow If You Are Interested in Education Technology, both of which were received enthusiastically. Today we bring follow this with another set of social networking resources focused on education – Linkedin Groups [...]

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Creately is an easy to use, easy access, affordable web based diagramming tool

October 26, 2011

A low cost, web enabled alternative to the other diagramming applications, and it allows for collaboration across the web! Guest post by Nishadha Silva. Presenting subject matter in an easy to visualize way is an important part of teaching. Many teachers are looking for easy to use and cost effective diagramming tools to draw charts and [...]

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Enter The Group – Making Group Work Easier for Students and Educators

June 8, 2011

This week’s midweek post is a guest contribution from Sal Pellettieri, who is the creative force behind “EnterTheGroup”, a great free online group project/work application. It’s not hard to figure out that many students have a dislike for group projects. A search for “group projects” on Twitter will reveal some interesting thoughts – many quite [...]

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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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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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6 Free Online Interactive White Boards

April 18, 2010

An update to last April’s post about free web-based IWBs. Last April, I wrote a post about a few Online Interactive Whiteboards that I had checked out. That post remains one of my most popular posts, so obviously this is a topic of interest to a lot of people. [Note to readers: There is now an [...]

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Choosing between Microsoft’s Live@edu and Google Apps for Education

October 7, 2009

This week’s mid week post is a wrap up of the brief 2 part overview of the free offerings for Education from Microsoft and Google that I did here over the last two weeks.

I spent some time looking for notable differences between Google Apps for Education and Microsoft’s Live@edu, and while there are plenty of little differences to point out and discuss, few things jumped out at me as undeniable deal breakers.

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