Free Tools & Resources

Reverse Instruction Tools And Techniques (Part 1)

February 5, 2012

Applications and methods for creating and delivering digital course materials, so you can experiment with flipping the classroom. Over the last 6 months, I’ve researched and written a number of articles about Reverse Instruction. I’ve also lectured on the subject and am looking forward to presenting at The College of Westchester later this month, and [...]

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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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Announcing the 2012 Free Education Technology Resources eBook from EmergingEdTech

January 29, 2012

This year’s updated digital booklet contains 65 pages of articles and insights into dozens and dozens of the Internet’s best free Ed Tech resources. Last year we published the first edition of this compilation of free web based apps and other resources for teachers, and this year we’re excited to offer an updated version. We’ve [...]

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Seven Online Classrooms Teachers Can Use to Augment Their Own

January 18, 2012

Guest writer Samantha Peters brings us an excellent selection of educational video resources. Information is abundant online. The problem is sorting out the useful stuff from the overwhelming amount of junk that exists on the World Wide Web. Educators are all too familiar with the unreliable nature of information found on the web, and most [...]

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Teacher’s recommendations for academic uses of 5 fun free presentation tools

January 11, 2012

Course participants offer their ideas about ways to use these fun free tools in instructional situations and other academic applications. One of the most meaningful and informative types of communication that happens through education technology blogs like this one is when teachers share their experiences and ideas about how to use technology in the educational setting. Last summer, EmergingEdTech ran an online [...]

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7 Twitter Users to Follow If You Are Interested in Education Technology

January 8, 2012

A great mix of individual experts and enthusiasts and education technology professionals to follow and stay informed with. Guest post by Maria Rainier. Though Twitter’s contribution to the world of social media and progressive society was at one time a strongly argued point, there is no doubt today that the popular social media platform has [...]

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5 Fun Free iPad Math Game Apps

January 4, 2012

These free apps offer fun ways for elementary/primary grade students to practice their math fundamentals. We checked out a bunch of free math games for the iPad that can help younger students reinforce their math basics, focusing only on those rated 4 stars or better. There are quite a few of these. As of this [...]

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Top 5 EmergingEdTech Video Posts for 2011

December 28, 2011

The year’s most popular education technology video blog entries. The EmergingEdTech video channel was very successful in 2011, with subscribership growing steadily and total views now well over 40,000. Based on traffic volume since posting, and focusing on videos that are relatively “self contained” (as opposed to vlog entries which have limited content and are focused on encouraging [...]

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Online Schooling and The Democratization of Education

December 26, 2011

What better topic for a day-after-Christmas post than the gift of free education? Thanks to Elaine Hirsch for this article about exciting recent developments in online education. MIT and Stanford’s online schooling initiatives represent a dramatic change in the model of higher education. Since these programs are known for offering the best undergraduate and graduate [...]

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Reverse Instruction – A Tale Of Two Students and Active Skill Learning

December 18, 2011

A look at the learning science behind flipping the classroom, through the lens of a fictional tale. Last week we were introduced to Kieran Mathieson and the CoreDogs approach to the flipped classroom. This week we further explore the resources Mathieson has made available through CoreDogs, and how to leverage Reverse Instruction techniques to improve student learning outcomes. Kieran has [...]

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