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5 Educator Guest Posts This Week on Microsoft’s Teacher Tech Blog

May 5, 2010

‘Teacher Tech’ is an informative Education Technology resource worth being tuned into. I have the good fortune of being one of a handful of educators and bloggers chosen to participate in a series of guest posts on Microsoft’s teacher-focused blog site this week. Just for clarity’s sake, I should mention that I am not actually a teacher (the other guest [...]

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Call for Education Technology Guest Posts

April 28, 2010

If any readers wish to consider writing a guest post here on EmergingEdTech, please drop me a line. For this week’s mid-week post, I’m reaching out to readers to seek out anyone interested in writing a guest post here on EmergingEdTech. I’d welcome brief, well written articles on relevant topics, to be posted as mid-week posts here on [...]

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Imagine Cup U.S. Finals – Voting ends midnight Saturday.

April 21, 2010

Place your vote today! Which one of these inspiring technology based solutions will represent the US at the Imagine Cup World Finals this summer? “The fates of these 10 Imagine Cup finalists are in your hands. Check out all the video submissions and then rate your favorites.” Click here to view and rate the finalists [...]

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Great Ed Tech Story: K-5 Summer Tech camp changes lives for low SES students

April 4, 2010

4 week Technology Camp has a great impact on students who had no previous computer access. The Challenge Dallas McPheeters was asked to prepare a Summer Technology camp for 430 students in an elementary school near the US/Mexico border. All the school had to offer to facilitate this was a set of eight year old PCs [...]

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Eye Witness To History (dot com)

March 24, 2010

A great site for history class and more. Over the weekend I read about this site and thought it made for a great mid-week post. EyeWitnessToHistory.com has content that could certainly be useful in some history courses, but could lend itself to other courses as well (Social Studies, English, etc.). This site is a collection of over [...]

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And the winners are …

March 21, 2010

Announcing the winners of the “Great Use of Ed Tech” story contest! It’s my great pleasure to share some of the wonderful stories that were submitted to the contest I’ve been running for several weeks here, and to announce the winning entries. With plenty of great stories about engaging, impactful uses of Education Technology in the [...]

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Google’s Liquid Galaxy Project – too cool not to share

March 3, 2010

Holy Holodeck! Imagine being able to virtually travel the earth in 3D. This is a prototype product at this stage, and it is not focused specifically on education, but man is it cool! Seriously though, there’s no doubt this type of tech could play a constructive part in the instructional process. Of course, this assumes that affordable commercial [...]

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Connecting A Million Minds (to after-school STEM programs)

February 17, 2010

A great idea bought to us through Time Warner’s philanthropic commitment to inspire students to pursue opportunities in science, technology, engineering, & math. I just recently came across this site, www.connectamillionminds.com, and think it is a great idea, and a great resource to be aware of.   According to the National Science Foundation, 80 percent of jobs created [...]

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Music Education Technology Resources

February 3, 2010

A handful of websites and resources for Music Educators interested in leveraging education technology in the instructional process. Last night I had the pleasure of attending the opening concert of the 2010 tour for progressive rock music legends Yes. Motivated by the wonderful performances of these experienced and inspiring musicians, I decided that this week’s mid-week post [...]

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Come take a look at the new EmergingEdTech Facebook Fan Page!

January 19, 2010

Hours of happy fun! Please stop by and “Fan Up” at our new Facebook Fan Page  … Announcing the new Facebook Fan Page for the EmergingEdTech blog and website. The fan page combines my Blog posts and Twitter posts with regular postings of upcoming education technology web events, and more! Please stop by, become a fan, and say hello. Join [...]

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