Miscellaneous Tools and Topics

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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Education World’s Technology Integration resources

January 13, 2010

Ed Tech Resources from “The Educator’s Best Friend”. This week’s midweek post is a brief introduction to a useful web site for educators. Education World has a wealth of resources, grouped into 6 main sections, such as “Lesson Planning”, “Professional Development”, “Administrators”, and “Technology Integration”. The Technology Integration page is rather busy (as is the rest of [...]

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What can EmergingEdTech do for you in 2010?

December 29, 2009

5 simple questions, to learn more about you, and what you’d like to learn more about. There are so many Internet and instructional technologies available today, and so many ways to use them in education. To help guide my efforts to learn and blog about these technologies in the coming year, I’ve put together this very brief survey to seek input from [...]

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EmergingEdTech – The future looks bright!

December 27, 2009

End of year wrap up, and plans for 2010. Well, this marks the end of my first year as a blogger. I did a little blogging in late ’08, but in March of 2009 I established EmergingEdTech.com, and with the help of  these great ”31 Days To Build a Better Blog“ lessons from Problogger.com, in April I started building [...]

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12 Great (and free) Tools for Technology Integration in Education

December 22, 2009

One of many great resources from ”freetech4teachers.com” blogger/teacher Richard Byrne. I have to confess that I was not aware of “Free Technology For Teachers” until I learned that it won ”Best Individual Blog” in this year’s Edublog Awards. I immediately went and checked the site out, and (not surprisingly) really liked what I saw. The site is the work of teacher Richard [...]

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EmergingEdTech nominated for Edublog Award

December 9, 2009

“Best Resource Sharing Blog” I am delighted to announce that EmergingEdTech has been nominated for an Edublog Award! This blog has been nominated as “Best Resource Sharing Blog”. (Thanks to Buzz Gardwood of “This Week in Ed Tech” for the nomination!) Hope my readers don’t mind my lobbying for votes – the prestige of a win [...]

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10 Ed Tech Apps That I’m Thankful For

November 29, 2009

Sharing my gratitude for some great online software applications. In the spirit of the Thanksgiving Holiday, I’m taking a break from my series on Interactive Whiteboards, to post this list of internet and instructional technology products that I am grateful for. Some of these tools are purely education focused, and some are much more general. They have each [...]

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