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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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the week of 01-02-12

January 6, 2012

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 our blog readers). Grading the New York Times on Education Technology (nice Op Ed piece!): http://bit.ly/wFrOmN Great piece on “The Reach of Distance Learning”: http://nyti.ms/yIlV7H Students Want Colleges to [...]

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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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MyEdulife – Data Cleansing, Aggregation, and Improved Data Governance for Higher Education

January 1, 2012

Introducing MyEdulife … a new way to leverage data in Higher Education. Lasy year, Mark Mooney, John Principato, and Patrick Hidalgo met with me and shared their excitement about MyEdulife, a 2010 start up software and services firm focused on providing data governance, social networking, and life-long educational learning services to the education market. They discussed [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the week of 12-26-11

December 30, 2011

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 our blog readers). 8 Ed Tech Predictions for 2012: http://bit.ly/rEWZGs The Future of Classroom Education: http://bit.ly/tTpVdg Appreciated this feedback re: “Top 5 Education Technology Predictions for 2012″: http://bit.ly/vEyZJ3 Seminary [...]

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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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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the week of 12-19-11

December 23, 2011

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 our blog readers). M.I.T. Expands Its Free Online Courses, offers official certificates: http://nyti.ms/sZKhah Open-Textbook Idea Is Gaining Steam! http://bit.ly/scJJfJ Technology Cannot Disrupt Education From The Top Down: http://tcrn.ch/srAOgI What [...]

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Study shows 15% improvement in 5th grader’s fractions test scores after playing iPad Motion Math game for a week

December 21, 2011

Can Education Technology improve learning outcomes? In this case, the methodically researched answer is “Yes”. Okay, let’s get this out of the way first – this is a vendor sponsored study. However, while I am no expert on the conduct of studies, when I look over the published study, it looks quite rigorous to me. These study results make a solid case [...]

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