July 2009

Special Update - Guidance on Ed Tech Funds (ARRA 2009) Released

July 28, 2009

The U.S. Department of Education has just published this “Guidance on Enhancing Education through Technology (Ed Tech) Program Funds Made Available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009″.

This is certainly one of the most significant things to happen to Education Technology here in the US in years. The ARRA adds $650 million in funds to the original 2009 appropriation of $265 million, bringing the total allotment of funds for Education Technology for 2009 to $915 million! The allocation of funds by state can be found here: http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/statetables/index.html.

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Internet resources for special needs educators (this week, Autism & PDD)

July 27, 2009

Second post in a series on Internet resources for educators that work with special needs students Last week I started this series of posts by researching web based tools and resources for teachers who work with students with ADD & ADHD. This week we continue this series with a look into resources specifically geared towards [...]

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5 online communities for educators working with special needs students

July 22, 2009

This week’s mid-week update builds on the series of posts I am currently publishing, focused on Internet resources for educators who work with students with special needs. While each of my main weekly posts in this series will focus on a specific category of special needs, there are various resources on the Internet that are geared towards [...]

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Internet resources for educators teaching students with special needs

July 20, 2009

This week I begin a series of posts focused on web based tools and resources for educators who work with students with special needs. My first challenge is to determine what sorts of categories of “special needs” I will investigate. There seem to be endless groupings and subgroupings of special needs and learning disabilities. After researching and [...]

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Please vote for EmergingEdTech.com today!

July 15, 2009

This week’s mid week post is a straightforward plea for a quick click or two. EmergingEdTech.com has been nominated in the “Language Technology” category in a “Top 100 Language Blogs 2009″ competition. I know language tech is not the main focus here, but education tech is, and recognition like this can go a long way in helping to spread the word about better integration of tech in education.

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8 Engaging Videos Advocating Better Integration of Technology in Education

July 13, 2009

These inspiring, insightful videos make the case for stepping up the integration of technology in today’s classrooms

As an advocate of the use of Internet technologies in education, my fundamental goal is to inspire instructors and other members of the educational community to embrace the use of these technologies in today’s educational process. I’ve attempted to make the case myself in a couple previous blog posts, such as the popular “5 Reasons Why Educators Need To Embrace Internet Technologies” and “10 Internet technologies that educators should be informed about”. Of course, many others have made the case as well (and generally done so in a more captivating manner) as the videos below will attest.

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Learning a language online, for free!

July 8, 2009

This blog’s recent nomination for an award in the “Language Technology” category made me feel compelled to learn a little more about Internet based technologies for learning languages. A little searching and clicking led me to a number of sites that offer language lessons, and there were actually some sites that appeared to provide useful training for free. For this week’s [...]

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10 Examples of Useful Second Life Resources for Educators

July 6, 2009

This week I will wrap up the series of posts I published throughout June, focused on Internet based Virtual World technologies as they are being used in Education today. As I researched current VW tech options for education, it became apparent to me that Second Life remains the most widely known and used VW app. Additionally SL is readily accessible by users worldwide (unlike some other VW technologies which are more proprietary in nature). Today’s post concludes this series by providing examples of Second Life worlds that could potentially by useful to educators.

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EmergingEdTech Blog nominated for award

July 1, 2009

I am very happy to announce (the first of what I hope will eventually be many ) blogging award nominations - the EmergingEdTech blog has been nominated for the Top 100 Language Blogs 2009 competition, in the Language Technology category. Voting begins July 8 (details to follow). While EmergingEdTech is not focused specifically on Language Technology, our [...]

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