March 2010

The Khan Academy (offering 1100+ free tutorial videos)

March 31, 2010

Over 1000 (free) videos “covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance.” Salman Khan is a trip. With an MBA from Harvard, and a slew of engineering, comp sci, and math degrees, he could easily be raking in major bucks, but instead he quit his day job in Sept 2009 to record [...]

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Great Education Technology Story: CPS Student Response System helps to improve FCAT scores

March 28, 2010

7th Grade Math Teacher shows clear learning outcome improvements while engaging students with this interactive education technology. As announced last week, one of our two winners in this contest was Juanita Rodriguez, 7th Grade Math Teacher at Don Estridge High Tech Middle School in Florida. Rodriguez employed CPS (Classroom Performance System) response systems from eInstruction in her class for the last [...]

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Education Technology Tweets Wrap for week of 03-22-10

March 26, 2010

This week’s Tweet wrap…Twitter posts from EmergingEdTech citing various Education Technology articles and resources of potential interest. Technology students awarded for their efforts: http://bit.ly/czWX6P New ‘online education center’ focused on “Igniting & Sustaining STEM Education”: http://bit.ly/9LKYhd Open courseware as a recruiting tool? http://bit.ly/bsuiJe Campus Tech article discusses how interactive Ed Tech can help minority students: [...]

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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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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week of 03-15-10

March 19, 2010

This week’s roll up of EmergingEdTech twitter posts. Happy browsing! Dept of Ed urges K-12, colleges to focus more on online learning: http://bit.ly/9KKWQ1 2 recent studies show Ed Tech improving math comprehension: http://bit.ly/9K6UcB Time Warner launching “Crack the Code” STEM initiative in middle schools across US next week: http://bit.ly/dnLTSo Colleges embrace MP4 tech for delivering [...]

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Kaplan University Professor commercial spot grabs my attention.

March 17, 2010

As I was combing through a few different drafted posts and ideas for this week’s mid week post, this commercial came on. It sure caught my attention. Kudos to Kaplan for packing such a punch. I had to share it. Share this with a colleague today. [Ed Note: I have noticed that the Google ad [...]

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Lecture Capture - selecting a trial approach

March 14, 2010

Picking a Lecture Capture product to test, with a focus on affordable entry and scalable tech and licensing. Last week, in the 3rd post in this series, I combed through a half dozen LC vendors’ websites looking for insight into the hardware required to try out these tools, and the scalability of their technology and licensing [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the week of 03-08-10

March 12, 2010

This week’s summary of Twitter posting activity from EmergingEdTech. A nice set of articles and resources focused on, you guessed it, Education Technology! Enjoy. Post (rightly) doubts the validity of the idea of today’s students as “digital natives” http://nyti.ms/bbCcCA Post considers pros, cons of professors recording, sharing lectures via lecture capture: http://bit.ly/d2vcYA Nice upbeat, but [...]

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Last Chance to Submit your Great Use of Ed Tech story …

March 10, 2010

Share your education technology story (by Monday, March 15) and you may earn a feature post about it here! Okay readers, it’s almost last call for those great stories about Ed Tech in the classroom. Do you have or know of a great example of how Internet or instructional technologies were used in the classroom, or as part [...]

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