April 2010

Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week of 04-25-10

April 30, 2010

This week’s collection of Education Technology articles and resources. (Originally posted as tweets at Twitter.com/EmergingEdTech). 12 major foundations add $500M commitment to DOE’s $650 M ‘Investing in Innovation’ fund! http://bit.ly/dlFynb Nice article on ‘eHow’ about The Advantages of Information Technology in Education: http://bit.ly/czpVgS eSchoolNews resource page about “Creating the 21st Century Classroom”: http://bit.ly/dlAGKA Ed Tech blogger [...]

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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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Talisma - a premier CRM solution for Higher Education

April 25, 2010

The Constituent Relationship Management solution chosen by hundreds of colleges and universities. As Director of Institutional Information & Technology in an institution of Higher Education, much of my work day revolves around software applications used in administrative processes. While my primary focus here on EmergingEdTech will always be applications and tools for the classroom and instruction, occasionally I come across a solution [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week of 04-19-10

April 23, 2010

Here’s my “Tweet Wrap” for this week. An assortment of Ed Tech items of interest for your browsing enjoyment … Imagine Cup U.S. Finals – Voting ends midnight Saturday. Vote Now! http://bit.ly/96STbK “Top 10 Reasons the iPad will change Education”: http://bit.ly/aIe0d5 The flip side of iPad-as-education-wonder-tool story: “iPad struggles at some colleges” http://bit.ly/93g4cz New site with [...]

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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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6 Free Online Interactive White Boards

April 18, 2010

An update to last April’s post about free web-based IWBs. Last April, I wrote a post about a few Online Interactive Whiteboards that I had checked out. That post remains one of my most popular posts, so obviously this is a topic of interest to a lot of people. I figured it was time for an [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week of 04-12-10

April 16, 2010

A varied listing of articles, resources (and a contest!), rolled up from this week’s EmergingEdTech Twitter posts: Classroom Internet Activities from Askkids.com: http://bit.ly/9JwVod Disney Research & Siggraph 2010 announce ‘Learning Challenge’ w/$10K prize! http://bit.ly/dsOdW6 Nice exercise for Gr 3-5, Creating a classroom newspaper: http://bit.ly/9fZisf Post looks @ challenges of Tech in Ed, also makes point [...]

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Mimio’s unique approach to Interactive White Board technology

April 14, 2010

An intriguing approach to delivering IWB functionality, in a smart, affordable, portable package. Late last year I did a series on Interactive Whiteboards. I spent a good deal of time trolling the Internet, watching YouTube videos, and talking with vendors to learn about products, but I have to admit that this one just slipped under [...]

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Lecture Capture follow-up: Taking Tegrity for a test run

April 11, 2010

We took our free trial Tegrity account out for a ‘test drive’ the other day. We like it. This is a follow up post to the series I ran here in February and March, in which I learned about some of today’s Lecture Capture systems, and selected a product to test. My goal was to find a proven tool that [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap 04-05-10

April 9, 2010

This week’s Twitter posting summary. Hope you enjoy these Ed Tech resources and articles. Have a great weekend! UCSD energy use website shows a campus where they may be able to conserve: http://bit.ly/c8IzEH Just for fun - Tagxedo - the coolest word cloud generator I’ve ever seen! www.tagxedo.com Watching what you post on Facebook applies to [...]

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