May 2010

Emerging Education Technologies: Approaches To Staying Informed

May 31, 2010

How can you keep up with what’s coming down the Ed Tech road? Last year, Brian Alexander wrote a great article in EDUCAUSE Review titled, “Apprehending the Future: Emerging Technologies, from Science Fiction to Campus Reality” [access the full article here: EDUCAUSE Review, Vol 44, No. 3 (June/July 2009): 12-29]. This week, I borrow heavily from this article, [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week of 05-24-10

May 28, 2010

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 my blog readers). Great Campus Tech article about “Education Technology and Disruptive Change”: http://bit.ly/9dCcAQ Elluminate helping educators transform Prof Development: http://bit.ly/d32t6k The Professor’s Guide to Windows 7: http://bit.ly/daF223 Google launches [...]

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30 Posts About Free Education Technology Tools & Resources

May 26, 2010

The Internet Is Rich With Free Tools for Educators. Here’s A Bunch. I’ve been meaning to put together this list of the many free apps that I’ve blogged about, and make it available as a tabbed section on the site. I’ve got the list mostly together now and realized it would make for a nice mid-week post. [...]

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Guest Post: Technology Workshops for Grad Students

May 23, 2010

Washington U’s workshops, with their focus on pedagogy first, are a nice model for teaching educators about incorporating technology in the classroom. Guest Post By Bryn Lutes and Tanya Roth. Bryn and Tanya are instructors at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and have helped to evolve the offerings discussed here into the current series of workshops, focused on effective technology use [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week 05-17-10

May 21, 2010

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 my blog readers). Ed Tech - Changing the Nature of Education Today, Building a Bridge to Tomorrow: http://bit.ly/9xVJWE New whitepaper from Educause , “Mobile Learning: Contexts and Prospect”: http://tinyurl.com/2woggsz Notes [...]

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Do You Use Evernote?

May 19, 2010

“Remember Everything!” I had heard of Evernote before, but hadn’t looked at it until today. My interest was peaked by repeated references to it that I came across on the Internet and from co-workers over the last few days. Evernote is a free application that enables you to capture text, snapshots, web clips, or audio, [...]

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5 Reasons Why I Think Camtasia Rocks

May 16, 2010

Camtasia Studio 7 is an excellent video production tool, both simple and feature rich Back in January I did a series of posts focused on finding free tools that would enable me to create video tutorials. While it was easy to find tools like Jing and Windows Movie Maker that could help me do this, [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week of 05-10-10

May 14, 2010

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 my blog readers). Great post about engaging parents to assist with Ed Tech funding efforts: http://bit.ly/b3gy61 An evolving set of best practices for educational technology projects: http://oreil.ly/bpeqW2 Post discusses how to [...]

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The future of 3D Technology

May 12, 2010

A guest post providing informative insights into the future of 3D computer technology. This week, I welcome Andrew Barras, Instructional Designer at Full Sail University, and author of the blog “Education Stormfront“. Andrew has been a 3D Modeler, Computer Programmer, Web Designer, and Professor over the course of the last 15 years. His post discusses [...]

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Learning About Moodle (Part 2 of 2)

May 9, 2010

Continuing my look at this popular open-source Learning Management System Last week I started learning about Moodle by browsing Moodle.org and Moodle.com and summarizing what I learned. This week I continue this effort to learn about the application, searching out and reading through many different web-based information sources, and passing on findings of interest. User Opinion There’s plenty of [...]

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