August 2010

Blogging in Education Today (Part 5 - Education Technology Blogs)

August 29, 2010

This week we wrap our series, in which we’ve been learning about many of the ways in which blogs are being used in today’s educational institutions. As promised last week, this final post in our series will examine blogging that focuses on education technology, as practiced by education and instructional technologists and educators in general. First, a brief recap of [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week of 08-23-10

August 27, 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 our blog readers). Make an ‘Ed Tech’ music video & win an interactive classroom makeover worth up to $75,000! http://bit.ly/bipCx5 “School officials say laptops improve grades, boost critical-thinking skills”: http://bit.ly/dxZauo [...]

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Vuvox Rocks (what a great tool for creating student reports and teacher presentations)

August 25, 2010

This free, easy app for creating scrolling timeline-style content is a fun way for students or teachers to create presentations. With Vuvox you can easily create scrolling presentations that include pictures, text, video, and music. I’d come across it some time ago, and thought it would be a lot of fun for students or teachers to use [...]

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Blogging in Education Today (Part 4 - Administrator’s Blogs)

August 22, 2010

This next phase in our series examining how blogs are being used in education today looks at how school administrators are using them. For the last few weeks we’ve been looking at current examples of blogging in an educational setting. We’ve looked at teachers blogging individually and in the classroom context, then we looked at student blogs. This week [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week of 08-15-10

August 20, 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 our blog readers). List of considerations if you want to give open courseware a shot: http://bit.ly/chYol4 Use Tech to deliver some lecture content and free up class time for better [...]

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The Evolving Role of Mobile Computing in Education

August 18, 2010

Guest Post By Daniel Cawrey Many of us think about technology as something that we sit behind: maybe a desktop computer or a laptop that we type away on. But the reality is that technology is becoming more about what is in our hands, or in our pockets, and that significantly changes the way that [...]

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Blogging in Education Today, part 3 (Student Blogging)

August 15, 2010

Continuing our multi-part series on the use of blogs in education today, we look at various examples of Student blogging efforts. Over the last two weeks we’ve looked at various ways in which today’s teachers are using blogs. This week we continue our review of the educational blogoshpere by looking at different ways in which students [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week of 08-09-10

August 13, 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 our blog readers). India to Distribute a Million Tablet Computers to Its Universities next year! http://bit.ly/dnTCvP India’s $35 tablet “fairly impressive”. What kind of impact might it have in Education? [...]

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Facebook as an Instructional Technology Tool

August 11, 2010

Can the wildly popular social network be used constructively in the classroom? This student’s story says it can. Yesterday, student Kristen Nicole Cardon submitted a comment in response to my post 5 Reasons Why Educators Need To Embrace Internet Technologies in which she explained how she used Facebook in a course she took. I really appreciated her [...]

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Blogging in Education Today (part 2 in a series)

August 8, 2010

This week we’re learning about teachers using “classroom blogs” Last week we started this series examining the current state of blogging in education by looking at how today’s teachers are using blogs. Our first post focused on teachers blogging about various experiences and ideas, with the intended audience essentially being other teachers, and to a lesser degree, the general internet audience. [...]

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