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Collaborative Writing with BoomWriter, a Free Award-Winning App for Teaching and Learning

December 31, 2013

Students and Teachers in all Grades can Enhance Their Writing Skills as They Collaborate and Publish Stories with Boomwriter.com Serving as an effective and personalized learning tool, award-winning literacy website BoomWriter (www.boomwriter.com) is easy to use and free for teachers, allowing their students to collaborate with classmates to create and publish stories and other original […]

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Gaming Education: Are Parents, Teachers, and Schools Ready to Embrace Gaming as a Learning Tool?

December 29, 2013

With the Gamification of Education on the Rise, we Explore Some of the Hurdles That Remain for Wider Acceptance to Take Hold. Remember the early days of video gaming? Teachers lamented the existence of the accursed time-wasters and parents struggled to keep their kids’ eyes on their studies and away from those decidedly non-educational screens. […]

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Education and Instructional Technology Tweet Wrap for the Week of 12-23-13

December 28, 2013

This week’s collection of Education and Instructional Technology articles and resource Tweets. (Originally posted on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers). Top 10 ed-tech stories of 2013, No. 6: BYOD and social media: http://www.eschoolnews.com/2013/12/24/top-10-byod-582/ Borrow and Lend eBooks Through Open Library: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/12/borrow-and-lend-ebooks-through-open.html#.Ur7UhbThGZR Where education technology […]

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Enhance Project-Based Learning with These 10 Powerful Tools

December 26, 2013

A fun set of Applications (Many Free) for Project Based Teaching and Learning. The contemporary classroom can be rather different than what we were used to even just a decade ago, thanks partly to the advancing nature of Internet based technologies. One form of teaching which has benefited from these types of tools is Project […]

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10 of the Best Apps for Students for Christmas Revision, Note Taking, and Studying

December 24, 2013

One of our UK Based Friends Offers a set of Apps That can be a big Help During the Christmas Break, and all Year Long! With the end of year exams looming for Common Entrance, GCSE and A-Level students around the UK, the London-based private tutor agency, Tutor House has come up with 10 of the […]

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Sharing Student-Created Presentations About the Importance of 21st Century Skills

December 22, 2013

One of the Most Rewarding Moments as a Teacher is Seeing the Pride in Student’s Faces When They Present Something They Have Created. In the Emerging Information Technologies class I taught at The College of Westchester this Fall, the final project was the creation of a presentation that focused on a selected 21st Century skill […]

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Instructional and Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the Week of 12-16-13

December 21, 2013

This week’s collection of Education and Instructional Technology articles and resource Tweets. (Originally posted on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers). Not your typical list “8 EduWins of 2013″: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/best-wins-2013-betty-ray Khan Academy, Coursera founders define ed tech’s 5 biggest challenges: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/12/16/khan-academys-sal-khan-coursera.html The Promise And Pitfalls […]

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How Audio Technology is Transforming the Modern Day Classroom

December 19, 2013

The ways in which the capture and transmission of sound is being used in instruction is quickly evolving along with many other aspects of technology use in teaching. Audio technology has become an important part of the modern classroom. We use it in giving presentations, capturing lessons and playing music, but do you really know […]

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How Technology Can Help Teachers & Parents Foster Financial Literacy

December 17, 2013

Regular readers of EmergingEdTech know that I like to post once or twice a year on Financial Literacy, usually in April (Financial Literacy Awareness Month), but this is a time of year that finances can get a bit challenging, so why wait? - KW Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a […]

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How to Combine Existing Digital Learning Materials into New Teaching Content: 11 Awesome Mash Up Tools

December 15, 2013

Check out this cool digital magazine I created with Glossi (featuring 11 great apps for creating online learning content)! I read about Glossi in a post from FreeTech4Teachers this week and thought I would take it for a spin. Before I knew it, I was knee-deep in creating this Digital Magazine, focused on my favorite […]

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