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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This year’s major U.S. Education Technology Conferences

April 7, 2010

Will you be attending any of these? … or have you been to any of these events in the past? Which ones are your favorites? Do any of them seem to provide more value than the others? Please drop a comment and provide your insights. EduComm 2010: June 7 - 9 at the mirage in Las [...]

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Great Ed Tech Story: K-5 Summer Tech camp changes lives for low SES students

April 4, 2010

4 week Technology Camp has a great impact on students who had no previous computer access. The Challenge Dallas McPheeters was asked to prepare a Summer Technology camp for 430 students in an elementary school near the US/Mexico border. All the school had to offer to facilitate this was a set of eight year old PCs [...]

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Tweet Wrap for week of 03-29-10

April 2, 2010

A “baker’s dozen” of Tweets providing links to Ed Tech article & resources, compiled from the week’s EmergingEdTech Twitter posting activity: Universities saving much-needed cash w/help of Technology: http://bit.ly/b0FsVn Is Ed Tech worth it? Contest offers $students 1000 for best answer: http://www.techlearning.com/article/28610 Partnerships between public & private stakeholders critical to success of Nat Ed Tech Plan: http://bit.ly/d5eGeT Tools [...]

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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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