Kaplan University Professor commercial spot grabs my attention.

March 17, 2010

As I was combing through a few different drafted posts and ideas for this week’s mid week post, this commercial came on. It sure caught my attention. Kudos to Kaplan for packing such a punch. I had to share it. Share this with a colleague today. [Ed Note: I have noticed that the Google ad [...]

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Lecture Capture - selecting a trial approach

March 14, 2010

Picking a Lecture Capture product to test, with a focus on affordable entry and scalable tech and licensing. Last week, in the 3rd post in this series, I combed through a half dozen LC vendors’ websites looking for insight into the hardware required to try out these tools, and the scalability of their technology and licensing [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the week of 03-08-10

March 12, 2010

This week’s summary of Twitter posting activity from EmergingEdTech. A nice set of articles and resources focused on, you guessed it, Education Technology! Enjoy. Post (rightly) doubts the validity of the idea of today’s students as “digital natives” http://nyti.ms/bbCcCA Post considers pros, cons of professors recording, sharing lectures via lecture capture: http://bit.ly/d2vcYA Nice upbeat, but [...]

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Last Chance to Submit your Great Use of Ed Tech story …

March 10, 2010

Share your education technology story (by Monday, March 15) and you may earn a feature post about it here! Okay readers, it’s almost last call for those great stories about Ed Tech in the classroom. Do you have or know of a great example of how Internet or instructional technologies were used in the classroom, or as part [...]

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Lecture Capture Part 3: Looking for scalable entry-level options

March 7, 2010

A further look at the tech behind some of the big Lecture Capture apps, and their entry-level options and scalability. For the last few weeks, I’ve been learning a bit about lecture capture systems. This week I take a closer look at a few specific products. I am particularly interested in those vendors whose products and licensing lend [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for the week of 03-01-10

March 5, 2010

The week’s roll up of EmergingEdTech tweets. I hope you find some of these articles to be as interesting and informative as I did! Future bright for e-Learning. Camp Tech article predicts growth in $ vol will double in 5yr: http://bit.ly/co6aTP College Admissions Offices embracing YouTube: http://bit.ly/cIVqun Simple, impactful use of Tech in Ed: District [...]

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Google’s Liquid Galaxy Project - too cool not to share

March 3, 2010

Holy Holodeck! Imagine being able to virtually travel the earth in 3D. This is a prototype product at this stage, and it is not focused specifically on education, but man is it cool! Seriously though, there’s no doubt this type of tech could play a constructive part in the instructional process. Of course, this assumes that affordable commercial [...]

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Learning about Lecture Capture - Part 2 (features and functions)

February 28, 2010

This week we continue our research into the technology behind today’s Lecture Capture systems. Last week, I started a series of posts focused on learning about the lecture capture systems being used in education today, and the technology that enables them. My first post looked at a few of the big players in today’s market. This week I’m trying to [...]

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Education Technology Tweet Wrap for week of 02-22-10

February 26, 2010

This week’s summary of Twitter posts from EmergingEdTech.com. I hope you find some of these informative and interesting! A look at some of the insights in the Pew Project’s 4th “Future of the Internet” report: http://bit.ly/b03rPk Education, eHealth Get Top Billing in FCC’s Broadband Plan Update: http://bit.ly/97rLSj Univ. of the People getting rolling w/Tuition Free Online Education! [...]

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Announcing the ‘Great Use of Ed Tech’ Story Contest

February 24, 2010

Share your education technology story and have it featured here! This week I am announcing a contest with the goal of soliciting readers’ stories about uses of Internet and instructional technologies in education, to be shared and discussed here, and one of these stories will be selected to be featured in an upcoming full length post. I [...]

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