15 Online Math Help and Tutoring Resources

December 13, 2009

A variety of free and paid resources to help students struggling with Mathematics. With the recent completion of the first quarter for many K-12 students, and the pending completion of the first semester for many Higher Ed students, I thought it would be a good time to investigate web based tutoring and help options. I’ll [...]

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Ed Tech Tweet Wrap for week of 12-7-09

December 11, 2009

This week’s “best of” my Twitter posts focused on Education Technology articles and tools: 5 Higher Ed Tech Trends to watch in 2010: http://bit.ly/6ZrN6j A tale of technology in two schools: http://bit.ly/8FhGef Interesting article about market for “Superstar” teachers in Online Ed arena: http://bit.ly/70ys9Y Chronicle article discusses use of Virtual Science Labs in schools: http://bit.ly/6Im28Z [...]

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EmergingEdTech nominated for Edublog Award

December 9, 2009

“Best Resource Sharing Blog” I am delighted to announce that EmergingEdTech has been nominated for an Edublog Award! This blog has been nominated as “Best Resource Sharing Blog”. (Thanks to Buzz Gardwood of “This Week in Ed Tech” for the nomination!) Hope my readers don’t mind my lobbying for votes - the prestige of a win [...]

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Next steps in considering Interactive Whiteboards for our (Higher Ed) classrooms

December 6, 2009

Using a Wii Board & ActiveInspire software to demonstrate IWB’s, at little cost. In November I started working with a team of faculty members and technologists to learn about today’s Interactive White Board offerings, and I’ve been posting a series of articles about our efforts. This week we reviewed what we have learned so far, [...]

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Ed Tech Tweet Wrap for week of 11-30-09

December 4, 2009

10 tasty new nuggets of Ed Tech info and insight, as gleaned from my week’s Twitter posts: Tech playing important role in effort to better engage parents in Educational process: http://bit.ly/8vgLqp Really enjoyed this article, “The Cloud Opens the Floodgates for Faculty innovation”: http://bit.ly/8h816N Online service planned to help adults get credit for out of [...]

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PowerPoint Jeopardy in the Classroom

December 2, 2009

A great way to have some fun and reinforce learning in the classroom (or at home). Over the long holiday weekend, I made it a point to have some fun with my kids, and the idea came to me to search online to see if I could find a Jeopardy game that would allow me to create my own [...]

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10 Ed Tech Apps That I’m Thankful For

November 29, 2009

Sharing my gratitude for some great online software applications. In the spirit of the Thanksgiving Holiday, I’m taking a break from my series on Interactive Whiteboards, to post this list of internet and instructional technology products that I am grateful for. Some of these tools are purely education focused, and some are much more general. They have each [...]

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Ed Tech Tweet Wrap for the week of 11-23-09

November 27, 2009

This week’s wrap features 7 new articles and resources focused on the use of technology in the world of education: Instructor uses Skype to bring expert/lecturer ‘into classroom’: http://bit.ly/5HGzca Blog post provides links to a bunch of free apps for education: http://bit.ly/58fprQ Report available for download from UK Gov’t agency: Impact of Dig Tech on Ed: [...]

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Edublog Awards nominations

November 25, 2009

Edublog has launched their 2009 awards nominations, and I’d like to nominate a couple great sites and bloggers for the work they’ve done. The “Ed Tech” blogosphere is a richer, more informative environment thanks to these sites and these individuals. My Nominations for The 2009 Edublog Awards are: Lifetime achievement: Steve Hardagon. Steve has been so active in Ed [...]

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Promethean’s Interactive Whiteboard and related instructional products

November 22, 2009

The 4th post in a series in which we have been learning about Interactive Whiteboards for the classroom. Three weeks ago I started this effort with a post in which I researched market leaders and confirmed that the ubiquitous SMART Board is the clear market leader (with about 50% market share). Of the many other manufacturers that split [...]

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