New Web Site WatchKnow.org (1000′s of Free Educational Videos)

October 28, 2009

Site offers tens of thousands of ”videos for kids to learn from.” WatchKnow is a recently launched web site that hosts educational videos. These videos have been ”deeply and usefully categorized according to subject, education level, and placed in the order in which topics are typically taught” (quote from WatchKnow’s About page). All the videos on WatchKnow are [...]

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5 top-rated low cost web hosting sites (for web programmer e-portfolios)

October 25, 2009

The final post in a series that examines tools for students to create and host e-portfolios for little or no cost. Over the last two weeks, I researched free options for creating and hosting e-portfolios for college students, to help with job search efforts. I settled on Google Sites as a great option for laying out a site to display text, [...]

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Tweet Wrap (week of 10-19-09)

October 23, 2009

Here this week’s end-of-week wrap up of select Twitter posts of mine that I think some of my blog readers may find useful or informative. As usual, these tweets are all about various Ed Tech articles and web sites that I felt were worth sharing. Week of Dec 7 to be “Computer Science Ed” week? News (good news) to me! [...]

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Etudes.org - a free, hosted Course Management System

October 21, 2009

Wow, a free, full featured Learning Management System! I recently learned about etudes.org, a non-profit organization that “offers centralized hosting, support, site and account management, training and professional development opportunities to institutions and organizations that need a turn-key, fully-managed course management solution” (per their web site). Their home page goes on to explain that they support [...]

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Using Google Sites to create e-portfolios for students

October 18, 2009

Giving Google Sites a Go for E-porfolio Creation and Hosting
Following up on last week’s initial investigation into a free tool for students to create and host an electronic portfolio of representational work, this week I am trying out Google Sites as a solution for students. Google Sites provides a free application for creating your own web site. Let’s see how effective it is for hosting an e-portfolio.

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Tweet Wrap (week of 10-12-09)

October 16, 2009

Here are 7 articles or web sites I tweeted about this week that I think EmergingEd Tech readers might find informative or interesting: School embraces iPods for Learning: http://bit.ly/2DFKWH (This one was retweeted a lot!) Maryland teams with Microsoft on free Tech training for displaced workers! http://bit.ly/2TBy98 Article discusses how Higher Ed represents great opportunity for wireless [...]

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Discovering the International Society for Technology in Education

October 14, 2009

I stumbled across the ITSE (online at itse.org) yesterday …

Where have I been? I’ve been into Ed Tech for a couple years now, and somehow the ITSE kind of slipped right past me. These folks look like they’ve been doing the Ed Tech thing in a pretty major way since 1997. They claim to be the “premier membership association for educators and education leaders engaged in improving learning and teaching by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and higher education”.

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How can we provide free online e-portfolios for our students?

October 12, 2009

Can Web 2.0 tools provide graduates with a way to create an online portfolio of work, at no cost, and help to position them for job search success? I believe that all students who graduate with degrees in Digital Media or related disciplines should have an online representational electronic portfolio when they complete their studies. This type of tool, accessible to any potential employer, can play a critical [...]

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Tweet Wrap (week of 10-09-09)

October 9, 2009

I’m not sure how many readers will find this useful, but I figured I’d give it a shot and see what you have to say! I’d like to start putting together a brief listing at the end of each week of 5 to 10 interesting and informative articles or tools that I tweeted about during that week. For example, here are 7 tweets from the last week that I think provide information my blog readers may appreciate:

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Choosing between Microsoft’s Live@edu and Google Apps for Education

October 7, 2009

This week’s mid week post is a wrap up of the brief 2 part overview of the free offerings for Education from Microsoft and Google that I did here over the last two weeks.

I spent some time looking for notable differences between Google Apps for Education and Microsoft’s Live@edu, and while there are plenty of little differences to point out and discuss, few things jumped out at me as undeniable deal breakers.

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