This past week while preparing for a trip to Quebec City I used several tools to check out our options for travel. I imagine that my students could use these same tools to discover a place of their choice to
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Below is my list of top 10 search engines other than Google.
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Welcome to my first posting at Tech Learning. It is a privilege and honor to be invited to share with Tech Learning's amazing readers and to join a group of engaging bloggers, ones that I have read and learned so
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Over the past few years, learners have been granted new
opportunities to tell and share their own stories. Among the various subsets of options for telling and sharing digital
stories is a lovely array of tools for digital book publishing.
Let's face it if Dorothy never looked behind the curtain, she would never have made it back home. •••••••••••••••••••••• Geeks and "Fanboys" (note I use both terms in a complimentary as well as self identification fashion) across the world got
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Many of us are building out traditional quizzes for our pupils so here is a challenge for tech savvy teachers to play with some quiz generators in the summer time to have a techie start to the new school year.
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Cool MRI pic, huh? Thanks alles schlumpf This post is cross posted on http drezac.com You have to admit, there's a lot of acronyms in education. One
Creating screencasts has been one of my favorite things to do when working with technology.
When Alan November taught his ISTE audience about empathy, making a strong case for its placement at the top of the list of critical 21st Century skills, he helped me understand why it's still still difficult to persuade so many
I don’t have too much time for mission statements. To be honest, I regard them as being unnecessary. Actually, I’d go further if an organisation is so hung up on its image that it wastes time and resources on thrashing
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I've always loved the way
technology can be integrated into art and have listed my top ten
favorite sites for doing just that.
I should have put this post up a few weeks ago... before ISTE 2010. Currently, I'm looking hard for either audio (podcast) or video (vodcast) captures of presentations from the conference, and I'm either looking in all the wrong places,
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The annual meeting for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) just wrapped up in Denver. Educators from around the world are gathered to discuss and plan the future of edtech, play (some), but most of all, meet people.
I’ve always used a manual toothbrush. I purchased battery operated toothbrushes for my sons when I thought they were old enough. It wasn’t until our son, the dental student, bought me an Oral B sonic toothbrush for my birthday, that
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I have to say I love my Android phone. Sure, it doesn't have the best user interface, but that is changing. I bought it with integration and productivity in mind, and I love to listen to podcasts and audio books
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Now that there are several
free sites that let users create amazing slide shows, it’s no longer
necessary to have a program such as iPhoto or Power Point for the job.
Cross posted from ThumannResources.com Credit Dean Shareski's Flickr Stream I like a good edtech conference just as much as the next geeky educator. I'm all about which iPad app is best for Twitter, and becoming the Mayor of the ISTE
I recently watched Clay Shirky's newest TED talk based on his book, Cognitive Surplus. The concept of cognitive surplus simply means that in the last century the amount of free we've had has increased and that in the last decade, we've been able
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I have been attending ISTE and it's pre sessions since Saturday. Over that time I have attended edubloggercon, the Constructivist Consortium, the opening events, and a day worth of ISTE10. Over the past couple of days I have begun
During the summer, many have the opportunity to travel to conferences around their area or around the world. With that, comes ample opportunities to learn a great deal from experienced speakers, gather ideas to take back to your campus,