This is a service that makes it easy to set up your own private social network. Signing up and creating your first private social network on Fridge takes just a couple of minutes. Once you’ve created your account and network
Technology in Education – What Do Kids Think?
This video produced by Justin Tarte features interviews with 25 of his students. They mirror the voices and opinions of thousands of students reminding us that it is NOT a technology thing; its a learning thing!
http://www.angelamaiers.com/2011/02/technology-in-education-what-do-kids-think.html
How I Use Google To Organize My Entire Online Digital Life
Let’s take a look at how using Google has gotten me more organized than I have ever been.
http://simpleorganizedlife.com/how-i-use-google-to-organize-my-entire-online-digital-life
Book Lamp – A Book Recommendation Engine
Book Lamp is a new service that aims to help readers find new books that they might enjoy. Once you’ve registered on Book Lamp you can enter the title of a book you like or the name of an author
Free Tools for Teachers: Teacher Guide
Engage your students, energize a lesson plan, and save time using free tools from Microsoft you can download today. Some of these include Windows Live Movie Maker, WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft Photosynth, Bing Maps, Digital Photostory, Songsmith, Office Live Workspaces, Windows
50 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed
This is by no means an exhaustive list of what’s happened during the previous week in EdTech–it is just a lot of things I found interesting and thought others might find interesting as well.
Video Search Engine Qwiki Is Now Available To The Public
Qwiki basically reads heavily Wikipedia-sourced articles out loud with photo and video accompaniments. Heralding itself as an “information experience,” Qwiki has about 3 million reference topics at the time of its launch and hundreds of thousands of users according to
Revolution or Evolution? Social Technologies and Change in Higher Education
New social technologies, along with the easy access to information that the Web provides, can open up new avenues for learning that have the potential to revolutionize higher education. But is revolution possible in an environment where evolution–in fact, slow
The Best Tools For Creating Fake “Stuff” For Learning
The fake “stuff” I’m referring to in the headline includes newspaper articles, sports “trading cards,” iPhone conversations, Facebook pages etc. These can be used for conversation practice, to create reports on historical figures (or on natural disasters or on just
100 Mobile Tools for Teachers
With all of the new mobile tools on the market today, teachers can more easily work from satellite locations, share educational resources and access school-related data directly from their cell phones. Here are 100 mobile tools for teachers that make
How the Brain Learns Best: Strategies to Make Learning Stick
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7 Visually Appealing Ways to Publish Documents Online
43 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed
A great source of EdTech resources for educators.
Top 10 Ed Tech Predictions for 2011
See what could become a trend in Educational Technology in 2011 according to Christopher Dawson.