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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Presentation of the Week
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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.
The Best Guides For Helping Teachers Develop Personal Learning Networks
Personal Learning Networks (PLN) is the phrase often used to describe connections that educators develop with other educators throughout the world by using online social media. Here are great resources for helping teachers Develop Personal Learning Networks.
Why iPads Aren’t Ready For Classrooms… Yet
However magical it might be, let’s not forget the iPad is a first-generation device, with first-generation problems and limitations. It’s too expensive, there’s not enough education-focused content, it’s terrible at productivity, it’s distracting.
http://gizmodo.com/5742925/why-ipads-arent-ready-for-classrooms-yet
Announcing the 2010 Edublog Awards Winners!
The best blogs in social media and education in 2010
http://edublogawards.com/announcing-the-2010-edublog-awards-winners/
21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020
Its easy to miss when we try to extrapolate current trends ten years into the future; particularly in a period of technological hyper-change. Never-the-less I agree technology is driving educational reform and learners are grasping the tools of democratic learning.