Adam S. Bellow, author of The Tech Commandments, and founder of eduTecher, spoke to a roomful of receptive teachers at the recent ISTE 2011 conference, and demonstrated some of the ironies and contradictions the education system is mired in. And …
18 Enlightening iPad Experiments in Education
A list of inspiring iPad experiments! Check them out!
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/18-enlightening-ipad-experiments-in-education…
Manage Classes in WordPress with ScholarPress Courseware
See how to use ScholarPress Courseware, a plugin which allows users to easily create course schedules, assignments, and bibliographies within WordPress.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/manage-classes-in-wordpress-with-scholarpress-courseware/38497…
The Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons
This guide dispels a few myths and pull together a complete list of resources for teachers and students to use when blogging and working with content online.
http://theedublogger.com/2012/02/09/the-educators-guide-to-copyright-fair-use-and-creative-commons/…
A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn’t Working
Ed Tech guru Wesch says method doesn’t matter if you don’t focus on student/teacher bond.
http://chronicle.com/article/A-Tech-Happy-Professor-Reboots/130741/…
5 Things I Have Learned from Students About Education Technology
Sometimes as I write about what I am teaching my students in the high school, it probably makes it seem as if that is a one-way street. The truth of the matter is that it is often a two-way conversation …
Study: Students With Smartphones Study More Often
While more teenagers and college students are utilizing tablets and smartphones in their daily lives, one study finds that students with access to these devices may be studying more often.
30 Online Multimedia Resources for PBL and Flipped Classrooms
A great list of resources for Problem Based Learning and the Flipped Classroom approach.
10 Free Web Conferencing Tools
Here is an interesting list of 10 web conferencing tools. All of these work on multiple platforms like Windows, Mac and Linux.
6 Technologies to Watch in Higher Ed
During the next five years, six emerging technologies show potential to influence teaching and learning in higher education, according to the 2012 NMC Horizon Report on higher education.
http://www.convergemag.com/policy/6-Technologies-to-Watch-in-Higher-Ed.html…
Presentation of the Week: Researching Social Media in Education: What Can We Learn?
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Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration
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The Must-Have Guide To Helping Technophobic Educators
The blogosphere and the mainstream media is filled with success stories of technology’s successful adoption in education. However, many educators complain that when they try to introduce technological innovation on their campuses, they face obstacles.
Four Ways to Use Pinterest in Education
Pinterest is an electronic bulletin board where users can “pin” images from around the web. These images are then categorized into various boards on the users’ profile. So what are these pin boards good for with regards to integrating them …
Opening up a world of educational content with YouTube for Schools
YouTube for Schools is a network setting that school administrators can turn on to grant access only to the educational content from YouTube EDU. Teachers can choose from the hundreds of thousands of videos on YouTube EDU created by more …