Today, Google announced the completion of 54 3D models of the 2010 Winter Olympic venues in Vancouver. You can view these models in Google Earth by selecting in the 3D buildings layer. You can also view and tour the buildings …
3 Awesome Tools To Add More Functionality To Your USB Drives
USB drives are ubiquitous these days. Almost everyone has one but what do you use them for? Storage? Is that all? We recognize this and we have covered a plenty of tools and applications that you can use with USB …
Get Organized This Semester With Google Calendar
One of the best things you can do to start your semester off right is to leverage free online tools to help you manage your classes. In this article, you will learn how to manage your schedule and get organized …
SMARTBoards and Making Music with Kisstunes
Here’s a really great tool for playing and recording music using your computer QWERTY keyboard, your mouse, or by touching your SMART Board. It’s called Kisstunes. It’s incredibly simple to use and the really fun thing about this program is …
Flavorsme – Create Your Own Free Personalized Webpage
Twittering the other night, I stumbled upon a service called Flavors.me. It’s a personal portal website for linking all your content from around the Internet. Which means that visitors to your Flavors.me page will get links to say your Facebook, …
14 Technologies Educators Should Watch in 2010
Which technology tools can help improve teaching and learning? Which can boost productivity? Which are just plain useful for keeping organized? Education technology veterans shared their lists of apps intended to make life in and out of the classroom faster, …
How to Add Captions To Your YouTube Videos
YouTube has a global audience, so if you want to reach as many people as possible, you’ll have to make sure subtitles are available for your videos. You’ll want closed captioning to reach the deaf and hard of hearing or …
ShoutEm – Create Your Own Microblogging Network
ShoutEm is a free service that allows you to create your own private microblogging network. ShoutEm allows you to make your network public or private. Your ShoutEm network can be as simple as Twitter or as robust as FriendFeed.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/01/shoutem-create-your-own-microblogging.html…
Podcasting for E-Learning: Setting Up a Mini-Studio
If you’re serious about podcasting, consider investing in a mini-studio. A well-equipped mini-studio can be a valuable asset to any learning organization. For a relatively small investment, you can provide employees with a comfortable environment to create high-quality audio and …
Kaltura Releases Open Source Video Extension for Moodle
Kaltura, an open source video hosting and management site, now has a Moodle extension. Using the Kaltura video extension for Moodle, teachers can upload and manage rich-media content, such as full lectures in an online course; students can then post …
Learning to Teach for the Future
“I need my teacher to learn 3.0” is an updated video written and performed by the passionate Kevin Honeycutt. Honeycutt is a former educator and current employee at ESSDACK, an educational service center. He spends much of his time researching …
Bill Gates Surpasses 100,000 Twitter Followers in 8 Hours
Eight hours ago, Microsoft founder Bill Gates joined Twitter. Five hours ago, Twitter’s Caroline Mizumoto tweeted about it. And moments ago, @BillGates broke 100,000 Twitter followers.
NASA Launches Student Site
The National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) has launched a Web site aimed specifically at teenagers that gives them access to current NASA spacecraft data, potentially taking school science projects to a new level.
http://thejournal.com/articles/2010/01/06/nasa-launches-student-site.aspx…
3 Ways Educators Are Embracing Social Technology
Innovative educators are embracing social media to fight back against the onslaught of problems. Technologies such as Twitter and Skype offer ideal solutions as inexpensive tools of team-based education.
http://mashable.com/2010/01/10/educators-social-technology/…
Video – I Need My Teachers to Learn
Kevin Honeycutt has recently released an updated version of his music video I Need My Teachers to Learn. It’s a nice little video about the importance of teachers being life-long learners who adapt their teaching methods to meet the needs …