With all the great resources, websites, articles and other helpful information for educators, it may sometimes be hard to keep track of all these items. What better a way to integrate technology into the classroom than to start by doing …
Top 100 Technology Blogs
There are so many amazing voices and resources at our fingertips. The folks at OnlineDegrees have made connecting to those resources a bit easier with their annual list of the Top 100 Technology Blogs for Teachers.
http://www.angelamaiers.com/2010/06/top-100-technology-blogs.html…
Some cool tools for a hot topic: social learning
Slide presentation by Jane Hart at the Australian Flexible Learning Framework’s “Making technology work for you” conference. She mentions some old favourites as well as some new tools that are appearing on the emerging Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 …
Tools for the 21st Century Teacher – Great eBook
Michael Zimmer, who writes The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness, has published a great 17 page ebook titled Tools for the 21st Century Teacher. In the ebook Michael outlines a variety of web-based tools that can be used in almost …
10 Emerging Technologies 2010
Each year, Technology Review selects what it believes are the 10 most important emerging technologies. The winners are chosen based on the editors’ coverage of key fields. The question asked is simple: is the technology likely to change the world?…
Teaching in a socially networked classroom
Since social networking is such a huge part of our students’ lives, we should be incorporating it into the classroom. Both students and teachers can benefit from using such tools. Collaboration and communication can be made easier by using these …
Can academic integrity exist in the Google Age?
Technology can make it easy to coast, cheat, and otherwise circumvent the educational process. The National Society of Collegiate Scholars would like students to embrace integrity instead.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/can-academic-integrity-exist-in-the-google-age/3990…
Teachers describe new technology tools in schools
The school day isn’t limited to the “school day” any more, thanks to new tools that are helping students learn 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
http://presspubs.com/articles/2010/05/20/st_croix_valley_press/news/doc4bf47f1332c42142845753.txt…
Canada’s Smartest Cities 2010
Is your city one of Canada’s smartest, a place that has what it takes to help you get ahead? Or is it falling behind? Check out how Canada’s major cities stack up, and whether they’re improving or slipping down the …
For the Love of Learning and Teaching! – Inspirational Video
As the end of the school year approaches, the feelings and emotions of teachers may be up and down and all over the place! From being stressed one minute, to feeling absolutely exhausted the next, those last few weeks can …
Technology in the Classroom: Are We Moving Too Fast?
In order to be able to envision the future, we have to be willing to examine the present. It is easy to observe the preponderance of technological growth in today’s society. Children have cellular telephones; we can simultaneously view and …
Did You Know…? – Technology and the Classroom
With the ever-growing world of technology, many people are aware of the popularity and uses of it in today’s classrooms. What many people are not aware of is the intensity of that usage. Some of the facts can be almost …
Robot Teachers Enter the Education Workforce
You may have had some instructors during your school years that seemed like they were simply carrying out pre-programmed, robotic orders, but not quite as literally as these profs. Singularity Hub reports that robot teachers have successfully passed a first …
Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On (Article)
The Web is no longer a collection of static pages of HTML that describe something in the world. Increasingly, the Web is the world – everything and everyone in the world casts an “information shadow,” an aura of data which, …
Teaching and technology: presentations and resources for educators
During the last six or so years I have created a number of ‘how-to’ documents and presentations for a variety of web based and related technologies. They are available from the various workshop web pages however I thought it might …