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SurveyGizmo
If you’re a college student looking to do some online surveys for class research, surveygizmo has a free student account: http://goo.gl/nN1Hc Read more
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Missouri bans teachers from “friending” students on Facebook
http://youtu.be/Mcjt0fCqoOA Read more
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“The 3R’s” Using iPads in the Classroom
http://youtu.be/DntAbEah6k4 Read more
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MMOs boost cognitive function?
This article is cross-posted from my school blog, Spring 2012. A press release from North Carolina State University announced recently that a group of NCSU researchers have found that playing World of Warcraft is shown to improve cognitive functioning in older adults. Apparently, it’s more effective for those adults who scored particularly low on a… Read more
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Feed fixed
It recently came to my attention that our RSS feed was broken. It now has been fixed. I’ve also set up a feedburner feed at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/EdTechForMe Read more
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m-Learning, or Them-Learning?
This article is cross-posted from my class blog, Spring 2012. “M-Learning”, as it was described in The World is Open, is yet another sad example of how the United States is great at innovating, but miserable at the follow through. Over ten years ago, I worked with a PT3 grant project called “M3: Models, Mentors,… Read more
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You get what you pay for…
This article is cross-posted from my class blog, Spring 2012. “Virtual Learning Environments can be excellent for teaching and learning.” After spending a little over a week in Second Life, I believe the above statement needs either some more emphasis on “can be” or perhaps altered to “will be in the future.” There is still… Read more
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Free Screen Sharing
This article is cross-posted from my class blog, Spring 2012. I saw a blog post a few weeks back on FreeTech4Teachers.com that highlighted the website QuickScreenShare.com. Since we’re talking about Virtual Learning Environments this week, I thought it might be worth throwing in here. While screen sharing isn’t exactly a “Virtual Learning Environment” in the way that… Read more
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Our students are begging to use technology… and we ban it.
This article is cross-posted from my class blog, Spring 2012. As I was reading The Daily (my daily news”paper” that I subscribe to on my iPad) just this morning, there was an article by Noreen O’Donnell that reported on a particular middle school that banned the very popular shoe style called “Uggs” because the students were… Read more
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Professional Development Webquest
I have created a new web quest activity on this site entitled “PowerPoint *plus*“. Its main goal is to teach you how to do the following things in order to spice up your PowerPoint presentations: Download & Embed YouTube videos Create Custom Path Animations Create Linked Slides The primary audience for this activity is teachers,… Read more