SpinSpotter: A newsrooms tool for exposing bias and spin? – editorsweblog tags: edtech How objective and spin-free is our news? There is much conjecture that media spin is damaging the relationship newspapers have with their audience, with a recent UK survey indicating that just 43% of the population trust newspapers. With the armies of Communication [...]
Top News – On the way: Nation’s first tech-literacy exam tags: edtech Tech literacy to be added to Nation’s Report Card beginning in 2012 For the first time ever, technological literacy will become part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s Report Card, the test’s governing board has announced. [...]
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Top News – Tech giants invest in global ed reform tags: edtech Initiatives focus on communication, collaboration, and technology integration Looking to produce their next generation of employees (and customers), technology giants such as Cisco Systems, Intel, and Microsoft are setting their sights beyond just the United States and are investing heavily in global education [...]
Free SMS Voting | Text Message Audience Polling : SMS Poll tags: edtech, polling LIVE AUDIENCE POLLING IN FOUR SIMPLE STEPS
Zoho Creator – The Peer to Peer Directory contains the names and contact information for New Jersey teachers who are interested in doing collaborative projects through videoconferencing. This edition will include desktop videoconferencing so if you have a webcam and would like to participate, be sure to sign up. If you are not presently listed [...]
Wikipedia bans Ridgefield High School after profane edits – NewsTimes.com tags: edtech Wikipedia, the online collaborative encyclopedia, has had a block in effect since last October that makes it impossible for users of Ridgefield High School’s Internet address to edit its entries. Wikipedia allows readers to edit information in articles, but some Ridgefield High students [...]
Carbonrally – climate change community focused on fun, social, and competitive challenges Interesting… tags: edtech Reduce global warming by taking quick & easy challenges. Compete with others in your area and around the world. Over 490 teams of company colleagues, friends, and school-mates are competing now to lead the community in CO2 reduction! Challenges are [...]
Is Wikipedia Becoming a Respectable Academic Source? « Digital Scholarship in the Humanities tags: edtech Last year a colleague in the English department described a conversation in which a friend revealed a dirty little secret: “I use Wikipedia all the time for my research—but I certainly wouldn’t cite it.” This got me wondering: How many [...]
CogDogRoo » StoryTools tags: digitalstorytelling, edtech We could use this for lessons… I’m going to try as many as I can – post by andyriddle The Fifty Tools Below you will find 50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story. Again, the mission is not to review or try every single [...]
- Animoto For Education – tags: edtech Add Animoto to your classroom’s digital storytelling kit.
Multitasking: Scan Toaster Prints Text, Photos From the Internet onto Your Bread tags: edtech Scan Toaster Prints Text, Photos From the Internet onto Your Bread
Welcome to Webzume tags: edtech, resume What is a Webzume? view sample webzume. An online, multimedia enhanced Resume (Webzume) with photos and videos. A place to post and apply for jobs. A networking community of professionals from every field. It is easy to sign up and create your Webzume! Get started now by creating your Profile. [...]
Education Week: Networking Teachers Coaxing Colleagues to Use Technology tags: edtech Teryl Magee Jennifer Dorman Scott Kinney Fred Delventhal Heather Sullivan Jennifer Gingerich
Ping.fm / Mobile Platforms tags: edtech Access a mobile version of Ping.fm from your cell phone or other mobile device. Just point your mobile browser to “m.ping.fm” to start posting immediately. For iPhone and iPod Touch users, we’ve developed an optimized version of the site for you guys as well. You can access it by [...]
wikiHow:Carbon Neutral – wikiHow tags: edtech Learn more about carbon offsets and how they work at the wikiHow page on How to Buy a Carbon Offset or the Wikipedia page.
fd’s Flickr Toys: Do fun stuff with your photos tags: edtech ??Flickr?? – post by geneboy U?yteczne zabawki dla Flickr. – post by mendrek GREAT assortment of free tools to create photo projects. – post by cburell Helping you do cool stuff with your digital photos since 2005. Have fun with your photos! Blabberize.com! – [...]
techLEARNING.com | Technology & Learning – The Resource for Education Technology Leaders tags: edtech The Resource for Education Technology Leaders focusing on K-12 educators. Site contains a Software Reviews Database, articles from Technology & Learning Magazine, articles from Educators in Educators’ eZine, Event and Contest listings, Reader suggested… – post by phiggins Produced by Technology [...]
iPaper@Scribd – Email Attachments Made Simple and Safe | Scribd tags: edtech Ways to use iPaper@Scribd As a document sharing tool. Include ipaper@scribd.com as a CC and we’ll send everyone an iPaper version of the document attachments. It’s safe, easy, and you never have to worry whether your recipients can view the documents. As a [...]
Google School: Philipp Lenssen’s Top Google Apps Tips tags: edtech Google expert Philipp Lenssen dishes up the latest news about Google and its features at his daily blog, Google Blogoscoped. Author of the new O’Reilly book, Google Apps Hacks, Lenssen takes some time out of his busy schedule today to share some of his best [...]
Dr. Alice Christie’s GPS and Geocaching Guide for Educators tags: edtech, Geocaching Technology is an integral and growing part of daily living in the twenty-first century. The challenge, then, for teachers, is to use technology effectively in classrooms to help students take ownership for learning and develop the practical and critical thinking skills necessary to [...]
ccLearn tags: edtech ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources (OER). Our mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers. A Fair(y) Use Tale [...]
Poll Everywhere | Simple Text Message (SMS) Voting and Polling, Audience Response System (ARS), PowerPoint Polling tags: edtech Live Audience Polling SlideRocket – The Best Online Presentation Software. tags: edtech SlideRocket?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Flash????????????????Flickr?YouTube?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Blog???? – post by cherry36900 Sign up. Waiting for an invitation to me… – post by zmwang SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything [...]
Wired News tags: edtech News about cultural happenings and technological innovations – post by kirbinator35 its good on the web and in print – post by boyerdm very interesting and informative for those who want to keep up to date on technology and its relationship with global culture – post by duskandsummer Wired popular news [...]
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