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Remembering a Passionate and Wonderful Community Manager

This past week, ISTE and the ISTE Connects community lost a dear friend and invaluable member of our team. Kaya Hardin passed away last Monday, which came as a tremendous shock to us all. She was a young, vibrant Social Media Strategist and she cared deeply about her role as a connector. Kaya will be [...]

Introducing Kaya Hardin Our New ISTE Connects Community Manager

For the last two weeks I’ve had the pleasure of working side by side with Kaya Hardin the newly appointed Community Manager for ISTE Connects. For you Uber-tech geeks out there you should know that when I say working side by side I actually mean video conferencing via Skype and collaborating via Basecamp, both are [...]

There Will Be Casualties in The Social Media Revolution

I was inspired to write about this topic by a recent exchange with a friend, which concerned the use of Twitter and various blogging practices for educators. My friend is a new educator in a very tech-centric district in California, and they have a fairly limited tech background and an even more limited social media [...]

Is Facebook The Enemy of Education?

While researching Facebook applications for education, I came across a post entitled, “Study says Facebook can impact studies.” The following quote was very concerning because it was both shortsighted and backed with very little data:
“Our study shows people who spend more time on Facebook spend less time studying,” Karpinski said. “Every generation has its distractions, [...]

Education Technology Powered By Students

Terms like “Web 2.0” and “Social Media” are thrown around a lot these days to highlight concepts in technology that many of us find new and exciting. You would be hard pressed to find a group of people, especially educators, that would all agree on what the definitions of these terms are. This is because [...]

Defense Contractor Raytheon to Target Education with Computer Modeling

If I hadn’t read it for myself, I would not have believed the news: Defense contractor, Raytheon, just completed the first-ever computer simulation and modeling tool to aid in policy making for the U.S. STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education system. This modeling tool is open-source and now in the possession of BHEF (Business-Higher [...]

Take Our Survery: Using Web 2.0 Tools in a K-12 Environment

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Connecting with the Global Ed Tech Community at NECC

If you were physically present in DC for NECC 2009 then it wasn’t hard to figure out that this years conference had a tremendous turnout, but you might not have considered how large and diverse the online community that attended virtually via ISTE Connects was. The virtual attendee numbers tell a great story about NECC [...]

Leadership Day 2009: An Inspiring Movement to Bridge The Tech Gap

Recently my attention has been on Scott McLeod’s campaign, Leadership Day 2009. His campaign put a call out for all bloggers and other techies, specifically educational technology bloggers, to create content that will help leaders in education (i.e. principals, superintendents, central office administrators), become inspired to embrace technology. From what I can tell, Leadership Day [...]

Google Chrome OS on Every Netbook in Every Classroom

Google made a key strategic move this week by announcing the existence of Google Chrome OS, which focuses on optimizing the user experience for those of us who “live on the web.” You can read more about the official announcement on Google’s Blog. Google’s new OS will be resources conscious, while easily working on x86 [...]