Browsing all posts in "educational technology".
Using Technology to Learn and to Connect
Technology has put the world at our finger tips – and also made the world our audience. It is as simple to go and talk to a friend next door as it is to share an experience or a nugget of wisdom with your PLN—people from anywhere in the world, and people that you have [...]
Technology Instruction Within the Lesson and Beyond
Educational instruction goes beyond the textbook and classroom exercises. Technology is all around us. It permeates the very essence of who we are and what we do.
An examination of the very classroom in which we teach today will expose us to more technology that we can teach throughout the year. It is all around [...]
Technology to Enhance Differentiated Instruction
Differentiating Instruction with Technology in K–5 Classrooms authors Grace E. Smith and Stephanie Throne have just published their second book, Differentiating Instruction with Technology in Middle School Classrooms. No matter what age group you’re working with, Smith and Throne have great advice on how technology can assist differentiated instruction. Take, for example, this excerpt from their [...]
Crowdsourcing or Loudsourcing?
Applause to my friends at ISTE for having the gumption to create a massive experiment in crowdsourcing with their ISTE 2010 keynote crowdsourcing forum. As I’ve put in my own suggestions and thoughts and sat back to watch the forum evolve since it was posted, a few things about crowds have come to mind as [...]
Enter the Foley Sound Effect Contest!
“This is Not a Bowl of Potato Chips”
Take some household items, add imagination, and create a new world in 15 seconds. It’s so easy that you can do it with your eyes closed. Enter ISTE’s Foley Contest and try to win a prize as you do it.
The worlds of audio drama are created by sound, [...]
Test Your Tech Skills in the ISTE Audio Contest!
I’d like to invite, challenge, and double dare educators, students, and anyone else to participate in ISTE’s “Six Sounds in Search of an Author” contest!
For this contest you need to create a one-minute audio story that includes 6 sound effects–a striking match, an engine roar, a beating heart, cricket chirps, a ringing phone, and a [...]
Crowdsourcing The Best of Learning & Leading with Technology
Crowdsourcing is taking the writing world by storm!
I’ve seen authors in various fiction genres host their entire publicity tour online, asking readers to take pictures of their books in bookstores, of people reading their books, and of the books in funny situations. The authors offer prizes drawn at random or for the most creative photo. [...]
Are You Ready for a New Global Perspective?
As we start this new semester we have to acknowledge the fact that we are living in a world that seems to be in a serious stage of re-thinking. We over-consume, over-pollute and leave a lot of the world hungry and full of preventable diseases. If we as adults are affected by the depressing nature [...]
Preparing for a Digital Future Today
In 2005 Thomas Friedman published the book The World is Flat. In this book he talked about the changing nature of the world and how we are called to prepare for those changes. He showed that with technology anyone can be involved in the new digital economy and he identified ten forces that are/were, as [...]
Digital Textbooks – An Economical Option?
Last week the state of California released a list of 10 free digital text books that meet state standards for science and math. The California government is suggesting that using free digital text books is a way for schools to save money during these times of deep budgetary cuts. But is it? Many schools are [...]
