All Blog Posts Tagged 'ed' (11)

This is a two-fer, for those who are upgrading from Office 2003 to 2007. Here are the sites that will show you where all your favorite commands have gone in that pesky, confusing ribbon at the top of the

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Share your ideas, meet people and build your connection base. Ed Tech Start Ups group on Linkedin has almost 1,550 members already. Our focus is technology and education. Those that are interested in exploring the possibility or are in the process of developing a start up business will find this an outstanding… Continue

Earlier this evening I wrote an incredibly long post in which I described in detail the administrator position that is expected to be advertised for very soon. I’m going to paraphrase that post those of

you who are willing to help me out by cross-posting on your blog can do

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There has been a lot of talk about the rising cost of textbooks and different methods of helping defray those costs for students. MORE..

Are you ready to allocate Recovery Act funds in ways that will stimulate teaching and learning?



The Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd) has many resources to help your school, district, and community work together to invest these funds wisely. Use these decision support tools to start a conversation and integrate your technology purchases into your core reform goals, and share this information as a flyer with colleagues.…



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The Ypulse 2009 Totally Wired Teacher Award (sponsored by Dell) will honor a trailblazing teacher who has successfully pioneered the innovative and educational use of technology, mobile technology, social media (blogs, wikis, social networking, photo/video sharing) in the classroom.

The award is inspired by Ypulse founder Anastasia Goodstein’s book, Totally Wired: What Teens & Tweens Are Really Doing Online, and the challenges she observed around integrating…

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I recently created a toolbar for my Digital Arts students to access the various freeware and cloudware resources we use in class. I also included a directory of engaging educational games and activities. Though it's designed with my students in mind, I'd like to share it with the rest of the Classroom 2.0 community. Here's the link - http://digitalarts.ourtoolbar.com/…

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UK educational software company RM has released a demo of their game Finguistics. What makes this so interesting is that this educational game is being designed to work on the Microsoft Surface platform.

As you can see in the video, these kids are…

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JS Wiki Math uptdated with more video.



Statement of the definition of a derivative, geometrical motivation, and two examples of application of the definition.







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here is the link: JS Wiki Math


building an interactive math text. SP

This week I had one of my best classroom experiences of the year. I had the opportunity to teach a bunch of middle school kids about copyright and open ed.



It was an incredibly active and engaging discussion, and I learned as much as they did.



A summary of my observations is below. (cross posted from my Mobile Musings blog)



Here is the lesson plan and accompanying resources if anyone wants to use them:…

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