79 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest December 11, 2011

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—79 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed. It’s really difficult to keep up with all that happens in educational technology. This is my attempt to make it just a little easier. I post a Treasure Chest every Sunday! Featured The 2011 Edublog Awards – voting is now open [...]

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The Most Exciting Time of the Year in EdTech!

December 6, 2011

You just have to love the holidays. As educators, everyone is looking forward to the winter break. Spirits are high and anticipation is great. Frowns are replaced by smiles more easily during this time of year. Even my Twitter feed has a more cheerful feel to it — UNTIL — the Edublog Awards rear their [...]

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84 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed Treasure–Chest December 4, 2011

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—84 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed. It’s really difficult to keep up with all that happens in educational technology. This is my attempt to make it just a little easier. I post a Treasure Chest every Sunday! Featured The Innovative Educator: 20 Reasons Why Standardized Testing Is [...]

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And the Winner Is: Samsung Galaxy II Skyrocket

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If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know I have been wrestling with the purchase of a new cell phone. I have been using a three-year old Windows Mobile HTC smartphone–great in its day–terrible in this day! But, I made it work just well enough to be useful. I’ve always believed that before [...]

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82 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest November 27, 2011

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Here is another weekly edition of Treasure Chest—82 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed this past week. Since it was a holiday week I scaled back my edtech curating but still managed to come up with these resources you may have missed. You may have been extra busy too with family functions and didn’t get [...]

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86 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest November 20, 2011

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This week’s Treasure Chest features the return of the old format. I must say that although it is a little more work, the rewards are well worth it. I hope you enjoy this week’s Treasure Chest-86 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed Featured Q&A with Diane Ravitch on N.J. school reform | NJ.com–Diane Ravitch, a [...]

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121 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest November 13, 2011

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Here’s another weekly edition of Treasure Chest–a list of edtech resources you may have missed from the past week. Last week I tried out a new format for Treasure Chest and asked which format you preferred the best–the old one or the new. Well, the results are in and the old format won out by [...]

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Buffer Gets Even Better by Adding Facebook

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I’ve been using Buffer since June to post tweets on Twitter. If you are not familiar with Buffer and how it works, read my post on how to use Buffer and its features. It is a fantastic and versatile way to tweet immediately or schedule your tweets. Just this past week, Buffer has become even better! [...]

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Anatomy of a Librarian [Infographic]

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Some of my favorite people are librarians! (Yeah, that’s you Georgene and Laura) But, beyond being great people, I’ve always felt that the school library is the heart and soul of the campus. When I was a Director of Technology, I relied heavily on the opinions of the library staff. Librarians interact with ALL of [...]

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125 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest November 6, 2011

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I’m trying something new this week of this edition of Treasure Chest. I’m using Bag the Web to embed the resources. I’m not sure if this is a better option or not so I’m asking you to cast your vote at the end of the post on your favorite format—old vs. new. If you’d like [...]

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Vimeo Music Store is a Great Resource for Your Educational Videos

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You’ve asked your class to make a video to chronicle the school year or some other project and now the question of background music rears its ugly head. Students will want to use their favorite song and then you have to explain the issue of copyright. After they understand that they can’t use certain music [...]

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The Proper Use of Video in the Classroom

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The huge leaps forward in technology have given educators access to a vast reservoir of educational videos. In addition, tech advances also offer teachers and students the ability to create their own educational videos. However, when is it appropriate to tap these resources and when is it best to use another method of instruction? Better [...]

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90 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest October 30, 2011

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—90 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed. It’s really difficult to keep up with all that happens in educational technology. This is my attempt to make it just a little easier. I post a Treasure Chest every Sunday! Featured 106 Excuses That Prevent You From Ever Becoming Great–Be [...]

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86 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest October 23, 2011

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—86 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed. It’s really difficult to keep up with all that happens in educational technology. This is my attempt to make it just a little easier. I post a Treasure Chest every Sunday! Featured Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Education’s 3200 Error–As I was [...]

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All About Evernote [Infographic]

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Evernote is a great note-taking tool for all educators. It is cross-platform and can be run on your computer or as a web app. In addition, it has many mobile apps as well. Whether you want to type a note, speak a note or video a note–Evernote can do it! I use Evernote to “bookmark” [...]

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98 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest October 16, 2011

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest—98 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed. It’s really difficult to keep up with all that happens in educational technology. This is my attempt to make it just a little easier. I post a Treasure Chest every Sunday! Featured Goodbye, Miss Barbara – CNN.com–Bob Greene says that with [...]

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FileLab Video Editor Looks Like a Great Replacement for JayCut

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Ever since JayCut was bought out by RIM (Blackberry), educators have been looking for a replacement web-based video editor. FileLab Video Editor may just be the ticket. I’m not a huge fan of web-based video editing but I do realize that something is better than nothing and since it is web-based it makes it much [...]

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