THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for your responses to my question about tech basics no teacher should be without. From the number of enthusiastic responses, I am thinking this is a resource that will be able to be used by
What are the most important tech basics no teacher should be without?
I need your help! I do a lot of professional development on integration, and I am always surprised by how many teachers, even those who use computers every day, don’t know what I consider “must-know” tech skills. I’m not talking
Differentiation success!
I observed an exemplary use of differentiating instruction with mobile technology today and have to share! This was in a middle school math class. The textbook series the teacher was using had an online test that produced a report for
Dell Mini's :(
Apparently, the Dell Mini 9 has already been discontinued. Also I’ve heard that the Mini 10 is not available through the educational channel (just consumer). Educators are being told to with for the Mini 12. This is disappointing and doesn’t
eeePC vs. Mini
I got a Dell Mini 9 and have been comparing it to the eeePC. I’ll do a more detailed analysis later, but here are my first impressions: I was surprised that the Mini is nearly the same form factor and
Slideshare w/o related resources
I love SlideShare and it’s ability to share presentations by embedding them. This functionality allows you to embed presentations into a web page so that they can be viewed from any browser, regardless of whether the computer has PowerPoint, OpenOffice,
Mini-laptops rule!
The next evolution of mobile technology is mini-laptops. At prices as low as $249, these devices are affordable and provide an excellent way to integrate technology to improve student learning. A new wave of EETT money that was included in
Interesting moves by Amazon
Amazon made several interesting moves with the Kindle this week. First, they caved on the decision to include text-to-speech in the Kindle 2. Instead of making it a built-in feature, they will leave the decision to turn text-to-speech on up
Could mobile tech finally be positioned to replace textbooks?
On this blog and elsewhere, I have talked extensively about the need to differentiate instruction, the inefficacy of textbooks in doing that, and the potential of mobile technology to make a huge difference. Recently, the Indiana State Board of Education
Mini-laptops + solid instruction + Web 2.0 = Engaged learning
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