A seasoned Twitter vet will more than likely recognize #edtech(or similar) as being something known as a hashtag. What is it? A hashtag is the twitter community’s answer to categorizing posts on twitter. Often when checking a twitter feed you will see these tags denoted by the # mark. Though twitter doesn’t officially support them in it’s web app, they can easily be searched in search.twitter.com.
They work by users marking their posts with the appropriate hashtag so the other users can easily follow what’s happening. Twitterers talking about things in …

When trying to raise money to add technology to a classroom, many teachers will turn to writing lengthy grants or begging. I won’t knock either strategy, but eInstruction is giving classes a chance at a remarkable technology makeover in a way that won’t just get the students involved, but will be a blast in the process. What are they wanting? A music video. So not only will your students get to be the rockstars that they are, but their classrooms could walk away technology package whose value might have Timbaland …

I realized after posting the poll about Twitter that it may be unknown to some exactly what Twitter is. Describing Twitter isn’t so much hard, as it is difficult to explain without leaving people wondering why anyone would want to use it… which is a question most people ask, and only try out of curiosity. The fact is, there isn’t one way to use twitter.
Let me give you a brief walk through.
I signed up for twitter, and now I have an empty page with a little box at the top …

I have heard, and maybe said before that if you can tell what a presentation is about by only looking at the slides, then it isn’t an effective presentation. After all, if you and the slides are doing the same thing, then one of you is useless. Right? Well, with the content I have been digging up on SlideShare, I am forced to rethink it.
SlideShare, put simply, is the Youtube of slide presentations. Users of all sorts go there to post their slides from their presentations, and the amount or …

Having a classroom blog set up for students to publish their creativity is an incredible way to generate excitement and quality content. But what about when you have hundreds of students or a group of younger students that aren’t quite ready for writing their own articles? Kate from Wisconsin sent in a excellent tip for dealing with such an occasion(in her case 600+ young students).

Orlando, Florida will be an Educational Technology hotspot this January as it will be time for the Annual FETC conference. Being billed as one of the largest and most successful Educational Technology conferences in the US, and sponsored by big names like Apple, Harcourt, and Discovery Education, it’s looking to uphold that expectation and then some. For those that haven’t come across this conference before, it is literally packed with great sessions for teachers, administrators, technology coordinators, curriculum designers, and media specialists covering:

From time to time teachers often like to assign something like this:
Students are to read through magazines or scholarly online articles and find 3 that are relevant to subject X. Each article will need to be accompanied by a short write-up documenting their relevance to the topic.
This isn’t a bad approach, and actually brings a fair amount of relevance to the material the teacher is covering. But let’s imagine something bigger. (This one hits fairly hard on the advanced side, but is great for showing where things could go …

Classroom 2.0 isn’t a program or at least any one program. It’s a mindset, a style, a way of encountering the learner, and the learner encountering back. The classroom 1.0 model has teachers in the place of authority-not a bad place to be. The students enter the classroom, receive the knowledge, and then spit it out on a test. Some classes utilize student feedback, but from my experience many either don’t or don’t have the chance. Enter Classroom 2.0.

There are many resources around for putting technology in education, but one the best resources are other teachers. We know some of you are itching to reveal some of your own technology tips.