Bate Middle School recently received a grant through Striving Readers allowing us to pursue a pilot program using iPod Touches, but we didn’t want to chain them to classroom. We felt that in order to prepare students for a mobile society, they had to go home with them too. Over the course of the next year TeacherTechBlog will exclusively focus on the happenings of this project. The hope is that we will learn through these reflections and equip others to join in this vision. In upcoming posts, you’re going to hear about …

These might deserve to be noted as being more along the lines of higher education, but are still worth noting. Academic Earth and a subsite of Youtube, www.youtube.com/edu are now featuring tons of online college courses and academic lectures.(Wonder if my school is blocking them yet?)
Both of these sites are featuring lectures from the likes of Yale, Harvard, and MIT. But each have their own layouts, organizations, and niches. YouTube for example, features the well known “YouTube” interface that most of us are familiar with by breaking it down into “Most …

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 …

Blogs, wikis, Facebook, Myspace, etc… All of these reflect the growth of Web 2.0 sites on the net, but it’s only the tip of the iceberg. The amount of sites like these are growing like crazy, and being able to find the useful ones is getting harder and harder. Thanks to go2web20.net though, you can find most of them in one place, sorted by category and searchable.
If you search for education or e-learning in their search box you will find a small selection of general apps that can be used …

There are a lot of social media websites out there that I would love to rangle into the classroom. Making them work in a classroom environment, not having them blocked, and pleasing the admins is the hard part. This is exactly why I was extremely excited to stumble upon edmodo.com today. A quick glance at it and some would mistake it for Facebook. A deeper look into the features and some would call it a twitter clone. I’m in the process of checking everything out, but this is what I’ve …