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 …

@justinreeve made an interesting tweet today about a service called Pixton, and said that he could see students using it to demonstrate knowledge. After checking it out, I totally agree. Pixton is another comic book creator type website, similar to others around. But, I like this one a lot better. It seems as if everything is a lot more customizable and simple. Clicking on parts of the body brings up tools that will help you move and animate them, while clicking on objects gives you different sets of tools. Just …

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 …

I was talking to a teacher today that adds their students names to everything they hand out. It sparked my interest enough to delve into the why and how they were doing it. As it turns out, it’s a great way to enforce some accountability. Putting each students name onto each document manually would be a pain though. Solution? One Excel sheet with all of your student names, and merging them automatically onto multiple individualized copies of your document. The process is a simple mail merge, which is usually 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 …