Doug Johnson, author of The Blue Skunk Blog, posted his list of educational technology resources that are not going to go away. He calls it his “short list” but there are more than a dozen items in his list such as cellphones / smartphones, gaming in education, online classes / schools, and open source software. After reviewing his list, what other resources would you add?

I attended a session Microsoft presentation recently and this is a list of education resources that was shared. I am sure you can find something here that will work for you!   Learning Essentials Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office 2.0 provides education-specific tools for students and educators to get the most out of their familiar Microsoft Office applications.   Teacher Tech Join us each week to get practical tips and information on how to use [...]

Google provides the tools for creating nice looking charts to be included in documents or web pages. There are a couple of parameters that need to be included but once you get the hang of it, it is really easy to do. For example, here is a basic pie chart: And this is the URL that creates the chart: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chs=250×100&chd=t:90,1,9&chl=Windows|Other|Mac Looks complicated, right? No, not really. We just need to break it down into smaller [...]

Consider having your students construct a weekly learning report. A colleague shared this idea for a reflective exercise that can also work as a course study guide for the students in the end. To begin, ask the students to respond to these three prompts weekly: What did I learn this week? What is still unclear? Create and solve a sample test question. Answering the first question, What did I learn this week?, can help you [...]

Okay, so I am a little late to the party. This video was posted on YouTube.com on September 14, 2009. Still worth watching even though I am two months behind…

I don’t remember exactly how I came across Dr. Scott McLeod‘s name, but I am so glad I did. I have enjoyed subscribing to his blog, dangerously irrelevant for a long time. Recently, he has started another blog, Mind Dump that I have also added to my blogroll. Both are worth your time and subscription.

As much as I would like to be everywhere to help teachers with everything, this isn’t going to happen. This morning a colleague asked for a reminder on how to insert a document for download on a blog. I needed a quick and easy way to show them how to do it, and Jing was just the thing. Now I am sure that a lot of you are already familiar with Jing – a screen [...]

Wolfram|Alpha reports that their first Homework Day, held live on October 21, 2009, was a success. Visit the site to view the photo gallery of the event, and look for a video archive of sessions to be posted soon. In addition, they are featuring questions from Homework Day on the site. If you haven’t visited the site, take a moment to do so because there is some really neat tools there. While looking at one [...]

Here are some more interesting ways to use Wordle in the Classroom! Forty Interesting Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom Also, be sure to visit Guess the Wordle, a site created by Jen Wagner (@jenwagner) that features a different wordle each day. Students try to identify the topic which gets harder each day.

Need a cleaner way to view the content of a web page? Readability is the answer. All you have to do is make a couple of preference selections (font style, font size, and page margin) and then drag a bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmark tool bar. When you visit a page with a lot of stuff going on (flash animations, banners, blinking text, etc.) just click on the ‘Readability’ bookmarklet and watch the other stuff [...]