I have a hard enough time with reality, but just in case you were wondering were reality was headed, take a look at this video from the folks at CommonCraft.   Just another reason why I need to get a smart phone soon!  

In my opinion, one of the strengths of Firefox as a web browser is the number of  add-ons that can be installed to make the browsing experience more effective and efficient. I am a fan of anything that makes my life easier, so I have explored, installed and tested a lot of add-ons and discovered many that I like. I share them with colleagues when I can but was looking for an easier way to [...]

From the executive summary of the report: The following five trends have been identified as key drivers of technology adoptions for the period 2010 through 2015; they are listed here in the order they were ranked by the Advisory Board. Technology is increasingly a means for empowering students, a method for communication and socializing, and a ubiquitous, transparent part of their lives. Technology is impacting all of our lives, and especially the lives of students, [...]

If you are a teacher with a Moodle class and are using Microsoft Office for Windows, then you should install Microsoft’s latest Add-in for Moodle. This tool allows you to navigate to your Moodle classes and open the Files directory. From there you can open any Office Document (Word, PowerPoint, or Excel) directly from your Moodle course. Why is that so important? Because it will save you a lot of time! By opening them directly, [...]

I am on a video kick since last Friday. Here is another from Dan Meyer. Please share this with some math educators.

It’s Friday. I needed inspiration. I hadn’t been to the TED Talks on YouTube for a while so I decided to look today. This is what I found. I am inspired.

A short list of open source applications that are commonly used in K-12 today Audacity (audacity.sourceforge.net): Audio editor * Firefox (mozilla.com/firefox): Web browser * Foxit Reader (foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader): PDF reader FreeMind (freemind.sourceforge.net): Mind mapping software * GeoGebra (geogebra.org): 3D geometry/algebra software * GIMP (gimp.org): Photoshop-like graphics editor * Inkscape (inkscape.org): Vector graphics editor iTalc (italc.sourceforge.net): Classroom computer manager Kompozer (kompozer.net): Web-page authoring system * Linux (linux.org): Operating system * Moodle (moodle.org): Course management system * OpenOffice [...]

Interested in genetics and cloning? Then visit this site developed by the University of Utah. The Genetic Science Learning Center is a science and health education program located in the midst of the bioscience research being carried out at the University of Utah. Our mission is making science easy for everyone to understand. To achieve our mission, we provide educational materials and programs for global and local audiences. These include two websites, available free of [...]

I was browsing though and issue of Tech & Learning when I came across an article highlighting web tools for enhancing collaboration by Ozge Karaoglu. Listed below are links to the first three parts of her series, 100 Web Tools to Enhance Collaboration. I am familiar with some of the resources but there are many others to explore. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 In this day of tightening school budgets, these free or inexpensive [...]

A friend (thanks, Steve!) sent me a link to this movie about Web 3.0 If you have 15 minutes, take a look. I found it interesting to hear the variety of viewpoints . Like Tim Berners-Lee, I can’t imagine what the web will be like in the not too distant future – but I am looking forward to it! Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.