Tag Archives: tech integration

Edutainment … Gamification … Recycling?

Posted on February 28, 2012 by

So we chatted about educational games in our latest podcast, more specifically DimensionU. I’m working on a longer post about educational games but in the meantime, I found an awesome video that exemplifies gamification. Click on the break and watch … Continue reading →

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Socrative.com – A review

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

I luuurrv technology. You know why I love technology? It brings something new to a classroom that was more or less impossible before. Sometimes this technology can make no difference, be helpful, sometimes it can be transformative and in other … Continue reading →

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Hall.com – A review

Posted on December 3, 2011 by

I saw this service on freetech4teachers and thought I’d try it out. This is an online meeting space where people can work collaborative together on a project, as a study session, or to compare and create a common set of … Continue reading →

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Google Docs – Presentation – A real trainwreck

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

*UPDATE* I did follow up and try Zoho and Prezi the next time. Read what happened (it was good by the way) here. Google Docs offers something that Microsoft PowerPoint, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and iWorks cannot–real time collaboration. I recently just … Continue reading →

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Ed Tech and Murphy’s Law

Posted on October 20, 2010 by

Student: “Sir! My pencil broke!” Teacher: “Oh geez! Not again! Ok, go down the hall to the Writing Utensil Specialist” and ask her to reset your pencil.” It was in the middle of one of my digital photo classes and … Continue reading →

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