A great reminder that what is obvious to you is mostly likely eye-opening to everyone else. Obvious to you. Amazing to others. – by Derek Sivers

Technology: Exciting, Disruptive but No Longer Overwhelming! – goo.gl/UVLdB Technology Boot Camp on Prezi A Day in the Internet – http://www.onlineeducation.net/internet The Top Ten Disruptive Technologies – http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=681107 Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy – http://www.tubechop.com/watch/170739 The Cost of Technology – http://www.intac.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/cost-of-technology.jpg   Polleverywhere.com – goo.gl/RLB7I PollEverywhere.com on Prezi Polleverywhere.com – http://www.polleverywhere.com Classroom Example -http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/NDI4MDE2MTQz An [...]

Presented 1/20&21 at the Ohio Free-Tech Conference in Cincinnati Presentation: Handout: http://tech.savvyteachers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Moodle_Outline.pdf Resources Moodle Benefits http://www.smartschools.ph/SmartSchools/SmartTools/BenefitsMoodle.htm About Moodle http://docs.moodle.org/en/About_Moodle Moodle Philosophy http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Moodle/Philosophy Review of HS use of Moodle http://aiken.moodlerooms.com/wb/pages/academics/moodle/moodle-at-aiken-high-school–introduction/moodle-at-aiken-high-school–images.php Getting Started http://docs.moodle.org/en/Getting_started_for_teachers Blackboard vs. Moodle http://www.humboldt.edu/~jdv1/moodle/all.htm Hot potatoes – Create Interactive Activities http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ Wikipedia’s Moodle Article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle Demo Course – Features http://demo.moodle.net/course/view.php?id=5 2 Minute Moodles [...]

This is a great video on a general overview of how a teacher can use technology to revolutionalize how students access and interact with information. Instead of a text book, students are expected to create their own text book, and interact with the creators of the writers of the various blogs and sites that make [...]

Edutopia has a great article on how many teachers are finding ways to use web2.0 sites that are often blocked in the classroom. This goes along well with our recent article on how to bring youtube videos to class dispite filters.

YouTube is often blocked at schools due to the inappropriate content that is hosted on the site. However, there is a great wealth of educational content as well that you might wish to show to your classes. We will be downloading a copy of the video that you can bring into class. You’ll find that [...]

Youtube has plenty of educational content, from Photoshop tutorials to great speeches from history, just about ever content area can be found on the site. Unfortunately, a ton of inappropriate content can be found too. How can you keep the good yet protect your students from the bad? TeacherTube may be the answer. It’s a [...]

Wikipedia is a great source of all sorts of information. I often go there myself to get a basic understanding of a topic. But wikipedia has been attacked as non-credible and containing false information. We’re going to explore if these claims are true or false and decide what to do with wikipedia. First, we need [...]