Blog Juice for Educational Technology

It is a well-established fact that the teacher is the single-most critical factor in student achievement—in any environment. But what happens when your classroom is virtual? How do you supervise an instructor who lives 200 miles away? How do you conduct a classroom observation when there are no classrooms? With…

Do you know of an INNOVATIVE educator who is ADVANCING online earning? Have you and your students been involved or are you involved in an original, online learning activity? If so, you can enter the 2006 SIGTel Online Learning Award competition. ISTE’s Telelearning Special Interest Group (SIGTel) Online Learning Awards…

The $100 Laptop web site now has a list of FAQs. Responses are from Nicholas Negroponte, founding chairman of MITs Media Lab. Two samples: Why do children in developing nations need laptops?Laptops are both a window and a tool: a window into the world and a tool with which to…

Thomas Friedman’s book The World is Flat is all about what is happening now that the digital revolution has made it possible to work instantaneously with people on the other side of the world. One of these possibilities is posted at Wired Newsand describesthe link between 12-year-old Princeton in Glenview,…

MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte and associates continue to stay on course to provide a $100 laptop to the world’s children. Here’s the latest: The first prototype will be shown on November 17 at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis. By 2007, the target is to be shipping 150…

This week’s K-12 Technology Roundup from the Center for Digital Education includes a link to a story in eSchool News. The article summarizes a webcast held in September sponsored by National Science Foundation’s Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program that focused on the gender gap in IT….

Last week the Savvy Technologist continued his conversation with Scott McLeod, Co-Director of the UCEA Center for Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education. The new podcast (downloadable here) covers many legal and ethical issues surrounding technology use in education. Scott’s first podcast interview with the Savvy Technologist, on Data-Driven…

The Center for Digital Education has announced its 2005 Best of the Web contest and Digital Education Achievement Awards. Link: Center for Digital Education….

Now available at the vSKOOL site is the *new* vSKOOL blog. The vSKOOL blog will post news items and events related to serving students displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as well as vSKOOL consortium events, activities, and updates. The vSKOOL blog offers RSS syndication. Point your newsreaders here to…

Now available at the vSKOOL site is the *new* vSKOOL blog. The vSKOOL blog will post news items and events related to serving students displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as well as vSKOOL consortium events, activities, and updates. The vSKOOL blog offers RSS syndication. Point your newsreaders here to…

From Converge Online, a news piece about a new report from the folks at Netday. They asked students to envision the new technologies they might invent in the future to help other students learn. They had some pretty good ideas… Link: Students Envision Future of Classroom Technology….

CoSN is launching its new webcast series, which is co-sponsored by Horizon Wimba, on October 5 with Digital Learning Spaces 2010, which will address what school technology leaders need to know in order to prepare their schools to be able accommodate high-tech learning scenarios. CoSN’s webcasts are always top notch…

New Effort Launched to Help Displaced Students, Teachers Response Has Been Incredible: More is Needed Washington, DC –VSKOOL.org is a new one-stop resource to match thousands of displaced students, educators, and families affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita with online and other educational technology resources so that learning can continue…