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Bill Gates Talks About Education
Through Kristen Swanson's Trail Blazer's wiki, I discovered this interesting TED Talk (they're all interesting) in which Bill Gates discusses mosquitoes, malaria, and education. The education part of his talk (the last eight minutes) presents some in...
At GTA Today
I'm at the Google Teacher Academy in Washington, DC today and tomorrow. If I post less than my typical five new items on this blog today, I hope you'll understand. If you'd like to follow my Tweets and others from GTA you can do so by looking for the...
More Interesting Ways to...
Tom Barrett has launched a new set of Interesting Ways slides. Tom's Interesting Ways slide decks are collaborative projects to which anyone can make a contribution, just contact Tom. The new additions to the Interesting Ways series are Web Conferenc...
Free Video Editing Webinar
Assigning a video creation project can be a great way to get kids excited about your class. When kids are excited about a project they will generally invest more effort into that project. YouTube is offering a free webinar that will teach basic video...
Micro Grants for Professional Development
We Are Teachers is once again offering a series of $200 microgrants to educators. This round of microgrants is for educators who will use the grant for professional development. You can learn more about the grants and the application process here. $2...
Free Webinar - Tour of FRONTLINE\'s Digital Nation
Via the Infinite Thinking Machine, I've learned that next Tuesday, December 8th at 8pm EST, PBS and Classroom 2.0 will be hosting a free webinar for educators. The webinar will be lead by Rachel Dretzin. Rachel Dretzin is the producer of FRONTLINE's ...
K12 Online Conference Starts on Monday
The K12 Online Conference begins on Monday, November 30 with a pre-conference keynote to be given by Kim Coffino. The following two weeks will offer more than fifty virtual presentations from K-12 educators around the world. These presentations will ...
Tiny Chat Launches Tiny Chat TV
As was first reported by Read Write Web, Tiny Chat has launched a new service called Tiny Chat TV. Tiny Chat TV is designed to be a competitor to U-Stream. Tiny Chat TV allows you to create your own channel for streaming video to the web. I signed up...
Ten Trends to Affect Teaching in the Future (and now)
Rodd Lucier has a great post titled Classrooms of Tomorrow on his blog right now. In that post he talks about a professional development workshop he recently facilitated for Regina Mundi College. There are two aspects of Rodd's post that I enjoyed. F...
Palm Breeze Cafe Presents Website Smack Down
Palm Breeze Cafe, a great web video show about educational technology, just released part six of its Website Smack Down series. Over the course of the six episodes they have reviewed twenty-four websites that teachers can use in their classrooms. The...
A Gallery of Glogs
Glogster, a service that I've written about a few times in the past, is a great way to bring poster projects into the 21st century. Using Glogster students can create multimedia collages about anything. One of Glogster's employees, Jim Dachos (a form...
Scholastic Webinar on Interactive Whiteboards
Next Wednesday, November 18th, Scholastic is hosting a webinar about using interactive whiteboards in your classroom. The webinar intends to be more than just a "hey look at this cool thing" session. The session, according to its subtitle, plans to f...
