Cool Tools & Ed Tech

This site aims to answer one question: With your help we aim to provide: A list of articles and resources that describe how to use wikis in education A comprehensive list of existing educational wikis that we can learn from A place to post ideas and discuss them This is a collaborative effort so please, jump in, contribute, and let's all help each other bring the power of wikis to our schools

You may be surprised at how there are few steps to create podcasts from the time you start talking until your audience starts listening. Podcasting, especially in the absence of a lot of special effects, is a fairly straightforward business.

Welcome to Expert Village, the how to video site where you can learn just about anything, including Pilates exercises, origami instructions, BMX bike tricks, and nearly everything in between.  Explore, learn and share!

This semester I have been tasked to assess eight technology tools that I have utilized in my audio and visual education class. The tools that I will assess are Moodle, Firefox, NiceNet, Del.icio.us, Google Suites, Ning, Yahoo 360, and Jing. The last tool that I will be assessing was not required for this class, but I chose to assess it because I only learned of and used this tool while completing a different assignment in this class. Below are my assessments of the eight tools with star ratings out of five.

Recently, I had the opportunity to experiment with the Student Response System (SRS), or the Clickers, as it is commonly called. This emerging technology of classroom management and Response system is relatively new. However, teachers and students can already take advantage of its very promising benefits.

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bibliography of articles on classroom response systems (CRSs). Most of the articles present some form of research on the effectiveness or impact of CRSs on student learning. The first group of articles are not discipline-specific; the later articles are grouped by discipline.

Learn how to take and edit digital photographs using visual tutorials that emphasize concept over procedure, independent of specific digital camera or lens. Topics range from basic camera tips to advanced techniques.