Ed Tech Crew

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This video introduces the best ways to use search engines to find information on the Web. It uses real-world examples that illustrate ways to reduce useless results and includes: How search engines work Picking the right key words Using quotes and the minus sign Combinations of strategies

The Padcaster is a multifunctional iPad case that takes you from passive consumer to creative filmmaker. Simply snap your iPad in and you're ready to hit the scene and start filming.

This is the new site for multimedia and mobile learning rubrics for various projects by the amazing Kathy Schrock

We all know that we can share via iTunes over USB to any Mac/PC with a recent version of iTunes. Well would you believe the same thing works without a cable and it doesn't have to be the Mac/PC that manages the devices. It means that any teacher can access all the students files on a device that has been "Saved to iTunes".

From @makeuseof blog: Offers a list of extra simple file-sharing services. With these services, there are no accounts, no clients and no interfaces to learn. Simply upload your file, get a link, and share it.

Great list of apps that have uses in education and learning situations

The post offers information about some engaging presentation tools available for teachers who could start using them in the classroom to better engage students. The teachers are then challenged to find ways for their students to create projects using these tools. 

One of the perplexing things that teachers and educators encounter when trying to understand educational technology and leverage it to their classrooms is the abundance of those baffling techy terms. Blended Learning is different from Differentiated Learning, Educational Technology might not be necessarily Instructional Technology, a Virtual Classroom is different from an Electronic Classroom or Flipped Classroom; There is also asynchronous, synchronous, and personalized learning, these and many more are but some examples of the growing terminology in this field.

LinkBunch is a free service that you can use to quickly send a group of links to your friends, colleagues, and students. To use the service just visit LinkBunch, enter the links that you want to share, and click "Bunch." When you click on "Bunch" you will be given a URL to share with anyone you want to see the links in your bunch. When someone clicks on the URL for your Bunch he or she will be able to open the links you bunched together.

A great "talking heads" movie from the Macarthur Foundation looking at connected learning.

"This article by Edudemic is the best summary of the 5 issues facing iPad rollouts I've read to date. But… many school principals I've met who NEED to read this wont as it's 1300 words. And so, here's my summary for the 'busy' Principal"

A nice little list of web2.0 tools

what does your website sound like?

What about the 21st Century Teacher, what are the characteristics we would expect to see in a 21st Century Educator. We know they are student centric, holistic, they are teaching about how to learn as much as teaching about the subject area. We know too, that they must be 21st Century learners as well. But teachers are more than this.....

Ringwood North PS Podcast Site

Welcome to the new iSchool series - the iSchool crew. Check out my Podcast Producer's first go at doing their own podcast -Edtechcrew style. Found it very difficult but very rewarding. Basic concept is trying to give kids a voice for their honest feedback on th good and bad aspects of technology, and how it is being used in the classroom. Kids collaborate on a Google Doc to make show notes, and upload links to website. Planning to share Google Doc or create a Diigo/Delicious account so other kids at school can all have an input - much like is done here with Diigo. First episode, so be nice! Click on the link to read more of this type of stuf.... "We must give a big thanks and hello to Tony and Darrel from the EdTechCrew podcast, who are enthusiastic educators sharing their knowledge of technology. They have inspired us to try something from the kids' perspective. You know the old saying, 'Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.'"