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Microsoft recognized three U.S. schools at its Global Forum Educator awards last week. I didn't find two of them terribly intriguing, but the third, LYNCing Distance Learning Math Classes to Blind and Visually Impaired Students, was a great example of how technology can be used to link educators with special skills and students with special needs how may not otherwise have access to a qualified instructor.

Hi Douglas, thanks for sharing this. I went to the Globaloria link on the site and some of the games made by the children are amazing! This is a nice testament to learning by building.

BYOD is an interesting solution, but what is it doing to the school's limited bandwidth?

He basically subscribes to all the educational and management journals you want to and should be reading-- and summarizes the "best" articles for educators. It's a subscription service, but it looks at issues from student, teacher, and admin perspective.

Really cool concept of using technology to match educators to experts to enhance learning experiences for students. I wish I had this tool when I was teaching.

I did some searching of this site to understand the transactions here. I could only find about 5 or 6 volunteers, although maybe there are more. The site says they have "granted" more than 29,000 wishes. I wonder if this is a counter of visits to the site. I love the idea, but I wonder how big the pool of volunteers and projects has to be in order to make it come alive.

More money potentially being allocated to build a better tech infrastructure in Florida education system.

How teachers use Nearpod, and iPad app similar to PowerPoint to engage students and do formative assessment.

relates to the 3 little pigs video I showed you

In follow-up to previously posted video, this full article details MIT's Media Lab research on monitoring electrodermal activity (EDA), a measure of sympathetic arousal, and on advancing autism communication through 4 active research areas.

This article further details the research behind the video I previously posted relating to emerging technology related to autism emotion and communication.

This article describes a virtual environment, which has hypergridding as a feature. Students can teleport from one community to the next. This was the first platform to do that.

I wonder how popular environments like this are right now, and how they are being implemented into classrooms. This is fairly recent.

This shows the influence the Horizon Report has on practice and on vendors

This article outlines various augmented reality apps that are being used in classes. I've actually used Google Sketchup when teaching, giving students an opportunity to design their own buildings and use it to study geometric properties. It was very cool.