Renee Hobbs, Temple University, Media Education Lab with Katie Donnelly, Kristin Hokanson, Michael RobbGrieco and Joyce Valenza presented a great session on copyright and fair use.
Best Practices in Fair Use for 21st-Century Educators | Copyright/Fair Use Wiki
This session provides a huge number of resources, but more importantly, attempts to spread the word to educators [...]

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ISTE officially announced tonight that NECC (National Education Computing Conference) has changed their name. The conference will now be called ISTE, named for the organization Int’l Society for Technology in Education. Next year, the conference in Denver is called ISTE 2010. It is understandable as the conference has had a reasonably large international drawing for [...]

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 Vicki Davis’ Cell Phones for Classrooms, Calendars, and Life Management workshop had many great web to cell phone tools to share as well as tips for implementing cell phones. She shared a variety of tools for mobile phones on her wikispace that the group experimented with during the afternoon. She also pointed out issues to [...]

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AutoSkill International, publishers of the literacy intervention solutions Academy of READING and Academy of MATH, recently held the 3rd annual AutoSkill Academy Awards. Nominations for Academy Star Student of the Year and a new teacher category, Academy Innovator, yielded well over 200 nationwide entries.
 
The list of contenders was narrowed to a short list of student [...]

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I can’t remember when I first heard about Ning social networking, or when I joined my first group, but I can tell you now that these online communities are amazing repositories for ideas about what to do with all this technology in our classrooms.  Today while checking the ISTE Ning, I found this video–what a [...]

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Heather Greenhigh-Spencer gave us a lot to think about with her presentation on identity theory.  Cyborgs are thought of as a fusion between man and machine. Today we have literal cyborgs in terms of prosthetics, but it can also be a metaphor for how a person operates. Cyborg theory analyzes the relationship between the human [...]

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New Underwood Elementary has been recognized by Character Education Partnership (CEP) for exemplary work in the area of character education.  CEP gives the annual Promising Practices awards for “unique and specific exemplary practices that encourage the ethical, social, and academic growth of K–12 students through character education.”  Read the press release
All schools in South Dakota are [...]

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During a recent presentation on integrating web2.0 tools in the classroom, I asked the audience for their desired outcomes for the session. One responded that she would “like to make her powerpoints more interesting.” I knew what she meant but wanted to be able to clearly explain my answer. My initial reaction was to say [...]

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Twitter is now the third most popular social networking technology! Twitter can have lots of educational purposes, and provides real time feedback. There is a follower structure that provides immediate information, whether it’s live updates from a natural disaster or posting of links to longer web content. Introduction to Tweetdeck  and good conversation about how [...]

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Dr. Greenhow, author of Research Windows for Learning & Leading magazine from ISTE, started us thinking with her presentation, “Comment me, Friend me, Read me…Engaging the MySjpace Generation focused on teen tech trnds, social networking, reasaerch on teen use of social networking, and implications of these.
A few years ago, Time selected “you” as the person of [...]

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