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New York State Educators:If you are teacher, librarian or school administrator at a New York public, private or independent school, WE WANT YOU! We are conducting a survey of middle school and high school students’ online research habits, and we’d love for you to participate.
The online surveys are short, painless (we don’t ask sensitive [...]
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NYS Educators: help out with a survey about Internet research habits
Gapminder is blowing my mind
Gapminder shows statistics in motion. Doesn’t sound too exciting? Take a look at this amazing tool and see if you don’t agree. Ok, I’m a data geek – but this will help you find your own inner data geek, I promise.
This chart shows declining birth rate associated with increases in personal income for the US, [...]
Live session: RSS widgets and Personalised Home Pages – Sept 16, 2009
Classroom 2.0 Live has been sponsoring a great series of free on-line technology sessions for educators with Sue Waters. Called the Beginner Series, there’s lots of information for you even if you aren’t a beginner. I hope to have time to tune in on Wednesday night. Hope you do too!
Wed September 16, 2009 8pm–9pm (Eastern)Where: [...]
Galleries on Flickr
Flickr has a new galleries feature that lets you create sets of up to 18 photos around any idea, theme or concept you find interesting. This encourages you to explore other people’s photos and search beyond just your own contacts photos for interesting content.
My first thought was that it will help me organize some [...]
Emerging Mobile Technologies for K-12 Classrooms – Chat session, Sep. 3, 11 AM
This looks like it will be an interesting discussion of mobile technologies in schools. Join in the free chat session at the Education Week website. No special software required.
Because of their low cost and ubiquity, an increasing number of educators are considering the use of mobile devices, such as cellphones, netbooks, GPS systems, digital recorders, [...]
K-12 Hot Topic Technology Webinars
Check out these free webinars from Project Tomorrow® and T.H.E. Journal for those interested in K-12 IT issues:
Aug 19 Mobile Devices within Instruction
Sep 16 Digital Content
Oct 14 Web 2.0 and Education
Oct 28 21st Century Skills
Nov 11 Top 10 Trends in Student Learning with Technology
Dec [...]
