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Every year for the past 15 years the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) have been taking the pulse of where education technology stands among K-12 educators. A panel of 59 experts from 18 countries discussed major trends in education that are driving the adoption of technology, as well as the…
Internet Travels Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week Whoa, students start at our district on Wednesday! The beginning of the school year always sneaks up on me, especially when there are a million…
Tucker: The Man and His Dream Like a lot of people, I’m a sucker for David and Goliath stories, and Tucker: The Man and His Dream is a great one. Preston Tucker battles the Big Three automakers in the hopes of producing the “car of the future” with safety features such as disc brakes, seatbelts,…
In early 2020 I was tapped to design an onboarding program for three new Instructional Designers that would be added to our team in the coming months. I decided to take a multi-modal approach to designing the onboarding experience, balancing consistent, online, low-touch eLearning experiences with high-touch, rich, interactive, learner-centered constructivist activities. Now that it’s…
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. There is a 40 episode show from AMC called Halt and Catch Fire. It’s a fictionalized few of the early computer revolution in the 80s up to the search engine wars and the…
Source: bulb | Digital Portfolios for Education | Online Portfolios for Students and Teachers Portfolios are a great way to curate a student’s best work and as a tool for reflection. Bulb is a paid service allowing staff and students to create eye catching portfolios online. Looking through the example, Bulb can create some very…