New Trends and Tools in Educational Technology

The educational technology landscape is changing, as evidenced by blogs, wikis, MySpace, and other social networking technologies. What are the trends? What are the new tools? How can they be used effectively for learning? What are the challenges and opportunities for Adventist education? Learn about the new read/write web and how these tools can benefit classroom learning.

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Changing Educational Tasks

Professional Development The behavior of life-long learners Teachers Reading Blogs Read content all in one place: suprglu.com or Bloglines NAD TDEC Blog Hitchhikr Hitch a ride to a conference Cool Cat Teacher Blog and Daily Walk with Jesus The Fischbowl A high school staff development blog. NAD TDEC Blog David Warlick Will Richardson The Tech Savvy Educator REMC Ramblings My colleague Kevin Clark's blog. Note the Weekly Web Wonders. RSS Guide AVLN Online Courses	Research More information processing, less Googling Backflip Save This Filamentality TrackStar Web Worksheet Think Tank NoteStar Project Poster PBL Checklists 4Teachers.org (source of the ThinkTank and Rubistar) Noodle Tools See also links from my website evaluation workshop.
Direct Instruction and Lecture Visual and auditory content United Streaming 2006 List of Online Lectures	Creating Moving from software to web based tools Writeboard Thumbstacks (presentations) iRows (spreadsheets) Google Docs & Spreadsheets Gliffy (brainstorming) Worksheet Generator Puzzlemaker CasaNotes (sending notes home to parents) Their Own Voice: Kids voices heard via podcasting. Room 208
Writing Syndication, peer review, and digital storytelling Blogs Mabry Middle School: All teachers blogging Blogging as Learning Gaggle Blogs Edublogs Why Student Blogs? Students Caring About Work Jim Stovall Project Digital Storytelling BubbleShare Microsoft Photo Story 3 Digital Storytelling Wikis Wikipedia in Schools Holocaust Wiki South African Curriculum Wiki Wiki Books Textbooks Wikis Test Student Research Skills (Article from eSchoolNews) Wikiville: Project Global Village WikiHow pb Wiki Wikispaces Other wiki farms (spaces to host your wiki)	Collaboration Global conversations Gaggle Network (safe email & blogs for students) ePals My collection of links on videoconferencing
Learning Environments From face to face to hybrid Moodle Elgg Desire2Learn Brisbane Adventist College Virtual Information Systems Technology Department with Northpine Christian College and Darling Downs Christian School	Supporting Technology Balancing creativity with network security Stages of Teachers Use of Computers The New Permanent Record iSafe.org Open source in K12 schools List of open source and freeware software for K12 schools