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I am thrilled to be publishing a guest post by Andrea Hernandez, cross posted from EdTechWorkshop Blog on Langwitches.
In an earlier post, The Science of Play, I shared my ideas about the importance of playful learning, the type of learning observed in very young children. In my personal experience as a teacher, I have [...]

I just stumbled upon a great new tool called Lino-it. Thank you @shannonmmiller. It reminds me of Wallwhisher.
It looks like you can create Screens with different levels of privacy by inviting others to see the stickies only or having them contribute as well. It is very easy to add text stickies, attachment, image or [...]

Wifitti looks like an interesting tool for the classroom, but also for presenations and conferences.
You can add up to 5 tags to be pulled in to your Wifitti wall from Twitter and Flickr. Contributors can text messages to the wall or enter them on the web.
Wiffiti publishes real time messages to screens in thousands of [...]

While in Bangkok visiting Kim Cofino from Always Learning and Chrissy Hellyer from Teaching Sagittarian, I attended a session of CoTaIL (Certificate of Technology and Information Literacy) that is being taught at their school (International School of Bangkok). Jeff Utecht, from The Thingking Stick and co-teacher of the course,  had asked me to share with [...]

ShareTabs is a new tool I just heard about. It looks like a great tool to use in presentations, but also for your elementary school classroom.
It is very visual by displaying a thumbnail of the website link, but also has tabs open with the links you specify open, ready for your students to click on.
You [...]

Nancy von Wahlde from the American School of Madrid and I have been trying to collaborate on a project for a while now. We finally settled on connecting two of our first grade classes (Allison W. & Meghan M.)
We started looking at each others curriculum maps for the next few months and paid attention to [...]

I am in the process of applying to become an Apple Distinguished Educator for the class of 2009.
I don’t know if it is appropriate to publish my video clip since the application process is still open until January 31st.
But…
… it feels odd not to share my work, so in the spirit of transparency and documenting [...]

National Geographic Society conducted a Geography Literacy Survey in 2006. This Geographic Literacy Study assessed the geographic knowledge of young American adults between the ages of 18-24.
I was pleased to see many questions asked that go hand in hand with the 21st century skills, all of us are working so hard in acknowledging, learning about, [...]

There are so many website out there… So many tools… so many NEW tools to discover and try out… Sometimes one can forget the “good old” ones.
I have not used Animoto in a while. I should, since it is one of the GREAT companies that gives us educators a break, meaning a free [...]

My grandfather, Siegfried Rosenthal, never spoke to me about his experiences the night of November 9th, 1938, Kristallnacht. The night that the SS came to his door and arrested him in front of his seven year old son and pregnant wife for simply being a Jew and taken to a Concentration camp. He did write [...]