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I ran across a great website today… PHD Comics. Perhaps it is because my graduate student days are still painfully near, but so many of the comics I saw spoke to me (like this one and this one).
There were also some very good ones about technology and education like this facebook comic. The [...]

Good Monday morning to everyone out there. Just in case you missed it, Read/Write Web (one of my favorite sites) published an article this morning entitled: Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students. This is one of the most comprehensive lists I have ever seen for Web 2.0 products. Take some [...]

The hype building up to the June 29th release of the iPhone is just staggering. Steve Jobs predicted that the iPhone will revolutionize and/or reinvent the phone in his Mac World Expo keynote speech. With educators already using cell phones and iPod’s in the classroom, how will this new device impact education? What new ‘revolutionary’ [...]

I came across an interesting new start-up recently called Sprouts. From their website:
Sprouts will be a free online service that lets you create graphical trees of related items using a visual designer. You can create your own projects, or publish your trees to share with others.
The program is brand new and still has some [...]

Here are a couple of video’s I just ran across that just confirm why changing the way we educate our students in important. Enjoy.
The Connected Classroom

When I Grow Up…

Hyperwords is Firefox extension that allows you to highlight any words on the internet and perform various tasks with them. Some of them are useful on a personal productivity level, but a lot of them are great for educators.
Useful Features for Education (for Teachers and Students!):
Search – Traditional search engines AND an academic search [...]

TechCrunch published and article today entitled: Usphere: Turning The College Application Process Upside Down. They introduce a startup company, Usphere, that allows students to apply to 33 colleges all at once.
Usphere lets students fill out a single application and be considered by their network of colleges. When you’ve completed the application, it’s tossed into [...]

Yesterday I came across an article about the listed off ten ways to use a camera phone. As I read through this list I realized that a lot of these would be useful in education. It really got my brain turning too. The past couple of years have seen an explosion of cell [...]