Cultura EDtech is an online course for BRAZILIAN EFL teachers interested in integrating technology with education. A new group starts on 01/12/09 and for 3 months ... pace and participants will be able to ask for synchronous and asynchronous help. Watch a video about Cultura Edtech. A virtual poster about the course . If you´re interested in joining us, send me an e-mail to anamariacult@yahoo.com. ...

... to use technology in classrooms – without scaring them or isolating yourself. This is a simple way to engage newcomers with EdTech. Personally I don’t do the ‘heres the massive hyper-world you are not in‘ ... … stay icy. Don’t rely on the ‘heavy’ message. EdTech in Australia — despite the Ruddy Laptop Revolution is voluntary on the part of teachers. ...

If you’re an education/technology conference junkie and you need to fill your pipe for the year ahead, Tony Karrer recently posted a comprehensive list of conferences taking place during 2010. Unfortunately, the best of the bunch is missing: the Scottish Learning Festival in September. Technorati Tags: tony karrer, education, technology, conferences

... it is important to consider allowing students to use it to communicate their understanding as they are often more naturally able to more fully express themselves with digital media. View more presentations from Clif Mims. Conference Tag: #tetc Related Posts Prezi What Is Effective Technology Integration? What Will/Should “EdTech 101” Evolve Into? Research and Collaborate with SimplyBox

... a { color:#b3652f; font-weight:bold; } body { font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif } .plus-sign { color:#3399cc } December 2009 >> edTech @ Work TOP + Broader Role Outlined for District Ed-Tech Leaders A revised framework of essential skills for technology officers envisions them exercising a greater degree of academic leadership. (Education Week) + ...

Mara Hancock, the Director of Educational Technologies at UC Berkeley, was one of 40 international participants at the Open EdTech Summit. The Open EdTech Summit was held in Barcelona, from October 19-20, 2009 and was sponsored by the Open University of Catalunya and the New Media Consortium (NMC). “During the small group breakouts, summit attendees generated

... of Media on Society,” and “Social Networks & Identity.” tags: education, edtech, k-12, 21stcenturyskills, socialnetworking, identity, web2.0, animation, mashup About e-Learning | ... Info on colleges offering ed tech and instructional design degrees tags: e-learning, education, highered, edtech Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. Posted in Bookmarks

Larry Johnson has a new post announcing a list of action items developed for open education at the Open EdTech Summit 2009. The action items are broad recommendations such as increasing remixing and sharing. From the post: The attendees noted that the task of reinventing higher education is complex, and the road to change long. Institutions change by degree, and the group underscored that it must ...

The well-regarded Karen Cator is coming in from Apple to head the USDE's ed tech efforts.  We'll try not to hold her previous place of employment against her.  (Hey, at least she's not from Google.)  And it's been too long since there was some good edtech coming out of the USDE.  Read all about it here and here.      ShareThis

Heed the Open Education Call to Action Forty attendees at the Open EdTech Summit, co-sponsored by the New Media Consortium and the Open University of Catalunya, created 50 action items.  The top 5 action tasks are - We must encourage the reuse and remixing of rich media. We must embrace the full promise of mobile devices as learning