educational technology
Wimba: Interactive Web Conferencing and electronic-seminar software.
Wimba is quickly becoming the most exciting and important public education tool in the state of Utah. Recently the Utah Education network (UEN) signed a multi-year contract to bring Wimba licenses to all Public Higher Education Institutions, and to all Public K12 Teachers and School Districts.
Wimba is an online web 2.0 type of integrated solution (also known as a thin client) that allows users to login to an interactive virtual classroom using a web-browser. The classrooms can be customized to a degree but the main features are:
- A main window pane for uploading presentation slides, images or interactive/shared whiteboard tools. Allowing presentors/teachers & students to collaboratively interact, teach and deliver content to one another.
- Application sharing.Click here to read more »
Free Ed Tech Magazines
I've been meaning to share this - here are some educational technology related magazines that are free to educators and students, or have free previews online. These may help you find topics, too. I recommend this article from Edutopia on powerful learning, not just because it mentions my name ;)
Students Assessing Their Own Knowledge Using Portfilios
Students Assessing Their Own Knowledge
Submitted by Becky Rogerson
Center for Children & Technology
The Center for Children & Technology (CCT), which is based in New York City, is part of the Education Development Center, Inc. CCT’s mission is to research educational technology and impacts on teaching and learning not just at the classroom or community level, but also the city, state and national levels.Click here to read more »
Ed Tech Knowledge Base
The Ed Tech Knowledge Base
Created by students in the Foundations 2008 courses.
This is a database of various topics related to educational and instructional technology.
The Ed Tech Knowledge Base is meant for people new to educational and instructional technology, or just interested in learning more about the field.
