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My students at Azusa Pacific University are reading Gary Vaynerchuk’s book Crush It! Here’s Gary’s thoughts on how Crush It applies to education: I’d love to hear your take on how Gary views teachers and social media.

Creating game-based learning environments or experiences using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) games is becoming an increasingly tenable, valuable, and popular instructional method. COTS games are computer or video games created for entertainment purposes. A few popular examples are SimCity, Age of Empires, ZooTycoon, and Railroad Tycoon. My good ...

Today is the first full day of the 2010 Mississippi Educational Computing Association (MECA) Conference. The temperature dropped below 40 degrees overnight, so it is cold outside today (The conference site is 2 blocks from the hotel). I know this isn’t all that cold to many of you, but the temperature combined with the biting [...]

I’m excited to be working with educators in Mississippi this week. I grew up in Mississippi and still consider it “home.” I’m teaching/ sharing 5 workshops and presentations here are the the 2010 Mississippi Educational Computing Association Conference (MECA). Day 1 of the conference included afternoon sessions and activities in the hall of ...

??? Yes, we need them.  Yes, I’ve done a staff survey.  Teacher Technology Survey It still is so difficult to make such an important decision.  We will definitely need to buy a trickling amount because we have no funds, but by this time next year we might be down to one or two 7 year-old eMacs in every room. Netbooks or Macbooks?  Laptops at all ...

Why should we integrate technology? How can we fit it all in?

Our kids and I have a lot of fun with AudioBoo. AudioBoo is a service that makes podcasting and audio blogging a snap and can positively impact your classroom (See previous posts1, 2, 3 and 4). Although the service has previously pretty much been limited to iPhone users it is now available to everyone. Here’s [...]

Reaching All Learners: The event for forward-thinking education and IT leaders Monday, February 8, 2010 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM The University of Memphis, FedEx Institute of Technology At this interactive event, you will have the opportunity to experience a digital learning environment first hand and see how Apple technologies can help you meet the ...

THINKING OUT LOUD Episode 006 Yesterday’s blog post by Miguel Guhlin (@mguhlin) caused me to think…and that caused me to want to share and think out loud…and now I’d really like to know how others respond…so…please read Miguel’s brief post about the Google Teacher Academy application process, then view my reply below and share your ...

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