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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 ...

Hat tip to Miguel for bringing this to my attention.

Brenda McCombs, Drew Polly, Clif Mims and ALBHS Science Department 2009 Midsouth Technology Conference We’ll be sharing information about the Impacting Kannapolis Program today at the MidSouth Technology Conference (MSTC). This program is in its 2nd year of funding through the IMPACT Technology Grant sponsored by the North Carolina Department of ...

Educators, what are some strategies for connecting the classroom with the outside world? NOTE: I’d like to share responses in an upcoming workshop/presentation and on my blog and wiki. You can submit your ideas using the form below, share your text/audio/video reply in the Comments section of this post or respond via Twitter, Plurk or on [...]

These are the slides from my first Tennessee Educational Technology Conference presentation. Unfortunately the animations and effects were lost when uploaded to SlideShare. I’ve shared my notes and resources from this presentation over on my wiki, Learning Telecollaboratively. I hope to create a Vidcast or SlideCast of this presentation once I ...

The Teacher Education Division (TED) of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) has a webinar coming up that I think many of you will find interesting. “Dr. Judy Duffield of Lehigh University and her Education students will present on a series of Web 2.0 tools they have been exploring for use in the K-12 [...]

“The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [yesterday] announced that it will invest $335 million to support effective teaching as a means to ensure all students receive the education they need to succeed in high school and beyond. [The] announcement includes $290 million in grants to support four Intensive Partnership for Effective Teaching sites that ...

I’ve been developing workshops for the BILD Institute for the past couple of months and I’ve discovered/rediscovered many quality resources about educational reform, instructional design, technology integration, and innovation as well as many new web tools and services. I hope to share much of this with you here on this blog (You can ...

Lowe’s will donate $5 million to public schools and public school parent teacher groups – at more than 1,000 different public schools per school year…Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation (LCEF) knows how hard you work for your kids and your community and we’re dedicated to helping your parent-teacher group achieve even more for ...

Given concerns about Swine-Flu and similar illnesses I figure we’ll all spend a lot of time reminding our students to frequently wash their hands this school year. Bill Nye’s fun video is just one more strategy for spreading the message. Related PostsPay Attention Do You Believe in Me? Teens Talk about Educational ...