Greetings, TIME, TIDE AND THE NET is an amazing speech about the power of Social Media from a most unlikely source. How about something different on this Labour Day Monday? For many teachers, it’s the last day of summer holidays before school resumes. It’s also a day filled with emotion: happiness and anticipation to be returning to class [...]

Greetings, CORKBOARD.ME is a free, online, sharable bulletin board tool similar to Wall Wisher I’m breaking in a new Windows blog editor on my back-up machine while my main computer, a Mac laptop undergoes a serious software overhaul. I think I have this new program figured out but if posts look a bit different, that’s the reason [...]

Greetings, EDUTECHER is a web site containing hundreds of education related web links for all grade and subject levels. If ever I won the sweepstakes and could afford to hire web professionals to give DETools a professional makeover, I hope the end result would look something like EDUTECHER. This site really is web resources reporting taken ...

Greetings, WRIDEA is a free service for collecting and organizing ideas. This is a service that’s hard to describe or explain. It reminds me of a linear mind map. Ideas can be added but only in a list format. Once those ideas have been entered they can be divided into different pages or categories [...]

Greetings, BOARD800 is a free, web based collaborative drawing and whiteboard service. There’s not a lot to say about this app’s functionality other then – it works, very well. It has a nice, easy to use interface and enough tools and features to be useful. Drawing is simple and the resulting image can be published [...]

Greetings, Educator Kathy Schrock has compiled a list of web sites containing assessment and rubric information on a wide variety of education related topics. It’s easy to find articles and stories extolling the virtues of technology and Web 2.0 in education but it’s a lot harder to find concrete examples, lesson plans, “how to” information and ...

Greetings, Fellow blogger, John Larkin (WWW.LARKIN.NET.AU) has made available on his blog site a wealth of resources on technology related topics. John Larkin is an educator and instructional designer living in Australia. Part of his work involves holding professional development workshops and presentations for academics and teachers, in ...

Greetings, JENUINE TECH is a web site with listings of projects which any class (with Internet access) can join and participate in. One the earliest educational “hooks” for Internet connectivity was the potential for collaborating with other classes, across town, across the country or around the world. Like most lofty ideals, the devil was in ...

Greetings, Fellow blogger and performance consultant Tom Gram weighs in on e-Learning trends with a blog post entitled, “e-Learning: What’s Hot and What’s Not?”. Predictions are like buses, There’s usually another one every 15 minutes so, when I see an article like this, I check the qualifications of the prognosticator and Tom’s are very ...

Greetings, The Mindmapping Software Blog is a blog devoted entirely to – Mindmapping. Anyone who has followed my blog knows that I am not a big fan of Mindmaps. Nevertheless, there are no shortage of educators who love these cognative connecting apps. so, when I find one that looks interesting I’ll include it in the DE [...]