Honor our Fallen by Helping our Veterans To my way of thinking, one of the best ways we can recognize Memorial Day and honor those who died while serving in the country’s armed forces is to... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Teachers can Earn a Verified Certificate for Convenient, Affordable PD Back in 2012, I took a Coursera course in Operations Management, to test the waters of the new world of MOOCs. I shared my... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Why do Schools Rarely Teach Students How to Learn? Schools are so caught up in teaching fundamentals like reading, writing, and good old "‘rithmatic", as and knowledge required to pass... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

5 Faves I Came Across This Month … (Sorry, one of them starts automatically and there wasn’t an obvious way to turn it off). What Would the World be Like Without Teachers? Sad. Ramsey... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets about education and instructional technology articles, resources, etc. (Originally posted on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech over this past week …... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Ferlazzo Offers Resources, Ideas, and Inspiration I’ve admired the work of Larry Ferlazzo since early on in my blogging career. I first came across him back when his blog earned numerous Edublog... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Some of you may recognize Mind42 from the Try-a-Tool-a-Week Challenge … it was our feature tool a few weeks ago. Today I am introducing Mind42 here so all of our readers can give it a try if... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Highly Rated Rubric-Assessed Art Apps For Your Classroom or Just for Fun! With summer right around the corner, it is time to relax, decompress, and then start thinking about next year (when you’re... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

People Don’t Care Much About Encryption, Until They get Burned I’ve been a delighted Dropbox user for years. The functionality it offers is brilliant. If you want to be able to easily... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week …motivating students and motivating... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Congratulations to All of Our Winners! From March through May, we ran the "Try-a-Tool-a-Week" Challenge here on EmergingEdTech, and it was a great success. Over 700 educators signed up to... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Creative Commons Licensed Image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABubble_3.jpg Don’t Let the "Summer Slide" Dull Those School Skills! This time of year I get a lot of... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Seriously, it’s our Job to Inspire Learning? We’ve all heard of or witnessed so many of these tired old approaches to delivering lessons. If you do happen to witness other educators... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week’s wrap is tip-tastic! Tips for keeping gifted... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Call for Proposals Ends June 30 Do you use the iPad in your school or classroom? So many teachers and students are doing fun, creative things with iPads in the classroom. Each November, hundreds of... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

This Year’s Conference and Models of Excellence Awards Zero in on Student Success As I write this, I am attending the UB Tech 2015 conference in Orlando, Florida. This is my third consecutive... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

"The Workshop Exceeded my Expectations" This is my fourth year of running the 4 Week Online Flipped Classroom workshops. It’s been a lot of fun and hundreds of educators have taken... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Collaborative Software With Social Functionality can be a Powerful Asset in the Classroom Teachers who have taken the dive into education technology have infinite teaching and learning possibilities... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week … collaborative multimedia projects, a... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

I’ve done several "Education Technology Thought Leader" interviews over the last few years, but found myself hesitant to label Larry Ferlazzo as such, and I am confident he would... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

How Would you Like to Build Your own Custom Challenge in Minutes? During the months of March through May, we ran a fun "challenge" here on the site. Every week, signed up participants... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

This may not be Education Technology (yet), but it is Pretty Cool Emerging Technology for the Home This was just too interesting not to share! After an long period of limited availability, Amazon... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

The International Conference on Information and Education Technology Makes its U.S. Debut. Come Join us and Present! This international educational technology conference has been bringing together... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week …. several Huff Post pieces making the case... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]