The Intent is Admirable, but How Achievable is it? I remember a friend saying he thought No Child Left Behind was a good thing simply because it was being said - the statement itself, coming... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Millions of educators are sharing their work, insights, and inspiration while selling and buying original and used educational resources (and yes, there are great free resources here too)! Teachers... [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 we have a very light wrap, as I took a nice... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

2015 Was Awesome and 2016 is Sure to Bring Even More Great Content and Inspiring, Fun Learning! 2015 has been a wonderful year for EmergingEdTech, and a great year for evolving instructional uses of... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

A Little Year End Fun, and a Powerful Tool to Gauge Interest and Find Popular Content When I want to know what the buzz is on the Internet about a certain topic or phrase, I often head over to... [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. Well, let’s start this first post of the year off... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

A Cavalcade of Inspiring Ideas for Kicking up Learning and Enhancing Engagement in Your Classroom! There are enough ideas, resources, and mostly free tools here to keep you exploring and learning all... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Breathe Some New Life into Vocabulary Instruction At App Ed Review, we see a new year as a new opportunity, and that has inspired us to think about vocabulary. Yes, vocabulary! While it may not be... [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. So much to delve into in this week’s Tweet Wrap … is... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Exploring the Exciting "Web20Classroom" World of Steven W. Anderson Steven W. Anderson is known to many as the "Web20Classroom" guy. He has been recognized by the Huffington Post as an... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Twitter is … a "Self Paced Research/Learning Tool". Follow These Smart and Savvy Folks and Learn Every Day! It has never been easier to tap into knowledgeable experts in many fields... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Image source Making the Most of Moodle With Plug-Ins I thought these plugins, and Leona’s insights, would be of interest to some Moodle users and applaud Leona’s willingness to experiment... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Online ESL Teaching Aid Offers Thoughtfully Designed Placement Test My name is Kris Jagasia and I’m a co-founder of Off2Class (an ESL tool for teachers). Recently we released a Free ESL Placement... [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 flipped class articles examining the... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

The 2016 NETP is Packed with Important Ideas, Good Examples, and Smart Partnerships The DOE’s Office of Education Technology recently published the 2016 National Education Technology Plan. The plan... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

We’re at an inflection point with our approach to testing and measurement … "Common Core was such a good idea," remarked a middle school administrator I recently spoke with. "But then the... [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 … learn how to download your Google... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

These Videos Explore Ideas and Techniques and Offer Real World Examples That can Help Inspire a Self-Directed Learning Mindset in Your Students Just about anyone working in education sees... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

So … I spent a silly amount of time updating the EmergingEdTech "intro" video over this last weekend. It was really way overdue for an update (and as many of you know, creating... [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 … explore the growth mindset with young... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Creating Fun Interactive Content With ThingLink is a Blast! I’ve been wanting to give ThingLink a try for a while now. The idea of being able to easily overlay interactive links anywhere on an... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Image source Get Your Students Creating and Demonstrating Their Learning With These Awesome Movie Making Apps Are you tired of grading essay after essay and test after test? Do you feel that some of... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

I borrowed this image from this great Aspire blog post (hope they don’t mind!) Share Your Experience and Let Others Know What This Powerful Technology can do for Your Students Adaptive learning... [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 in the Wrap … the new Horizon Report... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]