Ed Tech Kit

This week's link is  Khan Academy , a one man video tutorial powerhouse. According the website, "We have 1000+ videos on YouTu...

Kudo's to Mrs. Manley and her 9th Grade ELA students!  You see, the 9 different school districts that send students to the ATA don't...

Looking for a quick, no frills, web based audio recording tool.  Look no further than Vocaroo .  No account sign up, no software to down loa...

Social bookmarking sites like Delicious and Diigo are great, but setting up student accounts and teaching students how to use these sites ...

Dictionary's are sooo yesterday!  Welcome BrainyFlix and its quieter side BrainPics  which promises to build your vocab repertoire by p...

Welcome to the inaugural "Link of the Week" post at the Ed Tech Kit blog! This week I am featuring drop.io  a website that descr...

My daughter is learning about continents and cultures in her Grade 2 French Immersion program.  Her homework this week is to gather images ...

I was recently interviewed for a local radio program hosted by my RESA (Regional Education Service Agency). I really enjoyed talking about m...

Up early this morning looking for best way to update multiple status posts.

image source: http://www.wittysparks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Twitter_Blogger.gif Last week I "lurked" in on an e-learning ...

I'm excited to announce that the Academic Transitional Academy will be purchasing a "bevy" of  Acer Aspire One netbooks to fu...

Today I asked a student to complete his daily warm-up on Moodle using his ipod touch. I was amazed at how quickly he was able to negotiat...

Google Docs includes a simple tool for checking  the readability score and grade level readability of anything you write.  Students can eas...

One of my goals this year is to support learning tools and technology that fire up our students' brains (and hearts) after s...

Today our principal, Mr. Spencer, addressed all of our students simultaneously by broadcasting his Constitution Day message using ustream.tv...

I was really hoping the new ipod touch would have a camera and GPS

Watching ASCD "Teaching the Adolescent Brain"

Going to sit at Canatara beach before work. Why haven't I done this before? (Updated)

Anyone else using ping.fm for posting? This is my first attempt. http://ping.fm/ETFhf (updated) My blog has stagnated over the past month...

Here's a quick 2 minute tutorial on using the drawing tool in Google Docs. This is a nice way to add some visual bling to your docs wit...