Read the EdTech Times - A Daily Magazine about Educational Technology

Nancy Rooker recently asked me where I get my ideas for technology integration.  My answer is really quite simple.  I use Twitter.  Currently, I am following more than 600 teachers, administrators, and consultants from every level of education.  They post their ideas, successes, failures, and dreams in short bursts of 140 characters.  I find them by using hashtags like #edcur, #edtech, #edchat, #sped, and more.  I look at who is making active contributions and I choose to follow them.

I just put a link on this blog to the EdTech Times, a magazine created from gleaning the blogs and other writings of the people I follow on Twitter.  The magazine is published free for me and for others who choose to use the services of PaperLi, the company that aggregates the information.  The articles you read here are fresher than any newspaper.  They are the gleanings of some of the best people who are passionate about teaching, learning, and technology.  You won't agree with everything you read.  Neither do I, but they will make you think.  They will help you fight complacency and challenge you to move outside the boxes that are either created for us or created by ourselves.  Just perhaps, they will validate what you are doing and encourage you to continue making a difference in the lives of your students.

If you would like to know more about Twitter and creating your own magazine, please let me know.  

Thanks,

Rick

Welcome new authors

This is a great beginning.  Our Husky Bytes blog now has six authors and we're looking for a couple of dozen more.  Yes, we will all fit just fine.  Post your comments, but more importantly share how you are integrating technology into your classrooms.  We can learn from each other.  Have questions?  Post them here.  Between us, I'll bet we can come up with some workable answers.  When you're surfing the web and find a great link for learning or an article about tech, teaching, and learning, post the link so we can all check it out.  Glad you're here.

PLC's and Husky Bytes

As you follow our new guidelines for Professional Learning Communities (PLC's), you are now doubt sharing lots of creative ideas about lesson plans and meeting your students' needs.  Husky Bytes is a way to extend the sharing of those ideas beyond your grade level.

As a Harrison teacher, you recently received an invitation to join this blog.  Joining gives you full administrative privileges to write comments and post new topics for discussion.  Do you have favorite web sites that effectively engage your students?  Share them here.  Are you willing to share some of your terrific lesson plans?  Here is a quick way to make them public.  Do you have questions about the use of some of your tech tools?  This is a good way to get answers and share them with others.

Respond to your invitation to join the Husky Bytes blog.  If your invitation got lost in your spam filter, email Rick Glass for a new one.

Thanks!