This marks the beginning of a series of UNI Connect-A-Tech Webinars where we will be talking with Instructional Technology alumni who are working as professionals in their fields of choice.You will have the opportunity to interact with them through a video conferencing system. Read the information below to see how […]
The folks over at Emerging Ed Tech recently did a survey of their readers to find out what they wanted to know about education and Instructional technology. They had 160 replies which is a good response. This table is a list of their results. Some of the issues are standard issues, […]
The success of the ITEC Student Tech Fair was shared in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier in an article entitled Fair Brings Students Together to Share Their Technology Projects. Click on the link above to view 4 wonderful photos of students at the fair and read interviews with students, […]
On Friday, we hosted the ITEC Student Technology Fair at the University of Northern Iowa. ITEC is the Iowa Technology and Education Connection organization for teachers who are interested in educational technology. Every year we sponsor 3 student technology fairs across the state: Ames, Sioux City and Cedar Falls. These student […]
Twitter is an exciting means of communication but it is an ongoing flow of information through a twitter river. You don’t always catch all of the posts because you may not be online when relevant posts flow by. Wouldn’t it be exciting if you could get together with a number […]
Wow!!! I just found a trilogy of YouTube videos done by the Cult of Pedagogy that do an awesome job of giving educators an introduction to Diigo. This is an endeavor by Jennifer Gonzalez who proclaims “Teacher Nerds, UNITE!!!”Do you use Diigo? I have for many years for personal […]
Vicki Davis is a Cool Cat Teacher. Actually she is THE Cool Cat Teacher. You may have heard of her blog, CoolCatTeacher.com It is the most visited education blog followed on the planet. Fortunately I had the opportunity to meet Vicki a few years ago and become good friends over the […]
Way Way Way back in the late 80s, Apple had a vision for computing called the Knowledge Navigator. This dream had a certain 2001 Space Odyssey HAL aspect to it because you, the user could hold a discussion with your computer as it helped you solve your problems. I was […]
We all know that the Internet is a busy place. It is difficult to comprehend that 1,407,724,920 people use the internet each day. Sometimes it is necessary to reduce the frequency of activities down to a more understandable level of a single minute. What really brings it home is an Info-Graphic […]
I was just reading a posting by my friend, Vicki Davis (AKA CoolCatTeacher). She was mentioning that she had been having a lot of fun with her readers sending her voicemail through her blog. She was using the SpeakPipe voicemail gadget. Seemed like a lot of fun so I just […]