By Tom Whitby I am on a flight returning home after a successful Presentation at the New York State Association of Computers and Technologies in Education Annual Conference, NYSCATE. I was pleased with the outcome, but I did make a few observations about how presenting at these conferences is beginning to change and may never [...]
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Twitter’s Effect on Presentations and Presenters by Tom Whitby
How to Win Friends and Support People on Twitter
Guest post by Neal Chambers Most technologies that are easily adapted and made widely popular are usually improvements of things that already exist. Mail replaced messanger services; the telegraph replaced mail; email replaced mail; Google Wave (might) replace email. It is the same with Twitter. Twitter replaced online chat which (kind of) replaced parties. There [...]
Top 5 Cool Education Sites by David Kapuler
Part of the Cool Sites weekly series! First off, I’d like to say how thrilled I am to be contributing to such an important and influential blog, which is a leader in cutting edge technology. When trying to compile a list of my favorite Web 2.0 apps and sites for education, there were many factors [...]
To Use Edtech or Not: That is the Question
In Argentina, technology is not used in the classroom at schools while Language Schools are at the avant-garde as to technological tools.
The Easiest Profession in the World by Tamas Lorincz
Part of the series: Investigating International Edtech Issues (UAE) Disclaimer: This piece is based exclusively on my own experiences in teaching English in the UAE, I know that there are several institutions (albeit more likely in the private sector) that are much further ahead in the use of technology in education. It’s also obvious that [...]



