Category Archives: edtech

Get the big picture

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

eSchool News has a series of videos covering a wide number of topics in educational technology. Much of the site operates like an edtech version of CNN showing reporters interviewing high profile figures in education, technology and government.  There are sections … Continue reading →

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Think Before You Post

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

We don’t watch a lot of television until football season arrives. Over the weekend I saw a PSA from Cybertipline. The add is straight forward and to the point. It deals with posting online and is aimed at teenagers. You … Continue reading →

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Copyright and Images

Posted on September 8, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Here’s an article in techLearning that talks about dealing with copyright.  The article mentions Google Images by name.  This service from Google takes advantage of all the pictures “found” by Google’s web crawler.  From the image search box, a picture … Continue reading →

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Bill Gates is the Edtech Guy

Posted on September 6, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

The scores are in.  According to my classes, the most important person in educational technology is Bill Gates.  A distant second was Steve Jobs followed closely by Tim Berners-Lee. When I asked if anyone knew where Bill Gates had taught, … Continue reading →

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Who Is Important Here?

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

If you could choose three people as the most prominent people in educational technology, who would you select?  This is the question I posed to one of my classes.  I gave no ground rules.  We have no text book with a … Continue reading →

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