Education Blog

Searching for Open Educational Resources, but not sure where to start looking? Use these OER search engines to find educational content in any field. 10 Great OER Search Engines Curriki Advanced Search : Search Curriki’s vast education resource repository. Advanced search allows you...

Looking for something flashier than flash cards? Introduce your students to safe Internet use and the wealth of interactive and rewarding educational games that the World Wide Web has to offer. Below is a sampling of educational gaming sites to play and learn on: National Geographic Kids National...

During teacher training the concept of assessment for learning was ground breaking to me and yet so simple that I was surprised that I had not heard of it before. The practice of regularly assessing student’s ability and understanding with the aim of adapting my teaching to cater for the student’s...

Amazing when you see your friends featured on TV. Last month Dell's Adam Garry and Snow White were interviewed by Kristy Villa on The Balancing Act . Watch Snow and Adam discuss how Dell is working with the education sector to deliver purpose-built technology and solutions for the classroom, and...

Are you a visual learner? Bring content to life with educational videos! Here are nineteen easy-to-use sites compiling and producing educational videos for student and teacher use: TeacherTube – an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos Khan Academy – 1400+ videos...

Are you getting social at Educause 2010 this year? Educause has made significant investments in social media tools for the community to make the most of the discussions, at the US eductaion event, including experimenting with specific hash tag discussion threads for individual breackout sessions. It's...

Guest blogger Peggy Siegel writes: “Maybe for the first time in history, many students already have certain competencies that many of their teachers need to acquire. This situation creates a quid pro quo learning opportunity: students contributing their digital skills (games, social networking...

The #ISTE10 Twitter buzz is in full swing, which means it’s a time that many of us wait for all year – ISTE 2010 . The largest EdTech conference in the US is almost here and we are all gearing up to make the most out of our trips to Denver, Colorado. Between checking housing, building...

I had the distinct pleasure of working with Hoover City Schools on both a video testimonial and written case study . It was amazing to see how this school’s elementary students wholeheartedly embraced the Dell™ Latitude™ XT tablets and how eager they were to incorporate this new technology...

“ My kind of town……Chicago is…….my kind of town…” We all have a home town where we were born and raised even if it was just for a few years. My home town has been Chicago for the last 30 years, so it feels like My kind of town. It is human nature to want...

Dell Launches Connected Classroom in India 5th May 2010 By Kriti Kapoor, Director of Vertical Solutions Marketing Dell Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) - Public Sector Access to technology shouldn’t be a privilege. At Dell, we’re focused on making technology accessible and...

Today Dell announced the next step in the Connected Classroom learning environment , with the introduction of several new products following on from the launch of our education netbook - Latitude 2100, last year . Today's announcement takes the Connected Classroom further. It provides a range...

By Mahesh Jayaram – Corporate Communications, Dell India They have a dream… and its coming true! Youth in India need to be educated about issues that govern the future of the planet and it is imperative to provide them with tools and platforms for knowledge-sharing and ensuring their...

James Cross teaches music at High Storrs School in Sheffield, where he is also responsible for e-learning. He blogs at jamescross.org.uk about education, technology and ideas. In his recent analysis of the electoral debate , David Price discusses the view of the “school-as-exam-factory”...

Image by Felix Burton [tweetmeme] Check out eSchoolNews' recent Special Report on "Convergent Education" . The report highlights how innovative online content providers such as Curriki , the JASON Project and Thinkfinity are "beginning to change how education works". The...

Gearing up for Earth Day, I thought we should highlight one of our customers who’s clearly seeing “green.” Farmington Area Public Schools serves close to 7,000 students in grades k-12. They are projected to grow to over 8,000 students over the next 10 years. For the first time in history...

By Anna Batchelder This week the Salt Lake Tribute posted a wonderful article titled, “ Charter school breaks ground in 'open education' ” where journalist Kristen Stewart discusses how the Open High School of Utah uses free and open curricula to educate its students. Unlike...

I recently discovered 101 Lectures for Your Open Source Education – a list created by Amber Hensley that includes a treasure trove of videos, podcasts, slideshows, and documents that: 1) Explain what open source is, 2) Highlight the implications of open source in media, software, business...

By Anna Batchelder The movement towards open content reflects a growing shift in the way academics in many parts of the world are conceptualizing education to a view that is more about the process of learning than the information conveyed in their courses. Information is everywhere; the challenge...

Min will be the driving force for the education social media team in the APJ(Asian Pacific Japan) space focusing on China. He has 9 years experience in the communication sector and ICT industry. Prior to joining Dell, Min worked as a public relation manager for Cisco Greater China and was responsible...

Not likely, but thanks to the Internet and social media tools, the traditional model by which textbooks are written, produced, distributed and updated just might be! In a recent post by Dan Misener on Spark, he writes: So how is digital technology affecting on the textbook business? According to...

It’s a very exciting day in Education Technology! Learn more about the brand new Latitude 2100 netbooks on Direct2Dell from Lionel Menchaca and the team behind this game-changing technology. Enrique Tapia discusses the all-new 2100 and shares Dell's vision of a Connected Classroom. ...

Heartfelt thanks to our previous bloggers. A careful albeit somewhat self-fulfilling review of your postings seems to reveal an emerging thread. One that, from my vantage point, indicates agreement that the best way forward is for schools to focus explicitly on the nature of teaching, especially the...

Chances are that in the past week you've received an email that pretends to be from your bank, e-commerce vendor, or other online site. Hopefully you've realized that many times this email is fake - a phishing or spam email. The sender (phisher) of these fake e-mails wants you to click on the...

Todays post is authored by guest blogger Rebecca Randall, VP of Outreach at Common Sense Media . You can download and view her entire bio at this link . Let’s face it: Kids love mobile technology and its here to stay. Schools across the country have been struggling with how to manage cell phone...