Educators+for+Technology


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 * Title || = ===[|Blogging for teachers and students, made easy]===

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 * Brief description of the site and its purpose (include the author/owner or publisher) || edublogs.com provides this list of resource sites for those relating to Web 2.0. It's title states it's intention to make blogging easy for teachers and students. However, I found that I spent an absorbent amount of time and had little direction to show for it when I was finished. ||
 * A brief description of the types of resources found on the site || Links to many topics regarding technology and how to use it accordingly. ||
 * A brief evaluation of its utility || I found that more time is spent sifting through the information and did not like that it was not concentrated on one particular thing. It was just too vague for me to find productive. ||


 * Title || [|clif's notes...on eduation and more] ||
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 * Brief description of the site and its purpose (include the author/owner or publisher) || Teacherlingo.com is the publisher for this blog and has many anonymous posts. This site is filled with many topics on its page and forces you to choose one to proceed with further direction. It has many topics ranging from tragedy in Darfur to giving advice to young teachers. ||
 * A brief description of the types of resources found on the site || The "links" page to the site was down and provided merely a blank page. I was discouraged about this fact and that most of the posts were anonymously. I sent a few responses but didn't know who would or wouldn't reply. Seems like only a place to post an opinion and move on. ||
 * A brief evaluation of its utility || I would only use this in regards to current events. For example, the most recent post is that of the Bush twins giving advice to Obama's daughters during their transition to the White House. There are also helpful comments regarding new teachers and their use of technology. Aside from that, I would not encourage others to spend too much time here looking for effective direction. ||


 * Title || [|Knowledge is a performance enhancing drug] ||
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 * Brief description of the site and its purpose (include the author/owner or publisher) || Raphael Damico is the author of this site and I am not quite sure what conference he is referring to but he discusses BETT 09. It describes a conference of 30,000 teachers that will be taught how to operate some interesting and new technology into their classrooms. It's purpose is to inform others on some ways to incorporate certain tools into their daily instruction and also to inform you of BETT 09 ||
 * A brief description of the types of resources found on the site || There aren't many additional resources to this blog. He describes eight ideas or thought provoking resources on education. A few of them I found were informative, but not very relative to what I teach. There was a line at the bottom that read "more on BETT 09 still to come" meaning that there wasn't much now but that it was still under construction. ||
 * A brief evaluation of its utility || I would not use this site in my classroom. ||