el/ed/tech » Uncategorized http://blog.eledtech.com Life long learning in action... Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:40:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 “Publishing different: What the tablet brings to the table” – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) http://blog.eledtech.com/2010/01/22/publishing-different-what-the-tablet-brings-to-the-table-the-unofficial-apple-weblog-tuaw/ http://blog.eledtech.com/2010/01/22/publishing-different-what-the-tablet-brings-to-the-table-the-unofficial-apple-weblog-tuaw/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:32:05 +0000 Michael http://blog.eledtech.com/2010/01/22/publishing-different-what-the-tablet-brings-to-the-table-the-unofficial-apple-weblog-tuaw/

“Publishers need to expand their ideas about how readers interact with a book. A lot of readers tend to make notes in the margins, highlight text, or dog-ear pages as they’re reading. Instead of traditional tools, readers will be using electronic equivalents. But what will the electronic equivalents be?”‘

Via- TUAW

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For now I hope that everyone is having a wonderful end of the school year and keep checking back for new content!

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Their newest application for children, Doozla, is quite fresh and very affordable. The clip below only shows Doozla for the first half, and Comic Life Magiq for the second half. Regardless, it is exciting to see simple programs like these coming out at the same time all the hub bub is broiling over products such as the Mac Air.

]]> http://blog.eledtech.com/2008/01/18/cool-products-coming-out-of-macworld-08/feed/ 0 Instructify- a new fave of mine. http://blog.eledtech.com/2007/11/10/instructify-a-new-fave-of-mine/ http://blog.eledtech.com/2007/11/10/instructify-a-new-fave-of-mine/#comments Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:33:00 +0000 admin http://blog.eledtech.com/?p=25 I found a great blog a few weeks back called Instructify. A nice stop for an elementary teacher like myself looking for internet resources.

I enjoy the new suggested resources and their take on sharing them. Here is a snippet from their “About” page.

The Instructify philosophy–Teach smarter, not harder.

Instructify is where teachers can stock their toolboxes with practical, time-saving classroom ideas and cutting edge methods of instruction. It’s where to find useful, free technology to utilize in the classroom. And it’s a fun place to spend your planning period.

Instructify is also a verb. To Instructify means to find new ways to present the same old content. Or MacGyvering anything from software to Post-it notes into something you can teach with. It also works great as a command. As in, “Don’t just teach, Instructify!

Through Instructify I have found many great resources. Just the other day I was able to use some of the ideas from EEK: Environmental Education for Kids with my third graders.

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