EdTech Resources August 17, 2010

At the 2007 EuroLogo Conference in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, UC Berkeley Computer Science faculty member, Dr. Brian Harvey made a stunning presentation entitled, "How Not to Use Computers to Teach Kids."

Anyone interested in the use of computers in education should watch this meticulous chronicle of a typical classroom "project," complete with missteps, trivial computer use and questionable teaching.

Brian is no opponent of computer-use in school. In fact, he has written four of the best computer science texts for young people ever AND has been a leader in the movement to teach children programming since the 1970s.

Well, after sorting through all of the Leadership Day 2010 posts, tracking down incorrect URLs, deleting a few nonexistent items, and reviewing some attempts to

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators offers teacher resources, including categorized lists of sites that are useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.

Facebook history, milestones, user activity statistics, top 10 countries, top 10 Facebook pages. See the gigantic infographic

Twitter history, milestones, user & Tweet statistics, top 10 countries, top 20 users (most followed). See the massive infographic

Dear Mark E. Zuckerberg Harvard '06,

It's me Alexia, from the future. Just wanted you to know that you've come a long long way from The Harvard Crimson's seminal piece

Before you reinstall Windows, make sure you backup all your Windows device drivers to a CD or another drive.

This is a replacement of standard windows explorer with more features for more convenient work! One of that is Tabs, additional toolbars and so on!

I came across Juxio today in a posting on TechCrunch. It is a very interesting service that I think will be useful for creating simple learning solutions. What is Juxio? "Juxio is a new visual way to communicate. Individuals and businesses use Juxio to combine images, text and more into mashable, visual streams called Juxes to share across social media and in print." How do you create Juxes? Juxes can be created on both Web and iPhone/iPad apps - and...

Textbooks are ridiculously expensive, and publishers love to pull tricks to force the purchase of new editions whenever possible. This school year, save loads of cash using these textbook-buying methods.

Yoono is free software that allows you to connect and share with all your social networks and instant messaging services in one place

Yoono is free software that allows you to connect and share with all your social networks and instant messaging services in one place