Last week was a crazy one at SimpleK12, but we got a lot done! It’s time to announce this week’s recipients of the I Heart EdTech Favorite Blog award:
5 Steps to Harnessing the Power of Cells in Education Today By Lisa Nielsen (@InnovativeEdu)
How to Fix the HootSuite 5 Retweet Setting!!! By Jeffrey Thomas (@jdthomas7)
Putting children first… By Carolyn Foote (@technolibrary)
Breaking up the Perfect Team By Jeff Utecht (@jutecht)
Transparent Algebra: Course Expectations By Karl Fisch (@Karl Fisch)

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Can you believe it’s Friday already? This week was over in the blink of an eye, but as usual, here I am with this week’s recipients of the I Heart EdTech Favorite Blog award:

iPad in Education Event By Oliver Quinlan (@oliverquinlan)
Frustrated Poets By Douglas Crets (@douglascrets)
Tech Tool vs Learning Tool By Mary Beth Hertz (@mbteach)
Rethinking teachers By Henrick Oprea (@hoprea)
Free Web 2.0 Sites – A Quick Guide & Class Application By Brian Thomas (@Brian_ThomasTCI)
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Thanks to Memorial Day, this week has been a short one and Friday has snuck up on us even faster than usual, but never fear! Here are my favorite edtech highlights:
Blog Posts:
10 free blogging tools for teachers By Karen Schweitzer guest blogging for Nik Peachey (@nikpeachey)
26 Learning Games to Change the World By Jeff Cobb (@missiontolearn)
10 Obligations Of Bloggers By Terry Freedman (@terryfreedman)
Sync Your Outlook and Google Calendar with Google Calendar Sync By How-To Geek (@howtogeek)
Controlled Social Networking for Student Collaboration By Alvin Trusty (@alvintrusty)

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Normally, Friday at SimpleK12 is the day that I share my EdTech Highlights of the week. Today’s post, though a little different, is still the same in that it involves my favorites.
Last week, we started giving out the I Heart EdTech Favorite Blog award, so imagine my surprise when we were given an award! A couple of days ago, Jeanette Moreau of Ms. Moreau’s Musings fame, tweeted that she had given us an award!  This award was created to honor great blogs and Ms. Moreau nominated ours since she …

I’ve been doing the EdTech Highlights for a few months now and we’ve decided to change it up a little. Normally, I just post a link to the post and the author’s name, but all of you bloggers work hard at producing fantastic blog posts. In fact, you’re so awesome that you deserve an award! So, as a token of our thanks and appreciation, any blog chosen to be included in my weekly highlight also earns the right to proudly display the I Heart EdTech Favorite …

Another outrageously busy week gone by and here we are again. It’s time for the EdTech Highlights of the Week:
Blog Posts:
5 Do’s and Don’ts for College Students Using Social Media By Jeff Greer
Faculty have no business making IT decisions By Kenny Livengood
Keeping Up With It All. My Favorite Tool Ever! By Steven Anderson
A small useful thing By Doug Johnson (Sorry folks, Doug doesn’t tweet!)
Tip of Week – Image Search Tools By Tammy Worcester
Is it Really Learning? By Will Richardson
#Follow Friday – Just …

Can you believe it’s Friday already? This week has flown by faster than the blink of an eye but here I am again, right on schedule to share some of my favorite Edtech posts!
Blog Posts:
The I Heart EdTech Blog Swap – Mission Accomplished! By Shawnette @SimpleK12 The swap turned out so awesome that I couldn’t NOT mention it. It was a great turnout of some really great EdTech bloggers! Thank you, again, to all of the participants. We’ll do it again soon!
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