Tips by Tony

After a long break away from the blog, I’m back with a new installment of the Monday Morning Roundup. Here are a few of the educational and educational technology articles I’ve been reading:

A recent Education Week article (Whiteboards’ Impact on Teaching Seen as Uneven) looked at the use of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) in the classroom, and used a combination of anecdotal evidence and a recent study to show that educators are split on the issue. This article could have been written about most educational technology initiatives – just replace “Whiteboards” with laptops, cellphones, iPods, Twitter, or any other bit of technology.

Here are just a few of the articles I found interesting over the past several weeks:

This started as an article extolling the benefits of the free OpenOffice suite versus the not-free Microsoft Office suite, but morphed into a more general rant on the importance of teaching general technology concepts, not specific software applications or suites.

Some good articles about educational technology, digital storytelling, school reform, and more! Plus a fresh batch of educators to follow on Twitter.