7th Educational Technology Carnival - "Everywhere"

Welcome to the new year, and our latest edition. I hope that in 2008 the Ed Tech Blog Carnival will continue to grow and become even more useful for educators, advocates, and bloggers. If you have a blog and are interested in hosting an edition of the carnival, email me a gxeremio [at] gmail [dot] com.

On with the show!

Larry Ferlazzo takes education technology outside the regular school day as he prepares an experiment: does technology really make a difference in student learning?

A lot of risky online behavior happens outside of school, in the unsupervised internet access that many teens and even preteens enjoy. Lin Burress has some suggestions for parents who care (or should). For another view on this topic, check out my previous blog post.

Sometimes it feels like information is coming from everywhere at once. RSS feeds help us manage the flow of information and stay on top of topics that are important to us. Carl Anderson describes how he's using RSS to support teachers in his school district.

Mathew Needleman shows us that inspiration can come from anywhere, even an over-the-top business TV host.

Judy Aron evaluates distance learning for homeschoolers - more than ever, it's possible to learn anything from anywhere.

This one isn't exactly ed tech related, but as a French teacher I appreciated Kevin Oconnor's idea for a mnemonic when learning -er verbs.

Richard saw Macs everywhere. Richard bought a Macbook Pro. Richard is happy. (I have a similar story of Mac conversion, by the way).

Thanks to the contributors, and thanks for reading. The next edition is due out on Monday, January 14 and the theme will be "First". I hope to see your submissions soon!