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For several months, Shawn and I have been receiving requests about how educators can effectively use Twitter. After sorting through emails and responding to requests, we realized the best way to answer these questions was by creating a video tutorial for educators.
After much hard work, we are proud to announce the launch of  “Twitter for [...]

The EDBuzz team is proud to announce that tomorrow, Sep. 26, 2009, EDBuzz will host Jennifer Roland on her virtual tour. Jennifer is a writer living in the Portland, Oregon, area. Before embarking on her freelance career, she was a staff member at ISTE.
In addition to her fine guest article, Jennifer has graciously provided EDBuzz [...]

Consistently, as I move about the TechEd venue, I hear surprise and confusion expressed as educators interact with Web 2.0 technologies. While it is important to applaud those seeking to learn about the various Web 2.0 technologies, it is alarmingly clear that the average educator is woefully behind in tech savvy knowledge. While it is [...]

Luis von Ahn, professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and named one of the 50 Best Brains in Science by Discover Magazine was today’s key-note speaker at the TechEd conference in Ontario, California. Professor von Ahn spoke about reusing human cycles or harnessing human time and energy to address problems that computers cannot [...]

According to The Times of India (January 30, 2009), the Indian Human Resource Development Ministry announced that the prototype for a $10 computer would be displayed on February 3rd. This re-ignited discussion regarding just how cheaply a notebook or netbook (see my earlier post Netbooks and Schools) computer could be produced. The XO computer by OLPC [...]