Education Technology, Apps, Product Reviews, and Social Media – Edudemic

Do you ever wonder how schools, universities, colleges, and large groups in general should use social media? Students are often early adopters, frequent users, and overall lovers of technology and social media. Want to help? I'm always looking for fun, creative, and exciting writers to get featured. Get in touch with me at edudemic@gmail.com!

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After fifteen years in Corporate America (eight of those years as a trainer), Heather decided to pursue her dream of becoming a teacher. With an MAT in hand from USC (Trojans, fight on!), Heather is now working in the public schools of multiple districts in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania. Heather is self-taught in the technology area, using her assignments as a trainer as an opportunity to scour the Internet and pick the brains of subject matter experts to find the best ways to train her fellow employees. As a student teacher, Heather took full advantage of her time in the classroom to learn about the hardware and software available to teachers and even introduced her colleagues to resources she found in her other career. Now, Heather wants to explore and promote the use of social media in the classroom, school, and district, as she believes that social media promotes community, collaboration, and cooperation among the digital natives - the young adults today. One of her favorite digital natives is her son, Lucas, with whom she enjoys sharing the title "gadget geek" in her household.

Lisi Gopin is an educational multimedia developer with a passion for creating digital games. Lisi specializes in social media and web 2.0 in education, digital storytelling, and teacher training. Lisi recently launched Teacher Tech Training, or T3, which provides practical training for teachers interested in concrete ideas for using tech in the classroom. T3 offers instructor-led, asynchronous online courses as well as free self-paced mini courses and encourages interaction among learners on the site. Lisi maintains her own edtech blog called Brain Based Learning. You can also see more of her multimedia projects Lifelong-Learner.com.

Some people call me Ted Occupation: Instructional Technology Employment: Burlington Public Schools, Instructional Technology, Edutopia Education: Eastern University, University of Miami, Villanova University

Alex is a recent graduate from the University of Arkansas (SOOOIE! Go hogs!) and when he's not working to pay the bills, he is foraying into the field of freelance writing. Advertising in trade, a poet in heart, and in reality meeting somewhere in the middle, Alex feels that no matter what you are trying to accomplish, it is certainly worth studying for.

Donald Lipham has been on online educator for the past five years, and a brick and mortar educator for over 10 years prior to the integration. With all of the updates and developments both in course development and the integration of social media he tries to stay abreast of the current events on his blog: http://donaldlipham.blogspot.com/

I work, write and tweet for Classroom Aid, we like to help connecting dots to find out what works in teaching and learning. I am always learning how to learn in old and new ways, looking forward to new education era through technologies and connected minds around the world.

The Internet and networked technologies are changing the ways we learn and how we experience our society. I am interested in studying how media and technology can empower (or possibly disempower) us as students in the networked world. My professional and academic research interests include media literacy, online social spaces, Web/participatory culture, and leadership in higher education IT.

Dr. Dennis A. Trinkle became the first provost and chief academic officer of Harrison College on August 17, 2009. Prior to coming to Harrison College, Dr. Trinkle most recently served as executive director of IHETS, a consortium of Indiana’s higher education institutions, state government agencies, public libraries, public broadcast stations and K-12 schools. Under his leadership, IHETS evolved from a low-impact organization to one with broad national reach and double-digit revenue growth. For his efforts at IHETS, Junior Achievement of Central Indiana recognized Dr. Trinkle as one of Indiana’s 100 Best and Brightest. Dr. Trinkle has held numerous leadership and faculty positions at DePauw University, Valparaiso University, the University of Cincinnati and the University of Indianapolis. He also has led information technology, marketing and venture capital enterprises in Indiana and Ohio.

So often, teachers know there are cool tools available; however, many sites and resources fail because they never explain the application for education. Teachers need to know 'how' these tools fit in their existing structure. I'm a teacher and an edtech blogger. My site: http://www.kleinspiration.com

John Lewis works at PriceCollate. You can checkout the blog of website here.

Director of Instructional Technology, Science Department Head, Physics teacher, Physics consultant

Jessica Sanders is an avid small business writer touching on topics from social media to merchant services. She writes for an online resource that gives advice on topics including phone systems for b2b lead generation resource, Resource Nation.