Your eyes are not deceiving you. Yes, the Fab Friday Weekly Recap does indeed have a new name. Have no fears, though! The new incarnation is still fabulous and it's still Friday! So lets get caught up on the EdTech happenings with the first edition of EdTech Highlights of the Week:

Blog Posts:
10 Ways to Promote Learning Lifestyle in Your School By David Warlick

As much as we’ve been chatting out FETC and what a great time we had, I had the chance to experience something really unique. A tweet up. What’s a tweet up? Well, it’s an opportunity to meet up and hang out with our friends from Twitter.

First confession: I’ve been to a tweet up.
Second confession: It wasn’t anything to write home about.

I have a confession to make in this blog post…

I often hear technology coordinators tell me “Lisa, my biggest problem with getting teachers to embrace technology in their classroom is their fear of the unknown.”

Here at SimpleK12, it’s our livelihood to help teachers overcome fears of new technologies and learn how to use these technologies in their classroom (ala our “Integrating Technology into the Classroom” online learning series).

Can’t make it to FETC this year? Don’t worry. Stay tuned to our blog!

Busy week? Don’t worry we’ll recap some of our favorite EdTech posts from this week!

Blog Posts:
Five Ways to Build Your Own Educational Games By Richard Byrne

In my post-Thanksgiving tryptophan haze, I’m still gobblin’ up the data in this most amazing study: A Survey of K-12 Educators on Social Networking and Content-Sharing Tools conducted by edWeb.net, MCH and MMS Education.

When they queried different groups within the school community, they found that librarians were the most likely to join a social network (70%), followed by teachers at 62%, and then by principals at 54%.

Some specific observations the report makes:

If you were on Twitter on Monday, November 2, 2009 chances are high you saw many retweets of ISTEconnect’s blog post Crowdsourceing or Loudsourcing? written by Vicki Davis.