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I had the pleasure of attending a great session at TCEA – 50 Ways to Anchor Technology in your Classroom Tomorrow. Sounds interesting, right? Well, it was! Jessica Branch & Angelyn Cheatham session was chalk-full of great resources and tips! 50 resources and tips in fact!

I’ve picked my favorite 10 to share with you today.

Staci Perkins and Mark Weems had a great session on how to “Bling Your Blog!” I was intrigued simply by the title, so I knew I had to attend this one. After chatting with a lot of TCEA attendees, this was a hot one but I know everyone couldn’t attend, so I’ve put together a recap of tips and tricks for your blog.

Tip #1: Don’t overdo your text! Remember that sometimes less really IS more and who wants to come to your blog to read a novel? So, add pictures, graphs, charts, videos, etc…

Win a TI-Nspire graphing calculator!

Watch the video below and then answer the question “Why I love math” to win this top-o-the-line calculator (valued at $140) from our friends at Texas Instrument. If you happen to be at TCEA this week, you can catch up with them at booth 2271 and say hello.

It never ceases to amaze me how many new tech tools are shared throughout Personal Learning Networks (PLN). We had another great day via Twitter for #web20wednesday - and I'm excited to share! So, let's jump into it.

That's right! We're giving away our lecture capture/presentation system for your school.

What do you have to do?

Watch this video below and find out!

Ok, if the title of this blog post doesn’t excite you, I’m not sure what will! Steve Dembo had an awesome presentation this year at FETC. His presentation was pretty entertaining, I have to say.

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.

The winner in this edition of Freebie Man is... Oops! You'll have to watch the video to see who has won 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times.

If you didn't win this time, don't fret. We have lots of freebies, so keep an eye on the blog for the next contest announcement. In addition, we suggest that you subscribe to our blog (subscription link to the right -->) because we announce future Freebie Giveaways ahead of time to our blog subscribers.

Ok, so it's not really live but I sat in a great session EARLY this morning with Tammy Worcester about technology time savers for teachers. I definitely want to share these great tools with you all so, check them out!