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…

Cool and timely article from Chris Lake on econsultancy. Even though it’s about how large organizations use social media, here are some of my favorite tips that the various companies offer:

• Don’t pick fights, and be the first to correct your own mistakes (IBM).
• It’s a conversation. Talk to your readers as you would talk to anyone in a professional setting. (Intel).

Tom Daccord, co-director of EdTechTeacher and co-author Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology had a great presentation about incorporating social media in the classroom instead of using boring papers (that probably aren't sparking your students' interest anyway). Check out this short video to see what his presentation was all about!

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.

It's been another busy which brings us to another Fabulous Friday!! And once again, here are some of my favorite EdTech posts!

Blog Posts:
Knowledge is Obsolete By John Mikulski

Engineering Design Tools for K12 By Howard Chan

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!

This week was pretty slow due to the upcoming holidays, but there were still lots of excellent posts! Here's the recap some of our favorite EdTech posts from this week!

Blog Posts:

Giving Children the Tools is Not Enough By Tom Barrett

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: