As Lisa and I ventured to Austin, TX for TCEA a few weeks ago, we were on the hunt for Tim Holt. Why, you ask? Well, we heard from the best of the best that Tim knows a lot about EdTech and that he knew his way around TCEA - so we had to find him! From looking on the exhibit hall floor, the mezzanine, the iPlayground...the bunnies looked everywhere. Watch our video below and find out if we found Tim Holt!

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.

I met Catalina and Michelle at our Tweet Up during FETC and had a great conversation about their “Beyond the Classroom Walls” presentation. So much so that I had to attend their session and had to talk with them further about it the next day. Take a quick minute to watch them briefly chat about their presentation.

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!

Steve Katz is ALL about teaching with technology, and specifically with video! He explains in his philosophy that “technology is a tool, not a subject and curriculum (& tools) are mastered when work is meaningful and engaging.” Steve also adds that “teachers must be comfortable with the tools before teaching them.” Watch this short interview to see what Steve says about his FETC presentation.

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.

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"The authors have done nothing less than provide a bold framework for designing a 21st century approach to education, an approach aimed at preparing all of our children to successfully..." Read more here

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We have a winner in our DISRUPTING CLASS book giveaway, but you'll have to watch the video to see who that is.

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"It's no secret that people learn in different ways, so why, the authors of this book ask, 'can't schools customize their teaching?' The current system, 'designed for standardization,' must by its nature ignore the individual needs of each student. The answer to this problem, the authors argue, is 'disruptive innovation,'"...(read more here)

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