Educational Technology

I searched the internet and the journals looking for definitions of educational technology. And I came up with multiple long winded definitions such as:

"Technology is the technical means people use to improve their surroundings. It is also a knowledge of using tools and machines to do tasks efficiently."
http://www.bergen.org/technology/defin.html

"Policymakers and the public often pose questions concerning the effectiveness and cost of technology in education, implying that technology is, in itself, an educational activity. In fact, as in business, technology in education is a tool; a means to an end with endless specific implementation possibilities"
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR682/ed_ch1.html#RTFToC2

"Educational Technology - also known variously as e-learning, instructional technology and learning technology - is the use of technology to support the learning process. Although the term can refer to all kinds of analogue technologies, eg photographs, film, video, audio recordings etc, it is usually used to talk specifically about digital computer technology. "
http://edtech.twinisles.com/

And last there is the one I like the best from Wikipedia
"Educational technology is the systematic and creative blending of "idea" and "product" technologies with subject-matter content in order to engender and improve teaching and learning processes. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_technology

But what does educational technology mean to me? To be short and blunt, I view it as the technology we use to aid in the education of students. I believe this to be a simple but informative unconfusing definition. Any sort of technology that is utelized in the education of students should be considered, at least at that moment, to be educational technology. That technology could have other noneducational uses, but in that application it was educational.