Tips on Hardware, Software, Lessons, and General Computing
Posted in Community, Uncategorized on Sep 19th, 2008
When trying to raise money to add technology to a classroom, many teachers will turn to writing lengthy grants or begging. I won’t knock either strategy, but eInstruction is giving classes a chance at a remarkable technology makeover in a way that won’t just get the students involved, but will be a blast in the [...]
I realized after posting the poll about Twitter that it may be unknown to some exactly what Twitter is. Describing Twitter isn’t so much hard, as it is difficult to explain without leaving people wondering why anyone would want to use it… which is a question most people ask, and only try out of curiosity. [...]
Posted in Community, Presentations on Jun 3rd, 2008
I have heard, and maybe said before that if you can tell what a presentation is about by only looking at the slides, then it isn’t an effective presentation. After all, if you and the slides are doing the same thing, then one of you is useless. Right? Well, with the content I have been [...]
Having a classroom blog set up for students to publish their creativity is an incredible way to generate excitement and quality content. But what about when you have hundreds of students or a group of younger students that aren’t quite ready for writing their own articles? Kate from Wisconsin sent in a excellent tip for [...]
Orlando, Florida will be an Educational Technology hotspot this January as it will be time for the Annual FETC conference. Being billed as one of the largest and most successful Educational Technology conferences in the US, and sponsored by big names like Apple, Harcourt, and Discovery Education, it’s looking to uphold that expectation and then [...]
From time to time teachers often like to assign something like this:
Students are to read through magazines or scholarly online articles and find 3 that are relevant to subject X. Each article will need to be accompanied by a short write-up documenting their relevance to the topic.
This isn’t a bad approach, and actually brings [...]
Classroom 2.0 isn’t a program or at least any one program. It’s a mindset, a style, a way of encountering the learner, and the learner encountering back. The classroom 1.0 model has teachers in the place of authority-not a bad place to be. The students enter the classroom, receive the knowledge, and then spit it [...]
Posted in Community on Sep 24th, 2007
There are many resources around for putting technology in education, but one the best resources are other teachers. We know some of you are itching to reveal some of your own technology tips.