iDevices are getting picked up left and right by educational institutions all over the place. Coming in all flavors, some are being used as 1:1, checked out devices, intervention tools, learning centers, etc… but the one thing I’ve picked up most on doing several pilots is while there may be an app for something, it is way more important to focus on routines, than one-off apps.
One of the biggest selling points, beyond their mobility, is the abundance of apps that can be downloaded and installed. Want something for multiplication? Fractions? …

As noted before, I am one of the judges participating in this years Interactive Classroom Makeover, happening over at eimakeover.com I’ll be pouring over this years final videos, but I would love to get you guys in on the process. So… Check out the finalists here http://eimakeover.shycast.com/contest/1, vote for the ones you like, leave them some comments. Then run back here and leave me some thoughts on who you think the winner should be and why.
Here are the three judging criteria to keep in mind:
1. Level of student/teacher collaboration
2. Strong …

I’ve been messing around with the EDU feature of glogster.com, as well as messaging back and forth with a very helpful contact at Glogster, and I have come up with the following outline for teachers to use when setting up a classroom of students to create their own Glogs.
For those of you that are just tuning in, Glogster is a fairly new website that allows students to create a poster-like webpage. The features allow students to embed all sorts of content from websites, webcams, images, audio, and the list goes on.  …

Brian Gover stopped by yesterday to ask me if I had ever heard of a Glog before. I hadn’t so he went through the process of showing me. Now, I would have a hard time explaing a glog without an example, so I will show you his. http://bgover.glogster.com/Bate-Technology-Newsletter/ . He purposefully made it very busy to show off several of the features of a Glog, but you get the idea. Basically, it is one of the easiest and neatest ways of showing off content(with style) that I have come across. I’ve …

Denton, Tex. (Oct. 14, 2008) — With a little more than a week remaining in its Interactive Classroom Makeover Contest, eInstruction, a premier global provider of interactive learning solutions, announces today the names of five judges who will evaluate the submitted videos for the second annual contest. The judges are Andrew Schlessinger, Brent Hayes, Scott Walker, Richard Colosi and Alex Guseman.

I’m back home and settling in. Regularly scheduled programming should begin shortly!

As I have said before, I rarely write about items that come with a price tag unless it offers exceptional value to the classroom. With that in mind, my eInstruction Classroom Performance System has arrived. For those not aware of these systems, sometimes just referred to as clickers, they are wireless handheld remote controls that allow students to not only give real time feedback to the content being covered, but also gain real time results. This type of assessment allows teachers to know whether what they’re covering is being digested, and whether they need …

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 process. What are they wanting? A music video. So not only will your students get to be the rockstars that they are, but their classrooms could walk away technology package whose value might have Timbaland …

We’ve covered the fact that a lot of schools block YouTube, and that there are several videos of interest that might be worth playing in class. In that feature we showed you keepvid.com, which allows you to save the videos so that they can be played apart from the website. This post is going to focus on getting them in a format that will play nicely with PowerPoint.
Downloaded YouTube videos come in either an FLV format or MP4. Neither play in PowerPoint. To be able to work a video into …

If you’ve been using Google Docs as a free and mobile alternative to expensive office software, then you’ll be glad to know that they have recently added a template gallery. There are quite a few templates to choose from, including an entire category for teachers and students. One thing that seems to be missing from the category is a good test template, but you can find just about anything else in there, including: