As Sarah and I get our family ready to celebrate Thanksgiving, we wanted to take a moment to share our gratitude with our friends, family and readers. As a couple, we have enjoyed the process of blogging together in an effort to combine our passions for technology, education, family Read more…
Take a moment to review Courosa’s setup for a grad school class. As a professor teaching an online or blended class, one has many tools at your disposal to enable your students to collaborate online. Ultimately, one may consider encouraging collaboration in an online class to engage students through Read more…
Source: envisioningtech.com via Massimo on Pinterest Related posts: Starting with WHY I believe educational technology just became exponentially cooler. Thanks Google! Organization Before Innovation Can gaming have a positive impact to students? Answers from GamesForChange.org? How can YouTube support great teachers? Can we flip education? How can AI improve our Read more…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthileo/4826783509/sizes/m/in/photostream/ Why should education leaders pay attention to “open” technology and innovation? 1. As education leaders, we seek to improve education while reducing cost for our schools and students. 2. As education leaders, we desire to improve education while building upon the experience and resources of other communities. 3. Read more…
Take a moment to review Courosa’s setup for a grad school class. For many institutions of higher education, online degrees provide a means of increasing access to education, reaching out to “non-traditional” learners who often work, and provide a platform for innovations in teaching. Whether you teach face-to-face or online, Read more…
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elizabethps/3760462201/sizes/m/in/photostream/ If you could ask Ben Franklin anything, what would you ask him? Please contribute a question to this Google document. We really appreciate it! What happens when you add the following ingredients together? 1 bright college student who has a passion for entertainment technology, drama, and computer science. Read more…
My wife has been raving to me about this cool biology teacher from Bozeman, Montana. Paul Anderson has become a star in the biology community for his Bozeman Biology YouTube channel. I discovered a TED talk that he gave sharing how he keeps his students engaged and learning. I had Read more…
Many of my readers may enjoy learning how they can create apps for their favorite mobile devices: ipad, iphone, or Android. The Corona SDK provides an elegant framework for quickly creating applications and games. I have heard stories of middle school students creating rocking games with this tool. Read more…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cauchipics/4471686868/sizes/m/in/photostream/ I believe that we can agree that the teachers who impacted us the most were the ones that served their students with love and served them with principled discipline. During a road trip with my wife, we listened to a thoughtful podcast from NPR’s “This American Life.” Read more…