It’s that time of year again where we make New Years resolutions that we know we won’t remember by the next holiday season. The idea of new beginnings can be inspiring (at least for a week or two). Why not let that inspiration last the entire year or semester by making some changes (small or [...]
If you teach, you know student’s have mastered the art of procrastination. Many students, however, come back from winter break determined to organize themselves for the semester ahead. Over at the ed tech blog Free Technology for Teachers, they’ve compiled a list of 15 tech tools to help students organize demands on their time across [...]
It’s always fun to break up lecture time with video. Even if the video is dry and boring. Perhaps it’s just the change of pace that makes video time more exciting. So, you recognize the “excitement” that video can bring to your classroom, but how to “bring it”? Here are a few ways to directly [...]
It’s that time of year when everyone is wrapping up final grades and getting ready for the holidays. For most people this includes a little time off and some preparation for the next semester ahead. For us it means reviewing our objectives from the last year and setting our goals for the new year. Everyone [...]
Back again for the Friday Weekly Round Up. Like always, we will be taking a look at some of the more interesting education related articles found across the web. High School Survey of Student Engagement Check out this twenty page report about student engagement in high schools found across the United States. Certainly some interesting [...]
Trying to share PowerPoint presentations with classmates, students, instructors, peers or even across computers is always a chore. Students often have storage limits on their email accounts so a bulky PowerPoint presentation won’t find its way to the intended recipient. Carrying around a USB drive often fixes the problem until you lose the pesky thing. [...]
Take a look at these numbers and tell me what you see? 3.92 3.87 4 3.9 3.63 What if these numbers are out of 4? 3.92/4 3.87/4 4/4 3.9/4 3.63/4 Getting closer? These are scores for five different assignments in a marketing course. What’s different about these scores? They’ve been normalized so that each score [...]
How the iPhone Could Reboot Education Can handing out free iPhones really revolutionize learning and the classroom? It’s working for one school and the idea is slowly moving to new places. I don’t know about you, but I’d be willing to give it a try! Twitter Tips: for Teachers & Educators Admit it, you could [...]
Yesterday I was thinking back about all the annoying things my teachers or professors have done over the years. Most of the time my teachers were great, but every once in a while I’d get a professor that no one seemed to like, and below are a few reasons what that might have been. If [...]
The friendly folks over at Edublogs have opened up nominations for the 2009 Edublog Awards. While we are new to the scene we’d love to just be nominated. They have multiple categories to nominate for and the best bet for us is probably “Best New Blog.” So if you like what we are trying to [...]
