Collaboration & Brainstorming

More examples of synchronous virtual classroom participation

April 24, 2013

Skype, FaceTime, and Google Hangouts are being used to bring online guests and students into the brick-and-mortar classroom. Following up Sunday’s post about Applications to Facilitate Synchronous Remote Classroom Participation, today we share three more examples and insights into schools and tools for bringing virtual participants into the classroom … The Internet is making the [...]

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Applications to Facilitate Synchronous Remote Classroom Participation

April 21, 2013

Remote guest lecturers, students who are unable to travel, panel participants, and even entire remote classrooms can join in the physical classroom with ease thanks to an evolving array of technologies. Post written collaboratively with Curtis Taylor. The ways in which schools are leveraging synchronous virtual classroom technologies are expanding every day. Popular tools like [...]

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ECET2 – Technology as a Powerful Enabler of Teacher Inquiry, Collaboration, and Professional Development

April 7, 2013

The Gates Foundation’s ‘Elevating Teaching’ Conference Yields Inspiring Takeaways, Connections, and More Recently I had the honor and privilege of attending ECET2: The Elevating and Celebrating Effective Teachers and Teaching Conference, sponsored by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Since the conference, I’ve been thinking a lot about its implications. The conference was so much [...]

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Preparing Students for the Global Workplace with Collaborative Online International Learning

March 27, 2013

SUNY’s COIL initiative is a powerful program leveraging technology in the pursuit of learning on a global level. This year, thanks to the collaborative efforts of Professors Janet Thompson (The College of Westchester) and Patrice Torcivia (SUNY Empire State College), The College of Westchester participated in a “Collaborative Online International Learning” course. COIL (coil.suny.edu) is [...]

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Teaching Writing and Learning With Graphic Organizers

March 17, 2013

There are dozens of great brainstorming and organizing tools available on the web to help students prepare for writing assignments and develop their skills. For some reason, writing tends to be the task many students dread the most. As a result, teachers are always on the lookout for ways to make the assignment more enjoyable [...]

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10 Ways Students Can Use Twitter for Paper Writing

February 20, 2013

It been a while since we’ve posted any content on using Twitter in the academic context, so this submission from Leslie Anglesey is welcomed. These suggestions are directed towards students but teachers may also glean some ideas from them. Please be sure to comment and share your own favorite ways to use Twitter in the [...]

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Why I Love and Use Learnist (and Why You Should Too)

February 3, 2013

This education-focused free media and resource sharing site is a great tool for teachers and students. I love Learnist. I’ve had an account with them since it was in invite-only beta form and now, luckily for everyone, anyone can create an account with their Facebook credentials or with a valid email. What Is Learnist? Learnist [...]

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How Teachers are Using Tumblr in the Classroom

January 23, 2013

The increasingly popular free digital media sharing app offers plenty of possibilities for  educators. Tumblr is a web based social media platform that was designed to make it easier for people to share digital media with each other. Unlike Facebook and Twitter, where conversation is a common mode of communication, Tumblr is more about sharing [...]

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Students in the Cloud – How Google Drive has Nullified Missing Homework Excuses

December 11, 2012

Teach Your Old Docs New Tricks with Google Drive. Guest post by Sara Garcia. My discovery of Google Drive came with the realization that technology has taken a huge leap in my college-aged generation. We have overcome floppy-disks, flew past CDs, tired of flash-drives, and have landed in “the Cloud”–a seemingly magical place to be. [...]

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6 Free Online Collaborative Interactive White Boards – 2012 Update

November 4, 2012

3 of the original apps from our April 2010 post are no longer available, but here’s 4 more free online IWBs to check out, and they’re all collaborative! The original April 2010 article, “6 Free Online Interactive White Boards” and the more recent “Using The iPad As A Digital Whiteboard (Plus 4 Cool Free Apps [...]

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