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5 Great Tools for Creating Your Own Educational Infographics

May 15, 2013

These fun, mostly free tools can help educators easily create their own Infographics, and bring a very modern twist to instruction. “A picture is worth thousand words”. That is what infographics do. They convey a wealth of information in a largely graphical format. They can help communicate visually even the most complex concepts in a [...]

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Things to Consider When Purchasing a Computer for a College or University Student

May 8, 2013

A helpful list of considerations if you’re buying a new computer for college. Post co-written with Sammy Drummond. For students across the world, high school life is over and they’re about to embark on university life. This is an exciting time, yet lots of planning is needed to ensure that they are properly equipped to [...]

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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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6 Higher Education Institutions Leading the way with Mobile Learning Apps

April 14, 2013

These Universities are leveraging the smart phones that are in most student’s hands to provide mobile access to learning resources and administrative tools. As the high-tech world evolves from dial-up access to lightning-fast smartphones, students benefit from a more mobile classroom. But as anyone with a smartphone or tablet already knows, no two apps are [...]

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5 Ways Google Glass Can Be Used in Education

April 3, 2013

Google’s innovative visual technology will have many applications for teaching and learning. Google recently announced winners of its Google Glass contest, most of which were celebrities and famous Twitter users. The technology is poised to go main stream once it’s released to the masses. Among all the possible consumers of Google Glass, the device has [...]

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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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The Updated Classroom – Developing Student Writing Skills with Tablet and Smartphone Apps

March 3, 2013

This collaboratively written article provides some great ideas for leveraging today’s mobile technologies to help students enhance those vital writing skills. The use of smartphones in the classroom is no longer clearly something to be frowned upon. In fact, some teachers are now looking to use them as tools to get the best out of [...]

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Using Instagram in an Educational Context

February 13, 2013

The highly popular photo sharing app can deliver a variety of educational benefits. If you are active on social websites, or have young tech users in your life, then you’ve probably come across Instagram. This application works in hand-in-hand with Facebook and has grown to be one of the most apps on the Internet. What [...]

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