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Explore Dozens of Resources for Digital Learning Day 2016

February 15, 2016

Are you Prepared to Get Your #DLDay on and Seek new Approaches to Improving Learning Outcomes? “Started in 2012, Digital Learning Day has provided a powerful venue for education leaders to highlight great teaching practice and showcase innovative teachers, leaders, and instructional technology programs that are improving student outcomes. This grassroots effort blossomed into a […]

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Teaching and #EdTech Tweet Wrap for Week Ending 02-13-16

February 14, 2016

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. Another jam-packed Tweet Wrap this week! Check out the Big Picture learning model where students create their own curriculum, explore a better approach to web based texts, get featured in an […]

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Writing Article About Virtual Labs for Major Publication - Want to be Featured?

February 11, 2016

Are You Using Virtual Labs in Your Classroom? I’m doing research for an upcoming article for a major higher education periodical about the use of virtual labs in higher education. I’ll be looking to talk with educators who are experienced with these types of tools. Education is experiencing an exciting expansion of digitized labs, and […]

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Add Questions to Videos and Monitor Student Progress, for Free, with EdPuzzle

February 9, 2016

Easily Assess Student Engagement With Video Lessons With This Powerful Free Application Being able to take any video and add questions to it that students must answer before continuing to watch is an outstanding technique for making a video lesson richer and more engaging. It also provides very useful feedback. When I first learned back in 2014 […]

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Mondopad 2.0 - Taking Collaboration and Creativity to a New Level

February 8, 2016

InFocus Enhances Their Unique, Interactive Platform With Improved Software Back in November and December, I shared my experiences with the awesome Mondopad from InFocus. The December article included a video, “Demonstrating the Flexible Functionality and Collaborative Potential of the Mondopad“. This is a powerful, fun system that combines next-generation Interactive White Board functionality with excellent […]

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Instructional Technology and Teaching Tweet Wrap for the Week Ending 02-06-16

February 7, 2016

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the Wrap … the new Horizon Report (the higher ed edition) is out, helping students understand complex concepts by Edusketching, better learning through … long hand writing, Common […]

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Are YOU Using Adaptive Learning Tools in Your Classroom? How’s it Going?

February 4, 2016

I borrowed this image from this great Aspire blog post (hope they don’t mind!) Share Your Experience and Let Others Know What This Powerful Technology can do for Your Students Adaptive learning software solutions have evolved and continue to mature. There are now a good (and growing) number of platforms available to help teachers and schools individualize […]

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App Ed Review Roundup: 4 Great Movie Making Apps!

February 3, 2016

Image source Get Your Students Creating and Demonstrating Their Learning With These Awesome Movie Making Apps Are you tired of grading essay after essay and test after test? Do you feel that some of your students can demonstrate their understanding in creative ways? Differentiate your assessments with movie maker apps and let your students’ imaginations […]

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27 Meaningful Ways to Use EdTech … THINGLINK Style!

February 2, 2016

Creating Fun Interactive Content With ThingLink is a Blast! I’ve been wanting to give ThingLink a try for a while now. The idea of being able to easily overlay interactive links anywhere on an image seems like a pretty cool way to create fun, engaging learning content. I decided to use the image I created […]

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Digital Teaching and Learning Tweet Wrap for Week Ending 01-30-16

January 31, 2016

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week … explore the growth mindset with young learners, learn about a global collaboration for students to build apps that can change the world, check out a guide to the […]

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