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This article as originally posted on September 2, 2010 at edtechdigest.com by Greg Limperis and I found it through a group I subscribe to called Technology Integration in Education. Anyone associated with education as a parent, teacher or student should read this article from Greg Limperis a Middle School Technology Facilitator in Lawrence, MA. What’s [...]
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Ever considered creating your own educational video but didn’t because you could not afford the best equipment and assumed viewers only cared about video quality? Research now confirms that viewers actually care more about the content (what you say, do or provide) above video quality. This seems like one of those obvious conclusions but the [...]
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Pocket video cameras are all the rage today. Flip video started the craze with their line of Flip cameras but Kodak, Sony, Samsung and others have also introduced their own versions. Pocket cameras are easy to use and inexpensive and teachers are coming up with very creative ideas on how to incorporate them into the [...]
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Interesting new product to help older schools connect PC’s and Projectors wirelessly. From TechTools July 21, 2010 | Posted At: 06:55 AM | Author: Brian Nadel Cut the Classroom Cord Schools attempting to wire older classrooms for projectors or large screen monitors over the summer are faced with one big problem: the cables for video [...]
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Skype is a free videoconferencing tool that can be used in a variety of settings. We use it everyday to talk with customers and remote employees. Forward thinking teachers use it in their classrooms in a variety of ways to engage their students. Here’s a list of 10 websites, articles and resources for using Skype [...]
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The following is a blog post from eHow.co.uk by Anna Tower, eHow Contributing Writer. Video can enhance student motivation to learn course content. Teachers today have a wide variety of resources available to enhance classroom learning. One of these tools is the use of video to encourage student interaction with learning. These interactions can include [...]
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Many K-12 schools have made the jump to IPTV or streaming but a vast majority are still using their closed circuit cable TV system and should consider moving all video and television to IPTV to integrate video on demand, television and web activity. Why? Here are 10 reasons why: 1. Eliminates the need for an [...]
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This cartoon is by Jeff Branzburg and illustrates the different viewpoints on why educational technology is not as ever-present as it should be in today’s schools.
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This post is from the Innovative Educator, Lisa Nielsen. It was originally posted on May 10, 2010 on her blog and again May 25th at Tech&Learning eNews. She makes some great points about presentation no-no’s that apply not only to teachers but to anyone who delivers presentations using a projector or interactive white board. By [...]
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From EdWeek Blog and Katie Ash Teaching Without Technology There’s a long article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about stripping technology out of classrooms to better engage students. Jose A. Bowen, the dean of the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, has begun to promote “teaching naked”—or teaching without technology in the [...]
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