Student Films about Technology in Education

For this year’s White House Student Film Festival, students were asked to submit videos about how technology is used in their classrooms and how it will change education for kids in the future.  Of the 2500 video submissions, 16 were …

Get Your Own Personal Cloud With PClouds

PClouds is a personal cloud service that, instead of using a third-party cloud server, it links and uses all of your already existing devices and storage. Why opt for this model over traditional third-party cloud storage solutions? Firstly, the security …

Check for Student Understanding with Geddit

A common practice for great teachers is to periodically check for student understanding throughout a lesson. Geddit seeks to provide an intuitive solution to this problem with an audience response system that allows students to “check in” with any internet …

Ten Tips for Motivating Students

In their book “Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers”, Marilla Svinicki and Wilbert J. McKeachie include ten ways that you can spur on students’ motivation, help them engage in your course, and encourage them to …