My personal productivity rules

I’ve learned that keeping a few basic rules in place helps me balance that interest in improving my systems with my desire to actually do the work that productivity systems are supposed to assist. I’ve shared these rules with other …

50 Indispensable EdTech Tools for 2012

Here is a list of some of the best tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher’s tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or …

How To Capture Ideas Visually With The iPad

Visual recording is what it sounds like it’d be. As opposed to recording audio, visual recording captures visuals, though not necessarily in photographic form. The process of visually capturing ideas with the iPad isn’t terribly complex in concept. If you …

Are kids really motivated by technology?

You can’t motivate students with technology because technology alone isn’t motivating. Worse yet, students are almostalways ambivalent toward digital tools. While you may be completely jazzed by the interactive whiteboard in your classroom or the wiki that you just whipped …

Free Online Course Will Rely on Multiple Sites

A group of online-learning ventures is collaborating on a new kind of free class to be offered this fall, known as a mechanical MOOC (for “massive open online course”), that will teach a computer-programming language by patching together existing resources …