Even as many institutions grapple with their cloud strategies, faculty are taking advantage of cloud-based services to rev up their classes and engage students.
A new look at the inclusive classroom
Inclusive classrooms are a charged and popular topic in current education. Explore some of the latest tech and theories in the field.
Texting in the Classroom: Not Just a Distraction
With the ubiquity of cellphones, many schools are facing questions about what to do when students bring cellphones to school. Ban them outright? Require they be kept in a locker or backpack? Require they be turned off? Allow them to …
6 Ways to Add Technology to the Classroom
Technology makes meaningful collaborative and engaging interactive classroom experiences possible with minimal effort.However, sometimes we need some help getting started. This list of ideas will hopefully serve as a starting place for some conversations in your school.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/education-technology-advice-adam-bellow…
How to Set Up Class iPads and iPods
The Apple Fairy has come to your classroom and given you some iPads and/or iPod Touches to use for learning? There are many different ways to set your iDevices up. Here is how I’ve done mine.
http://spicylearning.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/how-to-set-up-class-ipads-and-ipods/…
High-Tech Teaching in a Low-Tech Classroom
As 21st-century teachers, we are expected to help students master the technological tools they will use in college and the workplace. How can we best use limited resources to support learning and familiarize students with technology?
Video Supported Mathematics for Commerce
Matthew Marchant, a Math teacher at Dawson, observed many students struggling to follow explanations from beginning to end. In response to this, he created videos to present in his Calculus 2 course for Commerce. The story explains how he made …
7 Innovative Ways Teachers Are Using Tech In The Classroom
Technology’s role in the classroom has been widely debated: does it simply feed an addiction to a mobile lifestyle, or does it give otherwise shy students a way to find their voices? Find more here.
3 Tips for Teachers Using Social Media in the Classroom
Social media opens up all new avenues of communication for college students, their classmates and their professors. A typical class may only take a few hours a week, but now with social media, the classroom can be a lively, 24/7 …
50 Reasons to Invite Facebook Into Your Classroom
Educators are beginning to realize the powerful potential that Facebook has in the classroom, not as a distraction, but as a collaborative learning tool. How can Facebook benefit your class? This article enumerates 50 ways.
50 More Ways to Integrate Technology into your Classroom
Great tools to help you use more technology into your classroom
https://sites.google.com/site/anchortechnologytomorrow/50-more-ways
Skype in the Classroom: Using Skype to Bring Education to Life
Skype in the classroom is a free online directory for teachers everywhere who want to use Skype to bring education to life.
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2011/02/skype-in-classroom-using-skype-to-bring.html
Over 20 Free Digital Classroom Tools… Customize… Plus No Log In!
You will find descriptions of each tool, an overview of and samples of specific tools (if provided), and any related video (if provided).
5 Innovative Classroom Management Tools for Teachers
With help from the many online services and mobile apps designed for teachers, it can be easy to efficiently organize and complete classroom management responsibilities. Here are five of our favorite virtual tools for tackling some of the most common
Teachers’ Views on Technology in the Classroom
The New York Times asked teachers to submit videos on how the use of technology has changed the way they teach.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/21/technology/20101121-brain-teachers.html