Entries Tagged as ‘Technology’

October 1, 2009

The Value of Digital Teaching…

My online teaching partner and I strongly believe what The Intrepid Teacher has come to realize. To that end, we even opened our book with 26 reasons (supported by research) that online learning successfully reaches beyond the traditional classroom:

September 30, 2009

Catch the Google Wave?

Will you be one of the first to try Google’s new Wave?  You can see it introduced here in this longgggggg video.
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September 7, 2009

Where do you Work when you Teach Online?

Last year a commercial about a businessman who works with his customers both virtually and face-to-face across America got me thinking.  The commercial’s salesman said he worked from a place called something like “Newcaliwisdakota”.  According to the ad, he needed a network that kept up with the demands of his job. This network was the [...]

September 1, 2009

ttyl, y? bcuz pos

The young live, eat, and breathe this language by cell, IM, and email 24/7. It is their native language – we will not break them of it – we must accept that. Obviously not all conventions or presentation problems found in classroom writing are texting-based, but txt does creep in.

August 16, 2009

SupportBlogging

From the SupportBlogging Wiki educational website:

Uses for Blogging in Education

Teacher Communication
Teachers will often start a blog for providing communication to students, parents, or other teachers. Sometimes this is just the posting of homework or other assignments in one easy-to-find location. Other times this can be a richer description of the things taking place in the [...]

September 29, 2007

Top 10 Most Popular Learning Tools of 2007

In July and August ‘07, the Centre forLearning and Performance Technologies polled “learning professionals”, bloggers, and others, asking these contributors to rank what their top learning tools were out of a list of 400 possible choices.  The list ranged from the purchased and high tech software like Outlook to the old school paper and cardboard [...]