World History
This Virginia Tech professor uses technology in interesting ways to keep a big (3000) class engaged, including gaming principles, Skype interviews with big names, Facebook and twitter. Check it out.
- My Newspaper Editorial
I have been seeing a lot of negative editorials recently on technology use in the classroom and, not being a shy person, I wrote one and with the help of the Smarter Schools Project it was published today in the Richmond Times Dispatch. As...
- You Can Now Pre-order My Book!
We now have a definitive early January release date for my book, whose name has changed to "Deeper Learning Through Technology: Using the Cloud to Individualize Instruction." The name pretty much says it all as I relate research, examples and explanatory...
- Twitter Warm-up
So I always have a meet and greet on our first day of school, but tomorrow, thanks to @dougzywiol I am going more high tech (imagine that!) and having the kids Tweet their answers. To do that yourself you can either create your own hashtag...
- Tweeting Your Class Warmup
As our students leave Facebook, more and more are using Twitter, among other social media. One of our new hires, Doug Zywiol, is using Twitter as a warm-up for his students. Most of our students have phones that can text, but for those who do not,...
- Transforming Your Classroom From Analog To Digital
Video streaming by UstreamI may be displaying a bit of geekiness by adding this video to the blog. Greg Kulowiez is a history teacher and tech expert. This is a lecture he gave earlier this month about transforming your classroom from analog to digital....
World History
Virginia Tech Professor uses Technology to keep big Class Engaged
- My Newspaper Editorial
I have been seeing a lot of negative editorials recently on technology use in the classroom and, not being a shy person, I wrote one and with the help of the Smarter Schools Project it was published today in the Richmond Times Dispatch. As...
- You Can Now Pre-order My Book!
We now have a definitive early January release date for my book, whose name has changed to "Deeper Learning Through Technology: Using the Cloud to Individualize Instruction." The name pretty much says it all as I relate research, examples and explanatory...
- Twitter Warm-up
So I always have a meet and greet on our first day of school, but tomorrow, thanks to @dougzywiol I am going more high tech (imagine that!) and having the kids Tweet their answers. To do that yourself you can either create your own hashtag...
- Tweeting Your Class Warmup
As our students leave Facebook, more and more are using Twitter, among other social media. One of our new hires, Doug Zywiol, is using Twitter as a warm-up for his students. Most of our students have phones that can text, but for those who do not,...
- Transforming Your Classroom From Analog To Digital
Video streaming by UstreamI may be displaying a bit of geekiness by adding this video to the blog. Greg Kulowiez is a history teacher and tech expert. This is a lecture he gave earlier this month about transforming your classroom from analog to digital....