Posts Tagged ‘teaching with technology’
May 20 - From Passive Viewing to Active Learning: Simple Techniques for Applying Active Learning Strategies to Online Course Videos
By: Emily A. Moore in Teaching with Technology
From Web-enhanced face-to-face courses to MOOCs, flipped, blended, and fully online courses, videos are an integral component of today’s educational landscape—from kindergarten all the way through higher education.
March 14 - Echo360 Active Learning Platform Delivers Student Analytics with Insight on Student Activity, Participation and Engagement
By: Press Release in EdTech News and Trends
Echo360, the global leader in campus-wide active and distance learning solutions, is announcing a product release that provides analytics for student activity before, during and after class. Data-rich summaries provide instructors intelligent insight on each student’s participation, flags topics of difficulty and measures student engagement in and out of class. Ultimately, this data will guide instructor-led course adjustments and improve academic outcomes as teaching pedagogies changes to respond to student cues in real time.
February 22 - App Review: Doceri Combines Screencasting, Desktop Control, and Interactive Whiteboard
By: Dave Yearwood, PhD in App Of The Week
The Doceri interactive whiteboard and screencast recorder app, like the Splashtop app I reviewed earlier, is useful to anyone wishing to remotely control a projected image from a connected computer, make screen annotations on what is displayed (you can make the annotations on a displayed image or a whiteboard), and send your creation for others to see. The thing I liked the most about using Doceri is the ease with which recorded audio and screen annotations can be made and the ability to send/post the finished product to a LMS or similar system for students to access. This app can save you the expense associated with costly classroom whiteboards and the controls in the app are easy to navigate.
February 19 - Using Podcasts to Address Concepts Students Find Difficult
By: Rob Kelly in Teaching with Technology
Whether you teach online, face-to-face, or blended/hybrid courses, podcasts can improve student learning, says Charles Morgan, chair of the mathematics department at Lock Haven University. Consider the following benefits:
February 18 - NetClick Makes Classroom Interaction Easy
By: Press Release in EdTech News and Trends
With the use of mobile devices such as tablets, smartphones and laptops transforming the 21st century classroom, teachers and professors around the world are looking to streamline and revolutionize the way they present content and interact with students. To meet this demand for Education 2.0, Waterloo technology startup NetClick today announced the release of its new Cloud-based solution that helps educators transform their lessons and lectures into engaging, interactive classroom experiences in seconds and with use of existing class infrastructure. It is a unique, patent pending service, not available in any other Classroom Response System.
October 31 - Generate Deeper Learning through Digital Storytelling
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Digital storytelling is a powerful learning experience for students. This seminar uses examples to demonstrate the essential elements of teaching digital storytelling and how it can be applied to different fields. Your presenter will show you the steps for developing and implementing a digital storytelling lesson plan, as well as how to assess the outcomes of student storytelling.
October 30 - Students Say More Instructors Are Using Technology Effectively, ECAR Study Finds
By: Mary Bart in Teaching with Technology
Students are giving their instructors high marks for using technology effectively. Results from latest annual technology survey by Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR) found that 68 percent of the more than 100,000 students surveyed said that most or all of their instructors effectively use technology to advance their academic success. That’s up from 47 percent just two years ago.
October 24 - Understanding the Flipped Classroom: Part 2
By: Pamela Kachka in Teaching with Technology
Editor’s Note: Part 1 of this article looked at the history of the flipped classroom. Today we look at what it takes for someone to teach effectively in a flipped classroom.
Although the flipped classroom is garnering a lot of attention of late, simply flipping the classroom alone does not increase student success. The instructor must seize the opportunity to guide and interact with the students. Looking at this new definition of homework in a flipped classroom, there are many details to consider.
October 23 - Understanding the Flipped Classroom: Part 1
By: Pamela Kachka in Teaching with Technology
The flipped classroom seems to be the latest buzz in educational trends. Is this truly a new revolutionary approach or a revision of a technique used throughout the ages? To be clear, in simplest terms, flipping the classroom refers to swapping classroom lecture time for hands-on practice time. So the lecture is done for homework usually via a video or audio file and the classroom time is spent clarifying and applying new knowledge gained.
September 18 - Five Free Tools for Connecting and Engaging Online Learners
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
If you’re teaching online, you’ve likely confronted the reality that most opportunities to improve the learning experience for your students just don’t fit your budget. Fortunately, with a little digging, you’ll find there are a number of free tools that will help you increase student engagement, improve outcomes, and make the online classroom experience a more robust and satisfying one for you and your students.
