by EmergingEdTech | Oct 17, 2018 | Academic Technology
Teacher’s “present” often, but presenting outside of the classroom is a different situation. Educators AND students can use these tips to help make the most of these opportunities! It’s normal to feel nervous and jittery right before you give a presentation. But...
by EmergingEdTech | Oct 14, 2018 | Academic Technology
Informative, inspiring, or just plain interesting education and digital technology content from across the web, posted on Twitter over the past week and collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap … exploring the vital importance of the...
by EmergingEdTech | Oct 9, 2018 | Academic Technology
Easy to integrate video conferencing can provide a vital missing element for online learning. You’re never too old to learn, but with modern communications you’re never too far either. Universities see great value in offering distance learning, providing...
by EmergingEdTech | Oct 7, 2018 | Academic Technology
Informative, inspiring, or just plain interesting education and digital technology content from across the web, posted on Twitter over the past week and collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap … schools are hiring more technology coaches,...
by EmergingEdTech | Oct 3, 2018 | Academic Technology
Image Source As the relationship between education and technology continues to grow, content curation become a more essential and useful skill every day. Here are 9 ways that teachers and students can use content curation tools like Wakelet in the classroom. 1. To...
by EmergingEdTech | Oct 2, 2018 | Academic Technology
Although some people believe that the differences in social status don’t play a significant role in higher education anymore, the truth remains that income and geography still influence academic performance. As a matter of fact, students from rural areas and...
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 30, 2018 | Academic Technology
Informative, inspiring, or just plain interesting education and digital technology content from across the web, posted on Twitter over the past week and collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap … it was a bit of a slow week for sharing...
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 29, 2018 | Academic Technology
Good writing skills remain a vital requirement for employment and advancement, so I welcome the occasional blog post on the subject. Hopefully teachers will share this post, or some of the ideas expressed in it, with their students. – KW No matter what your field of...
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 25, 2018 | Academic Technology
In this video interview, Classtime CEO Valentin Ruest shows us this powerful review and assessment platform. Classtime is a great platform for assessing student understanding on the fly, or for creating more formal assessments. Since their launch in 2016, Classtime...
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 24, 2018 | Academic Technology
The Growing Number of Young Students in Online Schools Need to Have Opportunities to Connect Socially and Develop Vital Social Skills For many children, a large part of their socialization comes from their school community. They’re in a classroom with 20 or more of...
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 23, 2018 | Academic Technology
Informative, inspiring, or just plain interesting education and digital technology content posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap … AJ Juliani takes a look at one my favorite topics – the science of...
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 20, 2018 | Academic Technology
Telepresence: Helping to Overcome the Limitations of Distance Learning Over the last few years, we’ve seen technology redefine the traditional student/teacher dynamic, creating opportunities for students to build relationships with teachers and fellow learners around...
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 19, 2018 | Academic Technology
Applications Makes Learning to Play an Instrument More Interactive and Productive for Students and Teachers I recently spoke with Ohad Galan, CEO of Tonara, a powerful application designed to provide students with much needed feedback while practicing their...
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 18, 2018 | Academic Technology
Image Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steal_password.jpg Open sesame. Abracadabra. When you’re locking down your data, how secure is the password you chose? If it’s anything like the magic words above, have we got news for you. Your password tricks are...
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 17, 2018 | Academic Technology
The new school season has started and, along with it, more growth in 3D modeling classes in schools nationwide. Young students are being taught how to get good orientation in 3D space, they learn volume and basic objects, and work on their designs and prints. 3D...
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 16, 2018 | Academic Technology
Informative, inspiring, or just plain interesting education and digital technology content posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap … a particularly rich and varied set of content exploring what...
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 14, 2018 | Academic Technology
Students who do not have solid writing skills are at a clear disadvantage. They must compete with those who do, and they are judged on their writing skills in virtually every class. There are those essays and papers, and, while it may seem unfair, using proper grammar...
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 12, 2018 | Academic Technology
Recorded webinar explores the many ways that we and our students are being hacked, manipulated, and addicted. This past Friday, I partnered with WizIQ to deliver a webinar exploring the darker side of our digital addiction. While I am an advocate of the amazing...
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 11, 2018 | Academic Technology
Moodle is one of the most popular learning management systems among online educators and trainers. It is used across the world for various online teaching methods such as blended learning, distance learning, flipped learning, etc. While creating your online course...
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 10, 2018 | Academic Technology
We all need some down time. Hopefully you got some this summer! Here are a few things I wanted to share with you. I know the summer months can provide a much needed respite to many educators. Readership here on the site falls off a bit. Nevertheless, I still keep...
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 9, 2018 | Academic Technology
Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap we explore lots of interesting questions and ideas, while also checking out a few fun tools. What if...
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 5, 2018 | Academic Technology
Fire up your Crowdbeamer and present interactively! Have you ever been in a situation as a teacher (or any other kind of presenter for that matter) where you wish you could just fire up your own wireless presentation network in a snap? With no dependency on the tech...
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 4, 2018 | Academic Technology
The author of this site recently wrote an excellent article in an attempt to encourage emerging edtech tools to follow a more scientific approach to learning. The article identifies 8 learning techniques that can be useful in designing efficient educational software....
by EmergingEdTech | Sep 2, 2018 | Academic Technology
Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap … heard of micro-schools? Is this were some of the innovations education could benefit will come from?...
by EmergingEdTech | Aug 30, 2018 | Academic Technology
In this digitally-saturated world, it is more vital than ever that educators continue to recognize and value the human interaction skills that are so important to our students’ development and well being. After ten years of being emerged in ed tech (pun intended...
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