Educational Technology

Ten Ideas for Exercises in the Virtual Classroom — Web Conference Guru

If you have either attended or facilitated training in a virtual classroom you know that maintaining a high level of interactivity is key to keeping participants engaged. Here are ten ideas for exercises to try in your next virtual classroom session:

Teacher Development: Starter Kit for Teaching Online

If you’re interested in taking your teaching skills online, there are several ways to go. Some make virtual teaching their full-time occupation. Some do it part-time, moonlighting for extra cash and experience. And more and more, traditional teachers are becoming switch-hitters who bring the best online strategies to their face-to-face classrooms.

Being Practical About Mobile Learning

More recently, the conversation has shifted from purchasing computers to purchasing mobile devices. Whether they are tablet computers, cell phones or media devices, as long as there were ample productivity apps available as well as usable assess to the internet through WiFi, school would be able to better afford the cost of assess to technology and provide opportunities for ’21st Century Learning’ as these devices cost a mere fraction of the price of a computer.

Why You Need Digital Know-How –Why We All Need It | The European Business Review

The future of digital culture – yours, mine, and ours – depends on how well we learn to use the media that have infiltrated, amplified, distracted, enriched, and complicated our lives. I believe that learning to live mindfully in cyber culture is as impor­tant to us as a civilization as it is vital to you and me as individuals.

Is Social Media as Dangerous as the Telephone?

The telephone mirrored many of the fears and promises attributed these days to social networks, author Tom Vanderbilt writes in the Wilson Quarterly. This technology, as revolutionary as it was, failed equally to deliver both critics’ most dire predictions and supporters’ fondest hopes. There’s a lesson here for how we view the Internet.

Multitasking May Hurt Your Performance, But It Makes You Feel Better

Take, for example, students who watched TV while reading a book. They reported feeling more emotionally satisfied than those who studied without watching TV, but also reported that they didn’t achieve their cognitive goals as well

Nik’s Learning Technology Blog: Instant Opinion Polls in the Classroom

For a long time now I have been looking for a tool that enables instant polling in the classroom or in the lecture room. I specifically wanted something that; doesn’t require registration (especially from the people I’m polling), updates very quickly, works on any platform from computers to mobile devices.

It looks like I have finally found what I’ve been looking for and best of all it’s free. The tool that I have found is Mentimeter and it does all of the above.

A Guide To Managing A Classroom Full Of iPads

While the iPad’s potential in formal learning environments is clear, there is a practical side to its implementation that is not often recognized until after they’re purchased. Logistics here are usually left to an over-worked school or district IT person—or worse, to the classroom teacher. But did you know that iPad storage can also impact classroom management?

Task 11: Get your students talking about a text?

In this task you create a video questionnaire based around a text. The text could be one from the your course book or it could be from another book, magazine of from the internet somewhere.

Working Paper Series on Mobile Learning

This Working Paper Series scans the globe to illuminate the ways in which mobile technologies can be used to support the United Nations Education for All Goals; respond to the challenges of particular educational contexts; supplement and enrich formal schooling; and make learning more accessible, equitable, personalized and flexible for students everywhere.