Student Video Production
I have yet to see educators settle on one way of having students produce and share video, especially for online courses. There is such a staggering amount of devices, tools, services and apps to...
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Khan Academy New Look
Khan Academy recently launched a new interface that is smarter and can figure out where you have gaps and help you fill them. Take a look at https://www.khanacademy.org and find (or create, if you're...
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Google Media Tools and Journalists
In a recent post, Google noted that The New York Times used Google+ Hangouts to interview U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry about Syria’s chemical weapons. Also, The Weather Channel uses Google Earth...
View ArticleUse Fair Use
This month I attended a talk at William Paterson University on fair use for educators given by Brandon Butler. He is the Practitioner-in-Residence at the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic...
View Article10 Resources on Fair Use and Copyright
More sources on learning about fair use and copyright - collected by Bernard Bull.1. Understanding Fair Use in the Digital World– When we start to teach about copyright, we can approach it by...
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Your Classroom Provided By Google
Classroom google.com/edu/classroom is a new, free tool in the Google Apps for Education suite. It helps teachers create and organize assignments, provide feedback and communicate with their classes. I...
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EDU Learning Apps
edu-apps.org is an open collection of learning apps that can be used in your classes.The apps are built on LTI which is "like Facebook apps or Google widgets, but interoperable between lots of edu...
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The Internet Is a Series of YouTubes
The Internet may seem like "a series of tubes"* to you if have discovered that there is a YouTube EDU, a YouTube for Schools, YouTube for Teachers and even a School of YouTube. So many tubes.YouTube...
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Khan Academy Offers Free Online Prep for the New SAT exam
Khan Academy has teamed up with the College Board (creators of the SAT) to create personalized SAT practice for anyone, anywhere. In March 2016, the SAT is changing and now students can prepare for the...
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Social Media Reading List
I am prepping for my fall graduate course in social media at NJIT and I'm looking at my list of book titles for outside reading on social media, and some related digital design topics. The original...
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What Most Schools Don't Teach
What is it that most schools don't teach? Coding. Coding - transforming actions into a symbolic language - is offered in colleges and in many high schools, but computer science is not part of the core...
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Walking Around the Edge of the Google Graveyard
A lot of people panicked at the end of 2015 about stories in the media about Google planning to kill the Chrome OS that runs Chromebooks. Well, not kill, but merge with their Android operating system....
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Of Course, There Is Life After College
A new book, There Is Life After College by Jeff Selingo, is out this month. It looks at stories of 20-somethings and their experiences in and out of school and how those experiences shaped their...
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Minds Online
Online courses have definitely opened access to students in remote areas. They also offer option to people with learning requirements that require more flexibility with meeting times, and more...
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Citing Sources
The Modern Language Association (MLA) says it wants to make the always boring process (as strudent, writer and teacher) of citing sources less tedious. As this article points out, it has only gotten...
View ArticleGoogle Goes Deeper Into Education
Google has been getting deeper into education, particularly into higher education. For example, their interest in creating a technically skilled, innovative and diverse workforce has moved them into...
View ArticleThinking Online
You can call it brainstorming, concept mapping or mindmapping (and, yes, there are differences) but we ask students to organize their thoughts and using some of the free online options make sense....
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Is It Time for Chromebooks in Education?
I was at an educational technology conference last week. I asked several people about whether or not the Google Chromebook was having any impact on their campus. Not only was there zero impact, half...
View ArticleLearning to Program and Code
At one time, teachers were concerned with teaching students how to use computers. I did lessons with middle school students back in that last century on how to turn on, log on, search the Web, and use...
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Reimagining Education in a One World Schoolhouse
I don't know if this is what School 2.0 will look like in the near future, but inThe One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined, Salman Khan’s vision of the college of the near future doesn't look...
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