It’s your first night for your online course. You meet with your online students through video conferencing (We use Zoom.us) so that your distant students will have a feeling of belonging to a group instead of just talking with each other through discussion forums. This is when you have to […]
theartofed.com I Can This and I Can That . . .What does this all mean? Students saying that they can do things instead of teachers telling them what they need to know using the time-tested ABCD (Audience, Behavior, Condition, Degree) performance objectives that we have been using for year? What […]
Are you using Badges in your classes? Alfie Kohn definitely isn’t using badges in his classes. He doesn’t like them. The video above is his discussion of caution about using badges and gamification. As you may know, Alfi is an advocate for change in schools. He has written a number of books about […]
DrZReflects.com I am privileged to be Zooming with Amy Kangas and her wonderful class of educators who are spending the next week exploring what it means to be a 21st Century Teacher. While I will just be there to answer questions and share some experiences, here are a few resources […]
You have heard about the most successful Educational Twitter Chat in Iowa. It is #IAedchat. Every Sunday at 8:00 (except 6/8/14), the gang from #IAedchat get together and hold a discussion between educators. The topics vary and the formats vary (sometimes include video broadcast) but the excitement remains the same. […]
I was just browsing the web when I found this wonderful posting by Terry Heick on Teach Thought entitled “10 Ways to Fake a 21st Century Classroom.” Terry does a wonderful job of identifying some indicators that are often seen as landmarks for 21st Century Learning. Once they have been […]
I was just reading Shannon Doak’s G+ postings when I found her posting about Christopher Emdin’s TED talk called Teach Teachers How to Create Magic. In this presentation, he talks about using Hip Hop Pedagogy to engage students in learning. He is a dynamic teacher who knows how to talk […]
This marks the beginning of a series of UNI Connect-A-Tech Webinars where we will be talking with Instructional Technology alumni who are working as professionals in their fields of choice.You will have the opportunity to interact with them through a video conferencing system. Read the information below to see how […]
The folks over at Emerging Ed Tech recently did a survey of their readers to find out what they wanted to know about education and Instructional technology. They had 160 replies which is a good response. This table is a list of their results. Some of the issues are standard issues, […]
The success of the ITEC Student Tech Fair was shared in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier in an article entitled Fair Brings Students Together to Share Their Technology Projects. Click on the link above to view 4 wonderful photos of students at the fair and read interviews with students, […]