Celebrating Innovation in Education: An Update

Last Wednesday, I co-hosted two online sessions celebrating the innovative works of several local teachers.  The sessions were part of a week-long event called Education on Location: National Issues at Home that was organized by the School of Education at Millersville University.  The online sessions were really exciting and very inspirational.  Since many people were [...]

Capture lessons on your iPad and flip your classroom

I’ve been playing around a lot with my iPad 2 lately and exploring different ways that I can incorporate the device into my teaching. I teach instructional technology to preservice teachers and utilize screencasting with my students. I typically use Jing and Screenflow on my laptop and was hoping to find a similar app for [...]

Students Assess their Profs’ Tech Skills

I found this video interview last week on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s website.  In the interview, the moderator talks with four students from different schools about their professors’ use of technology in the classroom.  The interview highlights the good and the bad in terms of technology integration.  One student talks about how his professor [...]

Exploring group video conferencing options

Most people are familiar with Skype, which is the most popular video calling site online.  As I’ve written before, Skype is a one stop communication tool, allowing real time chat and voice & video calls to users around the world.  For the longest time, however, Skype didn’t support group calls.  You could call your all [...]

New YouTube features to create and educate

Over the last several months, YouTube has silently added some great features for educators which I hope helps to sway some of the site’s detractors. For those of you who might not know, there are many school districts that block students and teachers from using YouTube in their classrooms.  I find this really disappointing, and [...]