Augmented Reality: Does the coolest thing EVER have a place in the classroom?
Augmented reality, as we now know it, has been around little more than a year but already there are a multitude of examples floating around on the Web. Why? Because it’s friggin’ cool! If you haven’t...
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One Laptop for Every Student Finally an Affordable Option
The digital divide isn’t a new concept to any of us. We all know how important technology literacy is going to be for our students to be successful. And those of us teaching in low-income areas are...
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From Trash to Treasure: Three Easy Steps to Convert Corporate Garbage into...
Getting free computers for your classroom is actually relatively easy. The problem is getting free computers that can run programs without freezing every 90 seconds. When I started teaching in 2003,...
View ArticleScreencasts Turn Students into Digital Teachers
We all know that when you’re able to teach a skill, you’ve truly mastered it. That’s why we pair up students in class, assign group work, and start peer tutoring programs. But, with screencasting, we...
View ArticlePowerpoint Schmowerpoint: Teach kids to create really engaging presentations
In the past several years, I have developed a deep and intimate loathing of PowerPoint. Don’t judge me just yet – I have my reasons. To be honest, I understand the appeal of PowerPoint. It’s a quick...
View ArticleHarness the Power of Social Networking in Your Classroom, Safely and for FREE
[UPDATE: A more recent post about social networking in the classroom and, specifically, about Edmodo can be found here.] Social networking is a pretty broad term in the technology community – it can...
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Make Your Students Mythbusters with Video Lab Reports
In my high school biology class, we worked in groups to complete experiments about once every two weeks. For each of these labs, we had to write a lab report. By my calculations, that means I completed...
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Let Them Play: Video gaming in education
I have to admit – I am a very recent convert to using video games in the classroom. When I first considered the idea, I thought, I’ve got absolutely no planning time to find appropriate games, much...
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Make Data Cool with Tuva
Photo Credit: Grisel D´An via Compfight I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again — data is cool. It can help us answer questions and help us see connections we never noticed before. But data...
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Students as VR Tour Guides (using all free tools)
In the past six months, virtual reality has exploded. The main reason is that it’s actually become affordable and easy to create the 360-degree (or spherical) images used for VR. Milky Way from an...
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