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Ask anyone who has attended an online webinar presentation, a live "broadcast lecture", or viewed a lecture that has been video podcast, and chances are they were multitasking - big time. Let's face it: Without actually engaging the audience, a lecture is highly ineffective - and if it's an online, non-interactive lecture, it's like watching a television show - minus the entertainment value of advertising.

Thankfully, innovation in instruction and technology is changing the equation, as is the case at Georgia Tech Savannah...

While the focus of most of our grants are high-tech tools like HP Tablet PCs, for the last several funding rounds we've been including HP DesignJet wide-format printers. "What would we do with a wide-format printer at school?" Glad you asked. Here are some ideas - including ways to get the ink to pay for itself...

I recently had the privilege of introducing 50 middle school teachers to their new tablet pcs. It was great fun, and everyone left with something simple they could try the first time they fired up their tablet in class. If you've just acquired a tablet pc to enhance your teaching, or if you're still thinking about it, below are my favorite, simple, "5 First Steps" that I shared during my workshops...

With all the "Race to the Top" coverage in the US media as of late, there's a resurging interest in using technology to enable breakthrough innovations in education. But let's make sure the national, state, and local district discussions get it right: If we want to positively impact student achievement through the effective use of technology, we have to ensure that the strategy, planning, and implementation begins with (learning) VERBS, not the (technology) NOUNS...

It happens every time - a word becomes part of the popular lexicon and it becomes so generalized or over-used that its very definition becomes unclear. I am no Historian of Words nor am I a Linguist, but let me at least share with you how I think about "e-Learning"...

Classrooms are not always safe places to share what you don't know. Call it human nature or whatever, but there are precious few students who are willing to expose their ignorance in public. The result is that the "loud" and "overconfident" students often take over the discussion - until you tap the Power of Anonymity...

There's nothing like making physics and math real by giving students a design challenge that's engaging and exciting  - and you know you're making progress when you have students saying, "The best part about this is you are learning - but you don't even realize you are learning 'till the whole thing's over with... you're having fun while you're doing it." Check out their video...!

...better than what? OK, the full title should have been "Eleven Reasons Why a Tablet PC + Digital Projector is Better Than a Whiteboard or Overhead Projector... and Sometimes Smarter Than a Smartboard". I'm still frequently asked what a Tablet PC can do. Once I explain that they do everything a laptop does PLUS you can draw in the screen, then the next obvious question becomes, "How does this help me in class?" Below are 11 reasons to consider a tablet pc, based on the experiences of our HP grant recipients...