http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/tags/Innovations+in+Teaching/default.aspxTags: Innovations in TeachingenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/11/13/making-live-synchronous-distance-learning-come-alive-georgia-tech-and-dyknow.aspxFri, 13 Nov 2009 22:08:00 GMT964d1d0f-bea0-4201-a2aa-8aa369a35a46:119342jgvanides0http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=119342http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/commentapi.aspx?PostID=119342http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/11/13/making-live-synchronous-distance-learning-come-alive-georgia-tech-and-dyknow.aspx#comments<p>Ask anyone who has attended an online webinar presentation, a live &quot;broadcast lecture&quot;, or viewed a lecture that has been video podcast, and chances are they were multitasking - big time. Let&#39;s face it: Without actually engaging the audience, a lecture is highly ineffective - and if it&#39;s an online, non-interactive lecture, it&#39;s like watching a television show - minus the entertainment value of advertising.</p> <p>Thankfully, innovation in instruction and technology is changing the equation, as is the case at Georgia Tech Savannah...</p>...(<a href="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/11/13/making-live-synchronous-distance-learning-come-alive-georgia-tech-and-dyknow.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/aggbug.aspx?PostID=119342" width="1" height="1">Tablet PCInnovations in TeachingOnline Learninge-LearningeLearninghttp://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/10/23/beyond-video-chat-making-conference-presentations-via-hp-virtual-rooms.aspxFri, 23 Oct 2009 17:12:00 GMT964d1d0f-bea0-4201-a2aa-8aa369a35a46:117439jgvanides0http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=117439http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/commentapi.aspx?PostID=117439http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/10/23/beyond-video-chat-making-conference-presentations-via-hp-virtual-rooms.aspx#comments<p>Let&#39;s face it - there are more conferences on the planet than one can possibly attend. While I always appreciate the opportunity to participate and share stories about &quot;Re-Imagining the Classroom&quot;, I simply cannot be traveling all the time. So I have recently tried using HP Virtual Rooms - and it&#39;s a whole lot of fun!...</p>...(<a href="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/10/23/beyond-video-chat-making-conference-presentations-via-hp-virtual-rooms.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/aggbug.aspx?PostID=117439" width="1" height="1">Innovations in TeachingConferencesOnline LearningTraining &amp; Prof Deve-LearningeLearningprofessional developmenthttp://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/09/18/banners-and-posters-school-educational-and-fundraising-ideas.aspxFri, 18 Sep 2009 23:26:00 GMT964d1d0f-bea0-4201-a2aa-8aa369a35a46:115174jgvanides2http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=115174http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/commentapi.aspx?PostID=115174http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/09/18/banners-and-posters-school-educational-and-fundraising-ideas.aspx#comments<p>While the focus of most of our grants are high-tech tools like HP Tablet PCs, for the last several funding rounds we&#39;ve been including HP DesignJet wide-format printers. &quot;What would we do with a wide-format printer at school?&quot; Glad you asked. Here are some ideas - including ways to get the ink to pay for itself...</p> <p><b></b>&nbsp;</p>...(<a href="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/09/18/banners-and-posters-school-educational-and-fundraising-ideas.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/aggbug.aspx?PostID=115174" width="1" height="1">Innovations in TeachingPrinting &amp; Imaginghttp://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/09/17/us-national-ed-tech-plan-your-chance-to-speak-up.aspxThu, 17 Sep 2009 15:48:00 GMT964d1d0f-bea0-4201-a2aa-8aa369a35a46:114211jgvanides0http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=114211http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/commentapi.aspx?PostID=114211http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/09/17/us-national-ed-tech-plan-your-chance-to-speak-up.aspx#comments<p>The US education system is at a cross-roads, and &quot;education technology&quot; is part of the national dialog - again. In the nearly one decade that has transpired since the last national discussion about the role technology should be in US schools, the technologies themselves have evolved many times over. Perhaps more exciting is that the innovations related to the educational use of technology has generated new and compelling &quot;emerging evidence&quot;. </p> <p>For those of you involved in these innovative projects, it&#39;s time to speak up - <b>the US Department of Education wants to hear from you...</b></p>...(<a href="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/09/17/us-national-ed-tech-plan-your-chance-to-speak-up.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/aggbug.aspx?PostID=114211" width="1" height="1">Innovations in Teachingeducation technologypublic policyhttp://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/09/04/first-time-tablet-pc-user-try-my-favorite-quot-5-first-steps-quot.aspxFri, 04 Sep 2009 06:30:00 GMT964d1d0f-bea0-4201-a2aa-8aa369a35a46:109276jgvanides2http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=109276http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/commentapi.aspx?PostID=109276http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/09/04/first-time-tablet-pc-user-try-my-favorite-quot-5-first-steps-quot.aspx#comments<p>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&#39;ve just acquired a tablet pc to enhance your teaching, or if you&#39;re still thinking about it, below are my favorite, simple, &quot;5 First Steps&quot; that I shared during my workshops...</p>...(<a href="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/09/04/first-time-tablet-pc-user-try-my-favorite-quot-5-first-steps-quot.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/aggbug.aspx?PostID=109276" width="1" height="1">Tablet PCInnovations in TeachingTraining &amp; Prof Devhttp://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/08/26/knowing-what-they-don-t-know-how-real-time-student-feedback-transforms-teaching.aspxWed, 26 Aug 2009 00:18:00 GMT964d1d0f-bea0-4201-a2aa-8aa369a35a46:105067jgvanides0http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=105067http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/commentapi.aspx?PostID=105067http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/08/26/knowing-what-they-don-t-know-how-real-time-student-feedback-transforms-teaching.aspx#comments<p>Everyone&#39;s talking about data. But it isn&#39;t the results of high-stakes tests that&#39;s going to help students, because they don&#39;t always measure what&#39;s important and the data takes too long to show up. It&#39;s sort of like grading beef - the cow is dead. Real-time (formative) data is where the excitement is. Time after time, I&#39;m hearing examples of how tablet pcs deployed in a classroom 1:1 (one per student) or shared 2:1 or 3:1, can expose very powerful data about students&nbsp;- and change the way we teach...</p>...(<a href="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/08/26/knowing-what-they-don-t-know-how-real-time-student-feedback-transforms-teaching.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/aggbug.aspx?PostID=105067" width="1" height="1">Innovations in Teachinghttp://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/08/23/successful-edtech-first-the-verbs-then-the-nouns.aspxSun, 23 Aug 2009 20:00:00 GMT964d1d0f-bea0-4201-a2aa-8aa369a35a46:104640jgvanides1http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=104640http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/commentapi.aspx?PostID=104640http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/08/23/successful-edtech-first-the-verbs-then-the-nouns.aspx#comments<p>With all the &quot;Race to the Top&quot; coverage in the US media as of late, there&#39;s a resurging interest in using technology to enable breakthrough innovations in education. But let&#39;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...</p>...(<a href="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/08/23/successful-edtech-first-the-verbs-then-the-nouns.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/aggbug.aspx?PostID=104640" width="1" height="1">Innovations in TeachingTraining &amp; Prof Devhttp://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/31/education-talk-show-in-second-life-you-bet-iste-eduverse-archive-treasures.aspxFri, 31 Jul 2009 22:14:00 GMT964d1d0f-bea0-4201-a2aa-8aa369a35a46:97159jgvanides0http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=97159http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/commentapi.aspx?PostID=97159http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/31/education-talk-show-in-second-life-you-bet-iste-eduverse-archive-treasures.aspx#comments<p>In our ongoing quest to find ways to share the expertise of innovative educators, we have been collaborating with ISTE in the use of Second Life as a professional networking venue. The education talk show, &quot;ISTE Eduverse Talks&quot; has just completed its 8^th episode - and each one is worth watching...</p>...(<a href="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/31/education-talk-show-in-second-life-you-bet-iste-eduverse-archive-treasures.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/aggbug.aspx?PostID=97159" width="1" height="1">Innovations in TeachingOnline LearningTraining &amp; Prof Deve-LearningeLearninghttp://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/31/what-is-quot-e-learning-quot.aspxFri, 31 Jul 2009 14:57:00 GMT964d1d0f-bea0-4201-a2aa-8aa369a35a46:97103jgvanides1http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=97103http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/commentapi.aspx?PostID=97103http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/31/what-is-quot-e-learning-quot.aspx#comments<p>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 &quot;e-Learning&quot;...</p>...(<a href="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/31/what-is-quot-e-learning-quot.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/aggbug.aspx?PostID=97103" width="1" height="1">Innovations in TeachingOnline Learninge-LearningeLearninghttp://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/27/when-is-second-life-better-than-a-classroom.aspxMon, 27 Jul 2009 22:46:00 GMT964d1d0f-bea0-4201-a2aa-8aa369a35a46:96749jgvanides0http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=96749http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/commentapi.aspx?PostID=96749http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/27/when-is-second-life-better-than-a-classroom.aspx#comments<p>The team at <a href="http://www.iste.org/secondlife">ISTE.org</a> have convinced me that Second Life is a great venue for short &quot;face&quot;-to-&quot;face&quot; professional meetings when you can&#39;t travel to meet face-to-face. But lately I&#39;ve been asking myself, &quot;When is SL better than a classroom for students?&quot; One answer seems to be &quot;immersive simulations&quot; that can&#39;t (or shouldn&#39;t!) be done in real life. Here&#39;s an example...</p>...(<a href="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/27/when-is-second-life-better-than-a-classroom.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/aggbug.aspx?PostID=96749" width="1" height="1">Innovations in TeachingOnline Learningsimulationshttp://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/21/a-safe-way-to-be-wrong-use-the-power-of-anonymity-in-the-classroom.aspxTue, 21 Jul 2009 23:51:00 GMT964d1d0f-bea0-4201-a2aa-8aa369a35a46:96037jgvanides2http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=96037http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/commentapi.aspx?PostID=96037http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/21/a-safe-way-to-be-wrong-use-the-power-of-anonymity-in-the-classroom.aspx#comments<p>Classrooms are not always safe places to share what you don&#39;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 &quot;loud&quot; and &quot;overconfident&quot; students often take over the discussion - until you tap the Power of Anonymity...</p>...(<a href="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/21/a-safe-way-to-be-wrong-use-the-power-of-anonymity-in-the-classroom.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/aggbug.aspx?PostID=96037" width="1" height="1">Innovations in Teachinghttp://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/21/making-calculus-engaging-and-relevant-at-diablo-valley-college.aspxTue, 21 Jul 2009 22:07:00 GMT964d1d0f-bea0-4201-a2aa-8aa369a35a46:96033jgvanides0http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=96033http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/commentapi.aspx?PostID=96033http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/21/making-calculus-engaging-and-relevant-at-diablo-valley-college.aspx#comments<p>Calculus is a &quot;gatekeeper&quot; course for many technical degrees, and failing calculus often results in dreams denied. Thankfully, many of the HP Technology for Teaching grant recipients have redesigned the calculus learning experience, with measurable improvements in student academic success. Professor Despina Prapavessi at Diablo Valley College is among the innovators who are changing the &quot;calculus&quot; of learning ...</p>...(<a href="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/21/making-calculus-engaging-and-relevant-at-diablo-valley-college.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/aggbug.aspx?PostID=96033" width="1" height="1">Tablet PCInnovations in TeachingMathhttp://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/21/engineering-design-for-secondary-school-teachers-cad-and-cnc-milling-on-a-tablet-pc-how-fun.aspxTue, 21 Jul 2009 00:17:00 GMT964d1d0f-bea0-4201-a2aa-8aa369a35a46:96006jgvanides0http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=96006http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/commentapi.aspx?PostID=96006http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/21/engineering-design-for-secondary-school-teachers-cad-and-cnc-milling-on-a-tablet-pc-how-fun.aspx#comments<p>There&#39;s nothing like making physics and math real by giving students a design challenge that&#39;s engaging and exciting&nbsp; - and you know you&#39;re making progress when you have students saying, <i>&quot;The best part about this is you are learning - but you don&#39;t even realize you are learning &#39;till the whole thing&#39;s over with... you&#39;re having fun while you&#39;re doing it.&quot;</i> Check out their video...!</p>...(<a href="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/21/engineering-design-for-secondary-school-teachers-cad-and-cnc-milling-on-a-tablet-pc-how-fun.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/aggbug.aspx?PostID=96006" width="1" height="1">Tablet PCInnovations in Teachinghttp://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/17/more-than-technology-it-s-changing-the-culture-of-teaching.aspxFri, 17 Jul 2009 23:52:00 GMT964d1d0f-bea0-4201-a2aa-8aa369a35a46:95926jgvanides0http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=95926http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/commentapi.aspx?PostID=95926http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/17/more-than-technology-it-s-changing-the-culture-of-teaching.aspx#comments<p>In this blog I&#39;ve been primarily sharing stories from our higher education community of grant recipients. But I&#39;m still on a &quot;high&quot; from the <a href="http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/">National Education Computing Conference</a> (NECC), where I met many of our US K-12 <a href="http://www.hp.com/go/hpteach">HP Technology for Teaching grant</a> recipients from school year 2008-09. While the K-12 (primary/secondary) education world is often thought of as very separate from the higher education world, I see them as a continuum - and the success factors for the K-12 ed-tech projects are similar to the successful higher education projects. It&#39;s not just about technology - it&#39;s about the changes in the professional culture of teaching...</p>...(<a href="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/07/17/more-than-technology-it-s-changing-the-culture-of-teaching.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/aggbug.aspx?PostID=95926" width="1" height="1">Innovations in TeachingConferenceshttp://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/06/13/11-reasons-why-a-tablet-pc-is-better.aspxSat, 13 Jun 2009 18:19:00 GMT964d1d0f-bea0-4201-a2aa-8aa369a35a46:92254jgvanides15http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=92254http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/commentapi.aspx?PostID=92254http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/06/13/11-reasons-why-a-tablet-pc-is-better.aspx#comments<p>...better than what? OK, the full title should have been &quot;Eleven Reasons Why a Tablet PC + Digital Projector is Better Than a Whiteboard or Overhead Projector... and Sometimes Smarter Than a Smartboard&quot;. I&#39;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, &quot;How does this help me in class?&quot; Below are 11 reasons to consider a tablet pc, based on the experiences of our HP grant recipients...</p>...(<a href="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/highered/archive/2009/06/13/11-reasons-why-a-tablet-pc-is-better.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.communities.hp.com/online/aggbug.aspx?PostID=92254" width="1" height="1">Tablet PCInnovations in Teaching