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Tweet this! 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...
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Tweet this! Let'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 "Re-Imagining the Classroom", I simply cannot be traveling all the time. So I have recently tried using HP...
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Tweet this! While the focus of most of our grants are the 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...
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Tweet this! The US education system is at a cross-roads, and "education technology" 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...
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Tweet this! 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...
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Tweet this! Everyone's talking about data. But it isn't the results of high-stakes tests that's going to help students, because they don't always measure what's important and the data takes too long to show up. It's sort of like grading beef - the cow is dead. Real-time (formative...
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Tweet this! 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...
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Tweet this! 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, "ISTE Eduverse Talks" has just completed its 8 th episode - and each one...
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Tweet this! 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"... The intent...
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Tweet this! The team at ISTE.org have convinced me that Second Life is a great venue for short "face"-to-"face" professional meetings when you can't travel to meet face-to-face. But lately I've been asking myself, "When is SL better than a classroom for students?"...
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Tweet this! 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...
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Tweet this! Calculus is a "gatekeeper" 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...
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Tweet this! 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...
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Tweet this! In this blog I've been primarily sharing stories from our higher education community of grant recipients. But I'm still on a "high" from the National Education Computing Conference (NECC), where I met many of our US K-12 HP Technology for Teaching grant recipients from school...
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...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...