Video, Video, Everywhere
James G. Lengel, Hunter College CUNY, 01/26/12
This week's article makes concrete recommendations for making digital video useful for teaching and learning.
How to Create ePubs
James G. Lengel, Hunter College CUNY, 01/19/12
In this article we look at how to create your own ePubs, digital texts that your students can work with on their various digital devices.
Photo Learning Walkthrough
James G. Lengel, Hunter College CUNY, 11/17/11
Try this photo assessment method to see where your school stands when it comes to integrating technology.
Ending the Email Spiral
Guest Columnist Dr. Merle Marsh, 10/27/11
With the volume of email escalating in our mailboxes, it’s taking over our lives. To control this upward spiral of email and downward spiral of time for what we really need to do, think about adopting the EMAIL CHARTER and spreading word about it to everyone.
The Technology of Testing
James G. Lengel, Hunter College CUNY, 10/19/11
When you understand the history of standardized testing it becomes clear that we need a new technology of testing, one that measures what's truly important to learn, and with which we can measure each student's progress toward well-defined, content-specific goals. Future articles in this series will propose some new approaches and technologies for this kind of assessment.
Podcast to Blackboard
James G. Lengel, Hunter College CUNY, 09/15/11
Here are step-by-step directions for posting podcasts to courses in Blackboard.
The iPad as a Library
Jim Lengel, Hunter College CUNY, 05/09/11
How might you and your students use what the iPad brings to educaton? Here’s an overview and a simulated assignment to help you think more about what devices such as the iPad contribute to the classroom.
Copyright Case Studies
James G. Lengel, Hunter College, CUNY, 03/31/11
This week's article takes five case studies -- all real-- and uses them to develop some guiding concepts on copyright in the new digital networked world of education.
Building Your Class Site – Google Style
Guest Columnist Molly Dubois, Burlington High School, Burlington, Vermont, 03/24/11
Think about using Google Sites to build a class website. Here are some ideas for getting started.
Great Ways to Use iApps for Education
Guest Columnist Molly Dubois, Burlington High School, Burlington,Vermont, 03/17/11
Apps, like those on an iPhone, have a number of classroom uses. Here are some ideas.
Online Videos for Education
Guest Columnist Molly Dubois, Burlington High School, Burlington, Vermont , 03/10/11
Online videos have changed the way we teach and learn. Here are some ideas for putting them to work.
Don’t Forget Public Library Resources
Dr. Merle Marsh, Guest Columnist, 03/03/11
Don’t forget to introduce your students to the many resources available from public libraries both online and offline. At some there’s help 24/7.
What About Rewiring Teaching?
Guest Columnist Dr. Merle Marsh, 02/24/11
Larry Rosen’s book Rewired is perfect for helping teachers brainstorm ideas for “rewiring” their teaching. In today’s world where students are moving fast forward with technologies and digital interaction, we need to consider what’s best for teaching and learning in our schools.
Visualizing Data
James G. Lengel, Hunter College CUNY, 02/17/11
The act of visualizing makes teachers and students think in new ways about statistics and facts. This article discusses how to use Google Docs to accomplish that task.
Is the book dead?
James G. Lengel, Hunter College, CUNY, 2/10/11
Are books dead? Without some of the features that eBooks could and should make available to texts, the nod to their demise is premature.
The Education Debate
Jim Lengel, Hunter College CUNY , 02/03/11
Here are some ideas for how technology can help us move beyond today's spring-loaded debates about education.
The SPA Treatment
James Lengel, Hunter College, CUNY, 01/27/11
Today’s digital networked information tools open up brand new approaches to teaching that have never been available before. A good way to consider the full potential of the new technologies is to take your teaching to the spa, to give your course or your curriculum the SPA treatment. SPA stands for syllabus, performance, and assessment.
iPod in Preschool
Jim Lengel, Hunter College CUNY, 01/20/11
What about technology and preschoolers? This article takes a personal look at how technology can help them watch, play, learn, explore and create.
Updated Web Searching
Dr. Merle Marsh, Guest Columnist, 01/13/11
Sortfix can help your students find the information they want when searching online. By moving around "power words", they can get the best sites for their search to come up for them.
Campfires
Jim Lengel, Hunter College CUNY, 01/06/11
This article provides some ideas on how should we design our school for the information age.
Assessing the Impact of Technology
Jim Lengel, Hunter College CUNY, 12/02/10
This article provides some advice on how best to measure the effects of your technology implementations.
Publishing an eBook
James Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 11/18/10
This article explains why publishing in EPUB format is useful and shows you how to proceed in creating your own eBooks.
How to Deal with Emerging Bullies
Dr. Merle Marsh, Guest Columnist, 11/04/10
Students of all ages need lessons in civility both online and offline. Starting early with positive guidance and continuing insistence upon respectful behavior will help thwart some of the problems of bullying and cyberbullying.
Thwarting Cyberbullies?
Guest Editor Dr. Merle Marsh, 10/28/10
The problems of bullying and cyberbullying are difficult to solve, but through observation, discussion, work with parents, and lessons on respect, classroom teachers can help thwart bullies and cyberbullies.
50 Ways to Make a Podcast
Jim Lengel, Hunter College, City University of New York, 09/30/10
Thinking about making a podcast but don’t know how to start? Here are some ideas for using an array of podcast-producing tools.
Trends for 2010 - 2011
Jim Lengel, Hunter College CUNY, 09/23/10
This article looks at the top three trends for education and technology for the coming year
Podcast Producer
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 09/07/10
This article looks at Podcast Producer, a server-based system from Apple that automates and simplified a teacher's (or a student's) creation of a multimedia podcast.
Google for Educators
Dr. Merle Marsh, Guest Columnist, 04/18/10
Google for Educators is packed with treasures for your classroom. It’s a comprehensive online system that includes tools for creating documents, presentations, spreadsheets, models, blogs, discussions, tours, and calendars, all of which can be accessed online and can be used for collaboration
Blogs in the Classroom
Guest Columnist Molly DuBois, Chenery Middle School, Belmont, Massachusetts, 04/01/10
Thinking about using a blog with your students? Here are some practical tips for making it work from one middle school music teacher.
Technology and Music
Guest Author Molly DuBois, Music Teacher, Chenery Middle School, Belmont. Massachusetts, 03/25/10
This week's article guest author describes how using devices like iPods, and implementing a blog, improved student performance in her middle school music elective course.
iPad Producer
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 03/18/10
This week's article is a primer on how to produce educational works on the iPad.
Boats and Cheese
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 03/04/10
This week's article looks at two manufacturing plants and the implications for how technology needs to be part of the training of the young people who will work there.
A Day on the iPad
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 03/11/10
This week's article provides looks at what a day at school might be like for a student with an iPad.
Blended Learning
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 02/25/10
This article looks at how to combine online learning with teacher-led face-to-face classroom (TLFFC) learning.
Throw Out the Textbooks?
Guest Columnist Dr. Merle Marsh, 02/18/10
Changing to eCourses can be exciting, rewarding, money-saving, and overwhelming. This article explores ideas for getting started with eCourses.
Copyright and Education 3.0
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 02/11/10
This week's article provides a quick overview of the copyright provisions that protect the use of media by teachers. If you or someone you teach with suffers under the impression that these laws and policies prevent you from moving forward toward the kind of resource-rich teaching and learning, you need to read this!
A Day in the Life: Elementary School
James G. Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 02/04/10
This week's article looks at a day in the life of an elementary student going to an imaginary school that employs technology throughout the student's day.
Who Needs a Computer?
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 01/28/10
This week's article takes a look a how teachers are developing indepth lessons to use with devices like the iPod Touch.
More Technology Trends for 2010
James G. Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 01/21/10
Here are some more technology trends for 2010 with analysis and recommendations.
Nonroutine Cognitive/Analytic
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 01/14/10
Nonroutine Cognitive/Analytic
Posting Materials Online with Blackboard: Hints and Tips
James G. Lengel, Hunter College, 01/07/10
Here are step-by-step directions on how to post your course materials online using Blackboard.
Mobile Learning: Getting Started
James G. Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 12/10/09
This week's article provides a quick hands-on introduction to using mobile devices for learning, as well as a reflection of what's possible.
Digital Life From the Kids' Point of View
Dr. Merle Marsh, 12/03/09
With kids focused on the present for themselves, and teachers focused upon the future for their kids, no wonder there are disconnects. Let’s examine tech from the kids' point of view and see if we can better understand how we can step in and help.
Mobile Devices for Learning
James G. Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 11/26/09
This article discusses how mobile devices are changing how students are interacting with the curriculum and the world.
The Online Experience
Jim Lengel, Hunter College of Education, 11/19/09
Faculties all over the world are asked to determine the quality of online courses compared with traditional classroom-based instruction. What criteria help distinguish the gold from the dross?
What Should You Teach Your Students about Communicating Digitally?
Guest Columnist Dr. Merle Marsh, 11/12/09
While students still need to learn how to write formal and friendly notes that may be written in longhand or word-processed, it is time to take a hard look at what other skills are needed for clear communication both online.
The Network
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 11/05/09
This week's article looks at the characteristics of a useful network -- one that human beings can use to make the world a better place.
Create and Publish
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 10/29/09
This article describes a workflow that allows a teacher to take a single idea and develop it simultaneously as a lecture, as a slide show, as an enhanced podcast (which can also play as a video), as plain text, and as illustrated booklet.
Assess It
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 10/22/09
This article proposes a scheme for assessing 21st-century skills, and employing digital technology fully in the process.
A Grain of Salt
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 10/15/09
This article looks at where technology fits in our schools in the era of state mastery tests.
Trends for 2010
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 10/08/09
This article looks at the trends for 2010 in mobility, the classroom and online learning, and their implications for the work of teachers
Education 1-2-3
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 09/24/09
This revealing pictorial review of life and education leads to a discussion of Education 3.0
Thinking Outside the Classroom Box
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 09/17/09
New digital technologies offer just about every teacher the ability to create and publish a complete course of study that includes all of the pieces we know are necessary for effective learning, but it takes some effort. This article looks at the motivations for doing just that.
A Day in the Life
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 09/10/09
Lots of people are talking about reforming schools to reflect the capabilities of 21st-century technologies and economies, but what would the day in the life of a student in such a school be like?
Four Statues
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 06/01/09
This article explores what four stately statues from Ephesus tell us about what is missing from our present day reality.
PowerPoint Playwright
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 05/20/09
This article explores what PowerPoint has done to teaching and how to move to a different paradigm.
Downloadable eTexts!
Dr. Merle Marsh, Guest Columnist, 05/13/09
Egads! Downloadable eTexts!
A Day in the Life
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 05/06/09
This article describes some of the technology-using learning activities that many schools are planning, and the technology infrastructures they will need to support them.
Getting Ready for Online Learning
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 04/30/09
This week's article looks at what's happening with online learning, and how you can prepare yourself to succeed at it.
The Classics
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education , 04/23/09
What’s the connection between the wisdom of the ancients and the ubiquity of the laptop?
Video Cameras
Jim Lengel, Hunter College, 04/16/09
This article talks about the new excitement in education about video and gives an overview of what teachers need to know about video cameras.
Flit or Flow
James G. Lengel, 04/09/09
How can the new technologies shift from a force to flit, to an enabler of flow in learning?
The Mobile Curriculum
Jim Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 03/29/09
This week's article is about a set of technology tools called iTunes U that Apple Computer provides to educators who want to reach their students in new places and in new ways.
Creating Video Clips
James G. Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 03/19/09
Video can enhance a class presentation, provoke a spirited discussion, focus a student project, or provide content for an online course. How can a teacher, or his students, create those videos that enhance learning?
Building a Podcast with Keynote
James G. Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 03/12/09
What's the quickest and easiest way for a teacher to create an illustrated podcast? With Keynote.
Building Backwards
James G. Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 01/29/09
This article details how backwards planning in a technology rich environment can help design better units of study.
Producing Information Online - Part Three of The Online Teacher's Toolkit
James G. Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 01/22/09
This week's article covers the third binful of tools in the online teacher’s toolkit and focuses on producing products that demonstrate student.
Wrestling with Information Online - Part Two of The Online Teacher's Toolkit
James G. Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 01/15/09
This week's article covers the second binful of tools in the online teacher’s toolkit and focuses on wrestling with concepts and ideas.
Presenting Information Online - Part One of The Online Teacher's Toolkit
James G. Lengel, Hunter College School of Education, 01/08/09
This week's article covers the first binful of tools in the online teacher’s toolkit and focuses on presenting ideas.
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