Imagine for a moment, if you will, sitting with an assigned group in my first ever college class. They’re all talking about when and where they’re going to meet up and all the while I’m sitting there waiting for the right moment to tell them that I commute to school and could not make it to any of the dates they were discussing.… Read the rest
“Why would I need WizIQ? I see my students during the day in class…I hardly need a virtual classroom when I teach in a real one!”
We hear this quite a bit as we talk to people about WizIQ. Whether the instructors are in K12 schools, universities, or even training organizations, the physical classroom remains the location of choice for a whole lot of education.… Read the rest
How do you connect online for instruction and learning? Where do you find teachers and students from around the world? One way to connect and learn from an international audience is to learn online through WizIQ live classes. Another way is to join an online conference.… Read the rest
Attending a liberal arts college as a writing major requires very little technology. We bring to class a pencil and a notebook and that’s the extent of it. Once in a while, the professor may scribble something onto the chalkboard.… Read the rest
Hey there! My name is Sarah Stanley and I am the new Contributing Editor/Occasional Blogger (the latter of which is probably not an official title) at WizIQ! I am twenty years old and in my second year as a Fiction Writing major at Columbia College Chicago.… Read the rest
10 minutes!! And the homework is done…
Today I was browsing the Internet when I remembered that I had to do my homework for my online American Literature course. I logged onto Blackboard, where all our online classes take place, wrote my discussion board for the week in 10 minutes and logged off.… Read the rest
To reside in the campus or to commute?
At my university, it’s been said time and time again that our student population is half residential and half commuter. Every time I hear this, I think the chances of our population being split right down the middle like that are very low.… Read the rest
As many of you know, I’m editing the the Classroom 2.0 Book Project with Steve Hargadon (the Classroom 2.0 guy, among other things) and Richard Byrne who also writes the FreeTech4Teachers blog. I wanted to specifically reach out to the WizIQ community, though, and share an opportunity around this book.… Read the rest
This week on review:ed, Kirsten Winkler and I will be talking about startups in ed tech and some high-profile failures. One bright spot, though, will be an interview with Jazzles co-founders Kevin Condon and Lesley Beth who are tackling early literacy with their own bootstrapped startup and using WizIQ as a content distribution and training platform.… Read the rest
Well, it’s not quite enough said, or I wouldn’t be writing a whole blog about it. But as I read our student blogger’s last two posts on his frustration over his professors’ technological ineptitude, I couldn’t help but think “Teacher PD.”
