Fancy course management systems are not just for fancy universities
You will not believe how cool this is: you can get a fancy course management system, for free! Yes, you, fifth grade teacher in a small Catholic school in rural Kentucky! And you, teacher of High School English in Jakarta!… Read the rest
I love to rock a kid’s world. One of my favorite moments was when Kelsey, who was in 8th grade four years ago, looked at me and said, “I think you just made my head explode.” She then emphatically explained that she just understood something “really, really big.” Sure enough, she did!… Read the rest
The home-school cooperative that I run (www.s-h-i-n-e.org) uses what is called “Blended Learning.” How is that for a new term? Dr. Nellie Deutsch’s November 9 post on the WizIQ blog defined Blended Learning as “the combination of online learning and face-to-face meetings.”
Right now, it is working for my students and for me.… Read the rest
Tablets are “The Big Thing” in ed tech hardware. Intel just released its Studybook tablet reference design, every week we hear about a new school district rolling out 1:1 programs with iPads, even as they are cutting budgets to deal with ongoing fiscal crises, and the promise of Windows 8 on tablets, new Android releases, and the 800 pound gorilla that is the New iPad has given educators and students tablet fever.… Read the rest
Blended Learning – The new norm?
Blended Learning is now mainstream in K-12. How do I know this? For starters, as an educator, I live, eat, and breathe this. Beyond that, though, two anecdotes are indicative of a much larger trend that is increasingly easy to observe: a discussion with a friend and my district’s adoption of cloud tech. I had a discussion with a friend of mine two years ago. She is a wonderful sub at my high school and is on the board of a feeder school district here in California. She asked me: “Have you heard of cloud-based learning?” Yes, me, the original consulting teacher for WizIQ and for a time, WizIQ’s biggest US evangelist, said with a smile, “Yes, I sure have.” Then I said to my friend: “So are you saying your school district is all about cloud learning now?” ”Absolutely, yes,” she responded.… Read the rest
Hey everyone – I haven’t written much lately – I’ve had my sleeves rolled up dealing with a number of initiatives here at WizIQ and I’m really excited about the results. I wanted to take a few moments though and share some feedback from one of our users.… Read the rest
I use WizIQ all the time. I use it for webinars, for meetings, for interviews, you name it. It works well, assuming all parties have reasonable bandwidth, and the shared whiteboarding feature in the virtual classroom satisfies the teacher’s need in me to write on a board (or, in this case, as many boards as I want to) and have a visual component accompany audio and video interactions.… Read the rest
Greetings! My name is Alexa and I am the newest addition to the WizIQ blog. I have a diverse background, studying pretty much anything I could at Boston University and I ended up with a major in history and minors in archaeology and political science.… Read the rest
If you guessed Justin Beiber, you’d be absolutely correct, but that’s not exactly what I was going for. Actually, I wanted to let you know that WizIQ is now on iTunes!
In addition to posting our WizIQ Wednesday Webcasts, we’re also making various conference sessions and interesting tutorials available on iTunes as video podcasts.… 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
