You have probably used your iPhone to make videos of your friends and family. Have you thought about using your phone to make educational videos for the virtual classroom? This post will show you how.
Often, when videos are made on the iPhone, the sound quality is poor and the footage is shaky.… Read the rest
Recently a friend of mine, Allison Morris, from www.onlineuniversities.com, sent me a gorgeous graphic she put together for her site. The graphic pulls together some great facts about teachers and technology. When I saw the graphic, it not only resonated with me but it inspired me to do some more teaching and learning on WizIQ.… Read the rest
You can’t have fun teaching online without getting your hands dirty!!
As an online teacher, a great part of my work involves utilizing the best educational tools for my content creation, content delivery, or to encourage active learning with students. I will describe them based on the needs of online teachers and/or classroom teachers who wish to integrate what they do with online technologies.… Read the rest
Here is how you can use the WizIQ virtual classroom to teach your students how to make their own website on Weebly. In my last post, I talked about my political and philosophical ideas about why web site creation is so important, and why you would want them to do this.… Read the rest
The world’s new reality
It all begins and ends with the web. We can engage students in the creation of that reality, and maybe tweak it towards joy and sustainability.
The web has changed our lives. It is the virtual which is also the real.… Read the rest
“bandwidth is such an issue. it always lets us down.” ~ a sad teacher
I am an employee turned user of WizIQ Virtual Classroom and I face similar issues like you do. Issues related to audio/video streaming which happen to be the essence of online education.… Read the rest
The ASSOCHAM (Associate Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India) awarded IIT Delhi’s CCBM course conducted on WizIQ as the Best Use of Technology for Vocational Education and Skills Training. This award was given in the National Education Excellence Award 2013 ceremony held in New Delhi on April 9, 2013.… Read the rest
Some classes are about conveying information. Other classes are about rocking your students’ world.
These are some tools to rock
Until recently, when a professor wanted to engage his audience, he reviewed and refined his lectures till they were funny, dramatic, and factually correct.… Read the rest
The possibilities are endless, and some of them are surprising and quirky. Let’s toss aside your old fashioned notions of “school” and see if we can imagine new possibilities for the wor(l)d.
For the sake of this post, we are going to use the term “school” in a general way.… Read the rest
You can create simple tutorial videos in minutes on WizIQ.
So you really want a simple video, explaining what the different parts of a cell are. You have looked for hours, and all of the videos you find have too much music, not enough detail, or they forget to mention the importance of the endoplasmic reticulum.… Read the rest
