It’s almost that time of year. Blackboard World is right around the corner and it will be hosted in New Orleans this year. This year Blackboard is hosting a contest to become a VIP BbWorld Blogger! Let BB the Robot …

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Part 2 in the Series: Social Media in Education Recently I undercover a story from Campus Technology highlighting a few unique faculty using social media in the classroom. Professor Betsy Sigman (@bsigman) of Georgetown was utilizing Google+ in her Developing/Managing …

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Social media be used in innovative ways to engage, excite, and educate students through a broad spectrum of disciplines. I’m going to cover a few real examples in the next few weeks in a series called Social Media in Education. …

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Wondering about texting and teens? Texting is the new call me for most teenagers. The infographic below from Online Schools show the trends of texting teens. How can this type of data be important to parents, educators, and startups? Look …

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Screen Capturing can be great tool when trying to show a how to video for completing something on the computer or giving visual and verbal feedback to students on projects or papers. I wanted to focus on 3 of the …

3 Screen Capture Software Options: From Free to Not So Free Read more »

This week’s App of the Week is WolframAlpha. Remember the Star Trek computer? It’s finally happening with WolframAlpha. Building on 25 years of development led by Stephen Wolfram, WolframAlpha has rapidly become the world’s definitive source for instant expert knowledge …

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