Welcome to Edutechie.com! If you’re new here, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If you have been following the news lately you have probably read about some of the educational efforts right now to integrate online multi-player games like Eve-Online, Second Life and World of Warcraft into classroom learning [...]
28 Nov, 2006
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: General
Dear Colleagues. For reasons beyond my control I am going to have to cancel the “Using Technology in Education” Skypecast scheduled for later this morning. Please accept my sincerest apologies. I really do hate to cancel and will do my best to make sure that does not happen in the future.
Please check back later today [...]
21 Nov, 2006
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: General
For those who don’t already know about these sites, you should check them out! They are great sites for those interested in integrating technology in education and keeping up with the latest and greatest developments!
EdTechTalk.com – I found this site today thanks to a comment by Vicki Davis on my review of Skypecasts [...]
Well, I just finished my first Skypecast “Using Technology in Education” and boy oh boy was it an adventure being the moderator of a discussion like that. Right after I finished I received a review of the skypecast from James Fadden at Allegheny College. A couple of things to add to his review [...]
13 Nov, 2006
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: General| Online Word Processors
Skypecasts have the potential to revolutionize the academic community. They not only open up many options to teacher and student interactions, but level the playing field in a way that equalizes every participant’s voice. They also create thousands of new and exciting possibilities for real-time learning that were never possible before. This [...]
02 Nov, 2006
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Gaming| General| Instructional Technology
If you keep up with the news, over the past couple of weeks you have seen the release and large discussion that has ensued since Google released one of it’s newest products: Google Documents and Spreadsheets. I have enjoyed reading all sorts of articles about the possibilities of Office 2.0… an online competitor to [...]
01 Nov, 2006
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: General
Today there was an article in the Daily Tar Heel “Report: Average student studies 4 hours weekly.” As I read the article several things caught my attention.
At first thought I figured we are not challenging students enough. A very perceptive sophomore, Mac Stewart, was asked about why he thought students didn’t study very [...]