Learn By Doing

A Lifelong Learner Shares Thoughts About Education

Author: John Walker

  • Poll Everywhere

    Why use Poll Everywhere? Collect data while interacting with your audience Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It’s the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text…

  • ScribbleLive

    About ScribbleLive which I am considering using next year comes this: ScribbleLive is the next gen of live blogging and it’s happening right now. Broadcasters, publishers, educators, corporations, social groups, writers, students, bloggers and individuals are becoming instant publishers in three simple steps. Create. Invite. Blog. Logging in is a snap. We seamlessly integrate with…

  • Adobe Digital School Collection Teacher Resources

    The projects and assessment methods provided here are from the Teacher Resource DVD that currently ships with the Adobe Digital School Collection and the Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 7 and Adobe Premiere® Elements 7 bundle.  This link is to their website and resources where even more great things exist.  http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/adsc/?trackingid=ENRNA I have just put the page…

  • Top Tools for a Free Online Education

    Try educating yourself online.   Go and check out LifeHacker’s article on the Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education. You will find a host of things to get started with from them.  I have reprinted the article below only in the event it disappears.

  • 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom

    From OnlineColleges.net this great article on 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom.  A great deal of these would also work within a high school classroom, I am especially taken by PollDaddy as a tool to use inside a classroom.