Learn By Doing

A Lifelong Learner Shares Thoughts About Education

Category: Teaching

  • Screencasts and Twitter Inside My Classroom

    Screencasting just got a whole lot easier and more powerful with Screenr.  I have to add a disclaimer here, I love, absolutely love the complete package Camtasia Studio from Tech-Smith and last year my class all used Jing for an assignment to publish on their blog.  But for quick one run through knock offs, from…

  • TeachStreet for Teachers

    TeachStreet, a Yelp-like service for real world classes (cooking, dog obedience, music lessons, ballroom dance, foreign language, golf, yoga, etc.), is launching a marketplace feature for teachers to be able to coordinate payments from students. TeachStreet, which serves seven metropolitan areas in the U.S. including New York City, Silicon Valley/San Francisco and Seattle, allows instructors…

  • Seven Ways to Find Teachers on Twitter

    Seven Ways to Find Teachers on Twitter Not a day goes by that Mr. Byrne doesn’t learn something from his network of Twitter contacts. If you’re a Twitter user looking to expand your network he lists seven ways to find other teachers on Twitter.

  • 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…

  • 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…