Digital Learning Day is right around the corner.  February 1st is the day to celebrate the power of using technology to increase student learning.  At digitallearning.org, their goal is to celebrate innovative teachers and instructional technologies.  I am willing to bet if you are reading this, you are an innovative teacher and have lots of instructional technology tricks up your sleeves.  The object is to get everyone, no…

According to the International Society for Technology in Education, technology standards that teachers should meet include a variety of well-defined set of skills.…

Online assessments become more and more popular not only among distance learning institutions but also among blended and traditional schools. However, when it comes to the online environment, it seems that multiple choice tests are used by the majority of distance learning programs…

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. In my country pupils start learning English language at age of 8 (the second grade). The main skills they have to get through this stage of their language learning  are basic: speaking and reading, comprehensive listening and writing . According to pupils’ age it is not required writing  transcription of new vocabulary and because of that the remembering of it happens trough a lot of repeating of new words, sentences, texts. Pupils need audio and visual aids as much as it’s possible . In…

Do simple writing prompts freeze the minds of your students?  How do you use technology to help students flesh out their essays?  How can you help them get out of the "I don't know what to write, so I will write the same thought in 16 different ways?

Writing is often assessed for focus, organization, development of ideas, voice and conventions.   We found that most of our students were familiar with the writing process, but did not know how to develop their ideas into meaningful and…

Cross Posted on Edtech Digest on January 18, 2012 by Greg Limperis

I’ve been lucky enough in my new position this year to see the power technology can…