Using Cell Phones for Learning in High School
I don’t cover the K12 beat here very often since my experience and interest lies primarily with the use of classroom response …
Hitting the Road: Keynotes at Lilly Conference, Turning Users Conferences
If you’re heading to the Turning Technologies User Conference at Harvard University in October or the Lilly Conference at Miami University in …
Revolution or Evolution? Changing Instructional Practices in the Academy
Hacking the Academy is a project headed up by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The idea …
Class Time Reconsidered at the Great Lakes Conference on Teaching and Learning
Sunday night, I delivered the opening keynote at Central Michigan University’s Great Lakes Conference on Teaching and Learning. My presentation was titled …
Students on the Move – A Kinesthetic Classroom Response System
I can’t remember how I stumbled upon this, but back in 2008 three University of California-Berkeley students, Sohyeong Kim, Nathan Gandomi, and …
Clickers, Lecture Capture, and Event Programming
Over on the new Active Class blog, Sidneyeve Matrix recently discussed the idea of turning the college lecture into something like what …
Are Simple Classroom Response Systems Best?
I was quoted this morning in “At Universities, Is Better Learning a Click Away?“, an Associated Press story on the future of …
Engaging Students in Large Lecture Courses
Last week I facilitated a workshop titled “Engaging Students in Large Lecture Courses” for the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University. Since …
Backchannel + the Arts
I just had to share this recent story from the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Wired Campus blog: “University Dance Group Uses Twitter, …
Gardner Campbell + Backchannel in the Classroom
Gardner Campbell and two of his Baylor University colleagues, librarian Ellen Filgo and first-year student Alexis Tracy, presented a talk at the …