Tag Archives: education

Who Needs Gamification?! Student-Centered Lesson Design Using Just Your LMS

Posted on January 12, 2012 by tcnet

2011 brought us the buzzword craze of “gamification” in education, or the quest to make learning online more like a video game. Inspired by FourSquare‘s achievement badges as a way of motivating users to check in to location-based services and … Continue reading →

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Open Source or Proprietary LMS? Your Answer, My Friend, Is Floating In the Cloud

Posted on November 8, 2011 by tcnet

A colleague recently asked me if I could explain the distinction between open source and proprietary learning management systems, especially as it might affect a K-12 school looking at the best kind of LMS to implement today.  She wanted to … Continue reading →

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Google Plus Puts the Social in Learning with Google Apps for Education

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Ted Curran

With the news that Google Apps for Education will be integrated with Google+ in a few days, it’s time to start thinking about how social media and collaboration can be a reality for schools.

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Free Tools, the Distorted Web, Privacy, and Your Students' Critical Thinking Skills

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Ted Curran

Until I saw this TED talk, I didn’t care much that free Web 2.0 tools like Google and Facebook were collecting massive dossiers of information about my online habits. I thought they were just using it to serve me more … Continue reading →

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Doit.im > Project-Based ToDo List App for Project-Based Learning #PBL

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Ted Curran

One of the great strengths of Project-Based Learning (PBL) is that students learn the skills they need to successfully see a job through all the way to completion. They learn to break large tasks into smaller ones, prioritize and sequence … Continue reading →

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Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network Part II: Showing What You Know

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Ted Curran

In Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network Part I, you learned to find and organize information that will teach you, challenge your ideas, and help you stay on top of interesting new developments in your areas of interest. The second part of … Continue reading →

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Chrome OS Netbooks: Can Your School Live in the Cloud?

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Ted Curran

If you haven’t heard of Chrome OS, it’s Google’s attempt to do away with the desktop altogether and have everything that happens on your computer happen inside the browser. This means that instead of opening Outlook for your email, you … Continue reading →

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Cultivate your Personal Learning Network

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Ted Curran

    This post discusses how to build your own Personal (or Professional) Learning Network. Instead of starting by telling you which tools to use, I want to talk about why you would do this in the first place…. This … Continue reading →

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Search Large Creative Commons Images from the Chrome Omnibar

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Ted Curran

When I’m doing a creative project (or just working on a presentation) I am always looking for large, beautiful photos bearing a Creative Commons license. Works released in the Creative Commons can be reused, remixed, redistributed, and revised for free– … Continue reading →

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Did You Know? A Simple Trick to Save Time and Improve Your Course Evaluations!

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Ted Curran

  As faculty, you likely spend several hours every week carefully reading, evaluating, and grading student work. Research shows that students report higher course satisfaction when they get better grades and when faculty exhibit “immediacy and presence behaviors”. This finding … Continue reading →

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