Category Archives: e-Learning

Learning can get boring. And throughout the history of mankind, this has happened time and time again. Learning a language, more specifically, can be daunting for the learner especially through the use of boring textbooks. What’s one way to engage … Continue reading →

Education World Community is an online educational resource for educators and non-educators alike. It almost reminds me of Facebook for teachers, but of course it’s not. Why do I say this? Because those who register have access to hundreds of … Continue reading →

Everyday we learn of new tools that just make it easier for educators and students to stay connected. The latest is called ClassConnect. What can it do? repository: send / share files easily with students offers: calendar, attendance and grade … Continue reading →

How can you encourage learning? An article called Design e-Learning Like a Game Developer: Provide Incentives for Good Work should be able to help. It makes reference to the famous Nintendo game Super Mario. For those of you who remember, during the … Continue reading →

There’s a great article called The Challenge of Digital Media in the Classroom, which although is a year old, holds valid points. Of course, with the title alone, you can pretty much sum up the main idea. Below are a few … Continue reading →

Back in July of this year, there was news of South Korea moving to digital (text)books by 2015. It really isn’t that far away and considering the number of ebooks in use, as well ebook devices (tablets and smart phones … Continue reading →

Attention: Teachers I found a great site where you can easily share and get lesson plans from. It’s called EdGalaxy.com and their featured lesson template for today is on how to use speech marks using the movie James and the … Continue reading →

E-learning is used for a great cause. What is it? Allen Interactions and Operation Lifesaver have created a 15 minute course that aims to minimize, if not eliminate, railroad crossing accidents. Since June 9, 15,000 drivers have already taken the … Continue reading →

You gotta love technology for creating tons of educational tools available to educators anywhere, anytime. So what’s the latest you ask? According to AngelaMaiers.com, Youtube now has Youtbube.com/teachers to help educators bring videos to the classroom. Of course, this isn’t … Continue reading →

I recently wrote about how some schools are using Google Apps so students and teachers can share educational resources online. Today, I came across how Dropbox, a free service that allows people to store and easily share files with one another, … Continue reading →