Learning can be a lot of fun, if you can provide children with interesting ways of learning new skills. Room Recess is a website which provides free educational games for enhancing children’s skills. These come in the form of interactive browser based games designed to teach children various concepts tied to math, spelling, reading, language …
Smart Boards (or SMART Boards) are interactive boards which come with software that allows presenting interactive class lectures with touchscreen support. You can present your content, including PowerPoint slides with on-screen annotations and write or erase content from the board using your hands, pen and various objects. Let’s take a look at an overview of …
Slatebox is an online collaboration and drawing tool which delivers a simple mechanism for drawing, collaborating and sharing content. Slatebox can be used not only for making mind maps and other types of visualizations by individuals but you can also use it in a classroom, in collaboration with colleagues or save visualizations offline for use with …
Many tech companies nowadays are aiming for a more futuristic approach towards the use of technology. Be it the Myo gadget which makes you look like Jean Grey with telekinetic powers or Microsoft’s Holo Lens which is likely to give Google Glasses a run for its money. Another recent product that seems to aim for something out …
Class lectures can be extremely boring. It’s not only students who find it hard to concentrate during lengthy class lectures but even teachers might find it hard to control uninterested students busy texting on their mobile phones or playing candy crush; and then there are those who simply enjoy lucid dreaming! PearDeck is an excellent …
A while back we brought you reviews for a number of Learning Management Systems such as Moodle, ILIAS, Open Elms and SkyPrep. Sakai is another Learning Management System we thought was worth exploring.
Teachers have readily switched to projectors and presentations to deliver lectures, just as many students have begun opting for e-books and tablets for taking lecture notes.
When you are a teacher wanting to get the attention of your students in a fun and exciting way, you would want to try anything. Children and teenagers are attracted to something that they can relate with–which is something fun, engaging and informative all at the same time. There are many education-themed templates that you …
When you are already working, there may be times when you wish you could go back to being a student again. However, a student’s life can be hectic too. There will be assignments, pop quizzes, projects, dealing with teachers and fellow students, as well as coping with the pressure of getting a good grade.
The proliferation of the internet has revolutionized everything around us and that includes the education sector too! This is why more and more schools around the world have started incorporating e-learning. As opposed to traditional methods of teaching which didn’t involve imparting any practical knowledge to students and relied heavily on teaching ‘bookish’ knowledge, which …
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