Flipped Instruction: New Fad or Innovation?

Personally I think that the flipped instruction model holds promise–especially if it moves teaching beyond the “stand and deliver” approach.  However, I also don’t believe in silver bullets, especially when it comes to teaching and student engagement.  Ramsay Musallam is a high school chemistry teacher in San Francisco who has written the article, Should You [...]

Free Polling Software – Interact with your students

Mentimeter is the ultimate tool to interact with your audience, whether this is done in a school setting, to add dynamics to your business presentation or simply for entertainment. They provide an easy-to-use web based tool that enables you to create questions, collect answers and show the result in real time. These polls make presentations [...]

New Year’s Resolution: Learn The Meaning of “Screen Resolution”

Time to amend your new year’s resolution list with a new item: improve your technology skills. The KCI offers a wide range of short, hands-on and to-the-point technology classes that can help you achieve this goal. Our offerings include classes on working with digital images, editing video, creating beautifully designed publications, and building sites with [...]

Exploring Computational Thinking

“Modern science involves modeling and statistics and with these lessons you can enhance what your students are already doing in the classroom. Computational Thinking is a skill that Google uses every day to solve big picture problems and make sense of enormous amounts of data. Your students can learn these vital skills and work with [...]

The simplest way to share screens with anybody

You may find this tool useful when connecting with students and other colleagues. QuickScreenShare.com is the simplest way to share screens with anybody: Nothing to install for sharer or sharee (assuming you have Java). No registration required and completely free. Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Even lets you remotely control mouse and keyboard! This [...]