Category: Teaching Skills
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Micro-Learning and the Future of Education
Since the advent of formalized education, there have been those suggesting it is outdated and about to radically change. While changes do occur, can occur, and should occur – it’s also a bit reactionary to jump at each new trend and suggest it will replace all that has gone before. Radio in Education, Cable TV…
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Hardware for Hybrid
Creating a Hybrid Teaching/Training Room Creating a true hybrid teaching room has a cost associated with it, but often comes with many benefits. These rooms, when designed, can have easy to use “1-button” solutions that allow an Instructor to teach to the in-class audience and also support remote learners that attend via a Teams or…
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Making Online Courses Engaging
The challenge with a lot of online courses, at least in my opinion, is that they are actually pretty boring. The pattern they follow seems to be: That’s pretty boring. It doesn’t surprise me that completion rates for these types of online courses is low. What we need are to take best practices from classroom…
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Microsoft Whiteboard Updated
This week, the Microsoft Whiteboard underwent some significant updates to both its interface and functionality. There are several changes, so I created a YouTube video on these, but here are a few highlights. Check out the video I posted for a tour of all of the above (and more)
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Creativity and Critical Thinking in the Age of AI – how to teach these skills.
This evening, I had planned to do a LiveStream on this topic. Due to some technical challenges, I had to stop the LiveStream, but wanted to create this video in its place. I hope it sparks some discussion in the comments of the video on YouTube.
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Digital Whiteboards – an Essential Tool
There are very few images that bring up the concept of education as the picture of a chalkboard. The idea of teaching without this tool (or it’s contemporary equivalent – the dry-erase board) seems impossible. We’ve been using a board at the front of a room to teach for a very long time. There are…
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ChatGPT and Education
The pace at which ChatGPT has captured the imagination of the public is astounding. As a relatively new service, it seems impossible to avoid hearing about it across all forms of media – traditional to social. While it will certainly affect all aspects of life – especially with big investments by companies such as Microsoft…
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AI Will Change Education – We Need to Adapt
Will AI tools such as ChatGPT force us to rethink how we teach? I think so.
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Resources for Teaching and Learning
This isn’t as much of a BLOG post as just a list of some resources I have for Teaching, Learning, and Remote work. I was asked to share this – so I thought I’d make it available here.
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Wireless Webcam – a classroom essential – CAMO Update!
The latest update to the CAMO software adds a very useful feature – the ability to go wireless. CAMO has been an excellent tool to turn your phone into a webcam – which is useful for those times you find a system without a built-in camera – or when you want to show different angles,…
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