Not just the tech-savvy take to the blogs at Georgetown. Required blogging has made its way into a number of classes in recent years, as professors find greater value in establishing a discussion ...

Stephanie Hedge is a graduate student in the Department of English at Ball State University. You can follow her on twitter at @slhedge. This is the third post in what is rapidly becoming a series on ...

Faculty and students at Pennsylvania State University are embracing blogs as teaching and learning tools. The university's Teaching and Learning with Technology organization first launched its Sites ...

Teacher Matthew J. Clausen looked at his Web-design students—their fingers flying over their computer keyboards—and marveled. These 10th, 11th, and 12th graders—even the sullen or quiet ones who never ...

Whether your teaching is moving fully online or taking a HyFlex approach, using blogs in your course can help you teach students writing, foster deeper engagement with concepts and mitigate some of ...

Last month I introduced a simple 5-point rubric for evaluating class blogs. I mentioned then that grades are a (superficial) way to let students know what we value. But how do we get students to ...

As a middle-school teacher, Clarence Fisher is used to spending some time each evening grading papers and reviewing lesson plans. But this year he's got an additional after-school task: updating his ...

If you want classroom technology to be used in imaginative and effective ways, you have to let teachers discover those methods on their own. You cannot force innovation. That’s the mantra I’ve heard ...

Teacher Ali Borger-Germann didn't plan to be a trendsetter. She designed blogs for her language-arts classes with one goal - improved communication. The blogs would be a one-stop site where students ...

Using technology inside the classroom can significantly enhance student engagement and participation. Digital tools like audience responses systems (ARS), interactive whiteboards, and real-time ...