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Why Open Office Is a Good Alternative to Pricey Software With budgets tightening for IT, the affordability of software has become even more of a concern for schools and students. There is a workable alternative: Open Office. Read more… |
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Apple and Digital Textbooks: A K-12 Educational Revolution? Educators should be inspired by the new e-publishing world being opened up by Apple and be prepared to take creative advantage of Apple’s new tools. But they should be very aware of the pitfalls that may entrap them if they don’t think before they innovate. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Laptop Basics It’s a new year and your school has embarked on a new program to integrate IT into the classroom. To do this, every teacher has been given a brand new, shiny laptop. Now what? Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice in his latest column. |
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The Five Educational Legacies of Steve Jobs Steve Jobs is one of the few people who can rightfully be said to have created a new world. Here are ways he changed the means of teaching forever and how we can live up to that legacy. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Examples of IT Projects In IT for Every Classroom, a weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. This column looks at examples of projects for students in junior, intermediate and senior grades. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Selecting a Subject for an IT Project In IT for Every Classroom, a weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, learn important factors to consider when deciding where and how to add a podcast project to your curriculum. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Creating an IT Project In IT for Every Classroom, a weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, Keery gives his tips on when to do IT, how to organize ideas, and what to do with projects. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Preparing to Use Hardware and Software In IT for Every Classroom, a weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, learn how to ensure that the resources your students will need to use IT in class are ready and working. |
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IT for Every Classroom: To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade, That Is the Question In IT for Every Classroom, a weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. This week, he gives his advice on whether the IT-savvy teacher should upgrade right away – if at all. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Back Up Work, Avoid the ‘Spinning Wheel of Death’ Every student should get into the habit – and every teacher should insist – that work in progress be backed up at the end of every class. |
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IT for Every Classroom: The Best Subject In Which To Use Technology Is … Outside the computer science classroom, many assume that the most logical place to integrate IT in class is in the related subjects of math and science. However, the best place to use IT is not only in those “traditional” subjects. |
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IT for Every Classroom: What To Do With Completed Podcasts In IT for Every Classroom, a weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, find out the next steps after students finish their projects. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Evaluating Podcasts In IT for Every Classroom, a weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, learn how to evaluate podcasts. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Exporting the Autobiographical Podcast In IT for Every Classroom, a new weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, learn how to export the podcast. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Enhancing the Autobiographical Podcast In IT for Every Classroom, a new weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, find out how to edit and enhance podcasts. |
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Lifting of Ban Means Classrooms Must Use Technology Smartly The Toronto District School Board’s recent reversal of its four-year-old ban on laptops, smartphones, and MP3 players recognizes that these devices are here to stay, and form an ever-greater part of students’ lives. Educators ignore this technology at their peril. Here are some suggested uses and concerns for each type of device. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Recording the Autobiographical Podcast In IT for Every Classroom, a new weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, learn how to record the autobiography. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Scriptwriting for Podcasts In IT for Every Classroom, a new weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, Keery explains how to write the script for the autobiography. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Introducing Podcasting! In IT for Every Classroom, a new weekly column on Dialogue Online, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, he shows you how to introduce podcasting to your students. Beware – it’ll be noisy! |
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IT for Every Classroom: Getting the Necessary Hardware In IT for Every Classroom, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, he explains the types of hardware needed to create movies and podcasts. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Simpler Software is Better In the IT for Every Classroom column, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers. In this column, Keery reveals user-friendly software packages that can be used without too much difficulty by students and teachers. |
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IT for Every Classroom: Teacher Tips for Integrating Technology In IT for Every Classroom, Paul Keery shares his practical tech advice for non-IT teachers in his new weekly column for Dialogue Online. |
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Goodbye Essay, Hello Podcast One of the greatest conflicts between new and old literacies is many educators’ continuing belief that students’ analytical skills are not properly developed through the use of new media. There is some justification for this: Many student-created new media works are simplistic mishmashes of audio and video clips with no thesis or rationale. New media [...] |
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