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Entries from Visual Lounge tagged with 'Education'
Welcome TechSmith's New Education Community Site
I'm happy to share some good news with you! My partner in crime, Dave McCollom, our Education Evangelist at TechSmith has just launched a brand new blog. Plus, he's added a new page chock full of great resources for educators...
Blogging, Math and Technology in Video Form
Remember Maria Andersen from Muskegon Community College? She wrote a jingle about Jing Well, she's been at it again and creating lots of cool content! Maria wanted to show what a year of blogging about math and technology looked like...
Screencast(s) of the Week - Phicasts and Mathcasts
As a student, I always had to work harder at math and science to get a good grade. It just didn't come naturally to me at a certain point in my schooling. I would often get so wrapped in taking...
Meet Dave McCollom - TechSmith Education Evangelist
Students have flooded the campus of Michigan State University which is right next door to TechSmith. That means longer lines at the grocery store, freshman driving the wrong way down one way streets and general chaos. On the plus side,...
A New Jing Jingle
It's not every day that someone writes a song about technology! But Sunday was one of those days! I was so happy to see that Maria Andersen, a Math Instructor from Muskegon Community College in Michigan, wrote a song...
Screencast of the Week - Using Gmail in the Classroom
Don't you love it when someone figures out a great trick and then shares that knowledge? This week's Screencast of the Week does just that! It comes from Alec Couros, a Professor at the University of Regina. He's done...
Screencast of the Week - Jing in the Classroom
Ever have one of the those days where you look up at the clock and the day is over? That's what happened to me yesterday. I was having so much fun in Chicago going to the Art Institute of...
Engaging Students in the Classroom with Multimedia
What do you get when you put together: PowerPoint slides, a TabletPC, Camtasia Studio, a wireless microphone and some biology?! One of the coolest classrooms around! You remember Kelly Carrier, right? He's a high school biology teacher at my alma...
Screencast of the Week - Grading Papers in a New Way
For the first time, the Screencast of the Week...is a Jing video! Remember when you were back in school? You'd put your heart and soul in a paper, turn it in to the teacher and a week later you would...
Guest Blogger - Rich Boys Needs Your Feedback...
Rich Boys has been with TechSmith for just over a year. He came here from the University of Michigan where he worked in various IT roles for the previous 12 years. There is always a fun rivalry between the...
Screencast of the Week - Learn Accounting...again!
Richard Campbell...where were you when I was taking accounting?I was never good with numbers... It was always more work for me to get average grades in accounting. It just didn't come naturally to me. It's no wonder why my checkbook...
Back in the classroom and more math videos
I was back in class last week and I had a blast! I was at Bentley College visiting Professor Mark Frydenberg. Remember him? We did a screencast earlier this year which you can see here.Mark teaches a really cool class...
Jon Udell talks about technology in the classroom with Tim Fahlberg
Two of my favorite people got together last week for a podcast. Jon Udell did a fab podcast with Camtasia Studio user, Tim Fahlberg, all about Tim's mathcasts and the future of education. I enjoyed hearing how technology is helping...
All Things SCORM...
I can't think of anyone who knows more about SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) than Judy Brown/ Judy launched a blog, SCORM Watch, earlier this year that covers - you guessed it, all things SCORM. It's a great resource!...
Technology in the Classroom - Meet Kelly Carrier
Did you ever have one of those teachers in school that inspired you? That teacher that did things just a little different? Recently we headed down the road about a mile from our offices to visit a science teacher, Kelly...
Mathcasts hit the big time...
TechSmith friends Tim Fahlberg, his sister Linda Fahlberg-Stojanovska, and Rev. Graeme MacNeil were featured in an article in the Oxford Journal titled "Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications"! It focused on their whiteboard math movies - or as Tim likes to...
The numbers always get me...
One of the things I always struggled with in business school were the accounting and calculus classes. It's no wonder why my checkbook is always a little off (usually not in my favor) and in disarray. I took the required...
Mobile computing in the classroom...
How did it get to be weeks after TechEd? I made a screencast there that I just got edited and uploaded. Never fear - it's still interesting and of course, relevant!Mark Frydenberg, a professor from Bentley College, stopped by TechEd...
Gnomedex and Relearning Math in a Mathcast
I've been living off bad airport food and out of hotel rooms for the past few weeks. This week is no different. But, hey, I'm having a great time in Seattle at Gnomedex! You can read more about it here....
Any Social Studies teachers using Camtasia Studio?
A math teacher, science teacher and a social studies teacher walk into TechSmith... sounds like the start of a bad joke.But it happened! Recently a group of math, science and social studies teachers stopped by our office to learn more...
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