3D printing is coming of age. Higher resolution printers, strong affordable materials, and sophisticated software that converts freely available and detailed CAD drawings into printable files has made it possible for relatively amateur users to …

This 30-minute webinar examines how Twitter opens new opportunities for reflection and inquiry, and presents options to get started with using Twitter in your class. Increasing student-student interaction in an online class makes learning more …

In the interactive webinar below, academic services director Michelle Pacansky-Brock shares how you can use VoiceThread Mobile to create engaging anytime-anywhere learning environments with voice and video participation. Through real-life examples, stories, and demos, Pacansky-Brock …

Images and storytelling are deeply ingrained within human history as ways of sharing ideas—it’s no surprise they’re are also effective for teaching and learning.
On a mission to tell stories with data, Visual.ly lets you easily …

Meograph is your new favorite presentation tool. Without training or downloading software, you can easily and quickly create stories with video, audio (including your own narration), pictures, text, links, maps, and timelines.
You and your students …

Our path to the paperless world still includes hard copy sticky notes—the colorful, cross-functional notes we rely on have avoided the digital conversion. But a web-based service called lino has captured what we adore about our sticky …

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Want to learn more about using VoiceThread mobile to support students’ learning? Join Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Director of Academic Services and author of Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging …

Haiku Deck is the latest presentation software you’ll want to use. The free iPad app was designed by a Seattle startup team seeking to improve and “reinvent presentations for how we work, communicate, and create …

We were inspired by the blog post Using Instagram in an Educational Context, which cites Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. In this post, we’ve linked great examples from Instagram and its own blog to …

This post is the first of a two part series with Brian Kibby, President, McGraw Hill Higher Education.
Imagine students receiving the instruction that they need in order to be successful, customized specifically for them based …