Each month, we will be highlighting teachers who are using Collaborize Classroom in innovative ways to engage students in their classroom. This August, we talked to Katie Fryzel. Katie is a 9-12th grade English teacher from Easthampton High School in Easthampton, MA. She is active in [...]
Educators, Gini Pierce-Cummings (@gpiercecummings) and Alice Keeler (@AliceKeeler) talk about Collaborize Classroom and blended learning at the Rock Star Teacher Summer Tech Camp 2011 at Minarets High School in O’Neals, CA. In the video below they have to sell their [...]
Over the next month, high school English teacher Catlin Tucker will be hosting a four part webinar series with the team at SimpleK12. Each Wednesday at 4pm EST/1pm PST, Catlin will spend an hour discussing how teachers can use online learning platforms to engage students [...]
Only a few more weeks until Northern California’s first Edcamp comes to town. Edcamp SF Bay is an unconference – a free, democratic, participant-driven day of professional development for teachers which will be held on August 20, 2011 at Skyline High School in Oakland, CA. [...]
With the addition of GooglePlus to the social networking world, we have a new definition of “hanging out”. Google Plus hangouts are an easy-to-use, built-in, group video conferencing service where up to 10 people can chat at once. Brian Mannix is a social [...]
Google Plus and the new personalized Google News have become a great resource for articles that focus on educational technology, and already an addition to my mornings. Last week I came across a link originally posted by Journalism/English teacher at Palo Alto High School, Esther Wojcicki [...]
Next week the Rockstar Summer Teacher Tech Camp will be taking over Minarets High School in O’Neils, Ca. The conference will be three days of fun sessions, networking with teachers and learning about educational technology tools. This camp is about changing education through technology and [...]
The popular educational technology website, EducationWorld reviewed our online learning platform. EducationWorld.com is a free online resource that educators can use daily to find high-quality lesson-plans, reviews and resources. In the four-star review, Education World said: “CollaborizeClassroom takes the classroom model [...]
Today’s K-12 students go by many names: The Next Generation, Generation Z, Digital Natives, Generation i (as in ipod, iphone, ipads, etc.) meaning they have grown up with digital technology and thus have a greater understanding of its concepts. They are more connected [...]
Collaborize Classroom was created to fill a need that some teachers have to enhance discussions that are limited (for time or dominated by some students, leaving the shy ones out, etc.) inside the classroom by bringing them to a private [...]
