As educators we know the benefits of technology, the power of collaboration, and the value of literature. How these can be combined is now explained: Early last week Joe Wikert (Tools of Change; O’Reilly Media) interviewed Democrasoft’s CEO, Richard Lang, [...]
Collaborize Classroom and TregoED will provide free educator resources, free professional development for teachers, and free online topic-based lessons focused on teaching higher-level thinking skills, respect for different points-of-view, and effective in-person and online conversation skills.
Each month, we will be highlighting educators from around the world who are using Collaborize Classroom in innovative ways to engage students in their classroom. Our October Educator Spotlight is dedicated to Anna Lenardson, a High School English and History Teacher at the International [...]
The best ideas come from you, and we’re listening. We’re excited to announce our new Collaborize Classroom Feedback Forum, an online site where you can make suggestions for features you’d like to see added to our online learning platform. Here’s [...]
This Friday, some members of the Collaborize Classroom team will be attending the Library Resource Roundup in San Antonio, TX. Patrick Dounhue (aka @PatrickatCC) and High School English Teacher, Catlin Tucker (aka @CTuckerEnglish), will be presenting at two different sessions [...]
Educational technology blogging platform, Edublogs, has a new challenge to inspire students to write. Challenge Yourself To Blog is a series of 10 blogging tasks that EduBlogs has designed to “improve blogging and commenting skills while connecting students with a global [...]
We are happy to announce three milestone developments here at Democrasoft. Today marks the official launch of the Collaborize Classroom Topic Library Over 10,000 teachers worldwide have launched their own Collaborize Classroom sites We just launched a newly redesigned CollaborizeClassroom.com. The Collaborize Classroom [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]