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Tweet TheTeacher Leadership Exploratory Consortium has launched a new website to build a peer-to-peer network around the Teacher Leader Model Standards. The website is designed to be both a forum and a resource for teachers to share best practices and stimulate ongoing dialogue about what constitutes the knowledge, skills and competencies that teachers need to [...]
19 January, 2012
Published by by Lance in Apple, iOS, Tech Bytes
Tweet Apple released iBooks 2 and iBooks Author (Mac) today. As Gerard speculated in his article, the announcement focused on the iPad based text books and updates to iTunes U. From their press release: “The new iBooks 2 app is available today as a free download from the App Store™. With support for great new [...]
27 December, 2011
Published by by James Hicks in Infographics, Tech
Tweet I remember back in the day when I was in college. The best way to make sure you captured all of the professors lecture was to take a mini cassette recorder and try to capture some form of comprehensible recording. That was definitely old school compared to what’s going on these days in classrooms [...]
1 November, 2011
Published by by James Hicks in Tech
Tweet Go Blue. Go Google. Google Apps for Education is headed to the Michigan campus. Even though 61 of the top 100 colleges in the US are using Google Apps – I had to give this special shout out to my hometown university of Michigan. Great to see these implementations going in across the country. [...]
24 October, 2010
Published by by James Hicks in Tech
Tweet Having demonstrated that robots can effectively teach math, science and engineering to Brooklyn youngsters, Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) set up in Washington, D.C., this past weekend to take its message to a national audience: the 250,000 visitors of the inaugural USA Science and Engineering Festival Expo on the National Mall. The [...]
19 October, 2010
Published by by James Hicks in Tech
Tweet The Mad Science Group has launched the Mad Science Kids Club powered by Everloop, becoming the first-ever science social network platform created specifically for kids. Being a parent of 2 elementary school kids that are also well versed in technology – I love this ! A “virtual science playground,” the Mad Science Kids Club [...]
18 July, 2010
Published by by James Hicks in Tech
Tweet Running my own IT consulting organization, HicksNewMedia, and writing for a handful of well-known and respected blogs has got me thinking about something – proper etiquette on the web for content creators. I decided to draft the Bloggers Code of Conduct and publish it for all of you readers to dissect and provide commentary on. I [...]
27 June, 2010
Published by by James Hicks in Social Media
Tweet Crowdsourcing is a wonderful phenomenon. You get the input of many as it pertains to a single point/topic. In this case, crowdsourcing was used to determine the book suggestions for Designing For Social Media; which is a course in the Masters program in Professional and Technical Communication at New Jersey’s Science & Technology University. [...]
10 May, 2010
Published by by James Hicks in Apple
Tweet HAMPTON, Va. — President Barack Obama, addressing graduates at historically black Hampton University on Sunday, said that it is the responsibility of all Americans to offer every child the type of education that will make them competitive in an economy in which just a high school diploma is no longer enough. Moreover, Obama said, [...]
10 May, 2010
Published by by James Hicks in Tech
Tweet Web 2.0 is so…today. But what about tomorrow? Are you ready for the Semantic Web? Web 3.0 is still being defined and analyzed by folks way smarter than me, but it’s for sure going to incorporate the ability to turn all of the data on the web into structured data so as to define [...]
James Hicks on , January 16, 2012, 10:02 pm
