Steve Jobs suffered embarrassment when his technology failed while unveiling the company's iPhone 4 in June 2010. At his presentation in San Francisco Mr Jobs had trouble connecting to the internet via Wi-Fi on several occasions. It failed when he tried to show how clear pictures would appear on the new screen and the problem occurred again later when he attempted to show the audience how video calling would work on the device. He then urged more than 500 journalists in the room to turn off…See More

I learned about the cloud computing guidelines, restrictions, for BC educators from the Open Practices CEET Meet. I was shocked to learn that BC eduactors are not allowed to use open source tools that have storage outside of Canada. Other provinces are active users of Google Apps and other Web 2.0 Cloud services. The BC legislation was introduced by the NDP years ago. With an election coming up, some are hoping that this will be…See More

Free online CIDER sessions featuring a presentation and discussion with Dr. Maggie Hartnett from Massey University, New Zealand.Evidence suggests that motivation is an important consideration for online learners. Based on this, existing research has frequently focused on exploring ways to design online environments that are motivating to learners. Alternatively, motivation has been thought of as a collection of relatively stable personal characteristics of learners with a view to identifying…See More

Free online CIDER sessions featuring a presentation and discussion with Dr. Maggie Hartnett from Massey University, New Zealand.Evidence suggests that motivation is an important consideration for online learners. Based on this, existing research has frequently focused on exploring ways to design online environments that are motivating to learners. Alternatively, motivation has been thought of as a collection of relatively stable personal characteristics of learners with a view to identifying…See More

In our organization we are using Moodle as our online learning platform. We want to keep our course development low cost, easy to update, and where we don’t require outsourcing and the  latest and greatest computers.  Colleagues of ours are currently using Lectura as an industry standard. Others are using Adobe Captivate and some are using Articulate Studio. We are considering one of these options but they are expensive. We want to make sure that we choose something that best suits our…See More

Share your solution to improve educational outcomes!Around the world, education systems are failing our children. HMH's Global Education Challenge hopes to find truly original ideas that could potentially be used to improve student outcomes across the globe. They want to build a community of innovators who discuss ideas that could become groundbreaking solutions…See More

A Delete Day is a great idea, not only to help prevent cyberbullying, but to make sure we are putting our best online self forward to potential employers. Did you know that employers sometimes do online research to dig up dirt on potential employees - and admissions officers do it too? What you post online could make a difference between a job offer and admission to your top school—or a rejection letter. Here are a few ways…See More