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Virtual Tutoring Tools for Math and Science. Home > e-learning, software > Virtual Tutoring Tools for Math and Science I ran out of time in class the other day and needed to review a problem for my students as it is going to be on the next quiz. I have had this issue before, running out of time and needing to share just a little more information. So I have several ways in which I deal with this issue so I thought I would share. These also come in handy when you are asked a question via e-mail and a returned e-mail just won’t do. Most often my solution involved Screenr in some fashion. Now you can use a variety of tools to actually do the writing. Another way I have used Screenr for doing problems etc. is with an Eno board. If you don’t want to use Screenr with other applications, you can use a free download called Lecturescribe.

Of course if you have a tablet you can us Screenr and the journal tool or anything with a nice background. Like this: Like Loading... Broadcast Yourself. Technology and Education | Box of Tricks. YouTube Converter - ClipConverter.cc. QRCodes Uses Higher Ed. How to 'Gamify' Your Class Website. [This is a guest post by Anastasia Salter, Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Baltimore in the school of Information Arts and Technologies.

Her academic work focuses on storytelling in new media; she also writes the Future Fragments column for CinCity. Follow her on Twitter at MsAnastasia. --@jbj] When Jason B. Achievements and leveling in games are inherently social, as they offer bragging rights and a way to compare progress to others. I decided to search for a compromise. Your options for this vary with your choice of content system: Drupal has a group devoted to adding game features, but most of these are in early beta. BuddyPress — The foundation of a social class site, BuddyPress builds on the WordPress system so that it acts more like Facebook or Ning. I don’t know yet if making these sorts of changes to a class site will fundamentally transform my outcomes. Are these rankings changing how students act, even when they know the points are not by any means a “grade”? 15 Current Technologies A Child Born Today Will Never Use. From the moment that I found out my wife was pregnant with our first child, a son, I’ve thought of his development in terms of tech.

When pregnancy sites described our six-week-old fetus as the size of a “lentil,” I referred to him as the length of an RFID chip. When the doctor said he had reached 1.3 pounds, I told all my friends that my son was the size of an iPad. When he was born this week, he was about the size of an HP Envy 15, though unfortunately his cries did not use Beats Audio. As my newborn son grows to match the size of a mid-tower desktop, a large-screen TV and eventually a server rack, I can’t help but think about all the gadgets he won’t even remember using that were so important to his dad. I’m not talking about long dead-and-buried technologies such as the VHS recorder or the 35mm camera.

Wired Home Internet I was surprised when a 23-year-old co-worker told me she didn't remember a time before broadband Internet. Read more: Nationwide 4G Showdown Landline Phones Desktops. Delicious.