Teacher Appreciation Week – TechSmith Style!

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Update: View this post for the winners of our giveaway! Teacher Appreciation Week is just around the corner: May 6th - 10th. Whether you're a teacher, a student, a parent (or all of the above) you know that teachers work tirelessly to help shape our future. We'd like to thank each and every one of you individually, but there just aren't enough hours! Instead, we want to hear who your favorite teacher is, or what your favorite project was! We're hosting a giveaway in which we'll draw two Continue reading

The Growing Acceptance of Online Education

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Guest post by Jordan Valley, Excel High School For the past few decades, educational technology has had an increasingly important role in the classroom. But now, it seems as though that technology is establishing itself outside of the classroom, and it's taking the students with it. Online education is the future. At least, that's what educators like Stanford Professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller seem to think. Ng and Koller joined together to launch the website Coursera in 2012. Coursera Continue reading

How screencasting has helped one student feel more prepared for college

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Guest post by Tiana Kadkhoda Milo of Croton, the early Olympian, was renowned for his legendary strength. Every day Milo would carry a calf on his back up a large mountain. As the calf matured into a full-grown bull, so did Milo’s strength. Mathtrain.tv, a website that encourages kids to learn through teaching, was my calf. Starting with the first video I made while in sixth grade, as mathtrain.tv developed, I thrived. Can't see the video? Watch it on Mathtrain.tv Any sixth grader Continue reading

Vote for Ask3 in Round 3!

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Voting is now open for round 3 of the highly-acclaimed #AppMadness13 and guess who's back? That's right - rookie sensation Ask3! The team continues their rigorous training routine as they press on in the competition. See what they've been up to below, and give them a vote today! Can't see the video? Watch it on YouTube. Still haven't tried Ask3 for yourself? Download it today and let us know what you think! Continue reading

Differentiation Through Flipped Out Collaboration

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Guest post by Zach Cresswell It all started at a bakery As I was about to enter my second year of teaching and first year teaching AP Calculus, I called my former teacher, coach, and mentor Steve Kelly to pick his brain about some aspects of the curriculum. (Steve is a National Board Certified math teacher from St. Louis, MI.) We met at a small bakery and over lunch we discussed some of my concerns regarding teaching an AP course so early in my career. As the conversation evolved, however, we began Continue reading

Eric Marcos, Tom Sawyer and Painting the Fence with Ask3

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Tom Sawyer got kids to paint the fence for him... and they paid him for the privilege! Meet Eric Marcos, a Modern Day Tom Sawyer. (cue Rush). Eric is an amazing teacher in Santa Monica, California. When I visited him a few years back, and saw how incredibly engaged his students were in the creation process -- Blooms Taxonomy, anyone? -- I wanted to bottle that kind of magic: Can't see the video? Watch it on YouTube. For those classes that have iPads, Ask3 puts a paint brush in every Continue reading