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ISTE 2013 Presenter Profile: Graham Johnson

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We're SO excited for ISTE 2013! The TechSmith Education team will be heading down to San Antonio this year for the Annual Conference and Exposition, and we're eager to hang out with all of our presenter pals at our booth. The four day conference begins on June 23rd and ends on June 26th, focusing on advancing and improving education through the use of technology. Not surprisingly, the whole concept is something that we're thrilled to be involved in. Will we be seeing you there? In the weeks Continue reading

ISTE 2013 Presenter Profiles: Rob Zdrojewski

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We're SO excited for ISTE 2013! The TechSmith Academic Solutions team will be heading down to San Antonio this year for the Annual Conference and Exposition, and we're eager to hang out with all of our presenter pals at our booth. The four day conference begins on June 23rd and ends on June 26th, focusing on advancing and improving education through the use of technology. Not surprisingly, the whole concept is something that we're thrilled to be involved in. Will we be seeing you there? In the Continue reading

ISTE 2013 Presenter Profiles: Steve Kelly

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We're SO excited for ISTE 2013! The TechSmith Academic Solutions team will be heading down to San Antonio this year for the Annual Conference and Exposition, and we're eager to hang out with all of our presenter pals at our booth. The four day conference begins on June 23rd and ends on June 26th, focusing on advancing and improving education through the use of technology. Not surprisingly, the whole concept is something that we're thrilled to be involved in. Will we be seeing you there? In Continue reading

Teacher Appreciation Week Giveaway Winners

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Thank you so much to everyone who submitted nominations to our Teacher Appreciation Week Giveaway! We'll be updating this post throughout the week with our daily winners so check back to see if we pick your nominee! Friday, May 10th winners Tami Tucker Grade: K - 6th Art School: Conner Creek Academy East Location: Roseville, MI Nominated because: Tami is constantly finding fun new ways to incorporate technology into her art lessons. She loves her students and brings a great passion for art Continue reading

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

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