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60+ Great Educational Websites

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Web conferencing tools In this collection, I share with you some of the best video conferencing and webinar hosting tools for teachers and educators. You will be creating tons of presentations to share in conferences, webinars, and other professional meetings. No prior video design knowledge is required.

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Best Second Jobs for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Online tutoring can be carried out via video call using platforms like Zoom or Skype, or through specialized online tutoring platforms that have built-in tools like virtual whiteboards. Chegg Tutors : Chegg is a popular platform that connects students to tutors in a wide range of subjects.

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Best Annotated Bibliography Generators for Teachers and Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Citation Machine Citation Machine by Chegg is another helpful bibliography generator to try out, well , if you can stand the annoying ads. Cite This for Me and BibMe are all Chegg services that are similar to Citation Machine. You can copy and paste it into your paper. Once done click on Complete citation.

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Where in the World Is Planet3? An Educational Gaming CEO Seeks His Second Act

Edsurge

Some employees heard the news on a conference call. Among those who tried include Osman Rashid, the co-founder of Chegg and Kno, who launched Galxyz in 2014 to build a science video games for grades three to 12. And he had interest from educators who wanted to try Planet3 in schools that included the Las Vegas area.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

The Chronicle adopted a modified version of the format during a session at the South by Southwest Edu conference in March, with a panel of experts weighing in on five new products or ideas to fix pressing problems in higher education. True, our panel didn’t have any money to invest. It didn’t work for me.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. Why are video-taped lectures so “revolutionary” if lectures themselves are supposedly not? (As

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via NPR : “ Texas High Schools To Require Police Interaction Education Video.” Video streaming site Cheddar has acquired Rate My Professors. “ Ed Tech Cybersecurity : Suppose they gave a data breach and nobody came,” writes Phil Hill on the Chegg data breach. They Kept Children in Them Anyway.”