24 Digital Tools That Represent New Ways To Study

24 Digital Tools That Represent New Ways To Study The words “final exam” and “fun” rarely find themselves in close proximity, but with the advent of new game-based learning sites, that may be changing. There are numerous ways that you can now combine studying for your exams or just practicing skills for a course with…

Choosing The Right Mobile Device For Your Classroom

Choosing The Right Mobile Device For Your Classroom

Though we haven’t written about it much just yet, something that’s of enormous interest to us here at TeachThought is media–its creators, forms, themes, design elements, consumption patterns, and ultimate impact on thinking and human behavior. We put together this chart as a way to visualize the differences in the five most popular media consumption…

The Basic Audience And Benefits Of Online Learning

The search for employment in a difficult economy leads many people to pursue alternative careers or seek out ways to improve and broaden the scope of their job skills, with a view to making themselves more employable. In the past, getting new job skills meant attending a college or university in pursuit of a diploma…

4 Benefits Of Blended Learning

Often there seems to be an “either/or” approach to taking online and face-to-face (F2F) classes. Some students may want the full campus experience of pursuing a degree at a traditional brick and mortar institution, while others want the convenience and flexibility of eLearning. Some programs also offer a blended format in which classes are a…

13 Of The Best Tools To Create Infographics

13 Of The Best Tools To Create Infographics

For better or for worse, visual information is the new internet, and infographics are pioneers in mashing information and images together in a way that hopefully tells a story, provides utility, or both. You need 3 basic “things” to create infographics. 1. A tool that works (below, we have 3) 2. Reliable data sources (we…

The Complete Guide To Twitter Hashtags In Education

The Complete Guide To Twitter Hashtags In Education

Twitter Hashtags In Education: The Complete Guide What is a hashtag? A word or phrase preceded by a “#.” How do hashtags work? Twitter can be a busy place with lots of tweets–and thus lots of “noise.” A #hashtag is a way to aggregate tweets that are appended with a hashtag. Picture it like a magnet that…

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