by Christine Weiser, Managing Editor March 12, 2010 I’ve been reporting on education for a long time. I’ve been to countless education conferences, reviewed thousands of press releases, and talked to hundreds of educators about how they are changing the lives of young people through the effective use of education technology. But I don’t get [...]
Remember the days when students would raise their hand and then write their answers with chalk on the chalkboard? Well, those days are long gone.
The Indianapolis News 6 stopped by Rousseau McClellan Montessori School to check out how they use technology in the classroom. This story covers one of our partners, PolyVision, and how this classroom is using the technology to learn vocabulary. You can watch here.
“I never win anything!” That’s what Kevin Casey tweeted when we confirmed him as the winner of Qwizdom’s classroom tweetaway during FETC last week. His history class at Pitman High School in New Jersey will be getting a serious revamp with a full suite of Qwizdom educational technology products. Casey won 24 Q2 remotes for [...]
Carleton Lyon was sitting in a quiet FETC session on SMS in schools when he let out an unexpected yell. Turning to the Qwizdom representative in the room, he yelled again. “I won the tweetaway!” As the first educator to correctly answer a trivia question posted to Twitter, Lyon had just learned he would be [...]
With FETC behind us, we’d like to give a big round of applause for the thousands of educators, administrators, staff and friends who all chipped in to help make FETC a big success. Follow us on twitter and we’ll see you at TCEA!
One year ago, Qwizdom was featured on the Nightly Business Report as part of their coverage of the “Business of Education” in Orlando and Miami-Dade. With FETC just a week + away, we’re posting the video for reference.
Going to FETC? Click here to view our Media Focals. Qwizdom will kick off the Florida Education Technology Conference (FETC) by giving and “tweeting away” over $30,000.00 in student response systems and software to educators attending FETC and across the nation. The company says it hopes to see the technology encourage teachers to ring in 2010 with [...]
By Maryann Miller Winnsboro Today Computers. Smart Boards. Interactive technology. School sure has come a long way from the days when some of us went with a pencil and notebook in hand and interaction meant the teacher talked while we listened. Now classrooms have more high-tech equipment than some large corporations, and students use remote [...]
Qwizdom in the classroom at Garland Elementary: Untitled from SensibleCity on Vimeo. Principal: “I’ve never seen kids so excited about learning. They are being competitive, especially our 8th Graders, who, when it comes to Qwizdom, they get excited. They are learning. They are in their teams.”