Hardware-based classroom response systems are expensive to buy and expensive to maintain. A web-based service called Poll Everywhere aims to bring conversation back to the lecture hall through the use of a device that is already in your student’s pocket. (more…)

Probably the technology I am most excited about and want to see flood the classroom is podcasting. If you haven’t listened to one, a podcast is a series of audio or video programs you can subscribe to (usually for free) on topics that cover the gamut of human endeavor.

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