Helen Bitmead is the co-director of Training Snippets, an online library of mini videos that can be used to demonstrate workplace health and safety procedures, business development and soft skills. Helen has witnessed firsthand the power of video content to educate and is on a mission to get everyone on board. Recently becoming a VET […]

Francis Kneebone is CEO of Cognition E-learning and an eWorks Accredited Consultant - a training, learning and development specialist offering consultancy across the spectrum of digital learning and associated solutions. Not surprisingly, Francis is passionate about the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning, so much so that he has launched the E20 Best of 2015 - […]

Discovery Education is sponsoring another webinar for students with Animal Planet’s Dave Salmoni on Wednesday, October 19th at 1:30pm ET. Content will focus on grades K-5 and feature information about survival needs for animals and plants, ecosystems and interdependence in habitats. An excerpt from the Discovery Education website follows: Dave Salmoni, Animal Planet’s apex predator [...]

This coming Thursday, October 20, 2011 is National Day on Writing. The National Writing Project is encouraging everyone to participate in a variety of activities to support National Day on Writing. The urge to write can be a mysterious calling. There are so many different ways to understand not only the why of writing, but [...]

Welcome to my new domain and blog! This blog will focus on educational technology and hopefully be a treasure trove of resources, new tools and strategies for integrating technology into instruction. I tried a similar blogging venture last November but I don’t think I went about it correctly. This time I started a new blog [...]

  Classroom 2.0 LIVE! will return this Saturday after a brief hiatus for October due to health reasons for each of the co-hosts. We are excited to return this Saturday at our regularly scheduled time of 12pm ET/11am CT/10am MT/9am PT. We appreciate all of the wonderful comments, emails and best wishes from our friends [...]

On January 7th, Classroom 2.0 LIVE will be having a ‘2011 Reflection Smackdown’ sharing favorite web tools from 2011. Peggy George attended a ‘Library World Smackdown Open Mic Night‘ and we decided to borrow this idea from the innovative, creative group of librarians at the Virtual TL Cafe of Gwyneth Jones and Joyce Valenza and crew. [...]

This past year, a national effort has taken place to improve instruction that includes technology. The year long national awareness campaign will conclude with a culminating event of the first ever Digital Learning Day. Digital Learning Day will be celebrated on February 1, 2012. Digital Learning, as defined on the website as, …any instructional practice [...]

With the start of a new year, most people set resolutions to lose weight, exercise more or to eat healthier. Those are all great goals to set but at the start of a new year, which is most appropriate to set: a goal, resolution or vision? In the past, I probably considered all three one [...]

Today is the last day to nominate an emerging ed tech leader as one of the ’20 to Watch’ recognition program honoring educators that use technology to improve K12 instruction. Do you know educators who are passionate about using technology to transform teaching and learning; who can inspire their colleagues to embrace new tools; and [...]