It Has Been a Busy Spring-Lots of Tech

It has been a very busy spring trying to catch up from the cold and snowy winter. March was a busy month chock full of presentations and workshops. It was really exciting to be one of the organizers of the EDCampAccessNJ which was held at the College of St. Elizabeth. The highlight for me was putting together the venue and having all my colleagues there to share their expertise. It was a great day an I am hoping that we can make this an annual event. We had great support of the college and from vendors who gave us great give away and really were there in spirit.

As much as I try to keep up the pace of technology is moving at lightning speed and while I try to do my best it has been a real challenge to keep up with all the new products but I am trying my best. In the last couple of weeks I have been testing out the following products which I will write more about in the upcoming weeks. These products include: Swivl- Robotic Camermate, Venier - Go Wireless Temp sensor, Livescribe 3 Smartpen, iZiggi Wireless HD Document Camera, and the Boogie Board Sync 97

eWriter. I'm sure I may have forgotten a few - just kidding! All the products have tremendous potential in the classroom for making learning more engaging for students and giving teachers more tools to make learning come alive. In this vein, Microsoft also announced and released a preview of Office Mix for PowerPoint which gives teachers the opportunity to enhance their PowerPoint presentations with multimedia. Add video, audio, screencasts, and quizzes and you have your Office Mix. Once you are dong creating your Mix you can publish it to the web and emial te link to your students to view. If you have added a quiz you can view the analytics and see how your students did. Very nice application and of course for the  price ($ Free) of admission this could be a real game changer.

Here is a taste of the Swivl for those of you who are interested in creating videos for the flipped classroom or for online learning environments.

Re-Introducing Swivl from Swivl on Vimeo.

If you need more information about the Swivl or are interested in purchasing one please get in touch with me.