Stand out in a crowd: effective presentations
The majority of presentations are poorly designed - we all have sat through them. While presentation tools are commonplace, knowledge of how to effectively use them is not. Aside from the lucky few who have a background in the creative arts, rarely ...
Has Technology Improved Creativity Amongst Students or Has It Simply Added Another Layer of Frustration
The integration of technology into the curriculum of the class room of today has become a priority if not a mandate for K-12 teachers as well as professors of higher education. Successful integration is a multi-layered challenge; matching the techno...
Hour of Code - Expanding the Reach of Computer Science
I will present the experiences that I have had establishing the annual CCM Hour of Code event, the ease and challenges doing so, the successful outcomes and expansion of the program. I will share with participants the resources available to them to ...
Grand Prize Drawing and Conferencing Closing
This video covers the grand prize drawing and conferencing closing event
Ideas for Integrating Library Resources & Services in the Online Learning Environment
There are many ways faculty can integrate library resources and services in their learning management system. Integrating library resources helps encourage students taking online course to use scholarly library materials in their research papers/pro...
Promoting Student Success: Practices to Debunk Misperceptions About Learning
Teachers often find themselves teaching students who appear to ignore their advice, bypass available learning resources, study insufficiently, underestimate difficulty, and overestimate understanding. The results are D's, F's, W's, and declining ret...
Rethink, Then Refresh and Reboot: Lessons learned when instructors teach a MOOC
MOOCs (massive open online courses) offer instructors a novel opportunity to educate thousands of learners, many of whom they would never otherwise see in their classrooms. But the massive, open, online world is dramatically different than the univ...
Research Instruction: Is There a Disconnect Between High School and College Expectations
Encouraging changes are taking place in high schools across the state of New Jersey in regard to technology and information literacy. Within the past year or two, many NJ high schools have embraced laptop programs, added electronic resources to the ...
Going green: financial & operational benefits of next generation virtual data center
BlueWater Communications Group is the rare network solution provider that has deep data center expertise. Its strategic data center guidance can help you on your path to a transformation to building out a private cloud. BlueWater is a charter membe...
Grand Prize Drawing
Sheri Prupis draws out the door prizes at the concluding session of the NJEDge Conference 2013.