iSchoolLeader Magazine

People, particularly teenagers, have an almost compulsive reaction to open text messages when their phones beep or buzz. So if you want to quickly deliver an important message to student or parent today, sending a text message is the best way to do it. Managing a list of cell phone numbers can be a daunting task. Here are seven services that educators can use to easily send and manage group text messages.

More and more teachers are embracing the flipped classroom as an efficient way to deliver content and personalize the learning experience for students. The two most common mistakes teachers make when starting to flip their classrooms are 1) finding existing videos online that very nearly (but don’t quite) match the content they are trying to teach or worse 2) making bad videos themselves that students can’t bear to watch.

Over the next twenty years, within an increasingly global economy, better technology, less public funding for schools, and more diversity, education in the United States will change dramatically. Below are five areas in education that will be altered in the next two decades.

The Nord Family Foundation, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and KnowledgeWorks invites the education and learning community to join in a timely, nonpartisan discussion about digital learning and where it may lead education in Ohio – and the nation – in the years ahead.

The event will take place May 17, 2012 from 1:00pmET to 4:30pmET at the Governors Ballroom in the Sheraton at Capitol Square and on a live webcast at www.edexcellence.net.

It's not good enough anymore to simply graph data using Excel or Numbers. These free tools will visualize your data in a way that'll make your presentations look uber-professional and kick your website up a few notches.

Google+ is releasing its new look and features this week. See what's in store for your stream, apps, hangouts and more.

Twitter serves a number of purposes for the professional educator and just the human being in general. If you’re thinking about joining the Twitter conversation but you need a little more convincing, here are some compelling reasons to get started...

When your kids come home with another school project to complete or essay to write, how many times do you scratch your head and realize you have no idea how to help them? It’s been a long time since our childhood schooldays, and lots of the information we learned has been lost along the way. If your kids need help naming dinosaurs or sixteenth century kings, you might be tempted to say, “I don’t know; Just Google it.” The Internet, especially Google, is the essential tool for looking up information nowadays. But before you let your kids loose on the computer, it’s important to talk to them about online research so they’re able to find the real, accurate information they need out of the overload they’ll find.

There have been many great authors that we have come know and appreciate over time. Curiosity asks, did thy attend college and has that had a direct effect on their success? Here's a closer look at great authors that never went to college.

Google is great, and for the foreseeable future, it will remain to be my main source for searching on the web. However, Google isn't the only way to find information on the internet. There are a lot of useful search sites out there.

If you don't have the time or desire to build webpages from scratch, there are plenty of free online tools that will do the heavy lifting for you so that you can concentrate on just adding useful content to your course webpages. Here are eleven free services for creating websites and simple webpages.

Who can resist a colourful, thoughtful venn diagram anyway? In terms of blogging success, infographics are far more likely to be shared than your average blog post. This means more eyeballs on your important information, more people rallying for your cause, more backlinks and more visits to your blog. In short, a quality infographic done well could be what your blog needs right now.