by Alisa Gross | Nov 3, 2014 | Acclaim Posts, EdTech, Teaching
“Within Acclaim, students can review presentations on their own time and easily add comments. The act of writing out their comments, while simultaneously seeing feedback from other peers and instructors, has helped students improve the quality of their...
by Alisa Gross | Oct 28, 2014 | Acclaim Posts, Teaching
Michele Slowik is the Assistant Director of and Behavior Analyst at the Nexus School, a private school in Montgomery County, PA for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Their approach applies B.F. Skinner’s research in Applied Behavior Analysis. As a small...
by Alisa Gross | Oct 21, 2014 | Acclaim Posts, EdTech, Teaching
Janine Rudnick is a professor at El Paso Community College, in El Paso, Texas, with a background in Speech Communication. This semester she’ll be using ACCLAIM in her undergraduate Speech Communication (Public Speaking) and English as a Second Language (Grammar and...
by Alisa Gross | Oct 16, 2014 | EdTech, Social Media, Teaching
Denise Comer is an Assistant Professor in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University, and its Director of First Year Writing. This past summer, she developed an online course entitled “Composing the Internship Experience: Digital Rhetoric and Social Media...
by Alisa Gross | Oct 13, 2014 | Acclaim Posts, EdTech, Teaching
Jim Criswell is the Band and Orchestra Director at St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School, a large independent school in Alexandria, Virginia. He currently teaches 7th and 8th grade Advanced Band, as well as high school String Orchestra and Wind Ensemble. ACCLAIM first...
by Alisa Gross | Oct 9, 2014 | Acclaim Posts, EdTech, Social Media, Teaching
Aria F. Chernik is an open knowledge activist whose work focuses on digital literacy, participatory citizenship and collaborative learning environments, multimedia communication, professional learning design and curricular innovation, and social media and justice. She...