The Acclaim Blog
7 ways to integrate mobile computing into your classroom
This is a guest post by Dr. Marilyn Herie, Academic Chair, Department of Community Services at Centennial College. It was originally posted on September 22, 2013 on educateria. The third type of digital divide and why mobile devices should remain on: Much has been...
Three Biomedical Engineering Students get an “A” on their Infomercial [VIDEO]
Video production is not typically a skill required of biomedical engineers. But at Drexel University, undergraduate students within Dr. Kara Spiller’s Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering class are enthusiastically adapting new learning paradigms. In typical...
Acclaim Case Study: Modern Dance with Jillian Harris at Temple University
Jillian Harris is an Assistant Professor of Dance in the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University. In 2009, Jillian was asked to develop Modern Dance technique standards that could be applied in formal assessments of students’ performance. Prior to this...
Public Speaking as an “Interactive Democracy” with Maegan Stephens
On the first day of Fundamentals of Public Speaking at Austin Community College and at the University of Texas, Maegan Stephens’ students vote on their syllabus. “This is not my class, it is our class; therefore, this should not be my syllabus, it should be ours,”...
Facebook as an LMS and Beyond
More and more professors are finding that Facebook inspires more enthusiasm and interaction than LMSes as a forum for online discussion and class collaboration. Blackboard is difficult to use, and the process of incentivizing students to engage in discussion...
Protecting Your Presentation From “The Swipe Effect”
This is a guest post by Stacy Rosenberg, Assistant Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University If you have been tempted to look down at your phone in the middle of a presentation – no matter how relevant the content – you suffer from The Swipe Effect. The Swipe...
Q&A: Chuck Sacco, Entrepreneur in Residence at Drexel’s Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship
Chuck Sacco teaches an experiential entrepreneurship class called Launch It! at Drexel that allows him to work with students entrepreneurs to create and launch their own ventures with the help of up to $2,000 in seed funding. After co-founding PhindMe, a mobile...
5 Game Changing Professor Perspectives on Teaching
The following five professors come from a range of disciplines, but all have game-changing perspectives on teaching and issues within higher education. John Boyer, Virginia Tech, Geography Websites: The John Boyer, The Plaid Avenger John Boyer has worked to engage...
Top 5 Must Follow EdTech Blogs
1. EdSurge EdSurge is geared towards teachers, developers, and investors. The posts cover cool new programs, apps, and websites, and give teachers strategies for integrating programs into their classrooms. Articles such as “How One Teacher Achieved Insane Reading...
Acclaim Facts from Q1
At Acclaim, we track a number of engagement metrics daily and quite obsessively. These metrics are Acclaim's pulse - it is our way of knowing if the platform is alive and well. We thought it'd be valuable for our customers and other stakeholders to see these numbers...
Q&A: Zelda Harris, Director of Trial Advocacy at LUC
Zelda Harris is currently the Director of the Dan K. Webb Center for Advocacy at Loyola University Chicago. Prior to this position, Professor Harris served as law faculty and director of the Domestic Violence Law Clinic, and codirector of the Child and Family Law at...
Q&A: Jessica McCall, Director of Basic Course at UNCG
Q: Why did you decide to use Acclaim? What were you doing before? JM: We decided to use Acclaim because we needed a platform to support our student speeches, which are typically 3 to 7 minutes in length. Our own servers or other services frankly couldn't support the...