“Why would I need WizIQ? I see my students during the day in class…I hardly need a virtual classroom when I teach in a real one!” We hear this quite a bit as we talk to people about WizIQ. Whether the instructors are in K12 schools, universities, or even training organizations, the physical classroom remains [...]

How do you connect online for instruction and learning? Where do you find teachers and students from around the world? One way to connect and learn from an international audience is to learn online through WizIQ live classes. Another way is to join an online conference. Connecting online (CO09-CO12) is a free annual online conference [...]

Attending a liberal arts college as a writing major requires very little technology. We bring to class a pencil and a notebook and that’s the extent of it. Once in a while, the professor may scribble something onto the chalkboard. (And yes, these are actual CHALK boards.) So my involvement in technology is very limited [...]

Hey there! My name is Sarah Stanley and I am the new Contributing Editor/Occasional Blogger (the latter of which is probably not an official title) at WizIQ! I am twenty years old and in my second year as a Fiction Writing major at Columbia College Chicago. Though I’m not exactly a “techie” (sometimes I can’t [...]

Today I was browsing the Internet when I remembered that I had to do my homework for my online American Literature course. I logged onto Blackboard, where all our online classes take place, wrote my discussion board for the week in 10 minutes and logged off. Now I won’t have to go back on Blackboard [...]

At my university, it’s been said time and time again that our student population is half residential and half commuter. Every time I hear this, I think the chances of our population being split right down the middle like that are very low. Before I applied to any schools, many people told me to go [...]

As many of you know, I’m editing the the Classroom 2.0 Book Project with Steve Hargadon (the Classroom 2.0 guy, among other things) and Richard Byrne who also writes the FreeTech4Teachers blog. I wanted to specifically reach out to the WizIQ community, though, and share an opportunity around this book. The book project has two [...]