Measure your grant's success with Swivl There is never a shortage of funding requests for major initiatives to promote student achievement and professional development for faculty. Grant funding can truly change the landscape of any organization and provide incredible opportunities for Admins, teachers, and students alike...

We are GreatHearts Academies - a collection of non-profit public charter schools with an emphasis on classical liberal arts education. We have over 20 schools across Arizona and five in Texas with plans for further expansion. We hold tightly to the belief that the best education for the best is the best education for all and,...

Wendy McCracken, PhD, and Helen Chilton are lecturers and researchers at the University of Manchester in the Deaf Education Programme, and their study using Swivl within their teacher education program has just concluded with great success. One of the things that you might not realize about deaf education in the UK is that ...

As a developmental scientist, my challenge is filming parent-infant interaction in naturalistic settings to understand how infants learn language. Capturing high quality speech recordings from infants while unobtrusively video-recording their behaviors used to require a permanent laboratory set-up with expensive equipment. Bu...

Ann Marie Carrier is an Instructional Technology Specialist helping teachers to implement and integrate technology tools and applications to transform learning in the classroom to meet the needs of 21st century learners. Having taught in the classroom since 2001, she believes that the wealth of digital resources available to edu...

Challenge: Lake County Schools needed a video technology solution that would help conduct teacher reflection and improve learning outcomes. Solution: A video technology solution that included Swivl Robot Pro, Swivl Expand Case, and Pelican Aircase. Results: Improved teacher reflection that helps increase student achiev...

Post originally appeared on Tech Geek in the Classroom Individualized observation is a hot topic these days, and because I love tech so much I found a tech tool to get it done. Swivl is an amazing tool in my classroom! I already have all the tech I need to use it, and can position it anywhere in my classroom. It is truly ...

Over the last couple of years, Iowa schools have seen an increase in the number of Instructional Coaches, Model Teachers, and Mentor Teachers thanks to the Teacher Leadership and Compensation (TLC) grant. While we have had Instructional Coaches in my district for a while now, the grant allowed us to increase our number of coach...

Patrick Donovan is a Swivl Pioneer, who will be presenting at ISTE! He will present on driving teacher learning in his talk Snapshot A, 1 of 2: Using a Gamified Professional Development Model to Improve Teacher Learning, where he will discuss the benefits of using Swivl's Multi-Camera technology. You can see Patrick's original ...

My goals for using Swivl’s Pro+ Multi-Camera feature one morning were very straightforward: to capture simultaneous observations of all my reading groups for review later and to reflect on my personal tone and professionalism while speaking with my students. However, the recording process, reflection, and collaboration afterwa...