Last year, Tract emerged as one of my favorite new edtech companies. Backed and co-founded by education pioneer Esther Wojcicki, the start-up enables busy teachers to transform what they teach in the classroom into interactive and fun educational projects created and led by kids. With...
No loose parts but high affordance design makes up for this!No loose parts but high affordance design makes up for this!Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, Brisbane, Frew Park, playgrounds, teen playpark, urban play design, urban playscapeRead More...
YouTube's channel analytics provides a lot of useful insights for people like me who publish a lot of videos and write a lot of blog posts. Not only does my YouTube channel's analytics page tell me how many people watch and like my videos, it...
Advice about using a consultant or trainer.Advice about using a consultant or trainer.Whole School, outdoor consultants, outdoor education consultants, outdoor education training, outdoor learning training, outdoor play consultant, outdoor play trainingRead More...
“Let your no mean no.” Over the years I was proud to have built up my use of the word NO from my understanding of this common phrase. I believed I had to build a protective circle around my schedule. “Are you able to help with...
Yesterday I published a blog post and video about the free email etiquette posters that I created and how you can have them professionally printed by Canva. Unfortunately, Canva's free printing offer is only available to teachers in the United States who have Canva for...
In the last two weeks since I published a video about creating a badge tracker in Google Sheets, I've told the following story from May of 2015 three times to people who have asked for my opinion about digital badges and whether or not they're...
A challenging rope playground!A challenging rope playground!Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, Personal & Holidays, Madrid, play, playground design, playgrounds, Richter-Spielgerate, rope playRead More...
Last spring I highlighted OPEN Phys Ed's National Field Day activities and lesson plans. For the new school year OPEN has published a new collection of lesson plans, activities, and videos for K-8 students. The new collection is called Rhythm Fit. You can access all...
In this week's Practical Ed Tech Newsletter I shared a bunch of resources for teaching about digital citizenship. In that newsletter I included a link to two posters about email etiquette that I created last fall. I also mentioned that Canva is running a free...
