My daughters love rainbows. They have rainbow dresses, rainbow bracelets, rainbow stickers, and anything else that can have a rainbow on it. So they were super excited last week when we saw a double rainbow from our front porch! (You can look on my Instagram...
Disclosure: TARA is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.comAt the end of the last school year I spent some time exploring a new edtech tool called TARA. It’s a service that solves problems for new teachers and veteran teachers. Those problems are having more time to...
This is a guest blog post by Frode Svane, with excellent reflective commentary.This is a guest blog post by Frode Svane, with excellent reflective commentary.Community Involvement, Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, Frode Svane, natural playgrounds, natural playgrounds Norway, nature, play, playgroundsRead More...
On Friday morning I shared a browser extension called BeTimeful that limits your access to social media sites during your working hours. As I wrote in that blog post, there are similar tools worth noting. Here's a short overview of some tools that can help...
Good evening from Cooperstown, NY where my brother and I are attending David Ortiz's induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame tomorrow. We spent some of today attending a parade of Hall of Famers and earlier in the day I explored the area on my...
PhET is one of my top resource recommendations for math and science teachers. PhET offers more than one hundred online, interactive simulations for teaching concepts in mathematics, physics, chemistry, earth science, and biology. Those simulations can be used on PhET's website and they can be...
At the All-Star Game break, here are the standings in both of my educator fantasy baseball leagues… BlogBall22 Buckeye Ballers, Toby Fischer CAM Cougars, Dominic Giegerich Technauts, Joe Bires Twinkies, Scott McLeod Bayou Buffalos, Vinnie Vrotny TheBrewz, Jeremy Brueck Good Trouble, Jon Becker (last year’s champ) Greyhounds, John Spencer Maineiacs, Harold Shaw Optimistic Mets Fan, Reshan...
I completed a reference check for one of my former students today. They were applying for a teaching job. These are the check boxes that I had to complete: Clearly this school district is NOT hiring for innovation… What are you hiring for? What messages are you...
BeTimeful is a browser extension that is designed to hide social media distractions during your working hours. There are similar browser extensions that block your access to social media sites during working hours. What makes BeTimeful different is that instead of entirely blocking your access...
The next webinar in my Practical Ed Tech summer series is Search Strategies Students Need to Know. This is the most popular webinar that I host every year and I'm hosting it next Wednesday at 11am ET. I’ve updated it with new activities you can...
