Tomorrow I am spending the day helping at one our local Founder's Day events. Our Founder's Day is in celebration of Hannibal Hamlin. Hamlin was one of Abraham Lincoln's Vice Presidents. The picture in this blog post is of his house. If you have followed...
Yesterday morning I had the Tour de France playing in the background while working in my office. I looked up from my laptop when I heard the commentators mention Greg LeMond followed by highlights of the 1986 stage to Alpe d'Huez. One of the things...
Over the last handful of years I've become more and more fascinated with birds. I think that's due in part to my daughters' enjoyment of watching the many interesting birds that come to the feeders around our house. We've even taken to naming some of...
The web version of Google Earth has improved a lot since its launch five years ago. One of those improvements is found in the number of ways that you can customize the map style displayed when you are viewing and creating projects in Google Earth. In...
For the last five or so years I've used Certify'em to automatically send certificates to students when they successfully complete a quiz in Google Forms. I also use it to issue certificates to participants in my workshops, webinars, and self-paced courses. There have been some...
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As a (somewhat) veteran teacher, I often think back to life as a struggling first-year teacher. I’ve spent my entire tenure in the education profession serving students from low-income backgrounds. My students are systemically low-performing, as education so often takes a back burner to the struggles...
Last week I took some time off which included shutting down my primary work computer. When I restarted it, my Windows 11 taskbar was gone! I know I'm not the only one to experience this problem because I got an email from a reader who...
Every year at about this time I start to get emails from people who are transitioning into using Google Workspace for Education for the first time. In fact, I got one of those emails last week from a tech coach who wanted to know if...
I often use Common Craft videos as an example of creating effective video lessons without having to spend a lot of money on special equipment or software. In fact, I did that in a webinar that I hosted yesterday. The video that I used as...
