Good morning from Maine where consistent summer weather seems to be eluding us. As I write this it's overcast and 50F! I guess we'll be wearing sweatshirts and fleeces to the graduation party we're going to this afternoon. This week I took a day off to...
Summer is here (in the northern hemisphere) and it's a great time to casually work on things that we don't always have time for during the school year. One of those things could be creating a new class website or revamping an existing site. Those...
Perhaps my favorite thing about living in northern New England is the amount of daylight we have in the summer. I enjoy the early sunrises even more than I do that late sunsets (before I had kids it was the other way around). The longest...
Back in March I got an email from someone claiming to be a Boston-based intellectual property attorney working for the law firm of Arthur Davidson. The email was poorly formatted and had some other errors that made me think the email might not be from a...
No-Signup Tools is a new site that features exactly what its name implies, web tools that you can use for free without having to sign-up for an account. You can browse through No-Signup Tools alphabetically, by ranking, or by category. Browsing the categories is probably...
Last month I started watching a new Crash Course series called How to College. The series is a great one for students who are first generation college students and or those who just don't have anyone to seek out for advice about things like paying...
I loved the way my classroom functioned. My students executed our routines and their classroom jobs efficiently. I did school work on the weekends about once a quarter, but other than that, my weeknights and weekends were work-free. So when the Virginia governor closed all public...
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Last week I shared a handful of resources for building solar ovens. The week before that I shared some at-home summer science lesson resources from Discovery and 3M. Today, I have another summer science lesson resource to share with you. Earlier this week SciShow Kids published...
Last week Google introduced a new way to record screencasts on your Chromebook. You can watch my tutorial about how to use it right here or as embedded at the end of this blog post. After a week of using it, here are five things...
