Along with Google Workspace tools, Padlet is one of the educational technology tools that I've used the most consistently over the last fifteen years. I've used it for everything from hosting online brainstorming sessions to digital mapping to distraction-free YouTube viewing and a whole lot...
It’s the 17th birthday of Dangerously Irrelevant. That’s a LONG time! And while my blogging has much more uneven in recent years, I’m not not down for the count yet. Thanks for staying with me all these years. Stay tuned! Related Posts Milestones: 4th birthday and 19,000...
Ideas for Circle Time as we gear up for the new school year.Ideas for Circle Time as we gear up for the new school year.Health & Wellbeing, Whole School, circle time, outdoor circle time, outdoor ideas back to school, outdoor learning, starting outdoor learning ideas,...
Disclosure: Book Creator is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com Book Creator has been one of my go-to multimedia creation tools for nearly a decade. For back-to-school season they’ve created a hub of resources arranged around the theme of bringing joy back to school. Amongst many excellent resources...
Innovative educators know that it is best for students to interact with learning videos using techniques such as Frame, Focus, and Follow Up. ChatTube just made that a lot easier. ChatTube uses ChatGPT technology to allow you to chat with YouTube videos in real-time using...
A couple of weeks ago I published a short tutorial on how to use Google Keep to scan and search handwritten notes. Publishing that tutorial prompted me to update my playlist of tutorials on ways that teachers and students can use Google Keep. The full...
Just like I do with my weekly newsletter, C-SPAN Classroom sends their weekly newsletter on Sunday evenings (Eastern Time). When I read it last night I learned about a new C-SPAN series that sounds great! It's called Books That Shaped America and it is presented...
The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’ – Maria Montessori Maria Montessori’s quote hangs on my wall at school, reminding me that in all I do, I am striving...
In the winter of 2021-22 my kids and I conducted a winter bird survey at our house. Because my kids were little and because I thought it would be fun, I made a little observation journal that we put on our refrigerator. Last winter we did...
Tools like Canva, Adobe Express, and even good ol' PowerPoint make it incredibly easy to quickly create good looking graphs. But as Randy Krum points out in his book, Cool Infographics, a graphic that looks good isn't necessarily a good graphic. In fact, many times...
