As you know, I am a huge advocate for teaching students and teachers to respect copyright. To that end I always advocate for using your own media or media that is in the public domain whenever possible. So when an email with the subject line...
Yesterday morning I answered an email from a reader who was looking for some alternatives to Vialogues for annotating videos. Vialogues has been one of my go-to tools for students to use to take notes and share notes while watching a video that you share...
Mapping the Emerald Isle: a geo-genealogy of Irish surnames is an interactive map depicting the distribution of Irish surnames across Ireland according to the 1890 census. To use the same simply select a name from a drop-down menu in the list and the map will...
Last night during dinner one of my daughters asked, "what does ok mean?" My other daughter quickly followed up with, "yeah, why do we say that?" The first question we were able to answer fairly quickly and in a way that a five-year-old can understand....
If you have English Language Learners (ELLs) in your classroom and are wondering how to best support them, you’re in the right place! You can help better keep ELLs engaged in classroom conversations when you prepare them with these simple scaffolds. This doesn’t take a lot of...
Turn on any financial news network like CNBC these days and you're likely to hear some discussion about inflation and concerns about recession. Even if your students aren't listening to those stories, they might be hearing about them from their parents or perhaps in your...
Twice in the last 24 hours I've been asked about options for removing choices from Google Forms as they get used up. The tool that I used to recommend was Choice Eliminator (the original and version 2). It seems that add-on has been removed from...
The other day a reader sent me an interesting question that I hadn't thought about before. That was whether or not you can use Canva's recording studio with Google Slides. At first I thought to myself, "why not just make a screen recording of the...
Here are a pair of tweets for ya. So true… Related Posts Technological change is destined to be resisted by the teachers unions School is tests and credits. Learning is ‘getting it.’ The President is calling 4 Shifts Video Series: Looking for some pilot schools or districts...
I have some good news for you if, like another reader who emailed me this morning, you are trying to keep Google Calendar notifications flooding your inbox. It's easy to adjust the frequency with which you receive email, desktop, and mobile notifications from Google Calendar....
