One of my absolute favorite new tools in 2021 was a Chrome extension called Mote. With Mote installed you can add audio comments to Google Docs, Google Classroom, and Google Slides. You can also use Mote to add audio to Google Forms and insert audio...
I read Steven Rinella's American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon last week. It's a fascinating book about the history of humans' relationship with American buffalo (bison) in North America. The telling of the history is intermixed with Rinella's own stories of finding a...
Books I finished reading (or rereading) in December 2021… Difference Making at the Heart of Learning, Tom Vander Ark & Emily Liebtag (education) The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, Robert Reich (economy) Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford (economy) The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan (fantasy) * The...
Good morning from Maine where we had a great week off. My daughters and I did some sledding and played with new toys. I read a great book titled American Buffalo and started reading a second one, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play. I...
One of my favorite new things in 2021 was Flipgrid's addition of a background blurring tool. With this feature enabled everything behind you is heavily blurred when you're recording a video in Flipgrid. A related feature is the option to use virtual backgrounds in Flipgrid....
Good evening from Maine where it is not only the end of the month, it's the end of the year! Here's to a better year in 2022! In December I released a new ebook titled 50 Tech Tuesday Tips. I created it with busy tech coaches...
Today is New Year's Eve and while there aren't any fireworks displays planned for my little town, the nearby ski resort will have a little display. Fortunately, the display is planned early in the evening so my kids and I can see it without staying...
As I do every year, I'm taking this week as a break from publishing new blog posts and will be republishing some of the most popular posts of the year. Here's one from April.Bitly is a handy URL shortener that I've used for many years....
As I do every year, I'm taking this week as a break from publishing new blog posts and will be republishing some of the most popular posts of the year. Here's one from September. Ziplet is a service for gathering feedback from your students in a...
As I do every year, I'm taking this week as a break from publishing new blog posts and will be republishing some of the most popular posts of the year. Here's one from October. If you ask my five-year-old what she wants to be when she...
