Good morning from Maine where snow is covering the ground as the sun rises. The snow might not last much longer though as we're expecting sleet and rain today. Rain is a bad word for folks like me who like to ski. On the upside,...
In my previous post I wrote about and shared a video about using Jamboard to annotate historical images. Another way have students annotate historical images is by adding their voice comments to the images. That can be done through the use of Seesaw. In Seesaw students...
From magnetic poetry to collaborative brainstorming sessions to mapping activities, there are lots of ways to use Google's Jamboard in online and in-person classes. One way that I like to use Jamboard is to have students annotate images that I share with them. In particular,...
Flickr's The Commons has been one of my go-to resources for historical imagery since I first wrote about it nearly fourteen years ago. That's why my heart sank a little bit when I visited The Commons earlier this week and saw a note that read...
Earlier this week a loyal reader named Judith sent me a question about embedding Google Sheets into websites. I was happy to answer her question and made this short video to explain how to include a Google Sheet in Google Sites and in Blogger. In the...
Even though it has been cold and snowy here in Maine for the last week or so, the start of winter is still eleven days away. The winter solstice is always welcomed as it does mean the shortest day of the year (in terms of...
Yesterday afternoon I was playing outside in the snow with my five-year-old daughter when she asked, "why do we have winter?" She didn't ask in a complaining way (she loves playing the snow), but in a genuinely curious way. My short answer was that where...
Blackbird Code is one of my favorite new educational technology resources launched in 2021. For Computer Science Education Week they've released two new self-paced, self-directed lessons through which students can learn a bit about JavaScript. The new Blackbird Code lessons are Tether Game and Screen Saver....
This week Google added a handful of helpful new features for customizing tables in Google Documents. A couple of the new features are things that I've wanted for years. The first new feature that I'm excited about is the option to specify that a table row...
Blackbird Code is one of my favorite new educational technology resources launched in 2021. For Computer Science Education Week they've released two new self-paced, self-directed lessons through which students can learn a bit about JavaScript. The new Blackbird Code lessons are Tether Game and Screen Saver....
